Firewalk Studios Shut Down, Concord Officially GONE FOREVER!
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- Опубліковано 31 жов 2024
- Sony Interactive Entertainment recently confirmed the inevitable: after years of misguided development and toxic workspaces, Firewalk Studios has officially shut down, marking an unsurprising end for what was once positioned as PlayStation's supposed 'answer' to multiplayer innovation. Despite a colossal budget rumored to be exceeding $400 million and over eight years in development, Concord failed to attract any player base whatsoever, and is now widely regarded as one of the biggest missteps in gaming history EVER.
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Never forget… Firewalk said that our complaints about Concord was just “white noise”
"Whats those Talentless Freaks doing buzzing around here?"
~Firewalk Studio 2025
@@houndrysmagolyteofhope4661 we're over here not getting our studios shut down 😂😂😂😂😂
@@JayDamaso78 I'm over here not blowing 400 million dollars on a shitty activist studio that shat out a game that was dead in 13 days.
Soon Trump will be elected again and it will be a total victory
Well, i guess even black people makes white noise then. Even gay people, and most of lesbian people two. Those ones whom personality isn’t just built fully around their identity issues. They also makes white noise then)
As a critic once said, "And nothing of value was lost."
Oh its lost all right
That show was underrated.
"Oh no. Anyway..." ~Jeremy Clarkston
The End. Roll credits
Those pronoun freaks worked on that garbage for EIGHT YEARS just to fail and get shut down.
The Sony executives who thought this was a good idea need to get fired. 400 million dollars down the toilet.
That was Herman holst he signed off on the game & getting sony to buy the studio
They Completely believed this was the next RDR2
@@Leontemplar-yt6ff ACKSHUALLY they thought this was the new Overwatch. The new RDR2 is our beloved Star Wars Outlaws
This is probably why the PS5 Pro is $700.
Herman Holst sure is a Snake Oil vendor. Man offers nothing of value with his ideas.
We would've also accepted "Has/Been".
Or Shouldn’t/Have/Been
So they goin to hazbin hotel? kinda makes sense given how they are.
Never/Was
Never/more would have been poetic though
Or Been/There Done/That
Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out, "Professor".
Because I don’t want ass prints on my new door!
Damn that's satisfying.
I cringed whenever I heard about this weirdo, he got everyone fired lmao
Don’t forget to put the E.coli on my mcdonald’s burger “Professor”
And that’s 8 years and 400m dollars down the drain.
Remember when they called people, i quote, « talentless freaks »?
The irony speaks for itself.
Better to have no talent than have Negative Talent, obviously people who never coded never heard of negative number influx into infinity.
@@houndrysmagolyteofhope4661 What did you code?
@@houndrysmagolyteofhope4661 What did you code? 2nd time i send this message btw
I remember when we could call people like this RETARDED!!!!!
@@houndrysmagolyteofhope4661 the more left someone goes the more negative their talent will be?
I feel no pity for this company. None. Zero. Zip. Garbage in/Garbage out.
Thank you George Carlin
I do feel bad for the normal people with sane beliefs at Firewalk who only stayed to get their foot in the door to the industry, now out of a job and with a pathetic company on their resume.
This woke company need to go down, they are mocking gamers
@@friendofp.24 i imagine they will try to work again and even if they don't place it on their resume - people will find out they were part of this mess. they won't get employed...
And every copy of the game are going in the trash bin I'm sure. We can probably find dumps with massive piles of copies of Concord
This game now identifies as was/were
Never/Was
@@Japairea couldn't/haven't
And all the player base as "Non buyany"
failed/embarrasment
stink/stank/stunk
I remember playing Battlefield 3, Skyrim, and the original Modern Warfare 3, thinking the future of gaming would be incredible. Now, we’re stuck in this mess-it’s so awful.
Be thankful you got to experience peak gaming.
I feel your pain brother.
Yeah man. It's rough. Hold strong brother.
It’s not all bad. The big trees (studios) that have gone rotten are falling, clearing the way for new, uninflected trees to grow for years to come.
In the meantime, we still have the classics to fall back on.
