{"id":113444,"date":"2024-10-12T21:57:45","date_gmt":"2024-10-12T14:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=113444"},"modified":"2024-10-12T21:57:45","modified_gmt":"2024-10-12T14:57:45","slug":"concord-may-be-coming-back-to-life-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=113444","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Concord\u2019 May Be Coming Back To Life After All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"embed-base image-embed embed-0\" role=\"presentation\"><figcaption><fbs-accordion><\/p>\n<p class=\"color-body light-text\">Concord<\/p>\n<p><\/fbs-accordion><small>Sony<\/small><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Concord may be six feet underground, but given that it\u2019s spooky season, it\u2019s a perfect time to shoot a hand out of that grave and crawl out again.<\/p>\n<p>This is far from confirmed at this point, but there is some evidence now that at least <em>something<\/em> is going on behind the scenes with the Steam version of Concord. As <a href=\"https:\/\/insider-gaming.com\/concord-continues-to-get-updates-on-steam\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"color-link\" title=\"https:\/\/insider-gaming.com\/concord-continues-to-get-updates-on-steam\/\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/insider-gaming.com\/concord-continues-to-get-updates-on-steam\/\" aria-label=\"spotted by Insider Gaming\">spotted by Insider Gaming<\/a>, while Concord has gotten multiple updates on Steam the last few weeks, from October 6-10 alone it got 20 different updates by a few different users.<\/p>\n<p>There is obviously no official word from Sony or Firewalk about any of this, otherwise we\u2019d be talking about that, but the idea here has always been that the game <em>could<\/em> return to life as a free-to-play version, rather than the $40 up-front price it originally asked for when it launched on August 23. It shut down two weeks later.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s important to remember that the official word <em>was<\/em> that Concord was possibly going to return in some form. The <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.playstation.com\/2024\/09\/03\/an-important-update-on-concord\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"color-link\" title=\"https:\/\/blog.playstation.com\/2024\/09\/03\/an-important-update-on-concord\/\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/blog.playstation.com\/2024\/09\/03\/an-important-update-on-concord\/\" aria-label=\"blog post from Firewalk\">blog post from Firewalk<\/a> said the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n \u201cHowever, while many qualities of the experience resonated with players, we also recognize that other aspects of the game and our initial launch didn\u2019t land the way we\u2019d intended. Therefore, at this time, we have decided to take the game offline beginning September 6, 2024, and explore options, including those that will better reach our players.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><fbs-ad position=\"inread\" progressive=\"\" ad-id=\"article-0-inread\" aria-hidden=\"true\" role=\"presentation\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The \u201cexplore options\u201d bit no doubt included the idea of going free-to-play, but the more common notion was that the game was just\u2026dead.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed-base image-embed embed-1\" role=\"presentation\"><figcaption><fbs-accordion><\/p>\n<p class=\"color-body light-text\">Concord<\/p>\n<p><\/fbs-accordion><small>PlayStation<\/small><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After all, price did not seem to be the main issue here. The game had a completely free beta close to launch which peaked at just 2,300 players on Steam, a little less than triple what the game ended up launching with. The interest just wasn\u2019t there at any price. So should this happen? You can see both cases, but I\u2019d argue one is more compelling than the other:<\/p>\n<p>1) Given how much Sony and Firewalk have invested in Concord, including years of development time and potentially hundreds of millions of dollars, they may at least want to give it a second shot as a free-to-play title, in addition to whatever other tweaks to the game they think might encourage more players to return.<\/p>\n<p>2) But how would it look to fail twice? And that seems to be the more likely possibility. Again, price was not the main issue, and you\u2019re not going to redesign the entire roster and the concept of the game. This was also not say, Overwatch, eventually feeling the need to go free-to-play to compete after being an established success. Concord was a colossal failure, and it does not seem to be one of those games that can work really hard to turn things around like No Man\u2019s Sky or Cyberpunk 2077, the latter of which launched to millions of players, not thousands.<\/p>\n<p>Still, I think Sony may try here. That may be what these updates indicate, but if it\u2019s <em>just<\/em> going free-to-play, that is unlikely to do much. Still, we know that additional, ongoing content for Concord had been in the works, and so has a multimedia expansion with an upcoming episode of Amazon\u2019s Secret Level, which will now feel pretty bizarre.<\/p>\n<p>As ever I really do feel for the Concord team here, but it\u2019s hard to see any kind of resurrection working at all.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Follow me <\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PaulTassi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"color-link\" title=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PaulTassi\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/twitter.com\/PaulTassi\" aria-label=\"on Twitter\"><strong data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/twitter.com\/PaulTassi\"><em data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/twitter.com\/PaulTassi\">on Twitter<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong><em>, <\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCg6K8i6OGobyZNoPIsCW9uQ?sub_confirmation=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" 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