The video game community has seen several titles this year that stirred conversation among gamers across the world and the fate of Sony’s latest game, “Concord,” is sadly jaw-dropping.
A mere two weeks after the game’s release to the public, a post was made on the PlayStation Blog website by Ryan Ellis, game director of Firewalk Studios and developer of “Concord,” detailing that sales of the game would immediately cease and the game itself would soon be taken offline.
Released for PC and PlayStation 5 consoles on Aug. 23, “Concord” was a first-person, team-based hero shooter game that shared similar basic mechanics and gameplay to other hero shooters such as “Overwatch 2” and “Valorant.”
While it may have shared similarities with such popular titles, “Concord” was, unfortunately for Firewalk Studios, anything but.
Since the game’s release, it was horribly received among gamers due to how odd and forgettable a majority of the characters were as well as how it seemed like a copy and paste of more popular titles, leading many to become disinterested in it.
Compared to other hero shooters such as “Overwatch 2,” which currently averages around 170,000 players, and “Valorant,” with an average of 9 million players, Concord failed to set itself apart from the competition.
The game had an embarrassingly low number of players with the peak being 660 on Steam and an average of 159 players over the game’s drastically short lifespan.
In his post, Ellis confirmed that players who had purchased the game electronically would receive an automatic refund for the game if they purchased it through PlayStation Direct, the PlayStation Store, Steam or the Epic Games Store.
“Concord” had been in development for eight long years only for it to be recalled and shelved for an unknown amount of time, perhaps forever. Eight years of the developer’s blood, sweat and passion down the drain.
The phrase “this game is dead” is lightly or jokingly used pretty often by gamers around the world to describe games that have seen a decrease in players, despite those games still having a pretty active community and player base.
However, it is fair to say that the phrase is quite applicable here as “Concord” will be remembered not for being an outstanding game, but as one of Sony’s biggest flops.
