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"Concord servers are now offline. Thank you to all the freegunners who have joined us in the Concord galaxy" (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 months ago by simple@lemm.ee to c/games@lemmy.world

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Is this the fastest video game death of all time? Not even Lawbreakers died this fast.

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[-] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 36 points 2 months ago

Problem with trying to get a Fortnite was that Epic was wanting to get it's own PUBG after realizing that trying to get their own Minecraft was a failed endeavor. They quickly pivoted the game formula from a Minecraft type tower defense to a battle royale game.

Concord should have seen the writing on the wall early on and pivoted it's game into something else thats flavor of the month.

[-] Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Wait wasn't the original concept for fortnite actually a wave based tower defence game? I remember being excited for that and then battle royal happened and I lost all interest.

[-] 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 2 months ago

People paid for that original game too, it wasn’t free. I don’t assume they got refunded. It was basically a massive bait and switch.

[-] Dublin112@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I was a sucker and my friend convinced me to get and pay for the orginal game. I think it was only like 3-4 weeks after the game was available when they shoehorned battle royal mode in. It wasn't long after that before they switched to free to play and gave us I think in game currency that was worth the $60 or whatever the game costed at launch. I stopped playing altogether because I paid for a co-op PvE tower defense game, not a free to play PvP battle royal game.

[-] Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

Yea I recall it being like 20 something. That's why I never pre-order. Without having poof I would assume they got refunded if it stopped development, it's epic games. I do recall it did get released eventually but I had lost interest by them.

[-] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yeah, the original trailer made it clear they were trying to go after the Minecraft style of gathering resources, building up a base and fortifying it, then defending from zombie mobs at night, like the Minecraft mobs.

Maybe not so much the pixel/block graphics, but the ideas behind Minecraft, with an actual objective, which Minecraft lacked.

https://youtu.be/hHTE5xg9E-g