After a disastrous start: Sony pulls the plug on “Concord”

Sony and Firewalk Studios released “Concord” on March 23. August for PC and PS5 – and apparently nobody noticed. According to steam DB showed the action title, in the eight years Development time and according to experts a budget of 100 Million Dollars, the maximum number of just 697 simultaneously active persons out of.

A debacle of gigantic proportions, which Sony to a fast and cost-effective : An overview of the different business areas forced: “We are also aware that Aspects of the game and the launch did not go as we had hoped. Therefore, we have decided to make the game available from June 6th. September 2024 offline to take,” writes Sony in a blog post.

Sales have already been discontinued. In addition, Sony denp Customers and customers a refund of Purchase prices in the amount of 40 dollars or euro a.

About the reasons for the Mishap of the so-called hero shooter can only be speculated: Already in advance, voices were raised that sometimes described “Concord” as too “woke” and sometimes as a copy of “Guardians of the Galaxy”. The factthat in addition a User account War was needed on the PlayStation Network. And finally, it was probably the strong, partly free competition (“Overwatch”, “Valorant”) that kept interest in the player-vs-player team matches with five players each low.

Second glimmer of hope: Sony The blog post is titled “Reviewing options that better reach our players.” It is also possible that the decision will be made to re-launch “Concord” after a : to be released as a free-to-play title.