PlayStation to Shut Down New Game ‘Concord,’ Will Refund Players

PlayStation will likely be taking its new Firewalk-developed dwell providers sport “Harmony” offline this Friday and issuing refunds to gamers simply two weeks after its Aug. 23 launch.

The team-based first-person shooter sport is reported to have drawn a traditionally small viewers throughout its preliminary availability throughout PlayStation 5 and PC, with third-party PC-based gaming information web site SteamDB exhibiting 30 present in-game gamers on the time of publication on Tuesday. On the peak in its quick historical past, “Harmony” had 697 concurrent gamers, drastically low for a PlayStation new launch, and ranked towards the underside of PlayStation’s weekly gross sales charts.

In “Harmony,” which has largely been in comparison with widespread mulitplayer shooter “Overwatch,” gamers assemble a crew of Freegunner area outlaws from the spacecraft Northstar for on-line video games between two groups of 5 members every. With so few individuals taking part in “Harmony,” matchup availability grew to become very tough to return by throughout gameplay.

“Harmony followers — we’ve been listening carefully to your suggestions because the launch of Harmony on PlayStation 5 and PC and need to thank everybody who has joined the journey aboard the Northstar,” Firewalk Studios sport director Ryan Ellis wrote in a weblog publish revealed by PlayStation Tuesday. “Your assist and the passionate group that has grown across the sport has meant the world to us. Nonetheless, whereas many qualities of the expertise resonated with gamers, we additionally acknowledge that different features of the sport and our preliminary launch didn’t land the best way we’d meant. Due to this fact, right now, we’ve got determined to take the sport offline starting Sept. 6, 2024, and discover choices, together with these that can higher attain our gamers. Whereas we decide the perfect path forward, Harmony gross sales will stop instantly and we’ll start to supply a full refund for all players who’ve bought the sport for PS5 or PC.”

Per PlayStation, prospects who bought “Harmony” from the PlayStation Retailer or PlayStation Direct will obtain a refund to their authentic cost methodology, whereas Steam, Epic Video games Retailer and bodily copies will likely be refunded via these respective digital storefronts and retailers. As soon as refunded, gamers will lose entry to the sport.