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"Concord servers are now offline. Thank you to all the freegunners who have joined us in the Concord galaxy" (lemm.ee)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/games@lemmy.world
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Is this the fastest video game death of all time? Not even Lawbreakers died this fast.

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[–] 71 points 2 years ago (1 child)

It's definitely not the fastest but it's really close.

The fastest full shutdown currently belongs to The Culling 2 which only lasted 2 days between launch and being closed completely.

The Day Before is another big example of a game that lasted an incredibly short time but despite that game lasting 4 days before no longer being sold, the games servers stayed on much longer than that meaning that it was shut down after Concord despite being cancelled before it.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Why did culling 2 fail? Wasn't the first game pretty big?

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    Including joke reviews, the game had a 16% rating and was so poorly made that within those 2 days it killed the popularity of both Culling games extremely quickly.

    The first game was popular because it was a twist on the genre while the 2nd one was a quickly thrown together (almost exact) clone of DayZ.

    The word scam was thrown around a lot in those 2 days.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Sounds like the first was made with the mindset of, "it would be cool to make a game that does x, let's do that and see if it will make money" while the second one was more of a, "all we gotta do is make a game that does x and we'll make a ton of money!"

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