@@leagueleaders MW3 was not peak gaming. That was the beginning of the end for CoD.
The world is healing. It's about damn time.
Another win for gamers, another loss for the juice.
we are still fucked
royally
Not yet. Do not let dragon age veilguard succeed. Do not buy woke trash
@@kay_keik7842that game is gonna do alright, it has "the name privilege"
Real Gamers: WE TOLD YOU SO!
John Ringo (2018): "Get woke, go broke."
Bioware next
Man i just wanna go back to 2009
Modern audience: YOU RACISTS CANCELED ANOTHER STUDIO! THEY JUST WANTED TO MAKE GAMES! YOUR HATE DESTROYED THAT!
Real Gamers: Why didn't you all buy their game?
*crickets*
@@therealaran 1999
2 years ago I had zero games ignored on steam and now it's 117
Same. It's getting ridiculous. Hope future devs take note.
@@anymicethe good ones do, they make good games with no woke garbage. Its just people only look at their tvs for game information.
Same. I can't believe reading credits before buying a game. The disappointment is high now.
I've got nearly the same amount lmfaoooooo
Master chief why is their 117 blocked games on your account
They claim to love gaming as they burn the industry to the ground with their malicious activism.
As they proceed to call anyone but themselves "Talentless Freaks"
That is their intent, no? They actually said they wanted this.
They cry as they strike you
They are cultural vandals.
@@shatteredsentient5321 yeah but they wanted to be the ones still in power when they did it, not out of a job.
They wanted to pull a Communist Russia, instead of what they got was French Revolution.
And nothing of value was lost.
Except 500 million dollars, lol.
@@kunka592from a bunch of Rackety old idiots who don't listen to customers
@@kunka592hhhhhh I understand now why they are making many many remasters just to compensate this huge loss hhhhh
Opportunity cost. Sony could have made other games with other IPs... That's the tragedy here.
The Professor just got the well deserved promotion to The Hobo
😅😅
I also want to thank firewalk Studios for showing the rest of the world what gamers won't support or pay for. Hopefully, they start listening and taking notes
Nah they likely wont.
Nah they'll keep coping about "saturated market" or "it was paid when competitors are free". They won't learn, they'll use those scapegoats
Not a chance, this tumor is deeply engrained into the industry. Studio's going under just means those same employees will work at other studio's now. And that doesn't even count the HR teams and consultancy firms promoting this nonsense regardless.
@@Omi_Kasigithen they can lose those ears.
@@Walamonga1313i am not sure how good those scapegoats are when your ship is sinking.
RIP Professor, you cooked up the meanest turd at the cheap cost of 400-700 million dollars.
Plus had 8 years Wich is count longest work time compare other companies work time.
Now the same has to happen to the people who made dustbin
And then Bioware afterwards.
Sadly they rode off with US Taxmoney :v
@@houndrysmagolyteofhope4661 That’s how all this woke nonsense gets by: it’s all subsidized. "If you're not paying for the product, then you are the product” is complete nonsense, very often you are the product even if you pay.
@@houndrysmagolyteofhope4661: Dustbin was funded by the Norwegian tax payers, not the US.
That studio is partially funded by the government.
"We have no idea where we went wrong, I mean, we went out of our way to exclude, vilify and alienate the single largest segment of the gaming population in the western hemisphere."
"And we would have gotten away with it, if it weren't for those" GAMERS"!!! "
*Proceeds to be more unlikeable than my Racist Uncle*
"and all to cater to the mythical wider audience that always fails to materialize whenever something is made exclusively for them, as while they scream a lot they do not really buy or play games. Really, I dont see how this plan went wrong!"
The entire world, they made a game for the 0.00000000001% and they dont game
Oh no, the 600 players were so excited for Concord's comeback. Next time modern audience, next time.
Put them in the Guinness Book of World Records for shortest lived live service game
More like shortest lived release ever.
Well, there was a gacha-game who was only online for 6 hours
So even Concord failed to achieve that
Blue Protocol was cancelled before its release because of asian early reviews, we also had gacha shutting down before the translation went out for us. "We're launching the game but it'll close the xx/xx/xx sorry"
Does anyone want to place bets on Bioware next? 😁
$10 bucks!
