Place your bets. Launch day comes and goes with radio silence and we never hear about the game againIt comes out and is another Concord and is shut down 2 weeks laterYear or more delay is announced so they can completely rework it.
>Place your bets.That no matter what, you'll be obsessing over it for the next year at the least, whether that's steamchart threads about it being dead or literally beating a dead horse if it immediately flops and dies.
300 players peak then silently cancelled and the dev team disbandseveryone that worked on it quits the videogame industry forever
>>730776795Can't wait to have fun with my /v/ros for a week or two
>>730776795I'm still not totally convinced this isn't some elaborate joke.
>>730776795IDK, as a joke people might log on to maybe 10K+ when it comes out, no way it retains anything meaningfully though. they probably just silently kill it rather than reach for the tax break like Sony
Someone leak the production budget
>>730777378>quits the videogame industry forever*lands a new job at another studio where they do the same thing all over again
>>730776795I think of trying this out on launch day just to report back to /v/, but at the same time I don't wanna add +1 to the concurrent players.
>>730776795it gon b bussin fr fr no cap
>>730776795high = hyguard = enas
>>730776795I predict that they get enough people to justify not shutting down immediately. It's free after all. But, it's definitely biting the dust before the end of the year.
>>730776795goyslop
>>730776795It becomes and ironic hit - people play it to laugh at how stupid it is, with some streamers even claiming it’s legitimately not that bad (just for controversy)
>>730776795Bro, nobody cares,if the game is good, (doubt it) good for them!if the game is bad,whatever?YOU and I are not the target audience, and who knows, maybe nobody is.so why obsess over it? even as a joke, even if you want to laugh at it's misery, all you're doing is give it advertisement.Let it gostop giving it your attention, even if you don't believe it, it has value.
>>730776795It's free to play, right? It'll have a big launch JUST due to showing up on the Geoff Awards. If they're lucky, and I mean exceedingly lucky, 100k of that initial launch think "That was actually kinda fun. I could play that again." and don't uninstall it. Probably 50k of that is left after a week, if even. If they keep the lights on, the average player count stabilizes at 10k which might be enough if they're also massive whales but that's an uphill climb.
>>730782751there is such a thing as bad publicity
HIGHGUARDIUM LEVIOSA!!!
SSAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRR!!!
>>730776795This isnt just any slopit's highslop
>>730777349you are a retarded turd shill
>>730782751you are a retarded turd shill>>730785886this is just a meme
>>730776795>Launch day comes and goes with radio silence and we never hear about the game againNah every streamer is going to try it so they can make videos about how shitty it is. I predict 30k-70k players for a week or two and then the player numbers drop off a cliff.
>>730776795It's meaningless to predict the CCU on release because it will all depend on the scale of the shill campaign they will have on that day. If it's the level of Arc Raiders shilling, then it's an easy 100k+ players on release simply by virtue of it being F2P. If they didn't buy out a lot of people, then between 10k-50k.
>>730787253Sponsored streams are dropping this Friday. Feel free to screencap this.
>>730787253Arc Raiders wasn't shilled, it was purely organic
I will play solely because I want to know what make them think "yeah this is hype"
>>730788080lol ...
>>730776795DoANo doubt
>>730776795delayed the entire thing was generic on purpose they come back later and people go "WOAH THEY CHANGED EVERYTHING THEY LISTENED!" and the game becomes the next Fortnite
>>730788080come the fuck onalthough in all honesty its reveal trailer was horrible imo, I was quite surprised that it held its ground
this game will be the next Marathon!
>>730789402It's already the next concord though
>>730776795>another Concord and is shut down 2 weeks laterIt's still nuts to me that that happened.Usually it's a case of they'll offer a free weekend, or a 50% discount, but no. Sony saw that Concord was completely fucked and after one terrible decision after another that lead to it's release, they had one good idea, and decided to strip the servers for copper.
>>730788148It's a classic "if we combine all these popular aspects, we'll have the next Minecraft!" delusion, of out of touch boomer devs.
>>730789539Reminder that they wanted this to become as big as star wars
>>730776795It's free, turd worlders will keep it alive at least for a year
>>730776795>Chad white men>Cute grillsAdmit it, just want shit to fail
>>730789724no ones gonna sink money into a perceived DOA game.at best, people will play it to farm click-bait video footage and then move on when the novelty dies
High = OverGuard = Watch
Looks kino to me
>>730790073>>730790114From titanfall to this slop
>>730790021This definitely isn't the 4531st time I've read this.
>>730790329That's part of the joke
>>730790114SAAAAAAAARRRR!
>>730790114What kind of subhuman fucking mutts are they supposed to be?
