2024 will be remembered for many things within the video game industry, but perhaps the most important will be the stagnation of the industry, as seen in the failure of titles like Concord, which crashed from the very beginning and couldn’t take off, causing million-dollar losses. The game is one of the biggest flops in the history of entertainment, and in just two weeks, the servers were shut down. But it still has a chance: remake it as a free-to-play game and hope that revenue comes from elsewhere… although for now, there is no news on this from Sony. Or is there?
Something is moving
Concord sold only 25,000 copies and cost 400 million dollars. Do the math: it’s not like they’re exactly celebrating at Sony. However, something is happening on its Steam page, even though the game is not available and the servers are down. In fact, it had its last update on October 10. What does this mean?
Basically, someone, somewhere, is playing Concord. According to SteamDB data, on October 5th, five people were doing so, although it is overwhelmingly impossible… unless they are doing it from Firewalk Studios, the studio that developed the game and might be conducting tests for a relaunch. Who knows.
Obviously, this doesn’t mean anything nor is it official, but surely right now there are many people at Sony asking how on earth they are going to recover that huge amount of money, even if it’s desperately. Personally, I think that, indeed, they are starting to tweak things in the hope that their free relaunch will attract more interest and lose as little money as possible.
Because the alternative, what is it? Are they playing for fun, reminiscing about their own failure? Do they want to take one last stroll through their characters before forgetting that something called Concord ever existed? Are they getting inspired to create a new failure? Mark my words with gold: when they hope that no one will mock them anymore, Concord will return. And, who knows, maybe it will have a chance to survive. Remote, of course, let’s not fool ourselves.
