Someone on /v/ transcribed the podcast and I will take him at his word because I didnt bother listening to it
>Colin Moriarty says that he verified this person worked on Concord and talked with him extensively
>He was shocked to learn that Concord cost $400 million to make
>Concord entered the alpha state in early 2023 before Sony bought them, Sony has been working with the developers since 2020.
>When they hit the alpha state, they have already spent $200 million working on it. Sony spend $200 million extra on it from 2023 onwards.
>The game was in a horrible shape during alpha, Sony felt they had to spend an extra 200 million in order to get the game into a playable state.
>A major expense was needed to outsource the game to other studios to finish building it and fixing it so that it was playable before launch.
>Two major things were not worked on until the last minute. Onboarding, how to get new players in and Monetization, how to get money from the players
>it would cost millions to keep the game going as well
>this is Sony's biggest and most expensive 1st party game in their history, more expensive than Spider-man 2 and TLOU2. They lost all of the money spent.
>They made $1 million gross revenue when the game launched, which was refunded.
>Sony had faith that Concord was the future of PS, it was believed to be a star wars level project where movies, tv shows, comics and toys will be made from it
>code name chaos was it's name in development
>internally you couldnt say anything bad about it due to toxic positivity.
>Herman Hulst was a massive champion of the game and you could not insult his baby.
>Colin Moriarty says that he thought the game would cost $100-200 million but he reconfirms that his source is solid and it actually costs more
>Sony execs believed in the project so much nobody on the ground level could change things. Which is why they bought the team.
>400 million is not included with the costs to buy the team btw.
>this is the biggest lost in PS history
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lol imagine working there, seeing the character designs, and having to pretend they're amazing or lose your job
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When you have an art friend that keeps showing you their terrible work and you're not sure if you're r-slurred or they're r-slurred.
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I'm taking concord and all these games/movies as a personal career lesson. If I see my company heading towards the iceberg, I'm going to go out swinging and print every email of me warning them on my way out. I feel like being the only person telling Sony they were setting 400M on fire has to look good on a resume.
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So you're why the game failed, it was sabotaged from within! That's why it wasn't real modern game development.
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Don't put any effort in just collect a mountain of proof it's not your fault
2024 business tactics
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It can't be your fault if you never do any work in the first place
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There are a hundred more ways it could look bad depending on who you're talking to and not using the exact perfect words for that specific person.
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No matter what, never bad mouth your previous company until you've gotten the next job. It's like an unspoken rule.
Everyone knows the last place you worked was probably terrible, otherwise you wouldn't have left. They also know that their place they are interviewing you to work for is also awful, otherwise they wouldn't have a job opening. The trick is neither of you tells the other until you're hired.
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If you aren't a total neurodivergent (yes, I know which site im on) it's easy to talk your way around why you want to leave. It's really just an IQ test to see if you're at least able to talk your way around that
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Now you get no severance.
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The screenshot doesn't even give away what Concord is supposed to be. Is it Sir Lancelot's squire in Monty Python? Is it an airplane?
I have such low media literacy and am borderline illiterate so in this moment I am randomly touching symbols on my potty TV.
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After reading about the Professor for me it's INSANE that such a person can literally dictate what possibly hundreds if not THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE do on the game. It's fricking crazy and proof gaming is fricked.
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What Professor?
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Chuds handed an easy win and they still fumble like r-slurs
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If there is 1 transgender at a table and another person joins, there is 2 transgenders at a table.
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Typical fart huffing designer lol
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Supposedly a woke chick in high position larping as the teacher for the devs.
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Who? Reading what?
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awesome drip mr emperor
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The designs were two grounded for a goofy multiplayer shooter. I kinda like the trash can if it was in a scifi open world game. Green dude is unredeemable tho.
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