• rebelsimile
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    10 hours ago

    If Concord’s launch was a rocket, it would have bored a hole into the launch pad because the thrusters were backward, and I don’t think anyone would have called it a “launch” in any conventional sense.

    So how can it be a comeback if it never even came?

  • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    They couldn’t even pay me to play Concord.

    I hope this is like Morbius, and comes back only to another monumental flop. This game is already so far in the hole at $400 million I dont see how them spending more money on it to develop it more will ever make a profit. They would have to put the most egregious loot box gacha monetization ever known to man to even try, there is no chance it ever makes money.

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      13 hours ago

      The $400 million line shows how far some random guy’s unverified opinion can go.

      It absolutely didn’t cost more than GTA 5.

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        $400M has been refuted by several sources at this point, but there are lots of ways to have spent more than GTA V given that it was developed in a very different era than Concord was. The first handful of Halo games, including those on 360, were some of the biggest games of their day, and they’d all be considered quite cheap by today’s standards.

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    They gotta stop trying and just let it die already. No need in trying to salvage anything out of it.

    Like the article states it already failed to garner a reasonable crowd in the beta, and even less as a paid game.

    It was just a bad game, plagued by terrible development. It has cost enough already, why would they even bother investing anything more in it, take the loss and just move on and make something actually fun and creative.

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      6 hours ago

      I’m very curious to know how many people in this thread disparaging the game have actually played it.

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        Given that sales were only 25,000, statistically it’s probably none of them.

        I like how I got three downvotes just for saying I liked a game. 😂