Concord May Not Be As Dead As Everyone Thinks After All

may be considered one of 2024's biggest flops but players shouldn't count out the hero-shooter just yet as it may be preparing a major return. Launching on August 23, quickly became a meme online as Firewalk Studio's multiplayer game failed so badly that it was completely delisted from storefronts just two weeks after its release with the development team issuing refunds to everyone who purchased it. It was an unfortunate mixture of a middling competitive experience, poor advertising, and an incompatible market, but Sony could be setting up for another try.

Per PCGamesN, players have noticed that the SteamDB for has received almost daily updates in the last few weeks. The nature of these updates is still unknown but it is odd that Firewalk is continually tweaking the game's Steam listing if it's no longer available for sale. This by itself isn't enough to suggest that may return soon, but it does have fans of eagerly anticipating some kind of announcement, especially when the studio implied that it was taking some time to reconsider the game and its launch as a whole.

Firewak Studios made it clear when it delisted thatit was going to ," leading many to believe that the studio would re-release the game at some point in the future. How the revamped launch might look has been widely debated amongst the community, with many suggesting that pivot away from being a paid experience and embrace a free-to-play model. Even if that is the direction Firewalk opts to take, it seems doubtful that enough players care for 's take on hero-shooters.

The multiplayer genre has always been extremely competitive and with the sub-genre of hero-shooter becoming more popular than ever, it's oversaturated. may be a technically solid shooter but it doesn't bring anything unique or new to the table that helps it stand out from its contemporaries. One might argue that the attempt at telling a focused story with weekly cinematics may have been a fun hook but since no one cared for the game's