PlayStation and Firewalk Studios announced today that they are taking their recently released multiplayer game Concord Offline The game launched on August 23 and will go offline just two weeks later, on September 6. According to Firewalk, they will use the time after the game goes offline to “explore options” for it. PlayStation will cease all sales of the game at that time and players will receive a refund.
Firewalk Studios announced the decision A blog post On the PlayStation website, game director Ryan Ellis said that while some aspects of the game resonated with players, “Our initial launch didn’t go as well as we would have liked… We’ll keep you updated and thanks again to everyone. Freeganers who have joined us at Concorde Galaxy.” Ellis wouldn’t say what options Firewalk has to explore, but says they hope to “better reach our players.”
Concord launched simultaneously on PC and PlayStation, and according to SteamDB, it had a peak concurrent player count of 697 on those platforms. In a report from IGNSimon Carless of GameDiscover.co estimated that only 25,000 copies of the game were sold – 10,000 on PC and 15,000 on PlayStation. It is worth noting that the Concorde is priced at $40 and has also launched in a few days The highly successful Black Myth: Wukong.
The rest of the article details how users can get refunds for their games on various platforms. Players on all platforms will automatically receive their refunds if they purchase the game digitally, while physical refunds will go through the retailer. Players will no longer have access to the game once a refund is received.
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