LEAVE THEM ALONE OK?Stop talking about the numbers
>>734721035we're not gonna stop talking about the steam charts until they stop making shit live-service games that nobody fucking wants anymoremarathon (the originals) are interesting FPS games with weird enemies and a strange lore that could have been extrapolated upon to give us an actual "halo 2.0" tier multiplatform sensation that really would have been something people were actually interested inthey made it an overdesigned multiplayer only extraction shooter which has basically nothing to do with the original gamesshit they could have just made a good game to begin withthey had great source materialhow in the unfathomable fuck could they have fucked it up?
I played a few matches today. It was fun
How about we ban game "journalist" threads
>>734721304This. Make a fucking game bungie.Stop relying on shitty marketing ploys and respect the effort your artists put into this game and make the game people actually fucking wanted. Stop fucking around and pretending it's not profitable when clearly your direction is LESS profitable and going to ruin your company full stop. Stop doing cocaine.
>game journos before release: OMG LOOK AT THE NUMBERS, ITS NUMBER 3 IN SALES RIGHT NOW !!!>game journos after release: STOP LOOKING THE NUMBERS, THEY DON'T MEAN ANYTHING !!!
>gamers kept telling us>'we want Marathon!'>sp we integrated the IP into our latest arena-based hero shooter >and gamers hated it. Absolutely hated it. Crazy levels of hate>lesson learned: never listen to gamers>gamers clearly don't know what they want
>>734721398Nah it's meh at best. The world looks like a children's playground. Why is it not dark like the OG?Why is it not on a ship?Where's the lore?This is just a cheap cash grab after laying off the initial devs I think. Quite disgusting, honestly. The most foul AAA thing I think I've seen yet. You make something with so much effort then proceed to butcher that thing into a monstrosity for the sake of pennies? Why? It didn't even get the pennies. It is brainless corporatism here I think.Man, I really hope the artists conspire and kick the motherfuckers that did this out of Bungie then make the real Marathon.
>>734721035Turn. Grave. Dancing. Into. A. Crime.
>>734721035Doesn't this faggot literally post nothing but speculation about numbers (or screenshots of Steam Charts pages) on X all day? WTF is he doing bellyaching about people actually paying attention to the numbers?Hypocrite.
>>734721445I'm down with that. Also streaming shit
Total journoblogger death
>>734721035> WE CANT LIE TO OUR INVESTORS WAHHHHHHH
>>734721398This, I'm having a blast!
>>734721035Lol kikes are now in "gamers are dead" mode on every one of their final footholds in the industry because they keep losing
>>734722015Also AAA shit. All msm shit.
>>734721690>NOOOOO YOU CAN'T HAVE FUN STOP HAVING FUN
>>734722315>narrative isn't being reinforced through sheer marketing>resort to calling the problem the target demographic, instead of actually giving them what they wantBut I smell psyop dude. This reeks bad.Worse than political correctness bullshit and corporate bullshit. It smells like active sabotage.
>>734722379But it's no fun?And it doesn't even provide an interesting noir sim?Fuck off shill.God 4chan is nothing but fucking marketing goons nowadays.
>when it finally goes under they're going to blame chuds and steam charts and have a huge meltdownI cannot fucking wait, genuinely
>>734722206me too! total return to form!
>>734722460It’s going to be so delicious seeing the employees melt down about incels and chuds lmao
>>734721035The gaming business is embarrassing.
I think Marathon is a genuinely great game and I'm looking forward to Cryo Archives this game is not a flop and definitely has legs stop the negativity and just blast it up
>>734722460>Bungie just laid off half the staff and the reason was chud angry gamers that want all games to fail>We must be better men, ban Steamcharts now>This article was funded by our good partners at Sony and Microsoft
>>734722449>there are people enjoying a game I don't like>fucking kike shill bot redditor advertisers skibidi chungus marketers...You okay there?
