From what I read it was over 8 years in development, it should’ve been well beyond a rework, or maybe even a couple, already.
I’m almost certain that Sony, as any boss, was quite done with the whole fiasco and just said “fuck it, let’s go” and just see what happens. It probably wasn’t worth the time and effort to keep putting resources into a project going nowhere.
My favorite theory is internal politics meant that the people who knew it was going to fail couldn’t prevent the game from going live without extreme cost to themselves. And they would be blamed for it.
Letting the game go live, was probably the least politically expensive thing for them to do. Even though everybody knew the outcome
Good bones? I thought the gameplay looked uninspired even taking into account it’s development age.
True, it was a really well done clone, but it was well done. The game worked. It wasn’t terribly buggy.
I’m OOtL on this one. What/who is/was Concord? And what happened to it/them?
A new shooter that Sony launched a couple weeks ago and have subsequently cancelled and is offering refunds. So basically an astronomical waste of money.
About 100 million. Probably more, since they had a whole thing with animated episodes to tell the lore already produced.
Sony released a more realistic looking big budget Overwatch clone. It was fine, but nobody cared, because nobody wants a $40 live service Overwatch clone where all the characters have similar silhouettes. They spent 8 years making an okay game for nobody. If they’d done something different with the same basic characters and gunplay it could have maybe been good. They didn’t though, so estimates suggested they sold about 25,000 copies worldwide before pulling it from their store and refunding everyone.
