Tbh if they worked on it to make it a good hero shooter with neat mechanics, awesome flow, responsive controls etc, i would be more than happy for its return. But now they don't even have a chance to do so
Wasnt it "talentless freaks"? Still, as expected. Funniest thing is that their twitter page is protected, and, to no surprise, "they/them" on the profile.
I love how RU-vid is shadow banning words, tried to write the "f-word" the dev actually used and the comment just isnt showing up. Gotta love this "modern internet" lol.
My wife is new to the Game Design Industry. A guy at work seemed super uncomfortable disagreeing with an idea. My wife told him "Disagreeing is not being mean, it's encouraged." I am not kidding he reported her to hr. Every day we fall further
I can't imagine being in a workplace where people are comfortable reporting people. But I work in the heavy industry where doing something like that will result in a hammer being dropped on your head.
Money laundered successfully. Makes me laugh that people think corpos make things for people and not to bounce their money around through shell companies.
@@_MaZTeR_ Sure, these kind of people always seem to keep failing upwards, but they'll never forget the public humilliation they suffered every step of the way.
@@Ian.420look, i like a good conspiracy too, but that’s just dumb. think a little harder. if the money was laundered, especially if it’s a successful laundering as you called it, it should make it back into their pockets clean as a whistle, right? that’s not what happened. all that money was pissed away. gone. they didn’t even break even. maybe there’s something i’m missing here, in which case, please enlighten me and i’ll take it all back but there is no way this shit was laundered
400.000.000 dollars... Just imagine you'd owe the mafia 400.000.000 Dollars... Sony:"Where's my money, firewalks?! You promised me a modern audience?! Where is it?! 400.000.000 Dollars! Where is my modern audience?!" while breaking their legs with a baseball bat.
@@_MaZTeR_ If Vanguard and Blackrock had any intention of actually making money off these exchanges they wouldn't be supporting these types of devs in the first place, they're not stupid. They definitely have a goal, but making money isn't it.
Used to work before we had all these internet sleuths. The moment these nasty mfs show up on another team it will be all over Twitter and trickle down to us.
close all california studios at this point, they are all became woke as fuck. Eastern studio (chinese, corean, poland) are the new golden era of video games. USA is done
The decision was on either shutting it down instantly or trying to get a little of the money back. They made the right choice, I honestly believe that F2P wouldnt be enough to save the game.
@@ShadowRulah Zero revenue is just that, 0 with neither gain or loss (except the "development" cost but that is already spent), keeping this malformed abomination alive would have cost them money in salaries, server costs etc. They lose less by just taking it out back and ending it.
@@emperorwisel4842 Even as F2P it wouldnt be able to make enough money to cover the costs of keep the servers running and the staff working. Online games are expensive to keep alive.
>Buy the studio for tens, if not hundreds of millions >Spend hundreds of millions more developing the one game the studio ever worked on >Flop & refund >Shut down studio >??? Guys, you forgot the profit part of the plan.
@@Lappelduvideifyunfortunately concord merch doesn’t strike me as the type of discontinued merch that will appreciate in value outside of maybe the controller
Should be the other way around, cause there is no way that the 3 things named concord (the plane, the ship and the game) all failed catastrophically. there is some higher power involved with that word
@@otozm92 On the serious note, thats a latin-derived word. Aslo a deity in ancient rome. There are _a lot of_ things named like that. Like only in US there are 12 (!) towns goes with the name "Concordia". So its actually not that crazy if you think about it.
@@sinner5452 Yeah I imagine there is a lot of things named after it. still is kinda crazy how 3 unrelated things with the same name met a similar demise
The devs of volition are actually really good in making saints row games... it was sweet baby inc and deep silver who ruined the whole saints row reboot which turned into a DEI disaster.. Firewalk studio made a shitty game on purpose and they deserved it, blaming gamers and shit..
The last two have too much money and backing, they will dwindle but it will take years for them to shut down, they will fire 90% of the people working on it and still keep making something while maintaining a small studio.
@@reijishian2593 I look at it this way, Sony gave the woke people what they wanted, and they still didn't even support it. I think the industry will be ignoring these people from now on.
Said on Day 1 that Concord was worth more to Sony as a $400m tax relief. Losses deducted from tax on other taxable income. I’m sure the PS5 Pro sudden announcement and open for preorder was entirely coincidental…
Pending what country the game was made in and the tax structures, losses can either be written off or depreciated over time. Even if they can only claim 30% of the expenditure, they will recoup ~$120 million. Sony predicts that their sales figures will not exceed 100k. (or a post sales return of ~$3 million if they manage to sell games for $70 each) Then there is also the operating costs of the servers, maintenance staff, compliance teams for the EU and other countries.....
