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A character from Concord holds a hot sauce bottle from a game trailer
Image via Sony

Concord’s open beta couldn’t have flopped much harder

No one seems interested in trying the hero shooter early.

Concord has been struggling to make even the tiniest splash in the modern gaming scene in 2024, and its open beta weekend has only turned things from bad to worse. Over four days, barely anyone logged in to play.

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When we say barely anyone too, it’s no hyperbole⁠—at times, the Concord beta had as few as three to four hundred people online, with high watermarks coming closer to 2,000 concurrent gamers. According to SteamDB.info metrics, the five-vs-five hero shooter peaked at 1,117 players in its beta’s closing 24 hours.

Several different player count metrics for Concord displayed on the SteamDB.info website
It’s not pretty reading. Screenshot via SteamDB.info

This doesn’t take the PlayStation 5 playerbase into account, of course, and developers Firewalk Studios did make sure both enjoyed a similar testing period. Sony doesn’t share community counts for its console-released games though, and considering the hero shooter does have crossplay and many servers were already quite barren for PC and PlayStation players alike, things likely weren’t much better there.

It’s a very, very worrying blow for the in-house PlayStation game⁠—the first since Killzone: Shadow Fall in 2013⁠—with many players already declaring it “dead on arrival” as early as day one of this weekend’s testing run.

Various barriers scared interested players away early, with some complaining about oversaturation in the hero shooter market alongside Overwatch 2, VALORANT, and fellow newcomer Marvel Rivals. Others thought it lacked any real originality and many were quickly annoyed by the $40 price tag.

Yellow mechanical character in Concord
Some early Concord players have praised the characters on the roster. Image via Firewalk Studios

There were some who instantly loved it; they suggested they’d still preorder a copy despite the abysmal beta numbers. The things that got the most praise from that slice of the fandom included gameplay speed and “cool” characters.

Whether you’re excited or want to give Concord another go when it launches, Firewalk’s hero shooter will hit digital shelves on Aug. 23⁠—if it’s not delayed.


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Isaac McIntyre
Isaac McIntyre is the Aussie Editor at Dot Esports. He previously worked in sports journalism at Fairfax Media in Mudgee and Newcastle for six years before falling in love with esports—an ever-evolving world he's been covering since 2018. Since joining Dot, he's twice been nominated for Best Gaming Journalist at the Australian IT Journalism Awards and continues to sink unholy hours into losing games as a barely-Platinum AD carry. When the League servers go down he'll sneak in a few quick hands of the One Piece card game. Got a tip for us? Email: isaac@dotesports.com.