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There are tons of indie shooters that sold way better than this game, saying this didn’t sell well because of a saturated market is just being dishonest. Read the actual reviews for the game and the reason it did poorly is glaringly obvious. The answer is not politically correct but it is true nonetheless.

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Most likely it's just a combination of factors:

- bland character design

- already saturated competitors space (Overwatch and dozen of OW clones)

- very recent controversy of Helldivers game requiring a Sony account

- social justice politics

So it's mostly politics, but I really don't believe Overwatch clone could be successful, unless it tries to do something very unique. Concord had nothing. Their main hook was 'nextgen graphics' and a movie-like trailer. And as we can see, good graphics isn't enough to sell a game.

Everyone I've seen actually review the game say the gameplay is just alright and the characters look pretty bad. Even if the characters looked like they were made by the overwatch team "alright" gameplay isn't going to sell for 40$ when literally all of your competition is free though.

Actually blaming it on the "politics" is also being dishonest. The game had 700 concurrent players on launch and then kept dropping all the way down to 60. Unless all but 700 of the gamers are caught up in taking ideological stances, there is no other explanation except that it was a mediocre game with unmemorable gameplay and characters that launched 8 years too late in a saturated genre with nothing new to offer.

Look at their submission history, this is clearly someone who's been successfully trained to see everything in life through that lens.

They're not blaming it on politics. However the explanation can be politically hazardous (if you at all care what Twitter says, which you shouldn't).

Wanting to play as conventionally attractive/cool characters is not some sort of political stance. It's perfectly normal and unpolitical.

The act of saying the above out loud has become political in a few English-speaking places. However for the most part people just like to pretend it's been turned into a taboo subject.

Generally, there isn't a taboo political topic here at all. The few outliers on either far end of the spectrum are easy to ignore.

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