A game like this can only-ever come to fruition from an echo-chamber studio. These people **GENUINELY** thought this would be the new Overwatch. They are SO out of touch it hurts.
but no, its clearly all fault of the execs, as devs are these mystical angelic creatures who never make any bad decisions or fail address criticism at all ... either that or they should "die" or whatever else some steam users tend to say, tbf. but yeah, this "boogeyman exec" excuse/scapegoat is getting tiring for these dogwater-in-almost-all-departments type games we've been getting. some games are just fundamentally bad.
Something I learned in the restaurant business is that customers eat twice. 1st time is with their eyes, the 2nd time is with their mouths. Same can be applied to games, Concord looked so unappealing from the start that it makes sense people wouldn’t bother playing it.
I think it was more unappealing the fact that it was a hero shooter game with seemingly anything new to add. I would argue that deadlock is not especially graphically good but it has ten of thousands of players only on play test because it has more gameplay appealing
@@pablon333 Its not just the gameplay or the graphics quality. Deadlock has an ARTSTYLE. Compare the characters in deadlock to Concord. The concord characters look ugly, awkward and uninspired. The deadlock characters aren't graphically impressive, but they have charming and nice-looking designs. And that wins the game for them.
Oh it was found. They just don't want to admit how miniscule that audience actually is or the people that are in charge will be exposed as hacks and fired. That's where these "journalists" will collude and defend their every failure to protect them.
@@argara 0,1% of overall population in the world and 0.0001% from overall population of gamers. and these people still want to make games exclusively for those people and then ask themselves why is it failing
yea for some reason people wanna talk about it and make 100 videos about it now, like why are we talking about it still, it's a game made for non gamers who don't exist in our community... let it go away in obscurity !
They already did from concord. They'll use any excuse they can befire they admit that pandering to people that hate video games is not a good way to sell video games
They need to bring in Japanese workers and culture and get rid of the woke agenda that's ruining their company. Once the culture is established, they can start hiring US workers again, but for now they need a hard reset.
I was reading a Wired article yesterday that stated, “games like this fail because the alt-right criticism destroys the interest in them”. Ok.. WHAT? They’re literally trying to claim that the people they market these games too, are not playing them because the other majority of people who don’t like it, are attacking it? Thats copium on a titanic level. The truth is, if the people they were marketing this too, were actually a large percentage, the game would do well, regardless of who complains about it. But no, they continue spending millions on developing games for a tiny, tiny minority of individuals… then the companies sit back, baffled at why their games fail. Unbelievable.
Blaming the "alt-right" Boogeyman is way easier than accepting fault, admitting the game/film/whatever was in fact not very good, and promising to do better next time. We have an absolute crisis in our society today of not just the unwillingness to, but genuine lack of ability to have any personal accountability whatsoever. People have drunk so incredibly much of the "I'm a victim", "I'm a special and perfectly unique snowflake", "I'm an oppressed class, or an ally to them" Kool aid that they genuinely believe they are absolute good and everyone that disagrees with them on anything is absolute evil. They physically cannot be wrong, and if anything ever goes wrong for them, it's because bigotry, hatred, oppression, patriarchy, capitalism, etc. Name your scapegoat, doesn't matter, they always find one. Anything but personal accountability. It's actually a terrifying level of zealotry and absolute adherence to their ideology, with zero tolerance for dissent or criticism and no self reflection or critical thinking ever. It reminds me of the medieval Catholic Church or something.
>because the alt right criticism< it's funny once you consider what that implies. the "alt right" is so powerful that they can make games fail if they want to, meanwhile the best the "alt left" can do is backfire and make a game more popular
AAA Developers keep complaining that people dont want to pay 40-60 bucks on a game. No, dear AAA Developers, we don't want to spend 40-60 bucks on YOUR games.
we don't want to spend $40-60 on a game. It's just much easier to trust indie or even AA companies as the pattern tends to be that they actually play games and understand what customers want better.
Yes we want everything for free. Let those developers work 3-5 years for us but let’s not pay them. Better yet let them release their games for free as f2p so they can beg a few of them might buy a skin or two so at least a coffee is afforded. I wait, no worker on earth would ever think all that sounds good. Only gamers seem to think so…
@@Seitenwerk Devs are not entitled to consumer money. Make product that people want to buy, and they will buy. Make crap no one wants to buy, and no one will buy. To make a game $60-$70, it better be a top of the line piece of work for me to buy it. Otherwise, pass/wait for sale.
@@SeitenwerkHave you been living under a rock or something? There are plenty of f2p that are thriving purely on cosmetics, POE and The Last Descendants, COD, Fortnite etc. for example. If the game is good, people will pay.
Sony is sat on a MOUNTAIN of quality IP's but does NOTHING with them. Give us more Twisted Metal, Ratchet & Clank etc. Scrap all of these new IP's. Imagine if Nintendo dropped Mario and Zelda in favour of Concord and Haven.
@@SolidSnake240 they make bad decisions (focusing on graphics and releasing for a dead console) and blame the IP. Just like Sony's people say they can't do new IPs because muh Concord.
"How can you solve a problem when you can't say what it is?" This is the best statement I've heard in analysis the issues we have. Thank you, Mr. Asmongold, you have literally nailed the problems we have not just in videogames or entertainment but society at large.
Black girl protagonist with hip-hop music, that looks like a Watch-Dogs co-op rip-off but will try to be Overwatch meets Payday with a Saints Row touch, what a surprise...
Every time I see a trailer with everything you just mentioned, I already assume it's gonna be some corporate slop made from a test focus group study out of San Francisco
I don't like the Watch_Dogs comparisons. This is a heist game, W_D are vigilante games. And the first game was very good, it had a dark atmosphere and a cool protagonist. And even though the third game was much more "zoomer-ified" with diverse goofy ass characters, it still had a completely different premise than this.
16:15 "Jade Raymond" has got to be one of the biggest grifters in the gaming industry. She "helped create Assassin's Creed", and then for the last 10 years jumped between EA to Disney to Google, delivering no playable games, and now finally stamps her name on Fairgames, the most generic DEI slop you could imagine. There's a 99% chance Jade Raymond will go down in history as another DEI hire who only helped ruin modern entertainment right alongside Kathleen Kennedy destroying Star Wars and Bonnie Ross destroying Halo.
The elephant in the room is that the new games largely suck and are catering to tiny audiences while simultaneously telling core audiences literally not to play the game because it's not for them
@blazinpuffs it'll kill or cripple AAA and large studios. But it's hardly fair to say it'll cripple the industry. So many good indie games out there being released every week.
@@robertlawrence9000 He's a progressive, so of course he's going to do that. However, I've been watching him for years and so far he's an alright guy. Another good voice in my répertoire of reviewers and commenters.
I have no clue why people are still paying attention to these triple a companies. It’s gotten to the point where indie games are FAR better on average and cheaper.
When the British and French engineers were collaborating on Concorde, the British were annoyed about the presence of the letter E at the end of its name, making it sound French. But I'm grateful for that letter E because the legendary supersonic aircraft won't get confused with abandoned wokeware.
There's a lot of slop games coming out in the next year that have a good chance of flopping. The reason is that production started years ago during the "golden age" of "progressive enlightenment" in video games. The devs are so delusional that they actually think people like these design directions rather that just put up with them, so now that the games that were designed from the ground up to be marinated in this "modern" model are being released they cannot understand how they're failing.
You guys didn't touch on the most offputting factor to all these games because of your fear of getting canceled which is the Muh Diversity everyone's a Trans Rainbow Sexuality is a Spectrum Cult. Every character is a Rainbow Activist 🌈
I love how they put "THE MESSAGE" in the game. "Eat thee rich", anti-capitalist, anti-corporation... Meanwhile it's created by literally the biggest and richest capitalist game corporation in the world. 🤣🤣🤣
Technically, the workers who designed, coded, and did artwork for the game, made the game. The corporation just has the piece of paper that says it belongs to them.
@@chadbizeau5997 Indeed. Capital that was already taken as a vast proportion of another group of workers surplus labour value was injected into another enterprise. Those were workers were also paid just like the ones who made this game, a tiny fraction of what their work is worth. Capitalists steal wealth, billionaires are the biggest thieves and gluttons.
I don’t see how that is an issue. Can only a small indie company struggling to get funds have this kind of message? 😂 the whole Robin Hood trope is nothing new..
I would say there were probably around 2000 purchases at minimum, possibly as high as 3000. Concord steam players peaked at about 700 and we have to assume not all buyers were playing at any given moment. From what I heard on Playstation only around 1200 players got the, make your first kill trophy, and I can't imagine the player count being much higher than that. So we can verify 1900 players, but as I said not everyone can play the game at once and so we're probably a few hundred short of the real number. I would say it is closer to 2500. I heard it was reported 25000 copies were sold, but I have a feeling that counts copies sold to retailers and not actual consumer purchases.
You bet your ass some accountant sat there with a calculator figuring out if refunding them would be cheaper than possibly getting sued by one person. Easiest decision they have ever made.
"There's nothing wrong with a diverse set of characters..." The irony in this statement is that the reason that diversity was forced into gaming, was to give certain people characters they could identify with, which is fair enough. However, the result is that you have 75-80% of your consumers consisting of 20-40 year old white and Asian dudes playing black female characters.
Or making games that are so heavy on racial stereotypes that it's insane. Black protag, playing hip-hop, robbing people.... bro what??? Lmao how can they even put this shit out
I like diversity, I like representation. I don’t like when a multinational cabal of politically motivated weirdos creates a gestapo of social-credit enforcers to pressure creatives into overrepresenting token minorities. If a dish needs more seasoning (diversity) you will taste it. You don’t need a political cadre pushing for more seasoning of food.
