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The reaction from industry commentators and gaming journalists was swift and intense. Several echoed the sentiment that Concord's failure was emblematic of a broader trend: industry insiders blaming diversity and social messaging for the industry's struggles.
Jason Schreier, a well-known gaming journalist, noted the pattern of failures in live service games that lack compelling hooks, attributing many to oversaturation and poor design. Some media figures, like Ash Parish from The Verge, cynically questioned how many tiny projects are killed for their own reasons, implying that Concord's failure was hardly an isolated incident but part of a larger systemic issue.