For now, at least, Concord is dead, and the dust has settled on the game community's attempts to grind for its platinum trophy.
When Sony and developer Firewalk announced last week that Concord would be taken offline while they attempted to find "the best path ahead" for the shooter, players realized that the potential was there for the game's Platinum Trophy to become one of the rarest awards out there. With Concord only available for days before being pulled from sale, anyone who could grind their way to the Plat would be part of an elite club.
Theoretically, that's not the rarest Platinum ever. There are approximately 6,000 games that boast fewer than 70 plats claimed, but there are several important distinctions to mark on that front. First, many of those games are much smaller or older than Concord and definitely aren't first-party AAA releases. The second is that many of them are also still available to purchase and play in some form or another. Theoretically, two players could go ahead and lock down the Platinum for last year's cute crafting game Mineko's Night Market at any moment, taking it from 68 to 70 holders. That's not true of Concord, which - for now - is destined to remain at 69 Platinum owners.
