Concord was worse than bad — it was forgettable

/ Sony’s shutdown of the game was abrupt but not surprising. There’s only room for so many live-service games.

By Andrew Webster, an entertainment editor covering streaming, virtual worlds, and every single Pokémon video game. Andrew joined The Verge in 2012, writing over 4,000 stories.

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Sony

After eight years in development, it took less than a month for Concord to die.

Yesterday, Sony announced that the game, which only launched on August 23rd, would be shutting down on September 6th. Ryan Ellis, game director at developer Firewalk Studios, said that it “didn’t land the way we’d intended.” That seems to be an understatement: the game

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