>Paul Tassi
>>734722583Fuck off faggot, there are reasons in this thread. Are you suggesting he just ignored the entire thread and the facts that the player numbers plummeted?And there's like hundreds of millions invested here. You can guarantee their astro turfing is turned up to 10. If you say this isn't the case, you are either an ignorant fucktard or you are just pretending this doesn't happen for some reason.
>>734722574>chuds killed bungieHES SO POWERFUL
>>734721035The root of this is that DEI, ESG and all the things spawned from it are all entirely rooted on "intentions" not "outcomes". Being presented with hard evidence that the slop that they've put out is not wanted by anyone goes against the entire ethos of the movement.If this continues to happen, they'll start going after the people who make the numbers available. If they haven't already.
>>734722710This goes far beyond videogames, this shit is a fucking cult.https://time.com/5501811/james-watson-loses-honors-race-comments/
>>734722710>If they haven't alreadyThey've been suing Valve en masse for the past 2 months
>>734722710Worst part is that the androgyny would fit here, but instead of that shit, they put this ridiculous bullshit in for DEI money.And they won't ever accept that they're being stupid here. They can't. If they did, they would get fired. That sort of environment unironically limits critical thinking and creates an environment of stale ideas and creativity instead. You're forcing directions and it's unironically creating the inverse reaction to what they intended (unless they're actually racist sexists that really are pulling a machiavellian move for some reason).This makes no fucking sense for a DEI point of view, but all they care about is the money here and leverage I guess.
>>734722847>Watson’s role as a persona non grata began after he told the U.K.’s Sunday Times that he was “inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa” because “all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours — whereas all the testing says not really.” He added while he hoped all people could exhibit equal intelligences, “people who have to deal with black employees find this not true.”Oh boy, saying these kinds of truths gets you enemies really fast in this world.
>>734722847That's not a cult, that's just throwing money at shit and going yellow journalism on it. Citizen Kane would be proud.
>>734722449>>734722678why are you so angry
>>734722993Especially because the real reason shit in Africa doesn't work is because megacorps in the west keep funding operations to destabilise them so they can blackbird the migrants. I.e. an indirect slave trade.
>>734722574It's great to watch corpos and their shills seethe that they cant lie about numbers or player count when steam displays the actual count.
>>734722954One real annoyance is that all the class designs would be immensely improved if they didn't all have such luscious cockpillow lips. Seriously someone in the design process has got a lip fetish and it shows.
>>734722847>>734722993Why are all our Nobel prize winners so racist?
>>734721035it's all in the numbers
>>734722993You can find extreme though pattern and behaviour differences between North and Southern Europeans, most dictated by genetics.But no, everyone is equal (even though we need to give them handicaps all the time) and we should all be corporate owned mystery mutts.It's the same cultish ideologically driven behaviour you see here, hard data doesn't matter, Bungie are friends and allies and pushing for what we want so it's actually succeding!Don't even fucking dare mention it otherwise, our shareholds might become aware od it!
>>734722954There is other issues visually than then characters being psuedo trans coded, it just looks like ass and the backgrounds stand out more than then characters even the UI is offensively bad.
>>734721035>Paul T*ssi
>>734721690You're one of those guys that thinks watching paint dry makes you an adult aren't you?
>>734723008There's fucking good art here and a good idea here behind all this immediate bullshit. This is fixable and they won't fix it because it MUST fail because gamers are wrong or some shit. So some of the good artists in the company are getting their effort wasted by some fucktard at the top forcing a square puzzle piece into a triangle slot. It doesn't fit. Stop. They've had a year to fix this and at least give some single player content. Nothing happened. Bungie knows better. Then they proceed to damage control, pretty expensive I might add.Why couldn't they choose the cheaper option and just make a good game? Why are they being stupid like this? They refuse to make good games now in AAA and it's baffling to me and then they wonder why their company collapses.I think the issue is financial risk management in their administration and finance departments. They probably have a strict checklist to fill out to prevent risk. Otherwise they'll get sued by intermediaries. That's what is REALLY happening here. It's happening near universally right now because the finance industry has "gone insane" with their financial risk audits and whatnot. The finance world is melting right now.
