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This would be a perfect spot to advertise that EU petition. There must've been at least 1 person who liked the game and now can't play anymore.
Concord will be back as a F2P, guarantee it. They've got Amazon churning out an episode of their Secret Level series for the game, they're not going to fully kill it here and now.
The feedback that I heard everywhere was that the game should have been F2P, so they'll make that happen.
I will bet you $0.02 that they will absolutely pull the plug on that episode, that they will indeed fully kill it here and now, and that it will not be reworked into a F2P game with the same characters or art style ever.
Maybe they will take some of the core gameplay mechanics and work them into projects totally unrelated to the 'Concord IP' they spent so much time hyping, but I see 0 chance that Concord just relaunches as Concord F2P in 6 months.
Well, I'm not above admitting that I was wrong. Kudos to you. I legit figured they'd let that corpse shamble along for at least a year as a F2P endeavor, but they seem to have reached a correct conclusion earlier than I would have credited them.
Hey, I appreciate your honesty and integrity!
I suppose it is still possible that the Concord themed Secret Level episode will still air...
I still doubt it.
I'm still willing to bet 2¢ it won't air, haha.
But yeah... the marketing (the video presentations of staff and developers, their public statements etc) seemed to me to very much indicate that the whole plan was to create an entire Concord Expanded Universe.
The game was supposed to have weekly story/character progression updates like some older MMOs, they talked about being in many different media formats, they literally used the phrase Concord Universe or Universe of Concord.
When you go all in on a new IP and ... its the biggest failure in the history of gaming... all your plans are done, kaput. You have to wait for people to forget about it and then 'reimagine' it a decade later if you even want to try to resurrect it.
From a game design standpoint... it wasn't designed to work as a heavily MTX dependent game.
That's actually a whole lot more development, more content, more UIs, more testing... and thus money you have to throw at it to get it to be that... and it already has failed, and been stupendously expensive to develop, has a horrific general reputation/perception.
But as to at least the Secret Level episode airing?
You do have good arguments that basically boil down to it already being completed or mostly complete, and the ... who gets paid by what contract with who for what... that kind of set up ... may lead to it making more business sense to just air it anyway.
But I would still counter that Sony wants to memory hole this IP from collective knowledge, and that they value that, as a means of improving their public perception, more than whatever they'd lose from breaking their contracts with Amazon.
Six of one, half a dozen of the other. The Secret Level episode is confirmed to be on, so I guess we'll get at least a peek at what they felt was there for us to enjoy in Concord.
Well there you go haha.
I got that part wrong.
Thanks for the update =)
I'd have probably posted it more broadly, but I honestly suspect that most of the people who give a shit are probably working at Amazon and likely could be counted on a single set of human digits. 😆