The failed co-op shooter Concord, just marked its one-year anniversary, and 50 weeks since its cancellation.
On the one-year anniversary of what is considered Sony Interactive Entertainment’s greatest failure, the memory of this epic blunder remains a chilling example for the gaming industry on what happens when developers lean too far into identity politics at the expense of the game experience.
Firewalk Studios Senior Concept Artist Amanda Kiefer allegedly revealed that employees at the company are "terrified of the future" after the company's first game Concord was shut down less than two weeks after it released. As initially reported by Smash JT, Kiefer...
Jon Weisnewski, the Lead Character Designer for Firewalk Studios' Concord claims the game being "shipped at all is legendary" after the game was shut down in less than two weeks. Firewalk Studios Game Director Ryan Ellis announced at the beginning of September that...
IGN writer Stella Chung made the absurd claim that PlayStation never believed in Firewalk Studios' Concord game after it was shut down less than two weeks after it was released. Firewalk Studios Game Director Ryan Ellis announced the studio was shutting down the game...
Firewalk Studios announced it shut down Concord's servers and will no longer be selling the game less than two weeks after it released. In a blog post, Firewalk Studios Game Director Ryan Ellis announced, "At this time, we have decided to take the game offline...
Firewalk Studios' Concord died right out of the gate and the game's corpse is quickly being buried as one player reported he had an 8-minute wait time on Monday, August 26th. Concord went live on Friday, August 23rd and only hit a peak concurrent player count of 697....
Firewalk Studios' Concord had one of the worst launches of the year and it is getting even worse for the game as player counts declined by over 42% in its first weekend. According to data from SteamdDB, the game had a peak concurrent player count of 697 when it...
The development team or at the very least the community management team has reportedly removed two controversial tags from Concord's store page following game's release and abysmally low player counts. The official Concord account on X confirmed the game went on sale...
Firewalk Studios' Concord is officially a dead game walking with the game's opening day peak concurrent player count on Steam coming in 70% lower than the game's open beta. In the game's Early Access in the middle of July the game hit a peak concurrent player count of...
Jon Weisnewski, the Lead Character Designer for Firewalk Studios' Concord, attempted to sell the game by claiming he and the development team are "strapped in and ready to push it for years to come." In an interview with PCGamer, Weisnewski touted the game stating,...
A new report claims that Firewalk Studios' Concord Open Beta had 8% less players that its Early Access Beta on PlayStation. Kes Eylers Stephenson at True Trophies reports that the Open Beta, which ran from July 18th to 21st had 8% less players than the much-more...
A new report claims that one of the developers for Firewalk Studios' upcoming game Concord demanded her co-workers refer to her as "professor," that she pushed "extreme politics," and demanded that her unvaccinated colleagues be fired. This new report comes from...
Firewalk Studio's Open Beta for Concord went live on July 18th and the game failed to top 2,500 concurrent players in its first day. The official X account for Concord announced that the Open Beta was live at 4:00 PM ET on July 18th. The #ConcordBeta is now live!...