Sony Is Pulling the Plug on Concord Again, Even the Fan Revival Isn’t Safe

Concord was… look, we all lived through it. Eight years of buildup, hype cycles, trailers, delays and corporate promises, only for the game to implode in record time. It didn't just flop, it evaporated. You could hold the disc up to sunlight and see the ghost of "we spent how much on this?" floating through it.

But then something genuinely sweet happened. A tiny group of fans - yes, fans, plural - brought Concord back from the dead. They refused to let the hero shooter go out with a whimper and started running their own revival servers. It was wholesome. It was earnest. It was probably more love than the game ever got while it was alive.

And now Sony seems to be stepping in to put a stop to even that.

According to The Game Post, Sony has begun issuing DMCA strikes against gameplay videos of the fan revival. The revival team even posted on Discord that, due to "worrying legal action," they've paused invites. Sony hasn't outright targeted the project itself yet, but the writing is pretty much glowing on the wall: the revival is on borrowed time.

This is my honest take: I hated Concord. I thought it was one of the ugliest, blandest, most confusing shooters I've ever played. I wasn't shocked it failed, I was shocked at how fast Sony buried it after spending a fortune on it. But I also know real people spent years of their lives working on it. Watching it become the gaming community's favorite punching bag wasn't fun.

So if a handful of players want to keep the corpse warm… let them. Sony isn't doing anything with it. This feels like knitting an ugly sweater, throwing it away because everyone teased you for it, and then getting furious that someone else found it at a thrift shop and said, "actually, this is comfy."

Let the sweater live, Sony. Let the sweater live.