The latest PlayStation-published live-service shooter Concord is here, and launch numbers are looking pretty bad so far.
When it comes to concurrent player counts, numbers don’t always matter, particularly for single-player games, but live-service titles are a different story. Valve’s new hero shooter Deadlock, which it finally officially revealed last week, had a concurrent player count peak of 89,000 just yesterday, according to SteamDB, a very impressive figure for a game that isn’t even out yet. However, while it’s been playable for a little while now, as long as you’ve got an invite, this weekend did have an actual launch for another live-service hero shooter, Concord. Except, its Steam numbers are not doing so good, amassing only 697 players at one time on the game’s launch day.
Numbers just got worse over the weekend, when you’d expect more players to login to check it out, but nope, Saturday was worse than Friday, and Sunday worse than Saturday. That Friday launch figure is also pretty upsetting for another reason: it’s smaller than last year’s absolute trainwreck, and studio ruining, The Lord of the Rings: Gollum, which has a peak of 758 players (which it received when it launched and subsequently never topped).
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