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Neon Koi was developing a mobile action game. Firewalk Studios recently launched and quickly delisted Concord.

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[–] lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world 19 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

A dumpster fire of a situation. 8 years of development, $400 million reported budget, game shut down after 2 weeks and now the studio closed.

AAA gaming is a hot mess right now.

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago

Both the development time and the budget have come in at a variety of different numbers with people refuting them, and I'll bet several of those figures depend on how you count. The range is now somewhere between 4-10 years, and $50-$400M, which is an absurd amount of variance, but even at 4 years and $50M, it's still probably too long and too much money to spend on a game that you don't know is going to find a substantial audience.

[–] Jackthelad@lemmy.world 8 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I guess Concord isn't coming back as free-to-play then.

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

If it did, it would have just been throwing good money after bad.

[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 9 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Concord/Firewalk is gonna be a running joke for years to come

[–] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Damn and I thought lawbreakers was bad

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 hours ago

Lawbreakers was at least a good game.