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Please don't punish others for our mistakes': Concord dev thinks Marathon deserves a chance

Bungies recent Marathon stream where it showed early footage of the first-person extraction shooter sparked skepticism on social media and Reddit, prompting some people to predict it will suffer the same fate as Concord, the hero shooter that Sony took offline less than a month after its release. In response, a former Concord developer made a post on the Marathon subreddit asking people to give it a chance. Concord failed to inspire players, and the messages was heard loud and clear, the developer wrote using a Reddit account under the name MrSpug. It was gut wrenching to see our project fail, and be the laughing stock of many online. The developer, who worked at Firewalk Studios before Sony shuttered it a few months after taking the game down, said they sympathize with the Bungie developers who put a lot of effort into making Marathon and that they commend them for taking a chance in what is an extremely competitive genre. I worked on Concord, and did my best, they wrote. We came up s...
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