@@McDLT999999999999999 And the funny thing is they will call you a racist for that, while you're completely functioning within their own logic. It's the same with they and them pronouns, which some people started using as the default when they don't know someone's pronouns. But technically, according to their own logic, that is misgendering when you identify as a man or a woman and don't identify as non-binary. And, by their own logic, misgendering is one of the worst things you can do to someone.
@@huntsman197 I read some articles talking about how Sony's CFO thinks they need more Original IPs. I don't think we're gonna get a bloodborne remake any time soon unfortunately.....
If they keep making trash, filling it with DEI, and then placing black women front and centre every time it's gonna create a Pavlovian response. I'm not entirely sure black women have deserved this.
it already has, ive already seen people paranoid that anything with a black woman protagonist = woke slop, or even just a woman in general. and the worst thing is they have an actual reason to be paranoid for that at this point Xd
Just don't politicize it. Don't shove your beliefs or propaganda to your consumers. Instead, focus more on storylines, arts, graphics, gameplay, etc. The consumers will be happy and the creators gets paid.
The problem with a lot of games coming out now and in a year or two is that 2020-2023 were big DEI years, and games take like 3-5 years to develop. It's lag in development vs what was popular then. Thing is games have always been diverse, more than many industries, so the forced DEI never had to happen in this industry. Games have exposed me to all cultures and genders (all 2 of them) over the years more than other media.
This excuse doesn't work for me. If you have a problem with ugly characters because you think yourself as ugly, then you shouldn't have a problem with Assassin's Creed MC being black, or a character being gender swapped into a woman. C'mon.
@@Paraguai123 I don't have a problem with black and woman characters, I have a problem with ugly, boring characters. That the whole different things. What the hell are you even talking about ? CJ is my GOAT all the time, Samus Aran is my childhood. These two are interesting characters.
@@duyanh4647 Because I've seen people using the argument of "I am ugly and I don't wanna play an ugly character", but then avoid playing games with beautiful characters just because they are POC or a Woman.
@@Paraguai123 Nah i'm not that kind of people. Maybe I've said that i don't want to play as a ugly , but if it's a interesting character, then I would love to play it, like Gollum from LotR. This applied to movie, books, comic, manga.......
@@duyanh4647 you don't want to play as an "uglified" character and i'm the same as you, where they make them fat and arrogant, gay and arrogant with no reason and backstory whatsoever, idc if they're black or green or white or yellow as long as they have interesting character and story and most importantly not deliberately uglified for the reason of DEI bullshit (if you notice western devs deliberately uglify the woman characters but keep the males handsome like MJ in spiderman 1 is perfect then they uglify her in spiderman )
Their social engineering has failed. They kept trying to convince men we're bad people for finding attractive women attractive. That masculinity is 'toxic'. That our hobbies are bad and need to be altered to fit their cat lady standards. And en-masse we've said "no".
Yep. What's wrong with making a game about heists and just be honest about it? Having your game's slogan be like "eat the rich" BS then have the gall to make it a live service game.... f*** off.
Dude Oceans Eleven game could actually be an amazing game. With all the characters having different specialty and each mission we see more characters moments with the cast. But unfortunately with todays devs they couldn’t pull of the extremely suave masculinity that makes the movies so much fun and probably gamers would actually love.
Well people play ugly but interesting and good games all the time. I think this was mostly just uninteresting idea with meh execution with too big price to even try. On top of that it felt preachy since there was a big emphasis on diversity. There was even a game where you played as this blob of meat and blood and it was pretty good and people played it.
"You dont lose 100 million dollars [and shrug it off]". Disney and Amazon would like a word. They've been throwing good money after bad on this shit for a decade now. Warner dug themselves into a 40-billion-dollar black hole doing this.
go take a look at Dustborn.. entirely similar dev team made it, white liberals and the main protag is a black lady who uses superpowers like "bully", "cancel", and "discord" on her own friends and teammates in order to make them whatever she wants gashlighting them all the way.. my point is, they only know how to write villains even when they try to write protags..
Gaming community is the only community who doesn't give a fuck about being cancelled or being called names by angry activists on internet. Their world exists in the game, not in real. So if they don't like something, they won't spend a penny on it. Companies can cry about it as much as they want. If they don't change their tactics, some other company from China or Korea or Japan who knows its audience will grab this opportunity and make a shit ton of money. We saw it with stellar blade and we saw it with black myth. There was lot of outrage on internet by activists and several hit pieces against these games but it didn't do shit to affect the collections
Yeah, exactly. At the end of the day, 40-130 $ games are not 8000-1000000$ car, its not a thing you need for living, so you have a lot of time to think, lol
@@chadbizeau5997people really overestimate the power shareholders have. They provide funding but beyond that they have very little say in a game's day to day development. They're apart of the problem for sure but not THE problem if that makes sense.
@@SolidSnake240: Shareholders might not even be relevant anymore when there's two major investment firms that are giving out esg loans, one of them headed by Larry Fink.
Not quite true. Here are a few successful games with a black woman protagonist I can remember: Subnautica: Below Zero Telltale's The Walking Dead Assassins Creed: Liberation Broken Age The real problem is that as soon as a developer goes really woke and decides to target modern audiences with their game they almost inevitably go with a black woman protagonist. This has had the unfortunate side effect that most gamers now associate a black woman protagonist with woke gaming.
Gamers don’t care what the race/gender of the main character is. As long as the game is good and the story is cool, it won’t draw the criticism. The problem is that ethnicity is weaponized by the woke, so they force it into games and places without making sure it feels organic first. It’s done without any depth or consideration for the story.
Not necessarily. Black women as the primary protagonist while forcing their propaganda down your throat as the primary focus as opposed to gameplay, NEVER do well. There, fixed it for ya. Gaming has had a plethora of various races & male/female protags for games since the beginning of time. No one ever cared, so long as the game was good. But when that's literally the ideology of the game, then we care. But the primary focus is, nowadays, these devs are DEI hiring. So we know these developers have very little talent to what we'd expect. Because they'd rather hire a random black woman because she's black, or someone who identifies as a wheel-barrel, as opposed to someone who actually has reputable talent. That's the problem. So nowadays, when we do see a POC MC, they've given the stigma that it's primarily a DEI hire developer = shit game.
Jade Raymond is one of the earliest DEI mascots of the gaming industry. Patrice Desilets did the work on AC, Jade was pushed in front of him for PR reasons.
this is 100% correct she was such a psy-op and the results after ass creed have revealed the reality under the marketing. she is not a creator with talent, vision, skill or hard work ethic.
This same thing is happening to Elder Scrolls 6 because of Starfield. There are a lot of people that have already written off ES6 and lost any faith that it will be a good game.
Ironically skyrim itself may end up cannibalizing elder scrolls 6 because of the modding community. No matter what Bethesda puts out for elder scrolls 6, they objectively cannot give us a game that exceeds the sheer scope of content that skyrim has been given over the past 13 years by the modding community. Like alright, you created all of hammerfell for you es6 setting, cool. Modders are creating and recreating all of tamriel to be playable via skyrim. This includes quest lines, NPCs, original music, the works. Plus when Bethesda releases elder scrolls 6, the modders will just recycle everything that elder scrolls 6 has and port it into skyrim. Even if it's gameplay or level progression changes, they can copy whatever elder scrolls 6 has to show us. It's also a sunk cost fallacy for skyrim players and modders. So many mods created, so many mods downloaded, that abandoning skyrim for es6 just won't happen. Mods being the very thing Todd and Bethesda depended on to make starfield good, is what's going to sink elder scrolls 6, because what's elder scrolls 6 gonna do that elder scrolls 5 can't already do, or will be able to do soon after elder scrolls 6 comes out. It'll sell well assuming it's a good game, but people will come crawling back to skyrim.
It's because with each new game they release they dumb it down significantly. It's gone from actual open world RPGs to goofy sandbox games where they brag about the bugs and glitches their engine causes in the game as "features".
I always get confused between he and that other dude Asmongold usually watches that always plays warframe but, the minute they both start talking I know which one is which. They're complete opposites.
Watching cringe guys try to roleplay being the woke ally is the worst crap imaginable. It was the worst with the G4 reboot, literally the opposite of what the original G4/Attack of the Show was about.
24:10 David absolutely was a high schooler in Cyberpunk, he didn't graduate. He was "17" but in the show he's a 1st year student, meaning he's realistically even younger, they just arbitrarily said he's 17.
The reason the money matters though is because no competitive only multiplayer shooter from a new IP has succeeded at a $40 price tag or more since Overwatch launched. I'm not saying it was the main problem but it is worth noting that the market has 100% shifted away from that model for competitive games.
"If you can't steal from poor people, the game's not that interesting.." "Every time that I play a video game one of the first things I try to do is kill myself.." -Asmongold
Well, it's good marketing: If someone who should not, goes out of their way to acquire something, then it's interesting enough to profit. And if a game does not let you commit sudoku from falling in pitfalls, then it will likely handhold you and never prove a challenge. Thus, boring.
@@PartyhatRS That´s not his point, he´s talking about the game not letting you do ANYTHING that could lead to the death of your character, pitfalls was just his example. I find personally find it annoying when something should have killed my char, but instead just warps me back 5m, there´s just a random invisible wall that prevent´s me from running through some danger or whatever.
@@brunoboldt6336 Correct! Many games have both No pitfalls or Fall damage, but have cliffs! Some may lead to hidden caves! Some, just let you know you made a mistake, by forcing you to Walk Back. Fall damage is a mechanic, not a punishment. It lets you know how safe a fall is; not that every fall is a death sentence.
This just reminds me how ''punk'' of old just became what I call corpo-punk. It's not about true ireverence anymore. Not true anti-authority. Just anti ''what is popular to hate right now and advertised by Disney''. Cyberpunk is becoming more real every passing day.
It really has a "we will tell you what to rebel against" vibe about it, which is so dystopian to think about. Makes me wonder if in 10 years we will be getting cringe games about Gamers fighting back against the Woke Corpos! Since all these games apparently takes 5-10 years to make, you know somebody is talking about it in executive meetings right now.
