Concord (no, not the plane)

I have to imagine the player base on PS is stronger than on Steam, otherwise people just would not get into matches surely?

The very shit title probably hasn't helped. There's been a lot of those recently. I think they might have run out

Just read that Concord may have sold around 9000 copies between both platforms and current Steam stats has it at under 100 concurrent players. That's kind of insane.

None playing currently, all time peak was 7.

Remember the trailer they put out for this during the State of Play a few months back and, without knowing anything about the game, the world and characters all looked kind of neat. A little like it was aping Guardians of the Galaxy or Firefly, but still very much something I would be interested in if it were a single player RPG a la Mass Effect or something more action heavy, like the Guardians game.

But then they showed actually gameplay and my interest instantly vanished.

I know that the idea is you just need that one big multiplayer hit with gazillions of MTXs to make a fortune, but hopefully publishers and developers are going to cotton onto the fact that the majority of the recent big hits have all been single player games. You would think Sony would have noticed what made the PS4 such a big seller.

Yep, I say the characters were neat, but really it was just the general tone was something I could see being interesting, with a sort of heist theme playing through. Can't actually recall any of the characters shown, as they were so generic.

I think a lot of pubs are making a mistake in their analysis of the GAAS space in looking at the PvP shooter audience as one homogenous thing you can capture, as opposed to having the "I only want to play Tarkov/Fortnite/Apex" crowds. The number of floating players is pretty small and shifts from the big titles need something massive to really happen. It's like the crowd who don't "play video games", they play CoD. At that point it doesn't even matter if the thing you're doing is better.

There's also just a generally dismissive attitude from "enthusiasts" at the moment in that they're not very good at actually identifying things they're looking at. In the sense of, when anything with stylised art gets announced, idiots say it "looks like Fortnite" or "looks like a Mobile game". If it's got classes in it, it "looks like an Overwatch clone", regardless of how accurate those things are. It's hard to get above that stuff.

I wonder if pubs will eventually realise that it's simply not worth the risk of doing AAA PvP GaaS. It's too much of a dice roll in general, especially if you feature any kind of non-realism visual imagination going on and people just dismiss it as Fortnite. It's only worth doing for small teams that can scale up and can survive if small if not.

Wonder if anything else is going to get Hyenas'd and canned before it even comes out. Sony still have their bloody Fairgame$ to come which I feel is another likely bomb, and Marathon which tbh I have little hope for either.

I saw a graphic showing all the heroes and it genuinely looks like some just left in placeholder models. They are so generic, like the LOREM IPSUM DOLAR of character design. Its hard to believe that one of them made it through to production much less an entire roster.

Yeah that's shockingly poor. You can do that if you're in an established franchise already, *maybe*.

It tells you they were going hard for gays/shipping crowd. I guess they thought that would be enough

You didn't notice the big rainbow on a reveal trailer for a hero shooter? And nothing else. Seems really on the nose to me

I can honestly say I did not read into it to get that assumption. Where's the flag motif on the logo? Is it a specific flag?