Concord raises questions over Sony's live-service competence | Opinion
Sony's decision to withdraw Concord from the market and refund those who purchased it, made only two weeks after the launch of the game, feels both entirely unsurprising and yet somehow also a little shocking.After the strongly negative reaction to the game when it headlined Sony's State of Play at the start of summer, the company seemed to have entirely lost faith in Firewalk's hero shooter. It got little marketing support, more or less disappearing from Sony's communications strategy. It's hard not to agree with the notion that the game was more or less 'sent out to die', although of course it remains quite possible that we'll see a retooled free-to-play version of it at some point down the line.On some level, Sony's ambivalence about Concord is understandable. It's not a game that was conceived at Sony; the platform holder bought Firewalk Studios in 2023, and Concord came as part of the deal, as it was a title the studio had apparently been working on since its founding in 2018. Read more
Sony's decision to withdraw Concord from the market and refund those who purchased it, made only two weeks after the launch of the game, feels both entirely unsurprising and yet somehow also a little shocking.
After the strongly negative reaction to the game when it headlined Sony's State of Play at the start of summer, the company seemed to have entirely lost faith in Firewalk's hero shooter. It got little marketing support, more or less disappearing from Sony's communications strategy. It's hard not to agree with the notion that the game was more or less 'sent out to die', although of course it remains quite possible that we'll see a retooled free-to-play version of it at some point down the line.
On some level, Sony's ambivalence about Concord is understandable. It's not a game that was conceived at Sony; the platform holder bought Firewalk Studios in 2023, and Concord came as part of the deal, as it was a title the studio had apparently been working on since its founding in 2018.
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