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Concord Proves The Industry Needs Change

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If you haven't already heard, developer Firewalk has announced that Concord will be taken offline on September 6th, 2024. Refunds will be issued for anyone who purchased the game. This comes just two weeks after the game's release. While early reviews and previews actually had some decent things to say about Concord, a lot of gamers felt it was just "too much like Overwatch with nothing new." This goes to show how loyal gamers already are to established series and whether or not that is to a fault is starting to rear its head now.

Concord was reported to take over 8 years in development and cost millions to make. A lot of time, effort, and money went into building this world and experience. For a game with some quality opinions to be shut down a few weeks after release and not JUST because of the gameplay, is quite interesting. I absolutely feel for the people who took the time to work hard and create a video game as we all know it's not easy by any means. But I feel now anyone who wants to work on a game needs to step back and really say "Is this really just Overwatch?" Or insert any game in your genre, really.

With so many live service games out there with an established audience, you REALLY need something special to overcome these juggernauts. Fortnite, Apex Legends, Warzone, and Overwatch. All of these have an absolute chokehold on the shooter variety of live service and really we haven't seen anything come close to topping them. You then have World Of Warcraft and Elder Scrolls Online for the RPG/MMO variety. As a developer, it is now time to find out if your game has that "something extra" to separate it from these titles. Concord had barely a foundation with "Here are some cool characters." What it lacked was proper world building, character development, and an overall sense of "Why?" If you remember Overwatch, leading up to the launch, we got character stories and general hype. Blizzard made SURE you wanted to not only play these characters, but get to know their lives, their backgrounds, and be interested in who they are and their motives.

There are a lot of comparisons to Overwatch in this article and to every review out there but that has to be the biggest pointer sign of them all. There is a standard and while it may be a pretty high one (or lower now after Overwatch 2), you HAVE to make sure you meet or exceed it. Otherwise, after 8 years and 200 million dollars later, you shut down after 2 weeks.


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