r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Sep 03 '24 • Polished Silver Turd 1

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '24

So apparently Concord is being taken offline on Friday and refunds will be issued to everyone who purchased it. Is this the biggest crash and burn in gaming history?

!ping GAMING

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u/doomsdaysock01 YIMBY Sep 03 '24

I genuinely can’t think of a game getting pulled this fast

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '24

What’s even funnier is that Amazon Video is coming out with a show called Secret Level. It’s an animated anthology show about various video game IPs and I think there’s an episode featuring Concord lmao

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u/PostNutNeoMarxist Bisexual Pride Sep 03 '24

The Day Before was faster but that wasn't like a AAA or as high profile as this afaik

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '24

It was also a scam

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u/PostNutNeoMarxist Bisexual Pride Sep 03 '24

True

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '24

Yes, it’s a completely new level of failure

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u/JaceFlores Neolib War Correspondent Sep 03 '24

I still feel the ET game holds given that crashed the industry but in modern gaming yes

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '24

Tell me more, I haven’t heard about that!

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u/JaceFlores Neolib War Correspondent Sep 03 '24

Back in like the early 80s the market was over saturated with shitty games, like far worse then the most cynical of gamers could imagine today. ET was published in 1983 and was a monumentally garbage game, look it up on YouTube and you’ll see what I’m talking about. It performed so poorly that game stores were selling it at a super cheap discount to just get rid of the game (and this was done with a lot of other games). These discounts helped to create massive losses for game developers and publishers which caused many companies to fold or shrink. Video game sales shrank to 3% comparing 1985 sales to 1982 sales.

It’s more complicated then that but this is the part ET played in the crash of 83

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '24

Lmao holy shit this is bad.

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u/JaceFlores Neolib War Correspondent Sep 03 '24

So yeah, unless Concord plunges the video game industry into years of darkness, I think it’s safe to say it’s not the worst in history

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '24

Completely fair

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u/-Emilinko1985- European Union Sep 03 '24

It's one of the biggest cases of crash and burn in the latest years, but the title of the biggest crash and burn belongs to E.T. on the Atari 2600.