@@Vapeurss ''Makes me wonder if in 10 years we will be getting cringe games about Gamers fighting back against the Woke Corpos!'' Oh Jesus Christ I'm already cringing, but I'm 80% you're right.
@@SIPEROTH If we had game studios in Alberta (Canadian Texas) I'm sure they would make some banger games. But since they're in Quebec, a.k.a, the gayest piece of land in the world. You can't expect good games coming from them.
@@SIPEROTHI live in France (and I m not French) and France isn't really that woke, you have some woke leftists here but they re a minority. People in Canada or USA are way more woke and as for Ubisoft this is just Canada which is the wokest country on the planet even the English ciites like Toronto or Vancouver are cringe not only Montreal.
@@lukaszgrubski8807 The people on the street may be less woke but big part of the woke philosophies come from French "intellectuals" etc. Many woke professors in US and Canadian universities start their preaching by refereeing to such French "intellectuals" and their theories.
@its_myo Oh its still a top seller. My favorite quote: "I pity you newgens, your peak was rock bottom and you'll die on a hill defending it." Perfectly sums up modern COD audience.
I came straight from The Finals to try Xdefiant when it came out. It was like those games were developed 30 years apart. Realizing some people think CoD and Xdefiant is the hottest shit you can play actually made me sad. It's like that exact moment made me realize just how fucking dumb people are and made me lose faith in humanity.
historians will refuse to list any of these as reasons even if its their job to save their corporate overlords money because fence sitters like moistcritical dont even mention the phrase character design, perpetuating the cycle of self imposed retardation from game studios.
I don't care if one or two characters is like that, but the problem is the entire identity if the game is woke, which is ironic considering they claim to welcome diversity.
Game built for a minority of players -> Players saying they wont play a game thats not for them -> Dev saying dont play it since it isnt for them -> Game fails -> Devs blame gamers -> Gamers cheer -> surprised pikachu face
What’s wild to me as an artist is that within 8yrs of development, their art department still looks at the designs and says “Hell yeah!!”. I have seen tremendous changes in my artstyle and preferences within 3yrs. These artists are living in caves.
No, trust me, the artists know. We design what the client tells us, just like you do what your boss tells you. We can try to give feedback but ultimately if the brief tells us they want an overweight homely androgynous brown char wearing lipstick & an outfit with what looks like toilet tubing on it- we draw that 🤷🏼♀️
I don't think that's true, most people don't care about either queer cult message nor evengelist message when the game is good, people will even embrace fascist militarism in games when you fictionalize it well enough like 40K does. Fiction is fiction, the problem only arise when your fiction is poorly crafted.
I swear, in the footage I've seen of concord, there are almost exclusively copy paste reload animations and destiny/halo active ability animations just reused in tandem with the most bland and unappealing character designs ever. This was DOA because nobody ever asked for it.
@@Quazzi I don't know what character it is or what move they're doing but it looks like the armour lock from Halo 4 all the way down to the ground pound-one kneed stance
No one gives a shit about Jim Ryan. But when the first shot of your trailer is another "spunky black woman with attitude", it already tells us everything we need to know to stop caring.
The fact Sony will not backpedal but instead double down on everything that is failing really shows how bad of a decision it was to move the entire Game Division to California.
PlayStation Studios has studios all over the world. But God of War, Ghost of Tsushima, Last of Us, and Spiderman were developed in the USA. Returnal, Astro Bot, Horizon, and Gran Turismo were developed by studios outside the USA. Most of those are fantastic single player games.
@@rapzid3536 So? A handful of games and most of them also on the PS4. Sony can't live on the glories of the past forever. There are only so many remasters of 5 year old games that players will buy.
@@SammEater Those are the studios latest games, are hits, and just about all have come out well AFTER SIE formed and headquartered in California. But SEI formed from SCE, also founded in California IN THE 90s! SO, this post means what exactly?
@@rapzid3536 Nice try. God of War Ragnarok is pure slop and so is Spiderman 2, the only good game to come out on the PS5 was Ratchet and Clank. Remasters of 6 year old games are barely what I would call a "good set of games".
Okay real talk though. Who the hell tries to rob a location without any face coverings? “Oh let me just grab some sharpies and draw random lines on my face, no one will track me now!” Isn’t the Number 1 thing that’s most well known about *any* thief is that their faces are always covered by something? Whether it’s a hood, a bandanna, a mask, a headband, a helmet, literally anything!
@@Paraguai123 It didn't start that way so there's no comparison.... plus the way I see it the patience or tolerance for this is gone since it's been forced down everyone's throat in every facet of every day life..... the last thing you want is your escape mechanism to sound like HR -- btw I don't expect any of them to learn while they're all in CA of all places....
@TheLola2824 yeah 100%, i used to see woke in overwatch like that tracer controversy like whatever, doesn't really matter But nowadays after every single facet of media got infected by those things to the point of actually ruining the whole franchise, like how so many movie and tv series turned into total garbage, and now the gaming sphere started to be fked by it as well Yeah fk these woke sht, i have 0 tolerance for it nowadays, and im sure many ppl that used to be indifferent, like i did, feel the same way now
@@Paraguai123Overwatch became woke later down the road tho, with how random progressive backstories got added into the characters. You thought varying skin colour is automatically woke?
Jim Ryan doesnt see it that way. He is probably making 10s of millions of dollar by doing this and could care less about the product as long as he makes money.
@@ignis2023 Fence sitter? That guy farmed the heck out of Suicide Squad KTJL and shat on Dustborn. Are you just mad he doesn't call everything woke like ur average rage baiting youtuber?
Sony and Nintendo switched places. Sony now censors M rated games and Nintendo has hentai games with descriptions like fun puzzles you can solve 1 handed 🤔
The fact they planned 10 of these games before finding out if the first one does well is unbelievable arrogance. It’s like movie studios that announce a cinematic universe rather than making a great film and building upon that with better, connected films in the future.
I remember my friend playing the beta, for a whole hour before they were bored of it, cited it as "Overwatch at home with School fair friendly mascots to tell how to be safe on the internet, with some Destiny style things peppered in, but there is no flavor"
Call me crazy but NO ONE bought a PS5 to play exclusive live service games. We bought them to play games like FF7 Rebirth, TLoU, Returnal, Stellar Blade, Ghost of Tsushima etc.. We don’t want this 💩. We want AAA, highly polished games that are synonymous with the PlayStation brand.
@@pierrostation game is came at perfect time for battle royal genre, we love that type game back then after Pubg fornite is the only alternative, epic did right thing to invest more to race Pubg while pubg just lying lazy around. I don't like fornite but the team is worth to admiring
Message to developers and publishers of gaming: Just stick with the old school method. Make good games with single player and optional multiplayer, both offline and online like it was almost 15 years ago and earlier.
Bad take. They need to release mobile/pc/console ports where you use currency in gatcha to pull gear/characters and make progress limited by stamina system and dependent on grind also the game should be f2p with pay2 progress. You cannot go wrong with it
@@CJ-wh7ik Yeah, the entire game should be designed around the gacha system and funnelling people toward the store. After that is sorted, slap together some game around it, it doesn't really matter what it is. If the fundamental pay system is sorted, the rest is inconsequential.
Its crazy that Sony had 12 live service games in the making and canceled 6 of them, and Concord still got in. That makes me wonder what the other 6 cancelled ones were like
I imagine the cancelled ones were earlier in development. When Sony acquired the Concord studio, they were only one year away from release, might as well let them finish at that point.
@@chrissears5482 They didn't fire him for making a woke video game with ugly characters though. They can never say why or even confront it in their own minds. They will still be woke.
@beauzer36 being woke has nothing to do with it. People called God of War and Spiderman woke and those games still did amazing. If the game is fun to play and good people look past little shit. He got fired for greenlighting like 20 games as a service transaction filled multi-player games instead of building the RPGs and action games that Sony is known for
When Asmon started in on his hot take that the “$40 price tag had nothing to do with it”, I was really going to strongly disagree with him. But his explanation and reasoning was good
It's not a coincidence that this started going downhill as more women began joining the industry especially management. This has effected the movies as well.
Concord is comepeting against overwatch 2 which have better characters, free to play, and already have a massive community Why would anyone buy an obvious overwatch copy if you can play the real one for free?
I'd say because they're trying to make the setting more like guardians of the galaxy, but marvel rivals exists and has actually iconic characters in it, so...
i would rather play concord then overwatch 2 after they completely trolled us with this crap, overwatch 2 is just overwatch 1 with massively increased microtransactions
That was Asmon's point about the $40. Even if Concord was in a vacuum, and there was no other video games. I'd rather J O or something. Still wouldn't play it.
It's a simple premise that now seems to be straight fact: Go woke, go broke. 99% of gamers don't want that shit in their games, the other 1% are the ones still playing concorde as it dies.
1:19 Most gamers would rather pay $40 for a complete game without micro-transactions or weird free to play systems. This failed because of the woke character designs, full stop. Not one of these characters is appealing in any way, whatsoever. No one wants to live out their fantasy as Bertha the whale.
Nobody has ever nailed it better then South Park per usual. The episode based on freemium games has hit the nail on the head years ago.. “we need to make the game fun…. But not too much fun because they need to pay for those features!” Modern day games have features literally planned around paid accounts pretending as if their purposely spilt milk with features already scripted easily available to players placed behind paywalls for the sake of making easy money as developers..
All Sony had to do to beat Xbox was not fuck up and just keep on doing what they were doing, but because of this and the PSN stuff, they couldn't even beat a competitor who was killing their own company.
Asmon, the difference between Helldivers 2 and Concord is that one is a $40 co op alien shooter and the other is a $40 hero shooter. Hero shooters are so over saturated that if some dev studio is dumb enough to make one, it better be free to have a chance to compete. Biggest Sony fail in a long time.
