Concord Studio Closes... will 2025 be any better?

Don’t make shit games or be almost 5 years behind trends.

That isn't a negative 😂

Thanks!

It's almost like pouring company-ending levels of money into one project when your company struggles to understand what consumers even want is a terrible idea. Make smaller, cheaper, more experimental projects and hope one hits it big. Don't pour hundreds of millions of dollars into a single game when you're so out of touch you can't even understand that a huge part of why Overwatch got popular is because all the characters are hot af and not ugly weirdos.

My man need a sponsorship with a pizza service so we could get a discount on pizza , then the pizza would really be on him lol . Jake your awesome dude thank you for making videos regardless of free pizza or not😂

why close the studio and not release concord f2p and hope to generate money on skins like every other game does?

I don’t really see firewalk closing as a negative, these studios that make games for the "modern audience" need to be shut down, or the entire video game industry will collapse because all we will get are concord type games.

Ahh it's not a new thing about teams getting smaller, Konami has been doing this since like 2010 since I worked at Castlevania Lords of Shadow. They were outsourcing everything to Spain for the past 15+ years.

Nope, games like all media will only get progressively worse and the older you get the more you will hate it

The positive is firewalk studio closed down

Go Woke, GO BROKE!!

Hopefully Bioware will be dismantled. The perversion of Veilguard is a joke. And the freaks working at Bioware reflects that

In the future when companies put out a game, and it flops so hard it puts your company in jeopardy, people will say "well they Sonied themselves"

2024 will only be the wokest year in history until 2025 comes to take the crown.

I hope more bad games stop

That’s a smart prediction. The switch 2 comes out next year AND probably GTA 6. Those are 2 HUGE

It’s a $40 overwatch clone and overwatch is free 😂

Jake I really love that optimism you have keep going god bless 💯

negative? om glad lmao, they made there bed all the devs were activists stop making excuses for them

Lmao concord was buy to play 🤣🤣 even if it was free it would of had some trouble

there is a lot of great stuff that comes out every year, but with how bad the economy/value of the dollar is, I can't justify buying games day one or even year one, and that hurts their bottom lines a lot. Shadow of the Erdtree was my only gaming purchase this year compared to years ago when I would buy 2-6 games every year. I still work the job and take home the same pay more or less, but being squeezed where it hurts keeps me and probably lots of others from taking risks on stuff like Concord or even surer bets like the Silent Hill 2 Remake.

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I have a feeling it'll take at least till 2028 or so till we start seeing more mainstream games that go back to being all in all fun again. Gaming for as popular as it has been was still largely niche. Meaning the developers were focused on modelling games that were pure fun first, everything else later with certain exceptions to the formulae.
But with covid, majority of the world shifted in gaming, for game companies this was an opportunity to make the most money possible by creating products that hold mass appeal, all inclusive across all possible demographic and thus just like mainstream Hollywood movies and TV, the developers, the publishers started prioritizing 'cinematic immersion' and all the bells n whistles that come with that territory of being a 'mass entertainer' first and everything else second.
Even though I myself am a part of game industry and I know this might come back to bite me in the arse xD YES, we need to shed off the extra unnecessary baggage we've picked up over the years with the pandemic and refocus on creating fun memorable games.

SONY is going to wait to see what they can rip off from Nintendo.

It's insane to see how much both SONY and Microsoft have destroyed the gaming market.

Games take too long now. There’s probably 100 games that will release in the next 5 years that have been in development since before all this. So I say we have 10 years until the industry goes through a big change

GTA 6 coming out thts why

We need some Jake Rainbow Six Siege gameplay 😂

It'll be better if corporations finally give up on live services. I get that their profits are thin right now, but a simpler way to fix that would be to cut down on graphic costs.

2025 aleady better woke studios closing left and right and bad devs living on the streets.

Concord bombs, they pull it but indicate they will work on it and be back, month later the studio's gone 😂 u cant write this stuff

It amazes me how bland these characters are idk if it's because the art director or dei bullshit but these have to be some of the worst characters I've ever seen in a AAA game

All I want from 2025 is for so many studios to not be shut down, especially after only one questionable release. Go back to the 2000’s or even the early 2010’s and you’ll see so many companies that hard to get their toes wet before they went swimming. If Rocksteady shut down after a mediocre PS2 game, we never would have gotten Arkham. If FromSoftware shut down after some adequate games for years, we never would have gotten Souls. If a game flops, there should be equal responsibility placed on executives rather than developers. I’m just tired of hearing about talented people losing their jobs

But... But... Console sales 😂😂🦄 🦄

All I'm hearing is that executives make the bad ideas and devs have to pay for the bad ideas.

Hopefully. Remember that if u go woke then u go broke. If more similar games like that comes out in 2025. Can we can all already foresee a terrible year ahead for those developers.

How is it a negative for concord studio to be shut down?

Game Devs are giving away the hobby chasing nothingburger elements of game design. Those who evolve gameplay will survive... Imitation is suicide. We've played everything... Change it up or it's all gonna collapse.

Firewalk studios shutting down is a negative? I say its a huge positive in the game industry.
Just because you spent hundreds of millions and multiple years to make a bland game does not automatically guarantee success. Results matters.

Your dog is beautiful congrats Jake, also I too like the COD campaigns, they are fun.

Ken Levine is a horrible example. He closed Irrational. He cost all those people their jobs. All because he couldn’t handle being in charge of a large team.

Once again you fail to acknowledge that the "culture" implemented into the game is absolutely important.

ngl it's been a weird gaming year for me. I've never played a hero shooter before and absolutely fell in love with Concord, particularly it's design elements and more casual competitive side that's encouraged varied game. On the other hand, Helldivers II was great for me at launch but got incredibly tiresome incredibly fast to the point where I actually dislike it at this point. I recognize I'm not the average gamer, but when Concord came out it felt like something truly made for me and I'm crushed that it's gone.

The fair thing would’ve been to fire the execs responsible for Concord, not the studio.

Sony: "We are shutting down our biggest failure..... Concord."

Nintendo (Mario & Luigi Brothership): "WELCOME TO CONCORDIA!"

This was always going to happen that Firewalk would walk the plank after the collapse of Concord. The surprise is Sony's very poor judgement in buying the studio and greenlighting the project

On videogames and studios that stuck to their guns, I recommend Wayfinder. At less than 30 bucks you get a whole lot more than Concord ever did.
Also, game companies are waiting for 2025/26 for the "bloodbath" because that's when the new Nintendo console will come out, so other companies are saving their best for that "fight".

On videogames and studios that stuck to their guns, I recommend Wayfinder. At less than 30 bucks you get a whole lot more than Concord ever did.
Also, game companies are waiting for 2025/26 for the "bloodbath" because that's when the new Nintendo console will come out, so other companies are saving their best for that "fight".

Just another generic channel that refuses to cover why large studios are failing, which is due to wokeness / sweet baby inc / etc.