These articles are by the rothschilds trying to manipulate more people into hating valve/steam
>>734723140>Seriously someone in the design process has got a lip fetish and it shows.That... isn't something I mind at all. Dick sucking lips is welcome.>the irony though
>>734723093Nigger, please. When white people build infrastructure in Africa and then, the very next moment after they leave, people go and rip it out of the ground to sell for scraps, is that oppressive megacorps ordering them to do so?No, when companies want to do business in Africa, they need to build all the infrastructure themselves and then hire people to watch it around the clock so savages don't steal everything, down to the plastic plumbing.>>734723162They tend to be good at pattern recognition.
>>734721398No no no anon, you THOUGHT you were having fun but really you weren't and you're just validating it because you spent money on the game. See Im a game expert and I know when people have real fun and fake fun.
>>734723336On the women sure its passable but on all the guys too it just looks silly.
>>734723093SubSaharan Africa doesn't work because it's filled with blacks.North Africa is doing way better, Middle East is doing better even after endless wars.Fucking Vietnam is doing betterLook at Haiti and the Dominican Republic.The problem isn't cultural, financial or environmental, it's genetics, and a minority of the population not being complete retards doesn't change that fact, if anything it reinforces it.>>734723307They just want to force their terrible deals down your throat, fuck your agency, fuck your awareness, you either buy it from us or we shut you down.Not even Hollywood get's away with promoting gambling to kids and yet these companies pay an arm and a leg to lobby politicians to keep it going for as long as they can.I just wanted to play videogames
>>734722847>>734722993>>734723093>>734723162>>734723387What does this have to do with video games?
>>734723287no he sounds like one of those guys who wanted an actual marathon game
>>734723502AAA companies and their journalist marketing arm don't want you looking at hard data.
>>734723413If you use the phrase "I had fun" you actually didn't. Because you are incapable of naming what you actually liked because there wasn't anything, but the cope is to strong to admit you wasted your money so you default back to "I had fun" like some sort of NPC ego protection script
>>734721035But I am leaving them alone, whats the problem? I didn't play their game for a single second.
>>734723227>it just looks like assThe game world in game looks kinda shitty with lighting and just the raw prima facie appearance of objects in it. I'm not sure why, but it looks like an indie dev team has made it at times. It looks kinda shit. The art design is there, the production I think is not quite there for some reason, probably graphical issues or bugs or a new admin that just went "lol use this engine instead" 3 years into development or something like that.But I actually really really dig the androgynous doll android look. That's kinda accurate to Marathon for some of the Enforcers and Fighters.But these runners are humans, not the Pfhor. The Pfhor definitely look rather androgynous in some forms. Are these even in the game?
>>734723598I had fun with Ride to Hell Retribution, Blacksite Area 51 and Battleship, I guess people need to shut the fuck about them being a massive piles of shit.
>>734721035Isn't the thing at the left from Warframe?
>>734721035This dude has sources inside destiny and they are saying that pc has majority of players. Sub 100k peak for a AAA studio that at one point had 1300 employees. Idk how many they have now. Bungie truly is fucked.
>>734723492>SubSaharan Africa doesn't work because it's filled with blacks.Much like how Europe doesn't work because it's full of whites. That's why it capitulated so easy. It's too white.Or maybe it's because these are overpopulated hiveminds that have gone completely out of control on account of money and blind corporatism. Personally, I think it's because humanity is dumb universally. Especially you.
>>734721035Anyone complaining about steam chart threads is a paid marathon shill.
Where the fuck are the Pfhor, S'pht, Jjaro?Is anything from the OG even in this game at this stage?
>>734723801Around 900
>>734723795Warframe and Marathon are nothing alike so wtf
>>734722847DEATH COMES
>>734723835>He says while posting on the internet from his comfy wind isolated room with electricity and running clean water
>>734721304>stop making shit live-service games that nobody fucking wants anymore>top selling on steam>top 20 by player count, making it more popular than 99.9% of games in human history>nobody wants
>>734722847morgan pork did it again bros
>>734724010Please understand, they both have robots, journos can't tell robots apart.
