Stray was excellent
It’s kind of funny. The studio wanted to spin off to be independent. So everybody resigning, is effectively doing the same thing. It’s not like there’s big heavy machinery they have to move. The studio is the people.
If they start their own company, they have successfully totally spun off
You have to be in the same region to setup a steam family with someone.
I don’t think anybody actually hated the game, it just was very mid, and for the space it was competing in it wasn’t compelling. But it wasn’t obviously bad
So if you’re a consultant looking at one aspect of the game, it’s hard to make the prediction the entire market would reject it.
It’s really down to the game directors, and the leadership, and the executives. They didn’t have a product that was sufficiently unique to make a name for itself, and they should have known that
True, it was a really well done clone, but it was well done. The game worked. It wasn’t terribly buggy.
My favorite theory is internal politics meant that the people who knew it was going to fail couldn’t prevent the game from going live without extreme cost to themselves. And they would be blamed for it.
Letting the game go live, was probably the least politically expensive thing for them to do. Even though everybody knew the outcome
Not releasing your new game on the largest game market in the world is a bold choice as well.
you lost me, building game engines is the major competitive shift.
Black myth wukong uses unreal engine 5. There is no tech war here.
That’s like watching a military day parade where china shows us tanks but with a new paint job.
Just make games and people will buy games.
There’s like four or five opportunities to do a guitar hero style music element. So it’s not strictly a lie, but it’s not major element either
yeah a overwatch clone, even a really well made overwatch clone, 8 years too late and $40 too expensive… Was always going to have a really rough time
Plus… Dollar store guardians of the Galaxy vibes didn’t help.
https://hackertalks.com/post/4156518 my full review of the game
Dust born is pretty good, for a visual novel. They knew they were going for a super niche market segment. Their previous games have the same “reach”. They have no room to complain, at least people hating on the game are actually talking about the game.
100%. Patient gamer all the way. Single player games get bought when they get to the $5 discount range.
I don’t think IGN is inherently racist, they are upset they couldn’t get the developers to play in their artificial drama. IGN lives by creating content and drama, so they need everybody to respond to them and play into their stories.
A game studio only wanting to talk about their game? And a game journalist being upset that’s all they want to do? That seems insane
I don’t think anybody is upset about Concord failing. At all. I think there are people who are genuinely sad for all of the workers of Concord, in the games industry having a good game on your resume is important. There’s probably more than a few completely new employees, first job out of school, spent 7 years, and now they have nothing to show for it. It’s not great
So I think we can be empathetic to the people who wasted their lives on this poorly concepted project.
But I haven’t seen a single Concord fan out there, I don’t see anybody arguing that we should be playing it, nobody’s defending it. Hell even Sony is just cutting their losses, they didn’t do any real advertising, just slipped it out there
https://steamdb.info/app/218230/charts/
https://activeplayer.io/planetside-2/
Yup, and 1,355 people are enjoying it right now!
How did they pay for the game?
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1827912191275909237.html
More data on this twitter thread. I’m not happy using twitter as a source, but there is a puzzle here, how can this company keep releasing extremely niche games, how do they stay in business?
But… the math doesn’t add up, 15 employees over 5 years at 100k USD per employee : 7.5M (probably more, since they had 309 people mentioned in the credits)… so where does the rest of the money come from?
The theory is that RedThreadGames exists to turn grants into games, and they don’t care if they make money from the games.
Wrong time, 5 years too late
Wrong price, $40 too much
High friction, PSN account required
Nothing new, no new mechanic or feature or playstyle…
From all accounts the game is fine, but nothing makes it stand out enough, against ANY OF THE FREE GAMES: overwatch, planetside, warframe, halo infiniate, tf2!, apex, finals, destiny2, pubg, valorant, cs (not really hero, but close enough), cod warzone, fortnight, and deadlock…
So you have 6 buddies want to play a game… which one are you going to pick?
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