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1. Aether (aether@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 22-Sep-2024 03:32:25 JST Aether
   Previously I poasted that Concord cost around $200 million to develop, that is wrong as it reportedly cost a total of $400 million to develop.
   
   playstationlifestyle.net/2024/09/20/concord-budget-400-million-toxic-positivity-report/
   
   This is the game that Sony shut down less than two weeks after launch, at which point it had around 100 players.
   
   Total. Worldwide.
   
   Insiders have said that the game had already cost $200 million to develop by the start of 2023, at which point it was in a "laughable state". Sony spent another $200 million getting additional studios to clean it up and create pre-rendered content.
   
   That part seems to have worked because the problem when it launched last month was not bugs - it appeared to be technically competent - but that the game was ugly and boring.
   
   And that part was because nobody was permitted to offer any criticism, for the entire eight years it was in development, what the article calls "toxic positivity". No-one was permitted to speak out, and no-one dared to blow the whistle because they were dealing with the kind of people who would follow them to their next job just to libel them to HR.
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   • Ardainian Hebrew Israelite (ardainianright@detroitriotcity.com)'s status on Sunday, 22-Sep-2024 03:32:56 JST Ardainian Hebrew Israelite

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     @Aether Couldn't have happened to a more deserving company.