Someone Donated This Concord Commemorative Plaque To Goodwill — And It's Now Asking for over $3,000

A commemorative plaque celebrating the merchandise of Sony's beleaguered shooter Concord is up for auction connected a goodwill online store with bids of implicit $3,000.

The plaque, fixed to "funding Freegunner, Northstar Crew" Chelsea Grace, celebrates the "worldwide Concord launch" connected August 23, 2024. Grace was reportedly credited arsenic outsourcing and co-dev lead, though it's unclear if she has personally donated this plaque, oregon if it was someway mislaid and donated erstwhile PlayStation unopen down developer Firewalk Studios towards the extremity of past year.

Concord, a unrecorded work leader shooter from Sony-owned Firewalk Studios, has gone down arsenic 1 of the biggest flops successful PlayStation history. Amid disastrously debased subordinate numbers, Sony pulled Concord offline conscionable 2 weeks aft launch. One estimation suggested it lone sold astir 25,000 copies. At the time, we awarded Concord a 7 successful our review, writing: "Concord isn’t the astir innovative oregon content-heavy leader shooter you could play, but with specified fantastic competitory gameplay, 16 compelling characters to master, and 12 well-designed maps, it’s got the makings of thing that could spell the region successful the months and years to come."

If you're reasoning a plaque similar this could beryllium worthy thing for collectors and fans alike, you're not wrong. So far, it's attracted dozens of bids and is, astatine the clip of writing, sitting connected an asking terms of $3,002 (thanks, Dexerto). The wealth volition spell to Goodwill, which helps radical amended their lives by assisting them to find jobs and turn their careers. So far, it's served much than 25 cardinal people.

Tim Miller, the main creator of Amazon’s upcoming Prime Video animated anthology Secret Level, spoke retired for the archetypal clip connected Concord's closure past November, saying: "I honestly don’t recognize wherefore it didn’t work. I cognize that they were trying to bash the champion they could, and they were a talented radical of artists, truthful I consciousness unspeakable for that.”

It has proved a costly nonaccomplishment for Sony. Concord's archetypal improvement woody was astir $200 cardinal but sources acquainted with the statement accidental the $200 cardinal was not capable to money Concord's full development, nor did it see the acquisition of the Concord IP rights oregon Firewalk itself. It's thought ProbablyMonsters — Firewalk's archetypal genitor institution — raised $200 cardinal successful 2021.

Vikki Blake is simply a newsman for IGN, arsenic good arsenic a critic, columnist, and advisor with 15+ years acquisition moving with immoderate of the world's biggest gaming sites and publications. She's besides a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually High Chaos. Find her astatine BlueSky.