{"id":293743,"date":"2025-11-15T19:10:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T19:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/293743\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T19:10:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T19:10:09","slug":"sony-trying-to-silence-concord-revival-project-after-fans-brought-ps5-pc-disaster-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/293743\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony Trying to Silence Concord Revival Project After Fans Brought PS5, PC Disaster Back"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sony<\/a><\/p>\n

Even a year removed from its release, it\u2019s still difficult to process just what a disaster Concord<\/a> was. It was a flop on a scale we\u2019ve never seen before \u2013 a true unprecedented catastrophe.<\/p>\n

But \u2013 and stick with us here \u2013 it wasn\u2019t the worst game ever made. Yes, its character designs were questionable and its overall concept lacked originality, but it was polished and played pretty well. There have been worse games, for sure.<\/p>\n

So, we suppose it was inevitable some fans would try to get it running again, after the platform holder unceremoniously pulled the plug<\/a> on the shooter\u2019s servers less than a month after release.<\/p>\n

And The Game Post<\/a> reported this week that one group had been successful in reverse engineering the title, enabling it to boot the game, connect to a lobby, and play a match.<\/p>\n

(Amusingly, the title\u2019s concurrent users in this post-closure environment probably weren\u2019t that far off its all-time peak when it was publicly available.)<\/p>\n

In a follow-up post, though, the site claims that<\/a> a \u201cdigital asset protection\u201d company named MarkScan has started copyright striking any footage from the revived servers.<\/p>\n

This is pertinent because it\u2019s a firm Sony tends to use whenever it wants to purge content from the Internet, including things like modded gameplay footage. Obviously, this particular instance would fall under that category.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s worth noting that the hobbyists themselves haven\u2019t received a cease and desist for reverse engineering Concord\u2019s servers just yet, although the team does seem to be scaling back its efforts now it\u2019s attracted a bit of attention.<\/p>\n

While we understand this game is one Sony would rather bury in its past, we don\u2019t particularly see the harm here.<\/p>\n

After all, very few people wanted to play Concord when it was legitimately available \u2013 what harm can come from a dozen or so uber-fans spinning up their own servers to keep the release alive?<\/p>\n

[source thegamepost.com<\/a>, via thegamepost.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n

\tRelated Games<\/p>\n

\tSee Also<\/p>\n

\"Sammy<\/p>\n

As the Editor of Push Square, Sammy has over 15 years of experience analysing the world of PlayStation, from PS3 through PS5 and everything in between. He\u2019s an expert on PS Studios and industry matters, as well as sports games and simulators. He also enjoys RPGs when he has the time to dedicate to them, and is a bit of a gacha whale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Even a year removed from its release, it\u2019s still difficult to process just what a disaster Concord was.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[123536,2210,1015,1014,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-293743","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-concord","9":"tag-pc","10":"tag-ps5","11":"tag-sony","12":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}