Concord is going to be a game for the history books, just not the kind of history that Sony would have preferred. After debuting to dismal sales just under two weeks ago, Sony made the call to pull the plug on Concord and delist the title. But in the limited time that the game has left, players are trying to get a rare Platinum trophy by repeatedly killing their own characters in Concord’s Rivalry matches.
Via IGN, Rivalry was intended to give two teams of five players a best-of-seven contest to determine the winner. But since both teams get experience points for participating, players have taken to immediately jumping off platforms to their demise. It gives the rival team a win, but it also helps level up the losers as well.
This is literally every match of Rivalry in Concord rn because this is the fastest way to earn XP for the Platinum 😂😂 pic.twitter.com/BZ12OV7lc1
— Radec (@realradec) September 3, 2024
In theory, developer Firewalk Studios could have added adjustments to Concord that would have made the team-suicide tactic less appealing to players by taking away the benefit. But since the title is only going to be online for an additional two days, it’s extremely unlikely that issue will be addressed at all. The real question is whether players have enough time to grind their way to that Platinum trophy before Concord is pulled.
Sony clearly had grand ambitions for Concord, and the company even lent out the potential franchise to an episode of Secret Level, Prime Video’s upcoming video game anthology series that will premiere in December. Since the game itself will have been offline for months by that time, Concord’s spotlight episode will get to be the last reminder of what could have been… at least for the people who aren’t chasing that trophy.
Concord will be taken offline by Sony on September 6. It remains to be seen if it will return, and what form that would take.