>>730790073>try to do this ingame>die every time because being mounted makes with harder to aim for you and easier to get hit by enemies
>>730790474Ambiguously brown people are the safest and most DEI-efficient character design
I'm gonna try itHonestly, other than poster boy, who looks gay AF, characters dont look that bad
>>730788840The Sonic Movie strategy
>>730788635>>730788909Completely missing the point its a good game thoNo amount of shilling could retain that many players on a shit game
it is free so I'll try it. who knows maybe ti will be fun.If it fails I'll just laugh at it.
>>730776795They'd at least TRY to release what they spent years working on, right? It's not COMPLETELY a forgone conclusion it would be received the same as Concord......right?
>>730789771>cute girlsPost them. I've seen nothing about this.
>>730776795This game is F2P, so it'll never flop as hard as Concord. I imagine it'll have a fair amount of players launch week and the word will get out if it's really a good or bad game. After a few weeks, it's player base will drop a huge amount as people return to thier live service of choice and the only people left playing are the dedicated autists.
Investors need to stop "making" games. We need to go back to the PS2 era where everything made by computer nerds within a budget.
>>730790073This design would be so much cooler if he had a cool knight helmet. Then everyone would be able to self insert, kinda like Helldivers.
>>730790073I was actually kinda on board with this game up until I found out it was hero shooter slop. This looks like it'd be a cool PVE looter shooter or something.
>>730793130People are starved for a new game even if it's only marginally original: BF6 and CoD last year saw an exodus of their playerbase, Marvel Rivals is still popular but the non-core playerbase moved away, Apex still prints money but is just there. It's actually the perfect time to release a new live service PvP slop, their biggest problem is going against Shart Raiders but the cracks are already starting to appear on that game trying to reconcile PvP, PvE and PvPvEfags. if they pay for enough shills (they will >>730787371), this game will be decently popular as long as it has intrinsic qualities.
>>730793315People need to stop jumping from game to game, instead they should keep playing what they originally found fun so it's kept alive.
>>730793398Yes, but modern gayming is all about hype cycles.
>>730776795I suspect it might get Hyena'd to avoid a potential Concord. I honestly don't think you can release a Lawbreakers anymore, the failed ones just Splitgate 2 before they even have time to Battleborn.
>>730793180Damn straight. Sadly the computer science field is much more lucrative so it probably won't ever happen.
>>730789647It's astonishing they were in the process of creating other media to go along with it. It's like when I was a kid with a garage band and we were thinking about tshirts before we had any music
>>730788840Feels like the only thing they really needed to add is a new trailer with a pretty/sexy girl doing an exposition of the background story
You think they regret not making Titanfall 3 instead?
>>730793929Let's be real. They don't have attractive women on cast. Because they're exactly the kind of dev who is diametrically opposed to that due to their world view.Watch it come out with just plain jane women in full armor at best. Most of which are random minorities, because why not?
>>730776795>Launch day comes and goes with radio silence and we never hear about the game againThey will launch it and see what happens. This isn't a hyenas case where the game is actually DOA with no chances of survival. If the gameplay is good, then the game has a chance.
>>730777349obviously? it's human nature. everyone when they see an accident while driving slows down to better observe it.
>>730794346Huh? You're wrong thats exactly what it is
>>730794346I could see it doing small numbers on steam. Enough that selling it is more worth it than not. But I'd hedge my bets if I was them, and probably wind down development to push out whatever they already have.
>>730787253>it will all depend on the scale of the shill campaignGeneral consensus is that its potential Concord 2.0. So shilling won't be as effective but lot of content creators are going to try the game out anyway to see if it really is as shitty as it looks.
>>730794346cont.The hate the game got has overflown into ridiculousness, mostly thanks to the main character's design which is like nails of a chalkboard for anyone who is tired of the concords and hyenas. The TORtanic effect is in full swing, almost eclipsing any rationality around the game.If they fix his face, hair and sickly skincolor and somehow rebrand the game to some sort of SciFi Conan the Barbarian they think they were going for, then it has a chance to not die stillborn. But they can't do that with character designs that scream concord, and they know that by now, at least hopefully. Also the story cannot be "We are the highguardians, who are gonna highguard over all y'all" bullshit, there has to be something there. Go watch the 80's Conan the Barbarian movies with Arnold and then write something like that, then riding tigers and bears and spaceships might make some sort of sense.Also get rid of the TPM2.0 and that other BS, there's f2p games out there that don't require you to alter your bios.
>>730794346People that will say that it will be another Concord or Hyenas are overblowing the situation. It looks like a mediocre game that is trying to hit every sort of mechanic and generally tries to court everyone rather than doing one or a few things and doing them well in an already oversaturated market of hero shooters. I can't see it actually being successful in the short-term let alone the long term, but it won't be a catastrophic failure. It'll be a game that lives for 6 months to a year and not have a high playerbase before dying off.
