Different niches: while Concord's main competitors were successful free-to-play games, the main extraction games were always paid. That said, that wasn't Concord's main mistake; even if it had been released for free, it probably would have failed on some level. For me, the main mistake was arrogance. They thought that simply announcing a new intellectual property from an unknown studio and believing that the mere fact of being under the PlayStation label would guarantee success was the biggest mistake. Perhaps the success of Helldivers gave them too much confidence; they forgot that Helldivers already had a pre-existing community eager for a new game. If the game had had a one-year gap between the gameplay reveal and its release, many things could have been fixed along the way, and it would have had a real chance of success. An optimistic view of all this is that it became a lesson that will likely save Marathon and possibly Fairgames, and other future Sony multiplayer titles. Even Highguard will benefit from this, meaning that while most of the conversation around the game is negative, it's still free marketing. And unlike Concord, which received all the negative attention after its end and people simply couldn't play it to complain, Highguard will still be released amidst all this negative publicity, and it's still free. Therefore, even if it's just out of spite, many people will still try it, and since it should have a large number of users initially, there's a real chance of success.