Concord lives! Or, lived, as community efforts to revive it already appear to be on hold after some DMCA strikes

Can't drawback a break, this one

I bash person to admit that bringing up Concord feels similar digging up a dormant canine that perished successful a horrendous, preventable accident, but it feels important fixed however rapidly it died and what the means for however we prosecute with it. You see, it seems that this week the mostly panned leader shooter was revived done community-run customized servers. Except it seems similar this whitethorn beryllium implicit earlier it genuinely begins.

As reported by The Game Post, developers that spell by the names Red, open_wizard, and gwog opened up a Discord server wherever you could effort retired Concord done said customized servers. This is seemingly imaginable done the trio recreating the game's backend API and thusly reverse engineering it. Some videos were adjacent posted to YouTube showing disconnected these customized servers successful action, which is wherever things person started to spell legally iffy.

Both videos, arsenic again reported by The Game Post, were taken down done a copyright assertion filed by MarkScan Enforcement, astir apt connected Sony's behalf. I accidental astir likely, arsenic MarkScan did the nonstop aforesaid happening to Bloodborne PSX connected behalf of Sony earlier this year. It's not astonishing the aforesaid happening has been done to Concord here, particularly arsenic the customized servers won't person overmuch ineligible crushed to basal on.

It should beryllium noted that these takedowns are for the videos themselves. So acold thing seems to person been done astir the customized servers themselves, but successful a connection successful the Discord for the project, developer Red said "Due to worrying ineligible enactment we’ve decided to intermission invites for the clip being." At the clip of writing, immoderate links to the Discord server nary longer work.

This each feels pertinent to the ongoing concern with Stop Killing Games, a run that seeks to "challenge the legality of publishers destroying video games they person sold to customers." Personally, I don't emotion the consumerist space to the campaign, but determination is thing to beryllium said of the request to support online-only games from definite doom.

Games similar Concord are toys, you smash enactment figures unneurotic successful them for ridiculous results, yet you tin lone bash it successful the mode you've been told to. That stinks! I often deliberation of the occurrence of Team Fortress 2 successful particular, and the playful abstraction Valve created with it that allowed for galore a machinima. That feels similar much important a crushed to sphere online games, to let for a freer consciousness of play erstwhile the firm overlords person stopped making wealth from their artifact business. Let's spot however things play retired for new, somewhat little ineligible Concord.