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An important update on Concord - Being taken offline September 6th, refunds to be issued
(blog.playstation.com)
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this post was submitted on 03 Sep 2024
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The game was alive for about 1.5 days for each year of development that they put into Concord.
Let's acknowledge for a second that well over 100 developers are about to lose their livelihoods. Now let's acknowledge that they were building a product from the start that disrespects consumer rights and preservation of the medium, and I'm still glad it failed.
Chose a publisher as your leader in business? Well we know how that goes.
Those artists and programmers had about six years to find different jobs in the industry, I have zero sympathy for the ones that stuck around and did not see the writing on the wall.