Hell yeah mate,And that new Mass Effect game is getting cancelled wooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!
EA has a pretty good track record of shutting down studios. Bioware is boned if Veilguard underperforms.
I bet my 10$ I spent on DRG that Bioware dies next because of DEI and mediocrity of its new IP.
I never thought I would enjoy companies getting shut down.
They/Them seething, Gamers Cheering.
“Forspoken studio shuts down, Tales of Kenzera Zau studio shuts down, Concord studio shuts down, (I don’t know if the Saints Row 2022 studio also shut down)”
PLAY MUSIC: Dun dun dun…another one bites the dust!
Volition did shut down after Saints Row 2022
And another one down, And another one down, Another one bites the dust
Yeah, Volition studios (the Saints Row people) got shut down all the same.
More ammo for when they say go woke go broke doesn’t work
I like to eat dust. tnfgsbluntd1194
Everything Sweet Baby Inc touches dies.
Actually this was just Sony Believing DEI was gonna make them bank.
@@houndrysmagolyteofhope4661 Goes to show how out of touch upper management is if they believe all the smoke blown by twitter activists and not actual market demographics.
And yet somehow they keep getting hired. You really gotta wonder what the thought process is of the shot callers who hire them. I mean, a few years ago their kiss of death skillset was sorta not that well known. Now though? If you hire them NOW? Shareholder lawsuit level of incompetence. It'd be like trying to improve on your recipes by knowingly adding asbestos.
Anyway, ESG is and always has been a complete sham.
Isn't GOW 4 and 5 SBI Touched too? I don't know much but somehow it seems it still came out as great Games (I hope so at least, it's GOW).
Small W for Sony for finally closing them down, huge L for even making the game and buying the studio and a HUGE W for the gamer.
Sony still has more to clean - they own crunchyroll.
What does crunchyroll has to do with all this? Im genuinely asking 😅@@Relkond
Oh no no, Sony needs to clean more than their Garbage Bin. They have to clean the whole skyscrapper.
@@AXL. they've been turning out dishonest translations of foreign media - loud and proud about it in much the same way that game makers are proudly transforming straight characters without regard to the story, inserting and deleting narratives at their whim, all while despite shouting to the world about the crap jobs they've been doing. Curiously, Sony did not see fit to fire these people.
Fallout of that has included Japanese companies moving toward releasing their own translations.
Honestly, I dropped crunchyroll, deleted my account with them. looked back a month later only to tell my bank to cancel their new charges to my card and reject all future charges they might levy (why crunchyroll, why?) and have not looked back since.
If they've gotten better I've not heard, but I've not wasted time looking.
Nowadays it's the best era for being a gamer as you can FINALLY vote with your wallet. "Too big to fail" mentality has finally died.
Remember, gamers, your dollar is the only vote that actually counts.
It seems that Firewalk Studios employees...
Got fired and walked away.
*CSI theme blasting at full volume*
LMAO
Lol that's terrible...I love it lol
“Concord…? More like… Discord!” 😛
"WEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUUU"
and thus hundreds of bodies were found. Cause of death?
Kill ratio+L+Skill Issue
Dangit horatio
I wish everyone who lost their jobs best of luck on their new careers at Starbucks and Walmart. I don't want these people anywhere near the video game industry ever again.
They will probably blame the customers for the bad coffee too
I wish one day in the future regardless of whether its near or far, society has improved so much that we no longer need the video game industry as a whole.
Really feels like money laundering. A generic hero shooter with characters they knew no one would like for 400 million? And then they pull the plug on the game and then the studio almost immediately?
Not really our problem. Move didn't really payoff at all.
Intentional sabotage makes these games and movies go down the memory hole faster. CCP/Blackrock checks are washed with bad games. Fighting age morale is lowered while clueless noserings take the blame.
Devs, publisers, "AAAA" studios, you all better be paying attention. SBI/DEI Detected/Gamergate 2 is not messing around. We are voting with our wallets and we are winning.
