| Leynos said: Concord Beta numbers tell that the game is DOA. Maybe Sony will learn to not make more Gaas shit esp an obvious trend chaser ripping off popular things from several years ago. Not wanting anyone to lose jobs either. |
They already learned that lesson dude lol. They canceled 6 of the 12 services in the making when Bungie fumbled in 2023, Concord is one of the 5 left after Helldivers, they freed Insomniac and ND from making services, Ryan is out, they are putting all the marketing money on Astro Bot. Will they make more services in the future? Of course they will keep trying but the all in on services is done and Concord will only double down the decision.
One thing about "ripping off" games is that basically all successful services do that. LoL to DOTA, Mobile Legends to LoL, Fortnite to PUBG, Valorant is probably the successful game that most fits in your description because it's pretty new and it ripped off CS a 24 yo game. Innovation in services doesn't happen that much, probably the most meaningful was autobattlers back in 2019 when DOTA chess was peaking, the devs didn't want to work with Valve, made Auto Chess with a chinese company and RIOT ripped off the concept in under a year and released TFT.
Now, something funny could happen about this. The game from HAVEN that I don't remember it's name but it's a pretty terrible name will be a rip off of PAYDAY and PAYDAY 3 was terrible so the market is already pent up, they could release that desire for more PAYDAY with that game but only with the correct choices in the overall presentation of the game.
