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Sony is taking Concord offline on September 6th after worse launch

Firewalk Studios will issue refunds for Concord across PC and PS5 and explore choices that will better reach our players.

Sony is taking Concord its Playstation game offline on September 6th following worse sales of the game.

The first person hero shooter launched exclusively on PC and PS5 on August 23rd but guess have put sales at less than 25,000.

Concord handle to hit an all time peak of 697 players on Steam less than the launch peak of The Lord of the Rings Gollum regarded as the bad game of 2023.

If you bought the game for PS5 from the PlayStation Store a refund will be issued to your original payment method.

If you bought Concord on Steam you will get a refund in the coming days and the same will happen on the Epic Games Store.

Firewalk Studios mention of choices that will better reach our players and the refunds make it look like Concord if it does return will move to a free to play model.

Ellis add”We will keep you updated and thank you again to all the Freegunners who have joined us in the Concord galaxy.

“We have decided to take the game offline beginning September 6, 2024 and explore choices consisting those that will better reach our players” Concord game director says.

“While we determine the best path ahead. Concord sales will cease immediately and we will start to offer a full refund for all gamers who have bought the game for PC or PS5.”

Concord launched as a $40 game after 8 years of development and went up against multiple free to play changes like even Valorant and Overwatch in contesting hero shooter genre.

It has failed to contest as paid game without a unique selling.

Sony revealment of Concord shutdown two weeks after it went on sales has sent its players into overdrive as they attempt to safe its Platinum trophy.

PlayStation Studios first person hero shooter which suffered low player count upon launch goes dark on September 6 with all players set get a refund.

Concord itself is one mega failure in PlayStation history a game one of its developers said was in works for eight years.

There is now worry of its developer Firewalk and Sony faces harsh queries about its upcoming live services games.

Sony president Hiroki Totoki committed to launching six of 12 live service games in development and one base on The Last Us has already been canceled.

Concord launch was failure with analyst saying it sold as 25,000 units. It debuted to a 697 peak concurrent players on Steam a number that made 12,786 players of Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League which was a disappointment by Warner Bros, Discovery boss David Zaslav and caused a $200 million drop to revenue.

Concord players were throwing Rivalry matches in bid to earn points as quick as possible.

Rivalry mode seems two team of five players fight for win across best of seven single life rounds.

Now players beginning a match and running off a platform to their doom resulting in a win for opposing group at end of the round.

 

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Leaked payroll data open up how small one of key companies in gaming is.

Valve is most secret company with huge influence on gaming industry because it runs mega PC gaming storefront Steam,

Valve is not a mega organization on par with EA games throusanfs of employees.

Valve employed just 336 staffers.

The employee data starts with 2003 which is few years after Valve 1996 founding and same year Valve launched Steam until 2021.

The data breaks valve employees into 4 different groups Admin, Games, Steam and starting in 2011 Hardware.

The data was involved as part of heavily redacted document from Wolfire antitrust lawsuit against Valve.

The small number of staff across board seemingly explains why Vave product list is so restricted despit its mega business as de facto PC gaming platfrom its get help on software and hardware and has worked with other companies to have build steam boxes and controllers.

Valve topped with its Game Payroll spending in 2017 and 221 million dollar.Valve employed at just 79 people to Steam which is influential gaming storefronat on earth,

Hardware to my surprise has been small part of company with only 41 employees paid a gross of over $17 million in 2021.

Volve small staff is main point for wolfire. When it filed its lawsuit in 2021.Valve is  private company does not have to share its headcount or financials Wolfire estimated that Valve had 360 employees. and per employee profit was $15 million per annum.

$15 million number is not right. Valve in it public employee handbook says that our profitability per employee is higher than that of Google or Amazon.