Concord receives mysterious Steam update sparking hope of a revival Firewalk StudiosConcord, Firewalk Studios\u2019 ill-fated hero shooter, has been receiving backend updates on Steam, sparking hopes that it may yet rise from the ashes of its disastrous initial launch. Released on August 23 and taken offline just 10 days later as a result of minuscule player engagement and middling reviews, neither Firewalk nor publisher Sony indicated whether Concord would fly again. The former\u2019s original statement only offered that it needed to \u201cdetermine the best path ahead\u201d while offering full refunds to any who had already purchased the game. Since being taken offline on September 6, Concord has received backend updates on Valve\u2019s platform every day without fail. The latest, as of writing, was deployed on September 15. Due to the associated files in each being encrypted, it\u2019s unknown what they include, but fans have allowed themselves to be cautiously optimistic if not intrigued by the development. \u201cSeems Firewalk\/Sony is still doing things behind the scenes. Curious to see how this will go,\u201d said one onlooker sharing the discovery on Reddit, prompting others to join the discourse. \u201cI hope they\u2019re planning to bring it back in some way. It would suck to know that the game got canned before it even had a chance,\u201d added another. Others held the opinion that character redesigns were necessary, should Firewalk ever intend to bring the shooter back. \u201cI\u2019d be willing to pay for the game if a redesign made them attractive,\u201d they continued. Per Steam Charts, Concord\u2019s all-time peak of concurrent players reached 660. As a fascinating aside, it would appear that some form of in-game activity \u2013 likely Firewalk itself \u2013 has continued post-shutdown, with two players recorded as having played within the last 24 hours. Does this hold any significance? Who knows, but it\u2019ll be interesting to see what, if anything, happens from this point forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Concord receives mysterious Steam update sparking hope of a revival Firewalk StudiosConcord, Firewalk Studios\u2019 ill-fated hero shooter, has been receiving backend updates on Steam, sparking hopes that it may yet rise from the ashes of its disastrous initial launch. Released on August 23 and taken offline just 10 days later as a result of minuscule […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}