>>730776795Any chances they had left, they completely destroyed with the secure boot requirements
>>730794129>Zoomer scum doesn't know how IP rights work
Before Concord released I looked at the sub for it and it was all bots/paid shills posting 'ignore the haters the game will be amazing' with extremely low engagement and members.Looking at the Highguars sub it's exactly the same but with even lower numbers and even more Desperation, so I'm calling for a failure as big as concord at least.
>>730793180I really like calling these concord-likes but maybe Investorslop or something that calls these people out directly is better. If it becomes widespread enough they may get the idea and realize no one likes their shit. And it's pretty funny because If Highguard was 10 years ago instead it would still be probably too late. This reminds me of that game that during playtesting the people there said it looked like something their younger siblings would play, the testers were like 12 or 10 years old... Then the devs changed the game to please this group and can't remember if it super flopped or if it was never released.
>>730794752It's another concord/hyenas. It is a catastrophic failure and will be pulled more or less instantly after attaining effectively zero player baseDon't understand where you would think the players or interest are going to come from. Overwatch isn't even popular itself
>>730794560I doubt it will be nearly as bad as concord simply because it's free and there will be a bunch of people trying to get in on hate-playing it because of that
>>730795067>This reminds me of that game that during playtesting the people there said it looked like something their younger siblings would play, the testers were like 12 or 10 years old... Then the devs changed the game to please this group and can't remember if it super flopped or if it was never released.Overstrike, reworked into 'FUSE,' the most seventh-gen game ever.Yeah, I'm still mad about that.
>>730794920>a failure as big as concord at least.that depends on the game's budget. concord was such a failure because its budget was over $200 mil, some reports as high as $400m; it's hard to believe it was anything but a money laundering scheme in the first place with such an insane amount of money poured into such an overtly terrible product. we don't know what the budget for highguard is, but we do know its monetization plan is f2p gaas which is almost guaranteed to end up with hugely inflated "x million players" claims after launch with no correlation to the game's actual profits.
>>730776795I hate how people became obsessed with being part of the next tortanic on a fucking ANONYMOUS imageboard of all placesI don’t care if the game flops or not and can’t really fathom why others do either Just play other games
>>730794129Titanfall 1 and 2 were financial failuresFans might love those games but the executives in charge won't miss them for a second
stop talking about it and we can forget it ever happened anon
>>730795449honestly it's at a point that i'm starting to wonder if all the tortanic/steam charts threads are just shillbot warring each other trying to slander every game besides their company'ssame with the buy an ad and /vg/ posters, i just don't get why someone would act like thag instead of just getting to the point and just calling the game dogshit
>>730794920>highguard trutherslmfao.>>730794729cont.Rebrand the game and rename it "Immortal", have it be about a scifi planet with fantasy elements like magic, borrow the He-Man universe aesthetics, mix it with Conan and Frazetta's styles and write a story about immortal warriors with highly regenerative bodies who battle for dominion over the planet's resources. If they really want a hero shooter, have two factions, the High-born(cosmic travelers) and the Guardians(natives), each faction having its own immortals with their specific traits and abilities, so you present the audience with a setting which requires them to make choices from the start over which faction they like more, therefore they become invested into the game's universe without realizing.Then you sprinkle in a 3rd faction of generic green/grey monsters from outer space for these two factions to unite in fighting, and you have some sort of intrigue going, as the two factions aren't simply about naked tribalism and can work together against a common enemy, if they choose to that is, meaning your multiplayer game has a free for all aspect to it. Besides guns, you can add magic staves and spells and the like, building heroes around spellcasting while still keeping firearms available to all. They could have some heroes use mana as a resource and only resort to projectile weapons when running out of it. There's so much stuff they could do with the destructible environments they've shown.
>>730776795I guarantee Reddit will save this game and prop it up for the next 5 yearsThere are some legitimately deranged, obsessive souls on Reddit that attach themselves to the most absurdly boring nonsense with a degree of fervor and arrogance that’s shocking You’ll have maybe 20 people on there making posts like “Highguard changed my life” and their echo chamber with ban all negative posts while they live in some schizo fantasy land convinced that this slop is the second coming or whatever They did this with concord
>>730790073>>730790114Those animations are all so gay performative.
>>730780167developers and artists? that’s fine. as long as the C-suite executives calling the shots don’t
even journos think this is a disaster. picrel bets this wont crack 10k users on launch
>>730795878This idea is way too cool for corporate gamedev.
>>730795878>>730794729>dude! Just remake the whole game from the ground-up!
>>730795653They both made profit, but not enough profit to satisfy execs.
