Christopher Dring (Head of GamesIndustry.biz): https://x.com/Chris_Dring/status/1831027939926069375 https://archive.is/PvOEP

Dear Fanboys. When a game on the console you don’t own doesn’t do very well, whether it’s Concord or Hellblade or NES World Championships, it’s not a win for you. Nobody won.

Nathan Grayson (Cofounder/reporter @aftermath_site): https://x.com/Vahn16/status/1831090211012702331 https://archive.is/u7yL2

concord didn't fail bc of diversity or bc live service games are a dead end. instead, publishers are trying to use live service to paper over the unsustainability of their development practices. you can't solve unsustainability with more unsustainability

Kahlief Adams (Seen on Peacock, NY Times, Good Morning America): https://x.com/KahliefAdams/status/1831003535741460576 https://archive.is/WQdcM

I just ABSOLUTELY hate that chuds will take this as a win and it will embolden them to be even worse. I hate it sooooo much.

Jason Schreier (Reporter at Bloomberg): https://x.com/jasonschreier/status/1831005817702670526 https://archive.is/T2IH9

Every time a live-service game with no hook or strong word of mouth fails to penetrate an oversaturated market, the most annoying people on the planet will be there to blame diversity

Ash Parrish (Video Game Reporter @verge): https://x.com/adashtra/status/1831004337985986743 https://archive.is/9nUOc

HOW MANY SMALLER PROJECTS WERE KILLED IN ITS CRADLE TO THROW MONEY AT THIS LIVE SHOOTER BULLSHIT THAT DIDN'T LAST LONGER THAN MY LAST FUCKING PERIOD???!!!

Matt Kim (Senior Features Editor @IGN): https://x.com/LawofTD/status/1831019178708664433 https://archive.is/hvqGP

Eight years to make, a week and half to succeed. Great system we've got.

Kevin Diaz (Associate Content Syndication Editor for @IGN): https://x.com/TheKDiaz123/status/1831001999829274820 https://archive.is/7MY28

I promise you, Concord was much better than you all made it out to be. Actually PLAYING the game, I can assure you.

Stella Chung (IGN Host/Producer): https://x.com/ParallaxStella/status/1831009632741159248 https://archive.is/py35p

My heart breaks for Firewalk Studios.

The fact that it wasn't even given at least six months to properly sit through a season and adjust as a proper live-service game is insane to me.

It's very clear PlayStation didn't believe in this from the start and failed to support it.

Daniel Ahmad (Director of Research & Insights at Niko Partners): https://x.com/ZhugeEX/status/1831067756588056765 https://archive.is/fhCRO

The comments around Concord from right wing gamers shows the power of collective self-deception

If you say delusional stuff about DEI enough times & build a conspiracy focused narrative, they start seeing that false narrative everywhere

I guess we have to live with this now

And of course the underlying emotional response is just standard bigotry and nothing new.

Except now there are grifters putting on a four-act stage play about how capital owners have gone woke and therefore no longer care about the profit motive for some reason.

If you find any more, post below and I'll try to add them.