• @Ledivin@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    What’s Concord? I’ve literally never heard of this before

    Spoiler: if you don’t advertise at all, people won’t play your game

    • @golli@lemm.ee
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      225 months ago

      Yeah, hadn’t heard about it until today either. But Steam also kind of torpedoed their launch by lifting their NDA for Deadlock on the same day. Not sure how similar they are, but that’ll grab most of the attention from gamers right now.

      • @themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works
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        155 months ago

        Both have heroes and are shooters, but the similarities end here, but you’re overall right. From what I’ve seen of concord, it’s just valorant with a mediocre twist, whereas deadlock has been my go-to game for the last week.

    • @Hux@lemmy.ml
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      335 months ago

      It’s a new game in which you play two folk musicians from New Zealand. You start off in a small NY apartment trying to get gigs and establish a relationship with an official at the local New Zealand consulate who later becomes your band manager.

      It cost $4-billion dollars to develop, utilizes the F-14 Tomcat game engine from GameBoy Advance, and is expected to generate tens of dollars of revenue for Sony Corp.

    • @Dasus@lemmy.world
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      85 months ago

      I think Valve would disagree.

      ~60k players on Deadlock yesterday, ~100k today. Probably more tomorrow. It’s still in playtest.

    • @Jackthelad@lemmy.world
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      115 months ago

      The marketing has been appalling. They’ve mainly focussed their intentions on PS5, but why release a game on a platform but not advertise it for that platform?

      Maybe word-of-mouth about the game and some discounts might improve things over the coming months, but Sony have made a bit of a mess with the PC side of this.

    • Omega
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      135 months ago

      I’ve seen ads on random apps. But the logo looks like a '90s PC software logo. And nothing showed what the game actually looked like.

      The clips they’ve shown look like the fake video games that you see in an advertisement for a specialized university.

    • @x4740N@lemm.ee
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      15 months ago

      I saw a few adverts for it on Facebook sp they definitely did advertise but people where turned off as soon as they found put it was a FPS

    • @hasnt_seen_goonies@lemmy.world
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      25 months ago

      This is one of the problems of growing up in a different age. This was advertised, but are you any of the places they promoted it? It was the main game in a state of play, they bought ad space on steam, and I assume it was advertised elsewhere where I wouldn’t have seen it. But not everybody is watching TV anymore, and we are on Lemmy. Probably not the best place to judge what’s being advertised to the masses lol.

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        5 months ago

        I watch plenty of streamers (about half of which play shooters), my primary gaming platform is Steam, and I do watch a small amount of TV, where other games have been advertised during this time. If they used those platforms for advertising, they didn’t do it well. You got me on the State of Play tho