@@antiimperialista5764 Apex Legends, Valorant, Team Fortress 2 to name a few that immediately spring to mind. I think there's a Marvel game coming out too that seems to have positive buzz that's right around the corner. You can just google "Hero shooter games" and get a big list.
@@antiimperialista5764well, there's also Valorant, Rainbow Six (kinda), Apex Legend. But as we see, lots of hero shooter also have very short life (Gundam Evolution, Lawbreaker, etc) Most of long lived shooters are coop
If XBox takes over, with it's Gamepass subscription model, then we'll see the same thing happen to games that's happened to all movie-streaming services. Everyone will want a piece of the pie, and soon, you'll have to pay an Ubisoft subscription to play Ubisoft games, and a SquareEnix subscription to play SE games, and an EA subscription to play EA games, and the entire industry will become over-saturated with a ton of separate services, quantity over quality as they pack their services with tons of crap games, and the whole thing will eventually collapse as people simply stop paying for those services.
we need .. 1. CCP billionaire 2. Arab Sheikh 3. Indian Industrialist 4. Pakistani politician 5. African warlord 6. American Record label producer. 7. Isreali washington lobbyist. ......
A game like this can only-ever come to fruition from an echo-chamber studio. These people **GENUINELY** thought this would be the new Overwatch. They are SO out of touch it hurts.
but no, its clearly all fault of the execs, as devs are these mystical angelic creatures who never make any bad decisions or fail address criticism at all
... either that or they should "die" or whatever else some steam users tend to say, tbf. but yeah, this "boogeyman exec" excuse/scapegoat is getting tiring for these dogwater-in-almost-all-departments type games we've been getting. some games are just fundamentally bad.
Genuinely don’t know how people rolled over and listened to millennials back in 2015-2019
@@robertonome2448yeah, everyone who worked on that game should be blacklisted from the industry. What an embarrasment to work on that slop.
@@theprotagonist2025okay boomer
when the pendulum completely swings to the other side i'm sure if these studios show up on their resume they'll be laughed at
Something I learned in the restaurant business is that customers eat twice.
1st time is with their eyes, the 2nd time is with their mouths.
Same can be applied to games, Concord looked so unappealing from the start that it makes sense people wouldn’t bother playing it.
I brought concord and didn’t get any food, is there a webpage for us to enter a delivery address?
I think it was more unappealing the fact that it was a hero shooter game with seemingly anything new to add. I would argue that deadlock is not especially graphically good but it has ten of thousands of players only on play test because it has more gameplay appealing
@@pablon333 Its not just the gameplay or the graphics quality. Deadlock has an ARTSTYLE. Compare the characters in deadlock to Concord. The concord characters look ugly, awkward and uninspired. The deadlock characters aren't graphically impressive, but they have charming and nice-looking designs. And that wins the game for them.
For someone who works at a restaurant you sure forget the importance of scent.
@@samwarren6008 I worked with fish a lot lol, as long as it wasn't abhorrent it was sellable. But you're right, scent is equally important
Concords corpse isnt even cold yet and Concord 2 is already coming.
they should rename Concord, Phoenix as it rises from the ashes
"Not even its final form"
Let it cook
@@justanobody0No, no, no, we should name it 'Concord 2: Electric Bogaloo'.
I am Pre-Ordering Concord 2 Now! Thanks for the Pro Tip. . .
@justanobody0 it's not cool enough. Phoenixs are very cool.
"You can't solve a problem if you can't even say what it is", is the best take of the whole video.
The modern audince was not found...
404 players were found
0.0001% from overall population of gamers
Oh it was found. They just don't want to admit how miniscule that audience actually is or the people that are in charge will be exposed as hacks and fired. That's where these "journalists" will collude and defend their every failure to protect them.
And never will
@@argara 0,1% of overall population in the world and 0.0001% from overall population of gamers.
and these people still want to make games exclusively for those people and then ask themselves why is it failing
This game was announced in May 2023 and nobody talked about it, this already tells you how good the game is.
yea for some reason people wanna talk about it and make 100 videos about it now, like why are we talking about it still, it's a game made for non gamers who don't exist in our community... let it go away in obscurity !
@@EKk8819apparently its woke so everyones praising its downfall as a downfall of woke games
I never heard of this game until the cinematic trailer came out a few months ago
@@EKk8819 because it's funny
@@EKk8819 theyre farming tho. negativity is one of the easiest ways to get clicks. why wouldnt they do it lol
Ten to one they learn nothing or the wrong lessons from this.
either all of Sony are doing lines of cat piss or they're trying to speedrun into financial fuckup
They aren't going to learn. They have agenda to push, a message to sing and they are gladly lose money for it
They already did from concord. They'll use any excuse they can befire they admit that pandering to people that hate video games is not a good way to sell video games
They need to bring in Japanese workers and culture and get rid of the woke agenda that's ruining their company. Once the culture is established, they can start hiring US workers again, but for now they need a hard reset.
They think they need to ban youtube critics to succeed
Remember guys, if your game, movie, series etc has a black guy/girl/anythingin-between, don't forget to put some corporate hip hop for the people.
I was reading a Wired article yesterday that stated, “games like this fail because the alt-right criticism destroys the interest in them”. Ok.. WHAT? They’re literally trying to claim that the people they market these games too, are not playing them because the other majority of people who don’t like it, are attacking it? Thats copium on a titanic level. The truth is, if the people they were marketing this too, were actually a large percentage, the game would do well, regardless of who complains about it. But no, they continue spending millions on developing games for a tiny, tiny minority of individuals… then the companies sit back, baffled at why their games fail. Unbelievable.
Facts
Blaming the "alt-right" Boogeyman is way easier than accepting fault, admitting the game/film/whatever was in fact not very good, and promising to do better next time.
We have an absolute crisis in our society today of not just the unwillingness to, but genuine lack of ability to have any personal accountability whatsoever.
People have drunk so incredibly much of the "I'm a victim", "I'm a special and perfectly unique snowflake", "I'm an oppressed class, or an ally to them" Kool aid that they genuinely believe they are absolute good and everyone that disagrees with them on anything is absolute evil.
They physically cannot be wrong, and if anything ever goes wrong for them, it's because bigotry, hatred, oppression, patriarchy, capitalism, etc. Name your scapegoat, doesn't matter, they always find one. Anything but personal accountability.
It's actually a terrifying level of zealotry and absolute adherence to their ideology, with zero tolerance for dissent or criticism and no self reflection or critical thinking ever. It reminds me of the medieval Catholic Church or something.
Why'd you read a Wired article? 😂
>because the alt right criticism<
it's funny once you consider what that implies. the "alt right" is so powerful that they can make games fail if they want to, meanwhile the best the "alt left" can do is backfire and make a game more popular
Ask them, then where was the support from the Left? They don't have money? People from the Left don't have money to spend on games?
AAA Developers keep complaining that people dont want to pay 40-60 bucks on a game. No, dear AAA Developers, we don't want to spend 40-60 bucks on YOUR games.
we don't want to spend $40-60 on a game. It's just much easier to trust indie or even AA companies as the pattern tends to be that they actually play games and understand what customers want better.
Yes we want everything for free. Let those developers work 3-5 years for us but let’s not pay them. Better yet let them release their games for free as f2p so they can beg a few of them might buy a skin or two so at least a coffee is afforded. I wait, no worker on earth would ever think all that sounds good. Only gamers seem to think so…
@@Seitenwerk
Devs are not entitled to consumer money.
Make product that people want to buy, and they will buy.
Make crap no one wants to buy, and no one will buy.
To make a game $60-$70, it better be a top of the line piece of work for me to buy it. Otherwise, pass/wait for sale.
.... bloodborn remake halo3 remake not from 343 would easy sell for 100 ubisoft games i see on the 30 max side
@@SeitenwerkHave you been living under a rock or something? There are plenty of f2p that are thriving purely on cosmetics, POE and The Last Descendants, COD, Fortnite etc. for example. If the game is good, people will pay.
Sony is sat on a MOUNTAIN of quality IP's but does NOTHING with them.
Give us more Twisted Metal, Ratchet & Clank etc. Scrap all of these new IP's.
Imagine if Nintendo dropped Mario and Zelda in favour of Concord and Haven.
🎯🎯🎯🎯
Unfortunately it's all about the money and apparently the last R&C game didn't sell good enough for Sony.
"Ratched and clank didn't sell enough"
Well this trash is not selling at all bud
@@SolidSnake240 they make bad decisions (focusing on graphics and releasing for a dead console) and blame the IP. Just like Sony's people say they can't do new IPs because muh Concord.
No one wants those old games to continue. New original shit with no dei or message involved
"How can you solve a problem when you can't say what it is?" This is the best statement I've heard in analysis the issues we have. Thank you, Mr. Asmongold, you have literally nailed the problems we have not just in videogames or entertainment but society at large.
This cant flop. Only 27 identical, generic black boss girl games have failed in past years this far. This, as the 28th one, must be a huge success.
That wasn't real communism. But this time it will be for sure.
Reminder that PlayStation HQ moved from Tokyo japan To Woke California and have a double standard on Japanese devs and censorship.
The definition of insanity is to attempt the same thing again and again and expect a different result
@@davidaustin5622 Tbf, that's also the definition for exercising. 😅
I'd play a black boss girl game if it was actually good with decent writing and gameplay.
Sweet baby inc will be remembered as one of the greatest scams of our entire era
Black girl protagonist with hip-hop music, that looks like a Watch-Dogs co-op rip-off but will try to be Overwatch meets Payday with a Saints Row touch, what a surprise...
