PlayStation shooter Concord shut down after only 10 days because no one played it Firewalk StudiosAfter a middling launch on August 23 leading to a terribly low player count, PlayStation has announced that Concord will be going offline just two weeks after release. In a message on the PlayStation blog, Game Director Ryan Ellis at Firewalk Studios announced that Concord will go offline starting September 6. Although this PS5 hero shooter offered an Open Beta that peaked at 2,388 concurrent players, its launch barely reached 700 users, plummeting to around 50 concurrent players in the following days. Ellis also explained how the team will \u201cexplore options, including those that will better reach our players,\u201d meaning Concord may not be dead in the water forever. In addition, Concord sales will immediately cease and anyone who purchased it on PS5 or PC will be offered a refund. The post then went into detail on how players could refund their game depending on their storefront. This news comes only 10 days after its release, which is a near record-breaking time for a AAA game to announce a shutdown. While Concord\u2019s demise seems to mainly stem from the abysmal player count and $40 price point, the audience had other contentions like the game having the \u201cugliest\u201d character designs ever. Fans and non-fans alike are stunned at the speed at which Concord is being taken offline. Although PlayStation\u2019s post on X about the shutdown had replies turned off, that didn\u2019t stop other posts from discussing it. \u201c8 years of work and it\u2019s gone just like that,\u201d someone wrote in response to the news. Another called this \u201cembarrassing,\u201d and explained how it wasn\u2019t surprising after the game \u201cfailed to resonate with players.\u201d PlayStation\u2019s online shooter was predicted to not be a good enough game to stick around for long, even Concord believers expressed doubt, but the swift closure is still a surprise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
PlayStation shooter Concord shut down after only 10 days because no one played it Firewalk StudiosAfter a middling launch on August 23 leading to a terribly low player count, PlayStation has announced that Concord will be going offline just two weeks after release. In a message on the PlayStation blog, Game Director Ryan Ellis at […]<\/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-84194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84194","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=84194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}