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[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 month ago (4 children)

....how does ANY game cost $400,000,000?

No, seriously: does that include an unlimited drugs and hookers for the c-levels budget or something?

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

the credits for concord list 2000 employees. It was also in development for 6 years (I would guess it probably suffered "development hell")

https://www.mobygames.com/game/229488/concord/credits/playstation-5/

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Imagine getting 2000-ish people to work on a project for 6 years just to fart out a hero shooter who’s main claim to fame is being dead on arrival.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Wasn't GTA 5 like 100 millions? I mean it's insane but in the ballpark.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago

265 million in 2013 money which is 358 million in 2024 money.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

IIRC, it's more like 250 million, but 250 million is still basically half of whatever this generic-ass live-service FPS game ended up costing, and it's certainly not to the scope or scale of GTA5.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I feel like they could have come up with a copycat hero shooter for like 20 million tops.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I'll do it for 5!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Star citizen. I think it has passed that? Still only in early alpha

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's over $850M at the moment.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

And none of it is at a loss. People gladly fork over money and are happy getting fleeced. Not even mad at them, anymore.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Brought to you by John Belushi.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I saw the poster without knowing anything about the game and thought it looked like bootleg shitty guardians of the galaxy.

Apparently it was even worse than my 0 expectations.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I bever really got the guardians vibe, then i saw someone starting the game up and i had to laugh out loud. I don't even think the game is absolute shit, just kinda boring. But what in the name of hod were they thinking? Just look and deathlock, valve cooked up an absolute banger, and even in alpha the game looks sick. I love the character design so much, the setting is on point and i was never into mobas at all and still somehow played 40 hours since last sunday

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Pretty massive screw up from the marketing team involved. To try and sell a hero shooter for $40 upfront from an unknown dev studio in a crowded market of free-to-play hero shooters is pretty risky. Even Overwatch 2 saw the writing on the wall and went F2P.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

and while deadlock were just around the corner lmao(also free)

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (16 children)

I've had a friend tell me that her stream group (and her) or whatever was happy to see these woke games die. I'm only looking at this superficially but what about this game is woke? I just thought it was shit.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I believe the game showed pronouns on the character select screen. That's all it takes to make certain people mad, unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Go woke go broke, just like Baldurs Gate 3 /s

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Baldur's Gate is a prime example for people not actually being bothered by the "woke" stuff all that much. It just gets the blame when the product turns out shit because it's an easy tool to explain why everything else about a game sucks.

The mechanics are bad? They must've spent more time arguing how to include pronouns than how to make the game fun.

Buggy? Obviously revisions to make the game more inclusive had more priority.

Are those speculations true? Idk but stuff like the leaked Sweet Baby Inc. talks about how to include more progressive aspects in a game make it seem believable enough for most people.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

I think the ridiculousness of the argument is that adding pronoun options during character creation is an almost nothing feature to implement. I would get if there was like a bunch of money and time put into making unique "woke questlines" that you could say that there was a large resource allocation. I wouldn't agree that doing that would be a terrible thing though.

Culture war gamers just like to allocate blame to wokeness when things fail. The successes that contradict their biases are ignored.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

LPT: I t’s usually a safe bet to ignore anyone deriding a game for its “wokeness,” their opinions are reactionary and not based in any reasonable sense of reality

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Uh...false. TLOU2 was a flop. Horizon 2 was a flop. Checkmate woke boi /s

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

But obviously "WOKE" is when thing I don't like has people I don't like in it!!

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

nah, the game had shit marketing, shit and generic characters design, was 8 years too late, it's basically overwatch but overwatch is free, valve has a hero shooter just around the corner, that's probably as "woke" as it can but it's free and exploding in numbers(even in closed alpha), if the problem was just the woke part, it would have attracted these "woke" people,but no one played it lol

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

The character selector said what characters were he/she or non binary. Which I don't see the point to be honest, but hating a game because if it is laughably stupid. Maybe some people really want to play as non binary characters because that's what they identify as, and more power to them. My new addiction is dethlock and my favorite character is dynamo, a fat robot gravity man. I don't identify as any of these things.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Concord is such a terrible name it doesn't grab attention at all. The game keep popping up on my feed and i just take a glance and move on. It's Sony's greatest blunder.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Hey, even if Concorde failed doesn’t mean it wasn’t the first commercial plane to break the sound barrier.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

I would definitely pay for the game Concord, just for its brand.

If the sub title is Sony Flight Simulator

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago

Just Sony not listening to what customers want again. Mandatory PSN login? You're gonna login and like it. Generic overwatch wannabe remake? How could we lose?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And yet we will never get a bloodborne remaster

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

I see this game mentioned repeatedly over the meme-brink, but it's that relevant in the PC scope? Because I am beginning to think only people who had already played on PS4 care about it: it looks like the "I use Arch, btw" meme (a random guy repeated that make clear they use a product/thing... which nobody ask them about).

Bloodborne sold ~7million copies in the span of ~7 years ( ref ), for comparison a game like Sekiro (while not forgotten, you don't see random people jumping out and say "I played/want Sekiro btw") sold 10 million in ~4 years ( ref )

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

But Sekiro isn’t a PS4 exclusive and is already on PC.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

There is a (from my guess) sizable chunk of soulslike fans who want to play Bloodborne but won't get a console just to do it. The noise around it is likely as loud as it is because it is the only Fromsoft soulslike released after the initial success of Dark Souls that is not available on PC, the other games all either got a PC port (Dark Souls 1-3) or released on PC from the start (Sekiro, Elden Ring)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Aah you're correct it isn't a PC game, PS only which accounts for the sales difference for sekiro for example. Also, dark souls wasn't really that popular until bloodborne came out, it energized the soulsborne genre. It is a very important game, a masterpiece, but unfortunately unless you get ahold of the very recently emulated version for PC, you can't play without a PS. Sorry, didn't realize this was a PC gaming space. I saw concord is a Sony game, and i have a bit of a one track mind.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Because I am beginning to think only people who had already played on PS4 care about it

Personally, I never played it due to being a console exclusive, but would be very happy if it came to PC.

To me it makes sense that many of the people who played other souls-like/FromSoftware games would want to play "that missing one".

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It could still be the future of Playstation. It’s never too late.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah we were all busy that weekend, please bring Concord to PC again

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

They wouldn't fall for a Morbius, again ...right?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

400 million and I never even heard of the game.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Just watched the gameplay trailer.

Immediately noticed it looks like there's 10 heroes, and 3 naps...

I mean, it looks like fun, very overwatch esq

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

that's the thing, it look like overwatch, but it don't the same heavy name as overwatch, and overwatch is free

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