As you will no doubt have heard, Sony's multiplayer shooter Concord has been removed from sale indefinitely, with no confirmation of when, or if, it'll return. The sci-fi FPS failed to find a sizeable audience, with sales numbers estimated to be shockingly low, resulting in a shutdown just days after its initial release. A disastrous launch, then, but hey — at least you can still buy the merch!
As shared by Wario64, official Concord merchandise remains available on Sony's PlayStation Gear website:
Available only on the US version of the store, you can currently purchase a series of products bearing the Concord logo, including a mug, beanie hat, t-shirt, and hoodie. The items are about as basic as official merchandise can be, but if you do want to rep this title despite its unfortunate shutdown, you can. It's a little odd to be able to buy merch for a game that's so hastily been brushed under the carpet, but we are where we are.
Fans don't just have some simple merch to enjoy, either; it's been confirmed that Concord's episode of the anticipated video game anthology show, Secret Level, is still going ahead.
Will you be grabbing any Concord products in the wake of the game's untimely closure? Tell us in the comments section below.
[source gear.playstation.com, via x.com]
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I'd consider buying a magnet or pin just so that in ten years I can find it and go 'The heck is this!?'
I was ALMOST tempted to buy a sealed copy of Concord online, as with all the refunds they have to be collectors items in 10 years of more. Then I remembered i'm not a collector or a hoarder!
This game is definitely coming back as a ftp title. No way they're dropping a live service game that was nearly a decade in development.
@Nepp67 depends if they can get a tax write-off or not. I’d imagine that the refunds are in an effort to pursue that cause… if unsuccessful with that, then they may look at f2p.
@colonelkilgore To be fair you'd be pissing people off if you just went straight to ftp without refunding them.
@Nepp67 yeah I get that but if they can prove they made absolutely no revenue, they can argue it being written off. Any business worth half its salt would chance their arm in these circumstances. It’s the most logical reason for pulling the plug as fast as they did.
Concordians, unite!
@colonelkilgore this is actually a really interesting read. Somehow didn’t cross my mind.
Tbh I’d have one of those mugs as a cool collectors items. In a few years we’ll all look back at Concord with fondness when it goes full circle and becomes retro niche.
@FinneasGH I actually think the big crash & burn earned the title a lot of sympathy. And if it will return, there will be a (new) community there that want's to support it.
@Nepp67 Sony refunded literally everyone. Every person, every shop, every seller. They have currently not made back a single penny on their 200 million dollar investment.
That points to tax write-off.
Yeah, I'd be amazed if Concord ever came back, F2P or not. It was F2P during the beta periods, and the interest actually went down from the first beta (which was limited to pre-orders or those on PS5 with PS+) to the second (which was free to all, unsure about PS+ being required). Interest/player numbers then went down again at launch (at least on PC).
Sad to say, the game just isn't very good, for a myriad of reasons (I jumped into the second beta and nothing I saw post-launch suggests the game was any different after release). It needs a significant re-think and lots of work. If it were me, I'd can it and try to reduce my losses with a write off.
FYI @Quintumply I think you can stop saying that sales numbers were "estimated to be shockingly low"; On the Gamesindustry.biz podcast of a couple weeks ago, Chris Dring confirmed he'd seen the real numbers and that they were a little less on PC and a little more on PS5 than the analyst Simon Carless was predicting, but about right overall. I take that to be that they were, in fact, shockingly low.
I'd rather have a Dark Universe shirt, if we are gonna go for that "embarrassing failure" rizz.
Sony should buy those concord merchandises ans stick it right in theyre as😀.wtf.sony is really on drugs this ps5 generation.word up son
That sweater sort of reminds of the Microsoft Zune packaging and logo. 🤣
$25 for a mug. Got to make up the costs of this game somehow I guess.
Utterly basic merch for an utterly forgettable game and a massive debacle.
Sounds about par for the course where this game is concerned.
@LifeGirl does 200 mil include buying the studio?
Or is it 200 mil, straight development costs
@WizzNL removing installed game?
Really (genuine question)?
That’s scary implications for people with digital only libraries.
Will Sony come to my house to remove my merch like they did the Concord install on people’s console?
I’m curious, do the earned trophies still exist or did Sony wipe those as well?
@lacerz Yeah trophies are still present on my profile.
I wouldn't be surprised if they sold more physical copies of Concord after is was taken offline than they did in the two weeks it was live.
@yazzika This is wishful thinking. There is 100x more mockery/vitriol for Concorde than there is sympathy. The people that were happy to see it fail would be even happier to see it fail twice.
It would be a gutsy move by Sony to lean into the 'but think of the poor developers' sentiment (what little there is) but I doubt it would be financially viable. If it flopped twice it would do a lot of damage to the overall PlayStation brand.
The tragic legacy of concord continues
@playstation1995
Amen dude. Sony's gone full mental
@LordFunkalot
Tragic?
I'm amused by the idea that somebody is more likely to cosplay as a Concord fan than as any of the actual characters
@LordAinsley I believe the figure is total, studio and development.
@colonelkilgore Well the less see of it the better then.
@LifeGirl I'm not sure if you'd be able to write off the studio purchase. But i guess even separated there's probably enough of a write off here to be a possibility.
I bought all the merchandise.
"I played Concord for one week, and all I got was this lousy shirt."
@Ralizah I'm a super fan of a game called Concord, but it's so underground you've probably never heard of it.
@NEStalgia LOL
You're a Sony hipster who idolizes failed live service games like Concord. I'm a Sony hipster who idolizes failed Japan Studio games like Gravity Rush.
We are not the same.
@Ralizah lol. Je suis Gravity Rush 😢
The merch, the disk and sell it for high prices, not have private servers as people aren't interested enough to offer them, not get the trophy anymore.
The merch is probably fair though regardless of what logos or characters or otherwise. It's probably fair quality stuff just has the game's branding on it, nothing wrong with that.
A good mug or bag is still worth it.
The IP tried, but the merch will live on.
It's interesting to me that somewhere, at some point in time, a conversation was had where somebody got told to come up with some merch for Concord because they thought the game would be popular. I would love to have been a fly on the wall at this time. Surely someone internally must have known. Someone must have played the thing and been like, "Errr guys?"
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