>>730795979Those people have no money or influence. They shout into the void of their subreddits where the other dozen members all agree with them until they find their next obsession. The Concord sub was all bots and paid shills with only a sprinkling of the obsessed.
>>730776795>game is good>enjoy the the game>game is shit>enjoy the LOLNo loss here.
He's not even a mystery mulatto. He just looks unhealthy.
>>730777378>everyone that worked on it quits the videogame industry foreverthat never happens, they always go ruin some other game
>>730795449This site has always enjoyed seeing stuff fail, tourist. Trying to equate every thread that shits on something to tortanic is fucking retarded.
>>730782751>all publicity is good publicity you have to be retarded to believe this at this point
>>730796158The disadvantage of working on a project for so many years without new input from the outside is that your pool of ideas is small. Having blind trust in your own abilities is a high risk high reward strategy but that means you're supposed to hit the bullseye in the end.When i saw the trailer's tiger mounts, i thought they had an idea over the game's universe but by the end it was clear they were just spitballing, that's why the game looks so generic. The armors look the same as you've seen before, the weapons are just reskinned real life weapons, the effects on the ultimates look like they're from valorant with how screen obscuring they are, the zoomer haircut yellow man's ultimate looks like they saw marvel rivals and thought they have to copy their ults as well. It's all over the place.
>>730793929It took the WildStar fags years to add this bimbo into the actual game, no wonder it failed.
>>730776795"we made video games" the game
>>730776795https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xO0yuf-ToAkWhos the company that made it? Whos going to lose about 100 million dollars on this garbage?
>>730777378>everyone that worked on it quits the videogame industry foreverWon't happen, it already has multiple Concord devs working on it.
>>730796706
>>730790114>Fat strong man guy on the ground>Charges up blue energy on his hands/arms>Stomps on the ground to go full super Saiyan, fiery particle effects everywhere >Pulls out a pistol
>>730796836> it already has multiple Concord devs working on it.Jesus Christ, imagine the work environment. You have these fucking losers sitting in your office and you have to listen to them complaining about their failed project for the rest of the development cycle and how they had all these *great ideas*.
>>730795263That was it, thanks anon.
>>730796689She was in the game at release an horribly botched version of her at least.
>>730776795What was the concept for this game? "Let's make the most generic game ever"?
>>730796857This. The design language of the game is such a fucking clusterfuck. The buildings look like they're from Quake 1The overall map feeling is like WoW.The characters are some sort of nonsensical mix of medival, nomadic and asian. They're using wild west weapons. The revolver for some unknown reason has blowback and the blowback pushes the entire revolver part back into the guys hand. This has to be the weirdest fucking gun I've seen in my life.
>>730797081What the fuck is happening here?!
>>730797121lol the hand is clipping through the revolver model or the other way around
>>730797121They saw the Webley Fosbery revolver, and thought it looked cool.
>>730797034Thats the worst part. If they made just today Police men or Medivial Armor with Guns somehow it would be more unique then this jumble of concepts.Let's look at this guy here. The so called space armor or medical armor whatever thats supposed to be is not even covering his entire lungs.It has gigantic paldurons severely limiting his upper mobility. He wears a black T-shirt and over it he has some sort of Green vest that again cover only HALF his fucking stomach leaving the entire area exposed. He has a utility belt but half the pouches will go into his stomach once he leans forward. He then has armored lower leggs and stupid chin guard that slope upwards as if they suposed to deflect sword blows or something.
High = 6Guard = 7
>>730797081so basically destiny 2 lol
>>730788080Arc shitters is still being shilled because of how fast its dying.
>>730777378>>730796945Don't underestimate the master.
>>730798503Why is there a deck of playing cards on the chess board?
>>730776795On one hand it's free so it's going to get more peak players than concordOn the other hand, it's so it's going to need a much larger player base to cover the server costsI'm going to say peak 6K players and dead within 3 months
>>730798503I don't trust any developer that doesn't have any form of eyebags. Guy is probably some pretentious fuck that doesn't even like vidya.
>>730777378It's free to play, it's gonna have fifty thousand players minimum because people will wana see how much of a "Concord" it is themselves. If it turns out to be good then player count will peak two weeks after launch then slowly fall to a respectable number.
>>730798735>fifty thousand players minimumWith those Secure Boot and TPM requirements? Lol, lmao even...
>>730798715>I don't trust any developer that doesn't have any form of eyebags.Words to live by.
>>730798594>he doesn't know about Chess Pokerwhat a fucking luddite
>>730776795>thought it would come summer or something later>launches in less than 2 weeks
>>730777349Define obsession with examples
>>730798594He's playing three games. One with chess board, one with the cards, and one with your mind. *sips piss*
