Man. Has it really been a year? Whew, lad.

Yet…….still time for Marathon

Hey whoa there guy, there’s still time to see it get cancelled

I was being sarcastic, Marathon will probably fail as epically as this game did

Still miss it

Its been a year already!?

Was Concord "very bad", though? I remember part of the surprise at how badly it crashed was based on how it had no major functionality issues. It was an otherwise fine hero shooter with a couple odd mechanics and visual designs most found uninspiring at best, but crashed impossibly hard anyway.

Basically it had 0 advertising, 0 appearling characters (not my call, but I didn't care for them), an artstyle nobody cared for, and it was a hero shooter with a price tag vs the two biggest hero shooters being free. It uh... it was a recipe for disaster

> 0 advertising It *did* have advertising. It's just Sony put the cart before the horse. Whoever okayed the Secret Level episode that took like 2-3 months AFTER LAUNCH should've been fired instantly. Game was cancelled before that came out. The dedicated *45 mins* to it during a State of Play.

Simple fact is: As soon as they said "Games as a Service" people tuned out.

That's exactly where it lost me. I thought the original cinematic trailer had it's charms, but the second it was revealed to be yet another PVP only live service game it was an extremely easy pass.

I wouldn't say that as games like Marvel Rivals are thriving as that kind of game service. I admit I don't pay attention to Playstation (Xbox, Nintendo girly), so I didn't know, but I know there were multiple outlets that said the only reason they heard of Concord was because it was canned early on.

Either way, we can both agree that they fumbled the bag HARD and now we have an infamous game that less than 1k people ever played.

The shooting actually felt very good, and i really did like a couple characters from the main cast. Unfortunately it lacked any serious innovation, and the map design was very questionable. But yeah actually it was a pretty decent hero shooter.

Worse than ET? That game literally sank consoles for years.

Considering that 2 weeks after release the game got deleted, all copies refunded and studio closed down, yea it was pretty bad lol

Oh, I remember it was tragic. Just wasn't sure if it was "buried in a landfill" tragic. ;-)

I mean it probably did end up buried in a landfill, all physical copies of it are e-waste now

ET was just one of those games, and still sold nearly 2 millions copies (even accounting for returns). Not bad for a game that had one developer and made in two weeks. Pac-Man is more responsible for the North American games crash than ET was.

Man I just have no idea how this happened. Like how such an insane miss gets lined up for so long. From all accounts the game played fine and didn't have a half dozen developments resets or anything. And yet...