The Firewalk "Of SHAME".
Fired Walk
@@garudanathanael5257totally true
🤣🤣🤣
Notice when a company loses hundreds of millions of dollars, probably angering major shareholders, things get done. At the end of the day, this is truly business as money talks, and BS walks.
Whats hilarious is that no ESG will give them back the 400 mill, 8 years of wasted time they could have spended making chunky bucks.
@@houndrysmagolyteofhope4661 Upper management will never outright state that the whole E-S-G thing is a total sham with no economic viability. They're still terrified of the fabled modern audience.
I've always was quoting and I will be doing this:
"Your dollar is the only vote that actually counts."
This quote is really the best way to say "fight back by just not buying BS"
Even if big ahh corporations such as Blackrock are (for some reason) engaged in this their money wells will run dry sooner or later. Or they just realize "wait a minute, folks are not happy with our propaganda and we're losing a shit load of money, maybe we should reconsider our strategy?"
I’d feel bad for them if we weren’t called talentless freaks.
That was projection to the ninth degree
Or 'Weirdos'
I'm more talented at making Grilled Cheese Sandwiches than their character designing.
Sony's choice: Lose $400 million or put an attractive female character in the game.
I propose we make new slang to describe the catastrophic failure of a product/service.
Firewalked
"EA firewalked the newest Dragon Age game."
Ah yes, coining up the new words is pretty funny. Concord was such a massive and infamous flop some people began saying "well, your game was Concorded"
"Firewalked"? I like that term
"Talentless Freaks": 1
Firewalk Studios: 0
And the game clock hit 0.
"Talentless Freaks" - ONE, BAD STUDIOS AND DEI FREAKS - ZERO!
Oh dear if only there was some way to avoid this... Oh wait there is, make good games not vehicles for propaganda
Oh god the "was/were" just broke me in half 🤣
Has/been
@@houndrysmagolyteofhope4661 nice, reminds me of the joke "how did non-binary people commit murder? they / them"
concord is a never/was, its never been that huge of a game that they expected but became the biggest disappointment of all time in gaming
All the math and science in the world couldn't help "The Prof".
Fact
If the employees didnt start looking for other work immediately after seeing the reception the game got then I'd assume they have the survival instinct of a ham sandwich
Most couldnt find employment at another dev studio. The they/them office distrupting fade is over. Companies no longer want the headache. Recessions make companies remember how to be lean.
@@leagueleadersFast food chains and supermarkets are always hiring. They're welcome to the real world, where gender studies mean zilch. May they/them become productive and useful for once
@@thelegendaryklobb2879sure but we were talking about employment in the industry not entry level high school jobs. They/them have BS in Arts and Activism.
@@thelegendaryklobb2879 Most of those woke studios are in California and fast food jobs there are not secure anymore thx to Gavin minimum wage rise. Thry are fcked...
So much for bringing it back as F2P *Womp Womp*
it's not a victory until it's confirmed that they can't get a job in the game industry and that sony isn't doing this again
Most wont. We are moving into a recession. Comanies start to become lean and the nonsense that was tolerated diring the boom will no longer be part of the plan.
Its a victory in that we lost nothing of value and they lost everything they put into this.
Fortunately most of them will not consider working in the gaming industry ever again.
Xbox going to hire them. Xbox removing all game devs that isn't woke.
Sony still has fairgame$ in their Project list that'll soon recieve the firewalk treatment
Nothing of value lost, that’s for sure.
If anything we gained a good ol laugh from this idiocy
when they apply for new jobs
Employer "so whats this 8 year gap on your resume?"
interviewee "uhhhhh i went to prison >.>"
Employer "oh thank god thought you were working on concord"
Lmao XD
Genius!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Its almost like the paying customers were right. Again. Imagine that 🤷♂️
Sadly the person responsible the company very lack of in SpongeBob SquarePants word : " *IMAGINATION* " .
No one to blame but themselves? You obviously forgot who you're talking about... they don't know how to take responsibility. Its always the gamers fault
Everyone says 'Gameplay is King'. I would like to make an addition to that.
