Submitted 4 months ago by ampersandrew@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
https://thegamepost.com/sony-concord-playable-again-custom-servers/
It’s early stages and buggy, but it’s on its way. All games, even bland, boring, or bad ones, deserve to remain playable.
No… They don’t. If the cost of running the servers for that game is more than the game can bring in there is no point in continuing service.
I understand that “gamers” believe otherwise but Sony, or any other company is going to go into the red because an extremely tiny base if people want to keep playing said game. Especially a massive utter flop like concord.
What do you believe the cost to Sony is for community-run servers?
All games, even bland, boring, or bad ones, deserve to remain playable.
In answer to your question, zero, of course.
The above statement is the one I have an issue with.
I thought it was very funny that I only even heard about concord existing when it was announced the service was shutting down. I feel like they didn’t know advertising for it
I like how the two comment replies you got were completely opposite of each other lol
Yeah which makes me think that it was six of one and half a dozen of the other.
Terrible marketing and fairly mediocre gameplay.
Although obviously I don’t know because like pretty much everyone else I never actually played it. And I like hero shooters and even played overwatch semi-professionally, so I would have been in the circles that would have heard about it, if Sony had bothered to tell anyone.
Tbh the marketing and price tag are what killed it. The game itself was actually pretty fun, played a lot like Destiny 1 pvp and really didn’t feel like a hero shooter at all (which is a good thing). The abilities complemented the gunplay, not the other way around, and movement was crisp.
Firewalk had a great core, but Sony fucked it up.
Nah, it was just a terrible game, hence the lack of advertisement. A hero shooter with zero soul put into it.
Ugh man, Concord gets fan servers but I can’t play BF1943 anymore…cruel world.
Impressive. This is like making a Star Trek replicator, but the only thing it can make is more garbage.
If Sony sees this, they’ll misread it as interest, release it again, and it’ll flop again. It’s what’s known as a Morbious.
Morbius
Fittingly, produced by Columbia Pictures, which is owned by Sony, and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing.
It’s concordin’ time!
Not me. I want to watch it flop again.
A… Mourbioros? Morboros? Mouroboros?
imo, Mourboboros (last one with an extra b, for fun)
The correct lesson to take away from it, that they won’t ever do, is to release multiplayer games in a way where they can live on without constant updates or a central server.
I’m not sure that’s possible with multiplayer games, at least the central server part. They could release the central server code as an open source project… that would be very useful. But MMOs need that central communication to even work. I mean I guess you could engineer some sort of peer to peer but I’ve dealt with weird firewall rules in various DCs I’ve had servers located in or god forbid the lack of incoming connectivity in peoples homes. Outbound traffic is usually fairly unrestricted so a publicly available server is the way to go architecturally.
Make it a permanently free ps plus game as a bonus for ps plus
Hopefully Stop Killing Games can achieve that goal because big bosses don’t see the benefits.
Useful idiots keep telling me people won’t work for free.
They say that if we don’t pay businesses the prices they demand, then nothing would get done.
Why are people so stupid?
Because they’re correct, you’re just being too literal in your understanding of the statement.
Will people occasionally work for free? Sure. For friends, family, friends of friends, hell even strangers sometimes, volunteering is a thing, sure.
Will they work for free reliably and consistently enough that they can be built upon by other people?
Obviously not, they sometimes don’t even do it for money.
Society as it is today, with its insane population count and highly specialised workflows, requires an insane amount of logistics that absolutely can’t bear “random cunt #354 decided not to work this month so the boat is without a captain” levels of random disruption without heavy consequences; this is incidentally also why strikes are extremely effective.
No society that evolved beyond subsistence did so without some obligation to work, whether through monetary incentives or straight up serfdom/slavery; and if subsistence is all you want, I’m sure you can go live in like, some tribal commune on a Pacific island somewhere.
What makes you think people will work for free?
I wouldn’t do an Internet stranger’s house. But I absolutely would help a friend’s or neighbors if they so asked.
Useful Idiot. They’re so convinced that they’re on the winning side that facts don’t matter anymore.
Randomgal@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
But I was told by pirate software that this was impossible and would devastated the gaming industry.