Every time I see a trailer with everything you just mentioned, I already assume it's gonna be some corporate slop made from a test focus group study out of San Francisco
@@jimmyv3170 i saw the ea5 the rich and knee ehat it was all about, then saw the trailer protag, and went "yup, confirmed"
I know it's a cliche to say that an AI came up with this, but it really feels like it
I don't like the Watch_Dogs comparisons. This is a heist game, W_D are vigilante games. And the first game was very good, it had a dark atmosphere and a cool protagonist. And even though the third game was much more "zoomer-ified" with diverse goofy ass characters, it still had a completely different premise than this.
Bc Ubisoft also made WatchDogs and it really seems they are using the same engine and graphics
V in Cyberpunk is 23 years old, most of the cast are 30+, best girl Panam is 33. In Edgerunners only David was 16, the rest were very much adults.
Concorde plane, crashed in 2000.
Concordia ship, sank in 2012.
Concord game, failed in 2024.
The pattern was already forming.
"The Cost of Concord(ia)"
Curse of Concord
See y’all in 2036
They named it Concord, made grape-shaped characters, and still had no juice. Welch's would never.
Hopefully the Mario & Luigi game doesn't flop
16:15 "Jade Raymond" has got to be one of the biggest grifters in the gaming industry.
She "helped create Assassin's Creed", and then for the last 10 years jumped between EA to Disney to Google, delivering no playable games, and now finally stamps her name on Fairgames, the most generic DEI slop you could imagine.
There's a 99% chance Jade Raymond will go down in history as another DEI hire who only helped ruin modern entertainment right alongside Kathleen Kennedy destroying Star Wars and Bonnie Ross destroying Halo.
That corporate DEI is always the cringest useless department in every cringe corporation
She was a producer on Assassin's Creed - not a creative.
Imho Rian Johnson killed it but I agree with what you are saying
There was a Jade Raymond webcomic that came out around the time of AC2 that would get you cancelled today.
@@starcraftyschannel1926 she approved it, and then kept that rhythm after TLJ.
The elephant in the room is that the new games largely suck and are catering to tiny audiences while simultaneously telling core audiences literally not to play the game because it's not for them
Which is going to kill the industry
@blazinpuffs it'll kill or cripple AAA and large studios. But it's hardly fair to say it'll cripple the industry. So many good indie games out there being released every week.
Yep. Luke Stephens flip flops and skirts around the real "elephant in the room".
@@robertlawrence9000 He's a progressive, so of course he's going to do that. However, I've been watching him for years and so far he's an alright guy. Another good voice in my répertoire of reviewers and commenters.
I have no clue why people are still paying attention to these triple a companies. It’s gotten to the point where indie games are FAR better on average and cheaper.
When the British and French engineers were collaborating on Concorde, the British were annoyed about the presence of the letter E at the end of its name, making it sound French. But I'm grateful for that letter E because the legendary supersonic aircraft won't get confused with abandoned wokeware.
Wokeware... I like it!
Acting like the game being 'woke' as you call it is the reason it died, most people don't give a shit about that
@@CrispyPrattHe never said that most people cared.
@@CrispyPrattWOKECORD is a game for HASSAN AND BIDEN
Jewcord @@CrispyPratt
They cancel Days Gone 2 for Concord lmao
Still mad to this day
Because Days gone was mid
I will never forgive Sony for this. I'm currently replaying Days Gone on PC right now and it's so good.
Not enough people bought the first game
There's a lot of slop games coming out in the next year that have a good chance of flopping. The reason is that production started years ago during the "golden age" of "progressive enlightenment" in video games. The devs are so delusional that they actually think people like these design directions rather that just put up with them, so now that the games that were designed from the ground up to be marinated in this "modern" model are being released they cannot understand how they're failing.
This is like that Bill Burr skit where everyone pretends not to know why women's sports don't make as much money as men's sports
Fr i think Luke knows but his Fans are to normie
Man just grifts anyway but he called anyone who believes in the DEI initiative is delusional wouldn't watch h anyway@@sebastianrosenheim6196
@@sebastianrosenheim6196 He definitely tries to skirt around the other reasons these games are failing.
@@SolidSnake240 95% of content creators are scared to enflame these groups because its annoying to get spammed constantly by said weirdos
So true
You guys didn't touch on the most offputting factor to all these games because of your fear of getting canceled which is the Muh Diversity everyone's a Trans Rainbow Sexuality is a Spectrum Cult. Every character is a Rainbow Activist 🌈
Games made by communists will always have this.
I love how they put "THE MESSAGE" in the game. "Eat thee rich", anti-capitalist, anti-corporation... Meanwhile it's created by literally the biggest and richest capitalist game corporation in the world. 🤣🤣🤣
Technically, the workers who designed, coded, and did artwork for the game, made the game. The corporation just has the piece of paper that says it belongs to them.
@@Seeker7172the "corporation" provided the "capital" to pay for the tools and labor to even make the game.
The people didn't work for free....
@@chadbizeau5997 Indeed. Capital that was already taken as a vast proportion of another group of workers surplus labour value was injected into another enterprise. Those were workers were also paid just like the ones who made this game, a tiny fraction of what their work is worth. Capitalists steal wealth, billionaires are the biggest thieves and gluttons.
Capitalism for them, socialism for the rest.
I don’t see how that is an issue. Can only a small indie company struggling to get funds have this kind of message? 😂 the whole Robin Hood trope is nothing new..
0:51 All 53 of them. Very generous of Sony.
I would say there were probably around 2000 purchases at minimum, possibly as high as 3000. Concord steam players peaked at about 700 and we have to assume not all buyers were playing at any given moment. From what I heard on Playstation only around 1200 players got the, make your first kill trophy, and I can't imagine the player count being much higher than that. So we can verify 1900 players, but as I said not everyone can play the game at once and so we're probably a few hundred short of the real number. I would say it is closer to 2500. I heard it was reported 25000 copies were sold, but I have a feeling that counts copies sold to retailers and not actual consumer purchases.
@@ShamanMcLamieI think this was a joke
@@ShamanMcLamiesome "analyst" said steam sales of 10k even with your correct statement of not all playing at once the numbers he gave do not jive
Still more money refunded than Logan Paul xD
You bet your ass some accountant sat there with a calculator figuring out if refunding them would be cheaper than possibly getting sued by one person. Easiest decision they have ever made.
"There's nothing wrong with a diverse set of characters..."
The irony in this statement is that the reason that diversity was forced into gaming, was to give certain people characters they could identify with, which is fair enough.
However, the result is that you have 75-80% of your consumers consisting of 20-40 year old white and Asian dudes playing black female characters.
Or making games that are so heavy on racial stereotypes that it's insane.
Black protag, playing hip-hop, robbing people.... bro what??? Lmao how can they even put this shit out
@@Sargaxiist2022 LOL! Completely agree.
I like diversity, I like representation. I don’t like when a multinational cabal of politically motivated weirdos creates a gestapo of social-credit enforcers to pressure creatives into overrepresenting token minorities.
If a dish needs more seasoning (diversity) you will taste it. You don’t need a political cadre pushing for more seasoning of food.
@@McDLT999999999999999 And the funny thing is they will call you a racist for that, while you're completely functioning within their own logic.
It's the same with they and them pronouns, which some people started using as the default when they don't know someone's pronouns. But technically, according to their own logic, that is misgendering when you identify as a man or a woman and don't identify as non-binary. And, by their own logic, misgendering is one of the worst things you can do to someone.
@@Sargaxiist2022 i remind you that Dustborn was created without any, even ounce, of sarcasm. They were fucking serious...
Whaaaa?! A strong black woman as the lead character in a game? Who could've predicted it!?😂😂😂
Wants to address the "Elephant" in the room . proceeds to avoid talking about the "Elephant" in the room
Bloodborne remake being their best choice to make easy money?
@@huntsman197 I read some articles talking about how Sony's CFO thinks they need more Original IPs.
I don't think we're gonna get a bloodborne remake any time soon unfortunately.....
Is it an African elephant?
@@saiko-no-kami@huntsman197 demon souls was 2009 and 2020 so bloodborne is 2015 and 2026? 🤞 right?
@@saiko-no-kamiwhat's the point of needing brand new IPs when your own company still don't bother to revisit dormant and old series?.
Read a comment that said “the elephant in the room” is one of the characters 🤣
Emari (she/her)
Daw (a male, btw)
So, two of the characters...
If they keep making trash, filling it with DEI, and then placing black women front and centre every time it's gonna create a Pavlovian response. I'm not entirely sure black women have deserved this.
Yeah it's brazenly racist, which isn't really the issue either because people are at their core, racist. They are just using black people.
Already has. Hating people in retaliation to perceived hate creates real hate back
I have become unironically racist.
it already has, ive already seen people paranoid that anything with a black woman protagonist = woke slop, or even just a woman in general. and the worst thing is they have an actual reason to be paranoid for that at this point Xd
Just don't politicize it. Don't shove your beliefs or propaganda to your consumers. Instead, focus more on storylines, arts, graphics, gameplay, etc.
The consumers will be happy and the creators gets paid.
The problem with a lot of games coming out now and in a year or two is that 2020-2023 were big DEI years, and games take like 3-5 years to develop. It's lag in development vs what was popular then.
Thing is games have always been diverse, more than many industries, so the forced DEI never had to happen in this industry. Games have exposed me to all cultures and genders (all 2 of them) over the years more than other media.
I'm ugly my whole life then why the fuck I would want to play as a ugly character in video game ?
This excuse doesn't work for me. If you have a problem with ugly characters because you think yourself as ugly, then you shouldn't have a problem with Assassin's Creed MC being black, or a character being gender swapped into a woman. C'mon.
@@Paraguai123 I don't have a problem with black and woman characters, I have a problem with ugly, boring characters. That the whole different things. What the hell are you even talking about ? CJ is my GOAT all the time, Samus Aran is my childhood. These two are interesting characters.
@@duyanh4647 Because I've seen people using the argument of "I am ugly and I don't wanna play an ugly character", but then avoid playing games with beautiful characters just because they are POC or a Woman.