'Presentation is Queen.'
Everyone agree that statement
The exact same thing is happening in the animation industry. What sucks is that the smaller fish, the normal people who work as production assistants or other "low level" jobs, who don't necessarily tow the line, are now being kicked to the curb and find themselves with no job. And since both games and animation are collapsing, those people have nowhere to go and are scrambling for work, despite never having been a contributor to the issue.
Hopefully the sane people among them learn their lesson: If your company goes woke, start looking for a new employer asap, clock is ticking.
@@Rage-_-Quit Or if you have no job you can just pretend to be DEI and make a lot of money. Easier if you're a woman/not hetero. Stonks
Appealing to an audience of 100 people is not a good marketing strat
The smug expressions on the faces of those two Devs at 6:45, the look that says "see how important, how superior I am?" tells the entire story.
Christmas came early for gamers!
Best present this year!
2024 will be remembered as the year the slop flopped.
Lets Continue This Energy into 2025 and if need be 2026
Lisa Brown aka “The WOKE ASS professor” from Firewalk studios has the same clothing, hairstyle and build as Daw from Concord ahahahaha 😅😂🤣😂🤣
I've never been more happier to hear about a studio closing. I know some people will say "But what about the devs that are going to lose their jobs?" Well I say if they were too scared to say something to save their job before it was too late, well it's too late and I don't feel bad for them.
Nah, they all think we’re “talentless freaks”.
Fuck em!
Now I can sleep peacefully
Firewalk Studios identifies as was/were. Fantastic.
I am the only one watching the left hexagon and thinking that is not 100% align vertically? Every video drives me crazy because of that xD
Great content as usual!
I've been bothered by it too, however I try not to watch the screen and instead listen.
Now Sony will patiently wait for the next biggest piece of shit imaginable and call it the next big hit and invest 600M to it
Ghost of Yotei enters the room 😂
and NOTHING of value was lost.
Only 400Mi 😂😂😂😂
It's so odd how some 'superfans' will say that our critique on games are costing people their jobs when it actually allows employees essentially being held hostage by their position and not being able to speak their minds for fear of losing their livelihood to the opportunity to reveal how they have been forced to remain silent and be forced to work on something they didn't want to. Closing these studios has a positive impact on the game industry as it weeds out harassers, activists, and studio heads and employees abusing their power.
now we wait for Kotaku to go crying on twitter lol
Look at them put a Black Ribbon as if mourning lol
and IGN
Concord one of the biggest flops in the video game industry? EA / Bioware are stepping up and telling us to "Hold my beer and watch this."
I can see hiring agents from other companies looking at resumes. "I see from your resume you worked at Firewalk Studios on Concord. Thank you for your interest in our company. Good luck in your employment hunt. Have a nice day."
Nah trash studios will take trash staff.
@@houndrysmagolyteofhope4661 And trash studios will never become as good as really good studios that make games for people, not for investors.
If the studio is so obsessed with equity, I sure hope everyone's paycheck was the exact same regardless of position, hours worked, or anything else really. Gotta have equality of outcome.
Well now they're all making $0 so you are correct
Breaks my heart that there's so many people who are actually passionate about games and would dream to work at a big studio yet would never get hired over these talentless hacks.
Was gonna say, if you said we should feel bad for these Was/Were, then i was gonna question your sanity
If they're not going to get hired by big studios that are gone woke it's better for that person to seek for a really good (even though not so big) studio to work in as working in studio where DEI became a commonplace is a straight way to get laid off after year or so.
Go woke, go broke.
Ironic that the people calling out gatekeepers turned out to be gatekeepers.
Herman holst should be fired
I gotta question the sanity of developers who work at that kind of studio. I know a paycheck is a paycheck, but when you know a game is that bad you have to say something. The fact that so many employees just clocked in day after day and never said anything shows you how rotten the industry is.
As a former dev than product manager i can 1000% confirm none of us have souls and just do whats in our project lists. My motto is im getting paid a same salary every week no matter what you decide.
