This has to be some kind of record.

For a first party AAA title that was in development for years and likely cost $100m plus to be pulled from the market after just 11 days is a whole 'nother level of failure.

Hopefully this will serve as a lesson to devs and publishers on what NOT to do when making a game.

XDefiant is next and thats F2P. None wants these CoD clones when theres an actual good CoD around the corner (BO6)

XDefiant is also a hero shooter disguising itself as a CoD clone lol making it unappealing to both fanbases. Really seems like the only hero shooter that might make it would be Marvel Rivals simply because it’s Marvel characters lol

I am afraid this is an assertion without proof, or even argument.

Yes, many words have grammatical genders. It is the same in my mother language (german) too. But the question is not if they have one. It is if that grammatical gender is directed and dictated by a social construct – our modern understanding of gender – or by sex. And gender as we understand it is so young, that it could not possibly have played a role in forming the decisions of what person gets what pronoun.

And I get that social roles can be old. But a man not conforming to social roles, or in fact exclusively practicing female social roles, would still be a man for all the understanding we had on this topic until five minutes ago.

Also, please consider this: gender, as modernity dictates, is a spectrum. So how come we only now get a spectrum of gendered pronouns and up until recently only had he/she – a binary? Because it is in direct relation to and consequence of another binary – sex. It is also an extremely modern mindset, that gender is everything and sex says rather little about an individual.

“The pronouns are just to identify what is the gender of the character. It’s just that.”

“The pronouns are just a way to make the player understand what are the gender of the robots and non-human characters”

A lot of people like the idea and theory of gender. But please note that it is just that, a theory. Set up in a way so it can never be proven or disproven. Unintelligible, non-empirical. My opinion, as I actually argued (above) is, that pronouns are not a way to identify what gender a character has, but what sex.

Now a robot does not have a sex. But it can be programmed to come across as if it had. And if alien reproduction turns out not to work like it does with the human binary sex, then perhaps different pronouns, like “it” could be in order. But I cannot imagine the concord devs thought so deeply about it.

But since pronoun choices also apply (presumably in concord too) to humans (and not just to robots and aliens) your point is moot again. Also, why choose pronouns at all, if they are dictated by how the fictional characters would feel inside or what social roles they take on? This at least should not be your choice but the characters. But since it is your choice, it is about you, not about humans, robots, aliens or anything else. This is just for the player. And this is also a common thread in the gender discourse – self-obsession – a downright recipe for unhappiness.

And please don’t call people deranged or having brain rot, just because they do not believe in this unproven gender theory and think that pronouns work differently than you do.

Even that’s not a guarantee considering The Avengers was also known as a pretty massive flop. At least Rivals seems to have a roster of more than 12 characters (though a bit odd there are none of the fantastic four playable). 

Lots of thoughts. 

I wonder what Sony will do, and if we'll ever find out why this happened. It feels like something Schreier would be looking into reporting on. 

Are they going to rework the game and go free to play?

Shut down the studio? 

Give them another chance?

A lot of this feels pretty unprecedented. There's plenty of game projects that have lost a lot of money. Sega cancelled Hyenas and that was a lot of lost money. But this has to be a contender for biggest loss for any released game ever, and unreleased too. 

I'm very surprised that Sony is pulling the plug already. I think chances are good that Firewalk is getting shut down.