@@Paraguai123 Nah i'm not that kind of people. Maybe I've said that i don't want to play as a ugly , but if it's a interesting character, then I would love to play it, like Gollum from LotR. This applied to movie, books, comic, manga.......
@@duyanh4647 you don't want to play as an "uglified" character and i'm the same as you, where they make them fat and arrogant, gay and arrogant with no reason and backstory whatsoever, idc if they're black or green or white or yellow as long as they have interesting character and story and most importantly not deliberately uglified for the reason of DEI bullshit (if you notice western devs deliberately uglify the woman characters but keep the males handsome like MJ in spiderman 1 is perfect then they uglify her in spiderman )
If I want a heist game, I want it to be like Ocean’s Eleven. Have some class. Have some camaraderie. Y’know? Not like this. Not. Like. This.
Or a lupin the 3rd video game
Their social engineering has failed. They kept trying to convince men we're bad people for finding attractive women attractive. That masculinity is 'toxic'. That our hobbies are bad and need to be altered to fit their cat lady standards. And en-masse we've said "no".
the devs at Concord know what people want
Yep. What's wrong with making a game about heists and just be honest about it? Having your game's slogan be like "eat the rich" BS then have the gall to make it a live service game.... f*** off.
Dude Oceans Eleven game could actually be an amazing game. With all the characters having different specialty and each mission we see more characters moments with the cast.
But unfortunately with todays devs they couldn’t pull of the extremely suave masculinity that makes the movies so much fun and probably gamers would actually love.
Nobody wants ugly products, we go to market and will pick the most beautiful cloths they wanted to buy, not the ugly ones.
Surprised Pikachu
If it's fun I can go ugly
yeah everyon just wants a good product good looking and fun
Well people play ugly but interesting and good games all the time. I think this was mostly just uninteresting idea with meh execution with too big price to even try. On top of that it felt preachy since there was a big emphasis on diversity. There was even a game where you played as this blob of meat and blood and it was pretty good and people played it.
@@myralchista yes but that "I" isn't enough of an audience to invest 180 million bucks.
"You dont lose 100 million dollars [and shrug it off]".
Disney and Amazon would like a word. They've been throwing good money after bad on this shit for a decade now. Warner dug themselves into a 40-billion-dollar black hole doing this.
you only start to run into issues when your losses exceed the amount of taxes you could write them off of.
Why am I not surprised a nearly entirely white liberal dev team portrays a black woman as a bandit and plays rap in the game trailer?
go take a look at Dustborn.. entirely similar dev team made it, white liberals and the main protag is a black lady who uses superpowers like "bully", "cancel", and "discord" on her own friends and teammates in order to make them whatever she wants gashlighting them all the way..
my point is, they only know how to write villains even when they try to write protags..
they dont even like themselves.
Made me laugh. Here's a like sir
we be robbin robbin robbin
WOKECORD HASSAN/BIDEN GAME
Gaming community is the only community who doesn't give a fuck about being cancelled or being called names by angry activists on internet. Their world exists in the game, not in real. So if they don't like something, they won't spend a penny on it. Companies can cry about it as much as they want. If they don't change their tactics, some other company from China or Korea or Japan who knows its audience will grab this opportunity and make a shit ton of money. We saw it with stellar blade and we saw it with black myth. There was lot of outrage on internet by activists and several hit pieces against these games but it didn't do shit to affect the collections
Etymologic error to begin with: all these "communities" people talk about are not communities...
@@alessandrobaggi6129 Redditor found
Yeah, exactly.
At the end of the day, 40-130 $ games are not 8000-1000000$ car, its not a thing you need for living, so you have a lot of time to think, lol
Reminder that PlayStation HQ moved from Tokyo japan To Woke California and have a double standard on Japanese devs and censorship.
There is no video game community. STOP already. For heaven's sake, just stop pretending your internet pals are a community.
My money's on Sony not learning why this failed.
Takes away the wrong lessons from this.
Makes another tragedy of a live-service game.
Repeat.
Tbf, you won't see "changes" until 4 to 5 years later, because games take time to be made.
Ofc, the question is when these changes actually start.
I blame shareholders demanding recurring revenue models and infinite growth.
@@denkerbosu3551 This in spades. We still havent see the impact from Elden Ring and Baldurs Gate 3 selling extremely well.
@@chadbizeau5997people really overestimate the power shareholders have. They provide funding but beyond that they have very little say in a game's day to day development. They're apart of the problem for sure but not THE problem if that makes sense.
@@SolidSnake240: Shareholders might not even be relevant anymore when there's two major investment firms that are giving out esg loans, one of them headed by Larry Fink.
No one ever says it, but games with a Black woman as the primary protagonist NEVER do well.
Not quite true. Here are a few successful games with a black woman protagonist I can remember:
Subnautica: Below Zero
Telltale's The Walking Dead
Assassins Creed: Liberation
Broken Age
The real problem is that as soon as a developer goes really woke and decides to target modern audiences with their game they almost inevitably go with a black woman protagonist.
This has had the unfortunate side effect that most gamers now associate a black woman protagonist with woke gaming.
Pretty sure Slime Rancher has a Black lass as the main character.
Gamers don’t care what the race/gender of the main character is. As long as the game is good and the story is cool, it won’t draw the criticism. The problem is that ethnicity is weaponized by the woke, so they force it into games and places without making sure it feels organic first. It’s done without any depth or consideration for the story.
Not necessarily. Black women as the primary protagonist while forcing their propaganda down your throat as the primary focus as opposed to gameplay, NEVER do well. There, fixed it for ya.
Gaming has had a plethora of various races & male/female protags for games since the beginning of time. No one ever cared, so long as the game was good. But when that's literally the ideology of the game, then we care. But the primary focus is, nowadays, these devs are DEI hiring. So we know these developers have very little talent to what we'd expect. Because they'd rather hire a random black woman because she's black, or someone who identifies as a wheel-barrel, as opposed to someone who actually has reputable talent. That's the problem. So nowadays, when we do see a POC MC, they've given the stigma that it's primarily a DEI hire developer = shit game.
Resident evil 5 with Shiva Alomar
Jade Raymond is one of the earliest DEI mascots of the gaming industry. Patrice Desilets did the work on AC, Jade was pushed in front of him for PR reasons.
That lady did not made what AC we know of, Patrice is the one that made AC the way it was
this is 100% correct
she was such a psy-op
and the results after ass creed have revealed the reality under the marketing. she is not a creator with talent, vision, skill or hard work ethic.
This same thing is happening to Elder Scrolls 6 because of Starfield. There are a lot of people that have already written off ES6 and lost any faith that it will be a good game.
ES6 will be Starfield but with ES paint on it. The fan base is totally different and they will eat all the shit Todd pours on them. Sad really.
Ironically skyrim itself may end up cannibalizing elder scrolls 6 because of the modding community.
No matter what Bethesda puts out for elder scrolls 6, they objectively cannot give us a game that exceeds the sheer scope of content that skyrim has been given over the past 13 years by the modding community.
Like alright, you created all of hammerfell for you es6 setting, cool. Modders are creating and recreating all of tamriel to be playable via skyrim. This includes quest lines, NPCs, original music, the works.
Plus when Bethesda releases elder scrolls 6, the modders will just recycle everything that elder scrolls 6 has and port it into skyrim. Even if it's gameplay or level progression changes, they can copy whatever elder scrolls 6 has to show us.
It's also a sunk cost fallacy for skyrim players and modders. So many mods created, so many mods downloaded, that abandoning skyrim for es6 just won't happen.
Mods being the very thing Todd and Bethesda depended on to make starfield good, is what's going to sink elder scrolls 6, because what's elder scrolls 6 gonna do that elder scrolls 5 can't already do, or will be able to do soon after elder scrolls 6 comes out.
It'll sell well assuming it's a good game, but people will come crawling back to skyrim.
I'm writing off elder scrolls 6 because of fallout 4, oblivion and skyrim. Their games have sucked since Morrowind and Fallout 3.
Skyrim has a certain quality that none of the prior Elder Scrolls have and we can guarantee 6 won't have. Fallout 4 was great too. Unlike Fallout 3.
It's because with each new game they release they dumb it down significantly. It's gone from actual open world RPGs to goofy sandbox games where they brag about the bugs and glitches their engine causes in the game as "features".
LOL 20:33 that trailer... "eat the rich" while someone is rapping about lamborghinis, you can't make that up...
“Woke Dogs” the new live service experience from Sony
Luke Stephens likes to flip flop and avoid the actual "elephant in the room" on topics. He skirts around what actual problems are.
I always get confused between he and that other dude Asmongold usually watches that always plays warframe but, the minute they both start talking I know which one is which. They're complete opposites.
@@jimcarrey2866 who's yhat other guy? Are they opposites because the warframe one actually says it how it is?
Watching cringe guys try to roleplay being the woke ally is the worst crap imaginable. It was the worst with the G4 reboot, literally the opposite of what the original G4/Attack of the Show was about.
@@denkerbosu3551 Legendary drops is the other guy I was trying to remember. He says how things are instead of circling around.
Is that who this is? I liked him better when he just talked about games & didn’t show his face & scratch himself on camera 😂
Concord entered its death spiral even before launch which was quite a feat especially for a AAA title.
I dont play games with microtransactions. Everyone needs to stop rewarding greedy companies.
Same.
@@TruthbeforeTrust Concord didn't have any and no one played that either lol
I sail the seas so i dont even get the option anymore 🤣🤣🤣
@@yerocnevets0m3gait has to be a game at first place
If the game is good, idgaf if the company is greedy. Just make a game I'm willing to spend money on and everybody wins
24:10 David absolutely was a high schooler in Cyberpunk, he didn't graduate. He was "17" but in the show he's a 1st year student, meaning he's realistically even younger, they just arbitrarily said he's 17.
