Highguard was revealed with just a month until its release, and people immediately called it Concord 2.
That's rough. But it's been one and a half years since Concord. Way more than enough time to take a moment to think if your game could potentially be perceived similarly and how to do your marketing in a way that could avoid that.
Selling at $40 instead of being free to play was not the only reason Concord became the titan of failed launches.
Yora
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