Here's the kicker: Concord's seasonal updates weren't actually going to put any of the new content (playable characters, maps, modes, gameplay modifiers for playable characters, or unlockable cosmetics) behind a paywall. Concord wasn't going to do battle passes either. The only things that you would've had to pay for were some cosmetics that were going to be in a Store starting in Season 1. And we all know a game or 5 that are pay to play and also have a cosmetic store. But because Concord's lack of FOMO and the game in general was marketed so poorly, basically no one outside of the small community playing Concord actually knew this. Concord was setting a good example for how to do a live service game from a monetisation perspective, and Sony shot it down before it even had the chance to prove that to the wider community.
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Re: Soapbox: Astro's Playroom PS5 Did Live Service and You Didn't Even Notice
Here's the kicker: Concord's seasonal updates weren't actually going to put any of the new content (playable characters, maps, modes, gameplay modifiers for playable characters, or unlockable cosmetics) behind a paywall. Concord wasn't going to do battle passes either. The only things that you would've had to pay for were some cosmetics that were going to be in a Store starting in Season 1. And we all know a game or 5 that are pay to play and also have a cosmetic store. But because Concord's lack of FOMO and the game in general was marketed so poorly, basically no one outside of the small community playing Concord actually knew this. Concord was setting a good example for how to do a live service game from a monetisation perspective, and Sony shot it down before it even had the chance to prove that to the wider community.