The reason the money matters though is because no competitive only multiplayer shooter from a new IP has succeeded at a $40 price tag or more since Overwatch launched. I'm not saying it was the main problem but it is worth noting that the market has 100% shifted away from that model for competitive games.
"If you can't steal from poor people, the game's not that interesting.."
"Every time that I play a video game one of the first things I try to do is kill myself.."
-Asmongold
Well, it's good marketing: If someone who should not, goes out of their way to acquire something, then it's interesting enough to profit.
And if a game does not let you commit sudoku from falling in pitfalls, then it will likely handhold you and never prove a challenge. Thus, boring.
@@Kydrou I want to clarify the tone of my comment.
I find the quotes based, and also 100% hilarious. There is no argument.
@@Kydrou If you base a game by if they have fall damage or not, then you shouldn't be playing games.
@@PartyhatRS That´s not his point, he´s talking about the game not letting you do ANYTHING that could lead to the death of your character, pitfalls was just his example. I find personally find it annoying when something should have killed my char, but instead just warps me back 5m, there´s just a random invisible wall that prevent´s me from running through some danger or whatever.
@@brunoboldt6336 Correct! Many games have both No pitfalls or Fall damage, but have cliffs!
Some may lead to hidden caves!
Some, just let you know you made a mistake, by forcing you to Walk Back.
Fall damage is a mechanic, not a punishment. It lets you know how safe a fall is; not that every fall is a death sentence.
This just reminds me how ''punk'' of old just became what I call corpo-punk. It's not about true ireverence anymore. Not true anti-authority. Just anti ''what is popular to hate right now and advertised by Disney''.
Cyberpunk is becoming more real every passing day.
It really has a "we will tell you what to rebel against" vibe about it, which is so dystopian to think about. Makes me wonder if in 10 years we will be getting cringe games about Gamers fighting back against the Woke Corpos! Since all these games apparently takes 5-10 years to make, you know somebody is talking about it in executive meetings right now.
@@Vapeurss ''Makes me wonder if in 10 years we will be getting cringe games about Gamers fighting back against the Woke Corpos!'' Oh Jesus Christ I'm already cringing, but I'm 80% you're right.
Pretty much Green Day the band
@@Vapeurss the entire game is playing actually fun games, and not buying and mocking the ones "not made for you"
"punk" is a "safe space" now for nonbinary afro-latinx to sew pronoun patches on their distressed denim.
Concord 2 already.. sick.
who is funding this garbage?
@@DontKnow-hr5my they got 99 problems and money ain't one.
@@DontKnow-hr5my the Jays. You may know them by their investment firms, like Blackrock.
@@DontKnow-hr5my Soyny, and they fish for investments from the "you have to force behaviors" guy.
You mean Deadlock?
Game devs need to hop off of reddit. Any dev with a reddit account should be booted.
When will Sony realize, moving to California was a monumental mistake?.
And if there is anything worse than that then is Canadian studios with French ideas as devs.
That is like a final boss of awful cringe game creation.
@@SIPEROTH If we had game studios in Alberta (Canadian Texas) I'm sure they would make some banger games.
But since they're in Quebec, a.k.a, the gayest piece of land in the world. You can't expect good games coming from them.
@@DioTheGreatOne Yeah, that is what i said. That Canadian with French mix is a final boss bad mix. The only thing more cringe than Californian.
@@SIPEROTHI live in France (and I m not French) and France isn't really that woke, you have some woke leftists here but they re a minority. People in Canada or USA are way more woke and as for Ubisoft this is just Canada which is the wokest country on the planet even the English ciites like Toronto or Vancouver are cringe not only Montreal.
@@lukaszgrubski8807 The people on the street may be less woke but big part of the woke philosophies come from French "intellectuals" etc.
Many woke professors in US and Canadian universities start their preaching by refereeing to such French "intellectuals" and their theories.
Modern COD defo need some of that Concord treatment.
Facts
i refuse to believe people still play CoD unironically nowadays.
@its_myo Oh its still a top seller. My favorite quote: "I pity you newgens, your peak was rock bottom and you'll die on a hill defending it." Perfectly sums up modern COD audience.
Just go to any CoD trailer the fanboys defending them is insufferable
I came straight from The Finals to try Xdefiant when it came out. It was like those games were developed 30 years apart. Realizing some people think CoD and Xdefiant is the hottest shit you can play actually made me sad. It's like that exact moment made me realize just how fucking dumb people are and made me lose faith in humanity.
If you want people to play your game , don’t make characters fat, gay, and ugly. You can’t have all 3 together.
historians will refuse to list any of these as reasons even if its their job to save their corporate overlords money because fence sitters like moistcritical dont even mention the phrase character design, perpetuating the cycle of self imposed retardation from game studios.
based
**overwatch had a
Or pronoun cringe
I don't care if one or two characters is like that, but the problem is the entire identity if the game is woke, which is ironic considering they claim to welcome diversity.
Game built for a minority of players
-> Players saying they wont play a game thats not for them
-> Dev saying dont play it since it isnt for them
-> Game fails
-> Devs blame gamers
-> Gamers cheer
-> surprised pikachu face
What’s wild to me as an artist is that within 8yrs of development, their art department still looks at the designs and says “Hell yeah!!”. I have seen tremendous changes in my artstyle and preferences within 3yrs. These artists are living in caves.
That's what happens when you work a job in a bubble shielded from actual market consequences.
No, trust me, the artists know. We design what the client tells us, just like you do what your boss tells you. We can try to give feedback but ultimately if the brief tells us they want an overweight homely androgynous brown char wearing lipstick & an outfit with what looks like toilet tubing on it- we draw that 🤷🏼♀️
Nobody wants a queer cult message in their games, any more than they want to hear about a tv evangelist.
I don't think that's true, most people don't care about either queer cult message nor evengelist message when the game is good, people will even embrace fascist militarism in games when you fictionalize it well enough like 40K does. Fiction is fiction, the problem only arise when your fiction is poorly crafted.
@@None38389 someone can't tell between parody and endorsement...
I swear, in the footage I've seen of concord, there are almost exclusively copy paste reload animations and destiny/halo active ability animations just reused in tandem with the most bland and unappealing character designs ever. This was DOA because nobody ever asked for it.
Ironically if they ripped off halo one for one and had guys in armour that looks a bit different people would love it.
@@Quazzi I don't know what character it is or what move they're doing but it looks like the armour lock from Halo 4 all the way down to the ground pound-one kneed stance
34:19 this whole segment onward had me nodding and agreeing like I was in church.
dEiephant was not addressed
"people will find a way to get the money if the game is good enough" this this right here is 100% facts
Yeahz like it or not, mid live transaction games can make it, Concord doesn't have that excuse.
Something didn't work, hmmm, what could it be, what indeed...
10:54 Imagine if twitch ended the stream right there. Turn the tables by banning him for having the audacity to disagree with someone 👀
No one gives a shit about Jim Ryan. But when the first shot of your trailer is another "spunky black woman with attitude", it already tells us everything we need to know to stop caring.
The fact Sony will not backpedal but instead double down on everything that is failing really shows how bad of a decision it was to move the entire Game Division to California.
PlayStation Studios has studios all over the world. But God of War, Ghost of Tsushima, Last of Us, and Spiderman were developed in the USA.
Returnal, Astro Bot, Horizon, and Gran Turismo were developed by studios outside the USA.
Most of those are fantastic single player games.
@@rapzid3536 So? A handful of games and most of them also on the PS4.
Sony can't live on the glories of the past forever. There are only so many remasters of 5 year old games that players will buy.
@@SammEater Those are the studios latest games, are hits, and just about all have come out well AFTER SIE formed and headquartered in California. But SEI formed from SCE, also founded in California IN THE 90s!
SO, this post means what exactly?
@@rapzid3536 Nice try. God of War Ragnarok is pure slop and so is Spiderman 2, the only good game to come out on the PS5 was Ratchet and Clank. Remasters of 6 year old games are barely what I would call a "good set of games".
@@SammEater Grand Turismo? Helldivers 2? Stellar Blade? All Sony Interactive Entertainment published games. IDK, sounds like a you problem.
Okay real talk though. Who the hell tries to rob a location without any face coverings? “Oh let me just grab some sharpies and draw random lines on my face, no one will track me now!”
Isn’t the Number 1 thing that’s most well known about *any* thief is that their faces are always covered by something? Whether it’s a hood, a bandanna, a mask, a headband, a helmet, literally anything!
Well if they're in California or New York they won't get arrested anyway, so it doesn't really matter.
But how would you know she’s black?
More like addressing the *AFRICAN* elephant in the room…
Sonys move doing DEI / Woke western live service games must be the worst move they could possible make.
Jim Ryan really messed up big time.
Overwatch is what you consider DEI and Woke, it's Western and made a lot of money.
@@Paraguai123 It didn't start that way so there's no comparison.... plus the way I see it the patience or tolerance for this is gone since it's been forced down everyone's throat in every facet of every day life..... the last thing you want is your escape mechanism to sound like HR -- btw I don't expect any of them to learn while they're all in CA of all places....
@TheLola2824 yeah 100%, i used to see woke in overwatch like that tracer controversy like whatever, doesn't really matter
But nowadays after every single facet of media got infected by those things to the point of actually ruining the whole franchise, like how so many movie and tv series turned into total garbage, and now the gaming sphere started to be fked by it as well
Yeah fk these woke sht, i have 0 tolerance for it nowadays, and im sure many ppl that used to be indifferent, like i did, feel the same way now
@@Paraguai123Overwatch became woke later down the road tho, with how random progressive backstories got added into the characters. You thought varying skin colour is automatically woke?
Jim Ryan doesnt see it that way. He is probably making 10s of millions of dollar by doing this and could care less about the product as long as he makes money.
Said luke while not addressing the elephant in the room..
He is a fence sitter. Can't blame him. His livelihood depends on having a good relationship with studios.
ah sorry i just watched this vidoe but im still a bit lost can one of you guys explain what the elephant is?
