Concord: The Scalpers Are Trying to Profit from the (Temporary?) Ashes of the Game!

The game from Firewalk Studios has been unavailable since today, and who knows when it will be back.

 

There hasn’t been much good news about Concord, the latest being that Sony Interactive Entertainment shut down its servers to consider the game’s future. Before that, we wrote that it had only managed to sell around 25,000 units in a few weeks, which is ridiculous for a first-party title that was developed in-house and released simultaneously on PlayStation 5 and PC, rather than delayed, due to its live service model.

Now some people are trying to make money off the game. Concord was also released on disc for PlayStation 5, and you could buy it for 40 dollars. So about 16 thousand forints. Well, the scalpers started selling it on eBay for many times that. $450 (11.25 times the original price), $950 (23.75 times the original price), but we’ve seen some crazy advertisers asking $25,000 for a disc. That’s 625 times the original price. Who the hell wants to pay another $25,000 for this? On top of that, this is not some rare old release, but a game that was released less than a month ago!

According to PCGamer, some people paid $150, almost four times the original price for a Concord disk. On eBay, everything is at least over $100. (If someone has an unopened PC Battleborn disk, and one of our editors has one, would THAT be worth something, even if the game is unplayable…?) But in the UK we’re also seeing listings between £100 and £10k, so it’s not just overseas that’s a bit… crazy.

That would make sense if it was a game that hadn’t been released. So you could say, yeah, then it’s really understandable that someone would see a little bit of money in it. But not for a freshly dead game!

Source: PCGamer, TheGamer

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