A recent announcement got a much better response than a previously confirmed game that was shown in a regular video the other day, and the different genres of the two games played a big part in that.

Astro Bot and Concord both made appearances during State of Play, and we’ve covered both in the news. However, there is a huge difference between the two games, not only in terms of genre (Astro Bot: single-player platformer; Concord: multiplayer, team-based live-service shooter), but also in the way the two titles are rated in YouTube videos.

According to VGC, Astro Bot has a 99% like rate on YouTube (23405 likes, 245 dislikes; the numbers may have changed since then and dislikes have officially disappeared from Google’s video sharing platform, but by installing a browser add-on you can see again how many people have rated the videos negatively), while Concord’s rate is very poor at just 18% (2735 likes, 12070 dislikes). Compared to the gameplay trailer, the cinematic video’s rate is not much better, with a like rate of only 23%. Neither is close to what Team Asobi’s game achieved.

Concord’s videos have highly critical comments. Under the gameplay video, they complained that it was a 5v5 team shooter (like Overwatch or Valorant) and that the video showed NOTHING about what makes Concord different from other games on the market. And the cinematic trailer led the audience to believe that this was going to be a single player sci-fi adventure (like Eidos Montréal’s Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy), and when Sony showed the gameplay, they were very disappointed…

We’ve embedded a video of each game in case you missed it, but it just goes to show that Live Service games aren’t very popular with the public unless they have something new or FUN to show. Helldivers 2 achieved the latter.

Source: VGC