Concord will soon be gone, with it being taken offline tomorrow at time of writing following an announcement earlier this week essentially saying the plug was being pulled.
It was disappointing news for all (49 currently on Steam) players who bought into the game, but they might at least find some solace in a new report that suggests the coming Secret Level episode based on Firewalk’s shooter will remain in the Amazon Prime series.
Announced during Gamescom ONL 2024, the new series is a series of episodic stories told within the world of various games, including Concord. As one of 15 stories including other titles such as Sifu, Warhammer 40K, Armored Core, PAC MAN, and more, thoughts immediately went to whether or not a new game would take its place.
Not so, according to an IGN source. The episode will stay, and in all likelihood it will digitally outlive the game it is based on by simply existing online for longer than two weeks.
Unless of course the game does return properly, as is suggested in the cancellation post. If you genuinely love the game there’s still hope, grim as it seems.
If the previous successful (and even the not-so-successful) video game adaptations have any pattern to them, it’s that the adaptations are pushing people to the games.
It’s technically possible that the Secret Level episode could release and drive-up interest in Concord actually returning, though who’s to say whether or not PlayStation has already made up its mind at that point regarding the future of the live service game.
The thing about it, is that while Concord proved to be a solid shooter that perhaps wasn’t doing anything too special, it did have strong foundations that could’ve been built on – the way all successful live service games have done.
It was a bad start for sure, and there’s something to be said about how the developers time is best spent, when player counts were as low as they were on such a massive project.
But for the game to not even last more than two weeks feels a bit like it might’ve been too soon. In any case, there’s still the chance it’ll return, even if the lone episode among a series of potentially much better episodes fails to move the needle.
Until we get the hard news that it’s gone, we could still see it come back.
Source – [IGN]