Concord is going offline just two weeks after launch, with sales ceasing and players receiving refunds
After poor sales and a drastically low player base, live-service PS5 multiplayer hero shooter Treaty will be taken offline just two weeks after its full launch.
The news was confirmed by Treaty game director Ryan Ellis via a Official PlayStation Blog Post. Ellis confirms that the game will be taken offline on September 6, 2024. At the time of writing, that only gives you three days to schedule some playtime if you happen to own the game.
Ellis wrote in the post: “We have decided to take the game offline as of September 6, 2024 and are investigating options, including options that better reach our players.
“As we determine the best path forward, Treaty The sale will stop immediately and we will offer a full refund to all gamers who purchased the game on PS5 or PC. If you purchased the game on PlayStation 5 from PlayStation Store or PlayStation Direct, a refund will be issued to your original payment method.”
The post goes on to describe how players who Treaty on PC via Steam or the Epic Games Store can get their own refunds, as can those who purchased the game through various other retailers.
It’s downright disastrous news for Sony Interactive Entertainment, the game’s publisher, and its plans to produce more live-service games, as well as Treaty developer Firewalk Studios, of course. The game, which the developer confirmed took a frankly absurd eight years to make. The team had also stated that it was “buckled up and ready to push [the game] for the coming years.”
While from Concord budget and sales figures remain unconfirmed, a report by Paul Tassi of Forbes suggests that the game grossed around $1 million, with sales of a horrendous 25,000 copies. With Tassi also stating that budget estimates are “around $100 million,” that’s a pretty tragic return on investment.
It remains to be seen whether this will actually happen Treaty will make a comeback; the wording of the PlayStation Blog post, specifically the desire to “explore options,” implies that there may still be a future for the game. However, given Steam’s all-time peak concurrent player count of 697 (according to SteamDB), it seems like Treaty and its players don’t really have a future to look forward to.