@ When a business writes off an asset, such as in the event of significant and unrecoverable loss, it can in the US (where Sony is headquartered) deduct the value from its taxable income within the same tax year. A form of tax deductible. Write off means that the business no longer intends to and can no longer manufacture, market and sell an asset. Which means the indefinite closure of Firewalk and scrubbing of anything and everything related to Concord. From the source code, servers, custom engine and right down to concept art. Sony still lost $400m. But it can recuperate that $400m and more in tax deductibles. Taxes on income Sony would have paid, but no longer has to up to the total valuation of Concord, Firewalk and associated assets within this tax year. Now if only Sony had a high-end consumer product launching during a holiday season, primed to sell most of its units, in the same tax year before all those deductibles expire…
@@zarthemad8386 Couldn’t have explained it any better myself. Only to add that Firewalk Studios is based in the US, and Sony is also headquartered now in the US. The valuation of Firewalk Studios, itself an asset independent of Concord’s $400m cost of development, will also be written off and claimed as deductible. And what better a tax year for Sony than those deductibles to coincide with the launch of a high-end consumer product expected to sell millions of units and during the holiday season? How fortunate.
Maybe they ACTUALLY learn not to make DEI the game next time and actually focus on core game experience, but who am I kidding. I am still gonna see at least a dozen of failures before they learn
Friendly reminder that Sony prefered to throw 400 million dollars into this trash than make Days Gone 2. In fact, Concord cost around 4 times what Days Gone plus a double-A game like The Outer World did.
They have to. They sold promised content with the season pass so if they shut the game down before delivering that is either a forced refund or some hefty lawsuit in waiting.
@@TheOneAndOnlyLUUUU They don't have to. They can cut and run just like dozens of other developers had who sold season passes and were never sued or faced any consequences.
I really want to know if the animation that they said they were still going to push out is still going to happen because if the main studio is dead along with they're not being a possible revival it really feels like it's going to be locked up like how Warner Bros has been doing it recently and writing it off for taxes
I feel bad for the real developer(not the DEI one) who probably know that the game is bad but because toxic positivity cant say anything, this gonna ruin their resume
While its amazing seeing so many people make fun of this game (rightfully so), dont ignore the fact that the CEO of playstation that promoted concord as being a star wars level project and the future of playstation is still in a position of power as CEO. This issue was significantly larger than just firewalk studios
As if the CEO cares about anything other than making money - and this clearly didn’t make any money. The CEO will have been told it was a Star Wars level project and the future of PlayStation, they wouldn’t come up with that themselves. The people who gave that advice probably don’t work there anymore.
In a way I think the top execs of Firewalk got the biggest win out of this. They made Sony believe they were good, Sony bought the studio by giving them a huge check, then they walked out with their pockets full while everything burned down. They failed as a game studio, but they succeeded at making a massive corporate heist.
It makes me wonder what were all those Steam patches? Were they doing tests on the live version and trying to implement changes that would warrant reviving the game? Or was it just the shader cache updating itself like always?
That Game looks boring AF man, I'm not Even English though I know it Pretty well for slang, etc... That I can already tell VA's at that game are 1 button and 1 Bolivar worth.
@@Leo-mj1mt I'm sad about it too, it's frustrating because i loved DA's story since it got released the first time, now the gameplay looks bland and the inescapeable woke agenda crammed down my throat, it genuinely makes me angry and sad, i was waiting for another world of Grey wardens and dragons and other cool stuff they built when they still knew what writing was
@@ferpect911 I feel You bro, I don't know much about DA but I've seen the same case in other videogame sagas, it has to stop for everything go back to normal.
You know, when I first saw Concord it looked decent imo. I would've actually played it, granted it was free. The price tag of $40 sealed the deal for me. I would never pay even $5 for that game.
Any dev that actually cared about making a good game would have jumped ship to another studio long before now. The only ones left losing their jobs are the ones who deserve it and supported that trash crap in the game.
idk I agree in a way but idk man. I refuse to believe that no one at that company didn't chime up and say "this game is past the point of ironically so bad it became good" The graphics are fine but the art style is entirely forgettable. The characters are the ugliest shit I've ever seen in a video game. I never thought in a million years a developer could manage to make a big robot carrying a big gun look so bland and unfun to play as. That character is literally a soda can carrying a vacuum cleaner. I don't get how Sony can throw hundreds of millions at a project and not a single person at Sony was tasked with checking in on progress and ensuring it's been properly QA tested.
@@CallMeKevan ngl i always thought if I worked at a studio that just decided to make a terrible game and change the culture to thats toxic possitivity bs like Arkane with Redfall I would apply at other studios
It’s about time they start sorting out these politically driven companies, and bring back people who just want to make cool stories and experiences that are fun, mass effect is a prime example.
This is big for Sony. 1st time in a long time they were the big man and, not only admitted defeat, refunded every single (digital) purchase. Absolutely unprecedented. Even more nowadays. Big ups.
I'm REALLY looking forward to people making videos about reused assets from Concord in future Sony games. They obviously shouldn' t and won't let the full 400m$ go to waste but it'll still be funny to find a relic of Concord somewhere in other games.
IGN gave it a 7/10, a decent score but still died in the end.. Now, I hope Asmon would check out the new Dragon age because IGN just gave it a 9/10. See what's his new reaction of it.