@viablos455 they want to pretend it's because of "woke" characters. While OW does great, they'll make other excuses for why that's different though.
I miss his hour long, detailed review that he started out with, now it is just reaction and news commentary
@@ignis2023 Fence sitter? That guy farmed the heck out of Suicide Squad KTJL and shat on Dustborn. Are you just mad he doesn't call everything woke like ur average rage baiting youtuber?
Sony and Nintendo switched places.
Sony now censors M rated games and Nintendo has hentai games with descriptions like fun puzzles you can solve 1 handed 🤔
*Alternative reality*
I just almost spit my coffee out lol
Like what?
“the reason they don’t understand why Concorde failed is because they’re not allowed to.”
That’s why this guy has 3 million followers. Spot on.
The fact they planned 10 of these games before finding out if the first one does well is unbelievable arrogance. It’s like movie studios that announce a cinematic universe rather than making a great film and building upon that with better, connected films in the future.
I remember my friend playing the beta, for a whole hour before they were bored of it, cited it as "Overwatch at home with School fair friendly mascots to tell how to be safe on the internet, with some Destiny style things peppered in, but there is no flavor"
Call me crazy but NO ONE bought a PS5 to play exclusive live service games. We bought them to play games like FF7 Rebirth, TLoU, Returnal, Stellar Blade, Ghost of Tsushima etc..
We don’t want this 💩. We want AAA, highly polished games that are synonymous with the PlayStation brand.
Yeah but explain us why Fortnite is still the most played game everyday since PS4 then
I would also love more AA games 👍
@@pierrostation game is came at perfect time for battle royal genre, we love that type game back then after Pubg fornite is the only alternative, epic did right thing to invest more to race Pubg while pubg just lying lazy around. I don't like fornite but the team is worth to admiring
And we want Japan Studio back.
@@pierrostationprecisely, people who play Fortnite didnt buy a PS5
I am so sick of the damn woke shit, it’s so bad
It's pushing me in the other direction where I start to get angery every time I hear it.
no more dysgenic fats in games. thanks
Sir, a second out of touch self-righteous game has hit Sony
Why does this give me " The Finals Vibe" and a modern day "Hood and Outlaws"
You can't convince me that the protag's (?) face being similar with Flintlock's and AW2's heroine's is just a pure coincidence
Maybe the same face model?
Sweet Baby detected😂
@@brainrich1358 like how they kept using the woman with the BIG eyes? Maybe.
Message to developers and publishers of gaming: Just stick with the old school method. Make good games with single player and optional multiplayer, both offline and online like it was almost 15 years ago and earlier.
Bad take. They need to release mobile/pc/console ports where you use currency in gatcha to pull gear/characters and make progress limited by stamina system and dependent on grind also the game should be f2p with pay2 progress. You cannot go wrong with it
@@CJ-wh7ik Yeah, the entire game should be designed around the gacha system and funnelling people toward the store. After that is sorted, slap together some game around it, it doesn't really matter what it is. If the fundamental pay system is sorted, the rest is inconsequential.
Its crazy that Sony had 12 live service games in the making and canceled 6 of them, and Concord still got in. That makes me wonder what the other 6 cancelled ones were like
Oh god that’s right lmao! I’d pay money to see those absolute works of art that got canned.
Canceled live service adult visual novels.
@@GeorgeMonet ...wait, let them cook.
Actually nvm, they were all probably the "western" kind of *dating* sim.
They probably canned food ones for "toxic masculinity"
I imagine the cancelled ones were earlier in development. When Sony acquired the Concord studio, they were only one year away from release, might as well let them finish at that point.
With the original video all I could think of is:
"There are quite a few elephants in that room ..."
Sony will willingly go out of business before they ditch DEI.
They already fired the dude who was in charge when all these games got green lit
@@chrissears5482that means nothing. There are always fall guys. A new one will be put in place, the indoctrination efforts will continue.
@@chrissears5482 They didn't fire him for making a woke video game with ugly characters though. They can never say why or even confront it in their own minds. They will still be woke.
@beauzer36 being woke has nothing to do with it. People called God of War and Spiderman woke and those games still did amazing. If the game is fun to play and good people look past little shit. He got fired for greenlighting like 20 games as a service transaction filled multi-player games instead of building the RPGs and action games that Sony is known for
I mean these games have been in development for years. There might be a couple more of these same sort of games in the pipe right now
When Asmon started in on his hot take that the “$40 price tag had nothing to do with it”, I was really going to strongly disagree with him.
But his explanation and reasoning was good
His explanation was horrible. He compared two different genres with different types of competition
@@Paraguai123he explained that nobody wanted to play it in the first place, even for free
@@jeremyjoyner9796 also, didn't they have MORE players after it launched, with that 40 bucks price?
It's not a coincidence that this started going downhill as more women began joining the industry especially management. This has effected the movies as well.
No one wants to admit it.
100%
And simpy soy boys 😂
Women like to hire more women, and the cycle goes on.
100%
Elephant in the room? I thought you only had cockroaches
Hip hop never makes me want to buy a game watch a movie or TV show
Concord is comepeting against overwatch 2 which have better characters, free to play, and already have a massive community
Why would anyone buy an obvious overwatch copy if you can play the real one for free?
I'd say because they're trying to make the setting more like guardians of the galaxy, but marvel rivals exists and has actually iconic characters in it, so...
And Overwatch 2 isn’t as big as Overwatch 1 still is.
and better looking characters
i would rather play concord then overwatch 2 after they completely trolled us with this crap, overwatch 2 is just overwatch 1 with massively increased microtransactions
That was Asmon's point about the $40. Even if Concord was in a vacuum, and there was no other video games. I'd rather J O or something. Still wouldn't play it.
It's a simple premise that now seems to be straight fact: Go woke, go broke. 99% of gamers don't want that shit in their games, the other 1% are the ones still playing concorde as it dies.
0.0001%
This games just a cheap woke rip off of Payday as well.
i am woke, and honestly, it's not even a 5% of the problem
the game is shit, remove "woke" from it - and it's still will be shit
@@wrrr1256 It's shit because it is woke. Woke makes it where you can't create anything good and ruins everything else it comes in contact with.
@@wrrr1256 We reject "The Message". We reject you. Go away now.
21:47 OMG its sooo baddd 😭😭😭😭 bruh it feels like someone went into blender and triad to do an animation with free asset
1:19 Most gamers would rather pay $40 for a complete game without micro-transactions or weird free to play systems. This failed because of the woke character designs, full stop. Not one of these characters is appealing in any way, whatsoever. No one wants to live out their fantasy as Bertha the whale.
I unironically woul play Emari for the luls if I thought the game were worth my time. Almost did during free access beta
Funny thing is Sony never did this in the Japanese market, their headquarters in Japan literally believes this is American culture.
I mean american studio believe it's american culture to so can we really blame them ?
@@fabienherry6690it’s like some Emperor’s Clothes type shenanigans
their hq is in cali for like 5 years already
it IS american culture! The entire rest of the world is annoyed of you forcing your culture into everyone else's lives! :D
Nobody has ever nailed it better then South Park per usual. The episode based on freemium games has hit the nail on the head years ago.. “we need to make the game fun…. But not too much fun because they need to pay for those features!” Modern day games have features literally planned around paid accounts pretending as if their purposely spilt milk with features already scripted easily available to players placed behind paywalls for the sake of making easy money as developers..
That Concorde plane joke was a good one, chatter. 3:36
44:48 bro you gotta say "trigger warning" before firing shots like that. You probably made someone cry.
All Sony had to do to beat Xbox was not fuck up and just keep on doing what they were doing, but because of this and the PSN stuff, they couldn't even beat a competitor who was killing their own company.
Last CEO of Sony fucked everything up
Sonys next exclusive is already getting incredible reviews but people rather talk about this
@@chrissears5482 Oh boy. The Sony ponies are coming. In fact, they're already here. What exclusive?
@@gabrielarruda4083 Astro Bot
What do you mean? The ceo of Microsoft literally admitted they lost the console war
Asmon, the difference between Helldivers 2 and Concord is that one is a $40 co op alien shooter and the other is a $40 hero shooter. Hero shooters are so over saturated that if some dev studio is dumb enough to make one, it better be free to have a chance to compete. Biggest Sony fail in a long time.
People keep repeating there's an over saturated market of "hero shooters". But what are the other hero shooters besides OW and Paladins?
@@antiimperialista5764 Apex Legends, Valorant, Team Fortress 2 to name a few that immediately spring to mind. I think there's a Marvel game coming out too that seems to have positive buzz that's right around the corner. You can just google "Hero shooter games" and get a big list.
@@antiimperialista5764well, there's also Valorant, Rainbow Six (kinda), Apex Legend. But as we see, lots of hero shooter also have very short life (Gundam Evolution, Lawbreaker, etc)
Most of long lived shooters are coop
@@antiimperialista5764 OW, Paladins, Apex, Valorant, Marvel Rivals. That alone is plenty.
I think mostly because the actual real difference is that one game is not woke DEI garbage and the other one is.
If XBox takes over, with it's Gamepass subscription model, then we'll see the same thing happen to games that's happened to all movie-streaming services.
Everyone will want a piece of the pie, and soon, you'll have to pay an Ubisoft subscription to play Ubisoft games, and a SquareEnix subscription to play SE games, and an EA subscription to play EA games, and the entire industry will become over-saturated with a ton of separate services, quantity over quality as they pack their services with tons of crap games, and the whole thing will eventually collapse as people simply stop paying for those services.
we need ..
1. CCP billionaire
2. Arab Sheikh
3. Indian Industrialist
4. Pakistani politician
5. African warlord
6. American Record label producer.
7. Isreali washington lobbyist.
......
no need asim munir in there, pakistani politician basically
Would genuinely be interesting
Ooof 😂 W