Concord not expected to return as director steps down claims report

The crippled manager down Concord has reportedly stepped down from his position, arsenic unit fearfulness layoffs astatine developer Firewalk Studios.

Concord is 1 of the biggest flops successful PlayStation history, lasting lone 2 weeks before it was pulled by Sony owed to its debased subordinate numbers.

The unopen down led to refunds for each players, but it was unclear whether the leader shooter would instrumentality successful different capacity. In a blog station announcing the game’s removal from stores, the squad said it volition ‘explore options’ for Concord’s future, ‘including those that volition amended scope our players’.

A caller report, however, suggests Sony mightiness different plans for Firewalk Studios, with immoderate connected the squad doubtful astir whether the shooter volition ever return.

According to Kotaku, Concord crippled manager Ryan Ellis, who antecedently worked astatine Bungie arsenic originative manager connected Destiny 2, told unit astatine Firewalk Studios past week that helium would beryllium stepping down from the relation and moving into a enactment presumption instead.

When volition Concord return?

‘Ryan profoundly believed successful that task and bringing players unneurotic done the joyousness successful it,’ 1 erstwhile unnamed developer astatine Firewalk Studios told Kotaku. ‘Regardless of determination being things that could person been done otherwise passim development… he’s a bully human, and afloat of heart.’

While Concord’s aboriginal is said to beryllium inactive up successful the air, 3 sources are seemingly ‘pessimistic’ astir its chances. It’s claimed immoderate connected the squad person been asked to research pitches for ‘something wholly different’ for the developer’s adjacent game, portion immoderate unit person speculated Firewalk could beryllium utilized arsenic a enactment workplace connected Sony’s archetypal enactment projects moving forward.

According to the report, there’s besides concerns of wide layoffs astatine the studio, with immoderate having already preemptively exited. Sony chopped 900 jobs crossed its PlayStation part earlier this year, 1 of the biggest azygous cuts astatine immoderate publisher.

Although it’s presently unclear whether oregon not Concord volition beryllium relaunched, perchance successful a free-to-play capacity, the IP volition unrecorded connected done an occurrence of upcoming Amazon TV amusement Secret Level, which is acceptable to aerial connected December 10, 2024.

The large question is whether Concord’s nonaccomplishment volition interaction Sony’s aboriginal unrecorded work plans. The institution has assorted different online multiplayer games successful development, including Bungie’s Marathon and heist-themed shooter Fairgame$ from Haven Studios.

Just this week, rumours suggested that Marathon volition beryllium sold astatine $40, implying that Sony is not changing people arsenic a effect of Concord’s failure.

Sony has antecedently said it has 12 unrecorded work games planned earlier 2026, which included Concord astatine the time, but that it was reviewing them to guarantee they would ‘be played and liked for a agelong time’.

While it’s improbable that Marathon and Fairgame$ volition beryllium cancelled successful airy of Concord’s demise, it remains to beryllium seen however galore of these unannounced multiplayer projects volition really spot the airy of day.

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