Last Updated on 08/09/2024 by Arun jain
By now, I am sure everyone must have heard the news about it Concord. Firewalk’s poor multiplayer title launched in a very unfavorable market, and sales fared so poorly that PlayStation and Firewalk have now pulled it from stores and essentially shut it down until further notice. They’ve also refunded all digital purchases of the game on console and PC (although I understand that physical copies of the game are still around, though not always in the hands of honest people).
It’s a sad end to the Concorde’s development and launch story. Firewalk is a young studio and Concorde was their first title. Playstation original Partnered with the studio To support the project before 2021 Acquired Firewalk in 2023 – and on all these points, has shown nothing but enthusiasm for the project. Firewalk’s vision of a new multiplayer IP, which originally started as a bun in the oven at Probably Monsters, seemed pretty healthy. Tony Sue said On the PlayStation backing partnership: “These amazing and unexpected moments in gaming are the spark that happens when playing with other people; Future memories are ready to be replayed and retold.” And Literally It hurts to read it now.
The worst part of this story is that it was a potentially avoidable tragedy. Granted, given their obvious enthusiasm for the genre, it’s hard to imagine the team repurposing it from a live-service multiplayer title, but there were other ways to make it more palatable. A release date, a premium price tag, a separate and extremely short marketing campaign — the Concorde doesn’t need to launch with so many disadvantages. Part of me wonders how we all would have reacted to Concorde in a world where Sony had never partnered with Firewalk…unfortunately, then the question becomes whether the game would have started at all.
In personal news, I just got back from a preview event where I got to play several hours of Dragon Age: The Valeguard. And since I can’t talk about the game yet, I’ll tell you what it is instead Boring Playing games while sitting in one place for long periods of time. So I think I’m in the mood for some short gameplay experiences this weekend, something I can pick up and put down more easily. Vampire Therapist awaits more attention on my figurative Steam shelf, and both Emio: The Smiling Man — Famicom Detective Club and Ace Attorney Investigation Collection will satisfy my current appetite. But if I could get my hands on an Astro Bot, it would fit the bill too.
What to play this week
What’s New:
- Astro Boat
- NBA 2K25
- Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions
- S attorney investigative collection
- The casting of Frank Stone
- Age of Mythology: Retold
- Shogun Showdown
- Star Trucker
- Paper Ghost Stories: Open the Third Eye
New on Subscription Services:
- Expeditions: A Modernrunner Game (Xbox Game Pass)
- MLB The Show 24 (PlayStation Plus)
- Little Nightmare II (PlayStation Plus)
- Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor Game of the Year Edition (Prime Gaming)
- Borderlands 2 (Prime Gaming)
- Shadow of the Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition (Prime Gaming)
- GreedFall: Gold Edition (Prime Gaming)
- Whispered Secrets: The Everburning Candle Collector’s Edition (Prime Gaming)
- Minabo – A Walk Through Life (Prime Gaming)
- Eternites (Prime Gaming)
- LEGO: Indiana Jones – The Original Adventures (Prime Gaming)
- Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel (Prime Gaming)
- Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts (GeForce Now)
- Crime Scene Cleaner (Geforce Now)
- Sins of a Solar Empire II (GeForce Now)
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