How many sane "progressive" activists have you ever met? These college students are indoctrinated and then go on to work in the coastal cities where they stay in their own little bubble. It's a never ending circle jerk with them believing they are smarter and superior to middle America yet in reality they are the most entitled, brainwashed, and vile sheep in modern history.
Let's not stop there, SBI and other DEI company is still active.
Let's concentrate on getting Bioware out!
Woo. Can Sony do something about their dubbed content next? Honestly hard to say which is worse, the mess that was concord, or the mess that is 'localizers'
I guess they'll have to change their pro nouns to broke/hungry.
The modern audience is as rare as a woman giving a man a compliment..
People are like "bUt WhAt aBoUt ThEiR jAbZ"?
These people wasted and burnt 400,000,000$ . They already got paid. For NOTHING. What they pay for their failure is miniscule comparing to the money that they wasted.
Maybe for the programming grunts yes, I kind of feel sorry. Or the cleaning lady. The rest? I will not shed a tear.
Toxic positively is a disease in game industry
The customer is always right goddamnit!
Outfits are sentient?
@@688Shadow edited for you my guy.
Nice catch.
Im glad to hear that Sony got my email and followed my advice to dissolve Firewalk Studios. That company was unsalvageable.
Then, the sound of ten million NOOOOOOOOs rang out from among that crowd in unison, as if a great demon were suddenly banished into a formless black smoke.
Ubisoft, then Firewalk. And in the next year, Bioware and Bethesda will also disappear.
Woke isn't merely an ideology. It's a scurge. Pure weakness and mediocrity.
Did you do it? Yes.
What did it cost? EVERYTHING.
Firewalk deserves to be fired. A workplace environment where you arent allowed to criticize each other and just shower everyone with praise will never develop a good game.
"WAS/WERE" hilarious thumbnail hahaha
That physical copy that Greg has should be put in a museum with a plaque reads "MISTAKE".
Or just put in a landfill, to keep Atari E.T. game company.
Shills: Relax, Concord will be just fine, you all are a bunch of talentless freaks.
Concord and Firewalk Studio: (Gets shut down).
Shills: 😱
insert shocked pikachu meme
“It’s gone… It’s over…”
-Frodo Baggins
It would be ironic the reason Sony gave up because of that culture of Toxic Positivity at Firewalk said no to Sony to changing the game
Made zero Bank and still thinks they get a say. LOL
This is a 400 million dollar failure, so big I don't know to what compare it to. Every employee who hasn't started looking for a new job since day X has wasted their time on hopes and dreams.
Good, they created one of the worst shooters im history
I would have been absolutely blown away if Sony tried to revive this. They're not going to walk away from a $400 million tax write-off.
I would love for jt, asmongold, and some others just to make a new gaming journal that people could trust.
“Oh the humanity! …. In other news…”
Kent brockman
You’re next BioWare
Hold on! It's one of the most expensive failures ever... SO FAR.
LOLOLOL DESERVED!!!! Now for Bioware to suffer the same fate
Hope so, but the only problem is that people are sucked in by the "gamer reviews" and are still buying it. Can't wait to see what the actual player reviews are
At 11:43 you mention that you want them to be able to feed their families... Dude if they had mouths to feed they wouldn't have messed around creating that atrocity of a game.
Aw, but i wanted Sony to waste even more money with an Morbius 2.0.
yeah, but it would definitely reflect on PS/gamepads' price as they have to somehow compensate their losses. Solution? JUST BUY A PC. IT'S 2024 OUTSIDE, TIME TO BECOME A REAL GAMER.
@@exhaustive_the_sixth They're not just going to compensate with gamepad prices. Expect game prices to rice to about 90 - 100 € next year.
@Karaksonen Still, they're still deploying damage control. One way or another.
Thanks for the clip show.
I just went to their "X" account and told them good riddance!
any salty reply yet?
I hope that having Concord on resume is gonna sting and make finding work in industry difficult
Good job Sony on your massive $$$ loss, hope you guys do it again, the less dollars you have as a company the happier I am lol
“Certain aspects of Concord were exceptional”
What parts? I must’ve blinked and missed them.