Concord is Sony's biggest failure in gaming history.

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Ryuu96 said:

Robert_Downey_Jr. said:

It's kinda funny how ravenous you got when someone even references Sbi.  The long-winded diatribe didn't really address much at all.  Maybe they should focus on games rather than culture war crap. Not that hard. Also Alan Wake 2 failed and Spider-Man had some great momentum from the original game which luckily was less influenced in the writing by such firms. If they're not influencing things I guess don't hire them.  Sounds like a useless thing to do 

Kind of funny how you consistently post utter nonsense around these forums and never back your points up. Good thing for your paranoid delusions, SBI had nothing to do with Concord. Maybe you should learn how videogame development works rather than saying "they should focus on games rather than culture war crap" because clearly you don't understand that a tiny consultancy group focused on giving advice on how best to implement inclusive characters does nothing to take away the many areas of developing a videogame.

Please, enlighten us, how does receiving advice on how to write a black character into a videogame with care take away focus from creating mechanics and gameplay features, content and graphics, art-style and technical? In your little mind SBI with their few consultancy workers interfere in studios with 100-200+ employees. You sound like one of those Twitter warriors who scream at social media managers to "focus on the games instead of tweeting" Lol.

Alan Wake 2 has yet to turn a profit, for no reason to do with SBI and more to do with the fact that Alan Wake is a large budget game that isn't a massive seller right out the gate, Alan Wake 1 took 5 years to sell 4.5m copies. Alan Wake 2 was Remedy’s fastest selling game as of February 2024. In 4 months it had sold 1.3m and it would have done even more had it not been exclusive to Epic Game Store.

You ought to look up how Epic Games Publishing contracts work too, EGP cover 100% of development costs (including salaries, QA, localization, marketing, etc.) and developers under these contracts will only earn profit once the costs have been recouped to Epic. Basically, Epic has to make back its investment before Remedy starts receiving profits. So even though Remedy has yet to turn a profit on Alan Wake 2, all the costs were covered by Epic anyway and they'll only start making profit once Epic receives all of its costs back.

Either way, I'll say again, Alan Wake 2 was very well received by both critics and fans. Spider-Man 2 the same, God of War Ragnarök the same. But of course, SBI is only responsible for the bad and you'll come up with an excuse for every good game they've been involved in when the actual truth is that SBI barely has an impact on the quality and sales of any videogame.

And I'll say again, SBI had nothing to do with Concord.

But it won't stop the obsessed running in with low-educated takes of "FAIL CAUSE WOKE/DEI AGENDA"

You can repeat it as many times as you like.  Remains just as irrelevant.  Sounds like paranoid delusion to not acknowledge the point about them not being needed if they don't seriously influence things.  Can't have it both ways.  Either they make a difference which can potentially hurt things, or they don't.  Also good to know you're one of those weirdos who attacks fans over community managers lol.  Oh wait I'm sure the "death threats" excuse is next.

Fact is if it was received better it would have sold faster.  Guess we can say they were useless on those successful games and could only detract from quality if they really didn't influence anything.  You're caught in a logical fallacy here and can only spew about out childish insults and made up stuff in all caps.  Keep seething, gather your senses, and take a deep breath.  I believe that you can be level headed about this but it's clear your personal feelings and vendetta have clouded your judgement.