Concord...?

But also:

Even if it’s a competent hero shooter is it also… another hero shooter in a crowded market

This should have read "it is also..."

the first underewater downvoted trailer

Dude, get a proofreader ffs.

How are there so many hero shooters but zero good ones?

The first time I even heard of the game was a few days ago, when I saw an article posted here on Lemmy about it.

Maybe they could try something new instead of just rehashing the battle Royale/hero thing. It's been fuckin' years of the same shit. They copy this and that from the first big hit and just ignore any and all novelty that would make them actually stand out.

How do I even test the game if it won’t work on any of my Linux machines? Anyway, after reading this, I am fully ready to forget it ever existed.

This “crowded market” meme for hero shooters gotta go.

The main reason this game flopped is its ugly character designs. People are willing to pay money for a good game. But when you purposely make the designs hilariously ugly, this is what you get.

We gotta move away from this trend.

Can't call it a crowded market when the vast majority of games under the "hero shooter" category are cheap at best and excessively greedy at worst. As a long time Overwatch and Apex Legends player I've been waiting years for a good replacement. I'm not saying Concord is that game to replace said hero shooters (And games like Valorant are in a category of their own.) I'm just saying that if there was an actual competitor to a fast paced game like Overwatch that isn't as blatantly greedy, I would 100% play it.

The community is thirsty for a fresh take on the hero shooter and everyone I know that plays Overwatch and Apex Legends are in the same boat. It's why games like Team Fortress 2 are having a resurgence. The only reason we play these games is because they are the best gameplay wise. At the same time, the bar is so low we'll give any game that wants to put in the effort a try. I played the beta of Concord and enjoyed it quite a bit. It's rough around the edges, don't get me wrong. But that's what betas are for. I paid $40 for Overwatch before it went free to play and they locked all cosmetics, old and new, behind a paywall. So if it's decent I'll pay $40 for Concord.

I know nothing about this game at all, but I will now judge it based entirely off the preview graphic on this post.

Hmmmm looks like an uninspired hero shooter with insufferable characters.

Anyone know how close I was?

It's the players who are wrong.

/s ofc

Oh boy, did Sony release a new banger that's the same game repackaged for the thousandth time?!

I am so excited, I definitely don't have Sony blocked on steam along with all their in-house production companies. Nuh-uh, I would never block all these awesome companies for altering deals weeks post-sale.

No siree, I would never navigate to their steam pages and gleefully click the block producer button ever. Not even once, as a joke.

I have no interest in the genre so I forgot this even existed.

I fully blame advertising on this one, I have only heard of the game once or twice, and all of those were in comments complaining about the state of Sony which is never a good thing for a game. I have never seen any promotionals for this game and I've never seen any type of outline of what this game even is being as they are mentioning it's normally a free to play I'm assuming it's some sort of MMO or team-based game like Overwatch, I didn't even know it was doing open Beta over the weekend till now

edit: reread the article, I just didn't notice it the first time yeah it seems it's your typical game like OverWatch