▲ 322 ▼ An important update on Concord - Being taken offline September 6th, refunds to be issued (blog.playstation.com) submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by li10@feddit.uk to c/games@lemmy.world 109 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] windowsphoneguy@feddit.org 15 points 2 years ago (2 children) Could have been a cool single player game permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (1 child) Could have been a cool split screen and LAN game. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ngwoo@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (2 children) People can barely find anyone to play with globally over the internet. It wouldn't work as a lan game. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (1 child) Any game works as a LAN game. That's the advantage of being a LAN game. Of course, when you build a game like that, you know not to assume that you'll always have 10 players in a match, and you build it to scale to that. If they released it with LAN and a deathmatch mode for any number of players, even if they did no rebalancing on the character designs to account for it and the there were obvious top tiers and low tiers, I'd still buy it. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ngwoo@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) I'm saying that if there aren't enough players to sustain a multiplayer game globally you're not going to find people to play with locally. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago And I'm saying that if you throw in a quick deathmatch mode, it's playable with only one friend. And when a game has LAN, that means that you can play with a gaming VPN regardless of the presence of official servers. permalink fedilink source parent [–] radix@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago Gameboy Advance had single-pak link (buy one copy, play with up to 4 linked devices) 20 years ago. Greed has defeated the technology, though. permalink fedilink source parent [–] GuerillaGorillas@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago That’s what I thought it was going to be from the initial trailer, but then seeing it was yet another hero shooter made me lose all interest. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (1 child) Could have been a cool split screen and LAN game. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ngwoo@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (2 children) People can barely find anyone to play with globally over the internet. It wouldn't work as a lan game. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (1 child) Any game works as a LAN game. That's the advantage of being a LAN game. Of course, when you build a game like that, you know not to assume that you'll always have 10 players in a match, and you build it to scale to that. If they released it with LAN and a deathmatch mode for any number of players, even if they did no rebalancing on the character designs to account for it and the there were obvious top tiers and low tiers, I'd still buy it. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ngwoo@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) I'm saying that if there aren't enough players to sustain a multiplayer game globally you're not going to find people to play with locally. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago And I'm saying that if you throw in a quick deathmatch mode, it's playable with only one friend. And when a game has LAN, that means that you can play with a gaming VPN regardless of the presence of official servers. permalink fedilink source parent [–] radix@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago Gameboy Advance had single-pak link (buy one copy, play with up to 4 linked devices) 20 years ago. Greed has defeated the technology, though. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ngwoo@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (2 children) People can barely find anyone to play with globally over the internet. It wouldn't work as a lan game. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (1 child) Any game works as a LAN game. That's the advantage of being a LAN game. Of course, when you build a game like that, you know not to assume that you'll always have 10 players in a match, and you build it to scale to that. If they released it with LAN and a deathmatch mode for any number of players, even if they did no rebalancing on the character designs to account for it and the there were obvious top tiers and low tiers, I'd still buy it. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ngwoo@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) I'm saying that if there aren't enough players to sustain a multiplayer game globally you're not going to find people to play with locally. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago And I'm saying that if you throw in a quick deathmatch mode, it's playable with only one friend. And when a game has LAN, that means that you can play with a gaming VPN regardless of the presence of official servers. permalink fedilink source parent [–] radix@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago Gameboy Advance had single-pak link (buy one copy, play with up to 4 linked devices) 20 years ago. Greed has defeated the technology, though. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (1 child) Any game works as a LAN game. That's the advantage of being a LAN game. Of course, when you build a game like that, you know not to assume that you'll always have 10 players in a match, and you build it to scale to that. If they released it with LAN and a deathmatch mode for any number of players, even if they did no rebalancing on the character designs to account for it and the there were obvious top tiers and low tiers, I'd still buy it. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ngwoo@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) I'm saying that if there aren't enough players to sustain a multiplayer game globally you're not going to find people to play with locally. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago And I'm saying that if you throw in a quick deathmatch mode, it's playable with only one friend. And when a game has LAN, that means that you can play with a gaming VPN regardless of the presence of official servers. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ngwoo@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) I'm saying that if there aren't enough players to sustain a multiplayer game globally you're not going to find people to play with locally. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago And I'm saying that if you throw in a quick deathmatch mode, it's playable with only one friend. And when a game has LAN, that means that you can play with a gaming VPN regardless of the presence of official servers. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago And I'm saying that if you throw in a quick deathmatch mode, it's playable with only one friend. And when a game has LAN, that means that you can play with a gaming VPN regardless of the presence of official servers. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] radix@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago Gameboy Advance had single-pak link (buy one copy, play with up to 4 linked devices) 20 years ago. Greed has defeated the technology, though. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] GuerillaGorillas@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago That’s what I thought it was going to be from the initial trailer, but then seeing it was yet another hero shooter made me lose all interest. permalink fedilink source parent