>>734723795>>734724010Reb stuck he fat gut into the conversation and defending the guy tweeting about steam charts.
>>734724048By saying>I really really like thisHe's really saying>it's absolutely, definitely not all over for this game and corporation and this isn't a flopAnd made money in the progress.You're better off actually just being critical and fixing the game at that stage. Why pay these fuckers to confirm that your game is shit with their obvious damage control?
>>734724086semantics are the last refuge of the midwit
>>734722847morgan park is a true believer
>>734724080Electricity is breaking more and more everyday due to crony capitalism.I have to boil my water already due to crony capitalism.And they want to restrict internet speeds in my area for the sake of AI database priority.But good try.
>>734724257You're not dying from aids, machetes, exposure to the elements and explosive diarrhea. You'll be fine, still a retard, but fine
>>734721035First they came for Netflix ratings, and I said nothing because I heckin' love women.Then they came for Youtube thumbs down, and I said nothing because I heckin' love Joe Biden.Then they came for Steamcharts and I said nothing because I heckin' love big corpo faggot shit
>>734724256>Please invite me to your shilling events and give me big gift bags!Kek what a shameless weasel. I wonder if the game studios know he's just a worthless parasite trying to get free gibs from companies?
>>734724256I wonder how much he makes per article.
>>734724486IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes as well
>>734724652These nepobaby bloggers make around 10K a month.
>>734724692what did imdb do, I still see ratings
>>734724607>oh yeah I'm a GAMER>is the most normalfaggoted normalfaggot that ever normalfaggotedI bet he has a zelda tattoo
>>734724748>He doesn't knowAmazons owns themhttps://m.imdb.com/title/tt7631058/
>>734721035marathon will have more reviews than players at this point. bungie nutcases are fuckin weirdos
>>734721035>spam /v/ with low-effort marathon shitposts>devs genuinely get buttmad over it
>>734724784so you think the ratings are botted/faked? either way, not the same as the other companies banning negative discourse due to pressure from the democrat party
>>734724813They've always been on par with Bethesda and Blizzard cultistshttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7R8SyNZQaPg&pp=ygUVVGhlIDMgYnMgYmVzdCBmcmllbmRz
>>734724857Fair enough, but of course the ratings are fucked, they're owned by massive for profit megacorps
>>734724048we're gonna need a bigger image
behead those who insult sony
If they want to make games that target massive money whales, why don't they just do that? Make a game, charge 1 million dollars to buy it and then add a bunch of 10kdollar loot box hats and thongs and whatever and let the 10 idiots who want it buy it. If that's all you care about, then market to them and be honest about it.
>>734724994thats exactly what they do. Its what they are planning to do
>>734721398Oh honey no, no you didn't.
>>734724857Amazon started deleting user reviews of its own show Rings of Power when the user ratings were going below 5.0/10.
Chartposting of any kind about any topic is a sign of low intelligence and should be banned on sight on this and any social media platform.But "engagement" is a thing now so this is what we get.
Marathon is winning. Accepts the facts.
>>734725046>Empirical data is for idiots. The real smarties just trust the paid shills and vibe.
>>734725046Hope you're getting paid bro!
Bungie did not respect the vibe shift, ergo they must fail.
>>734721035https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX61GvcKmvMAnyone feel like watching paul tassi's video on this? no? i don't want to watch it either.
>>734725035Then they should hurry up. The "not for you, poor" economy for everything in the USA is gonna be great.
>>734725081>>734725084Exactly, this is the intelligence level of chartposting enthusiasts.
>majority of marathon players are on pc>STOP LOOKING AT THE STEAM NUMBERS NOOWWW>makes 30 more articles asking people to NOT LOOK at the steam numbers>nags a bunch of veteran game developers and industry people into making public statements about not looking at steam numberslike seriously whats their plan here
>>734721304It's honestly a game I didn't know I wanted. Never played extraction shooters besides a bit of Hunt, and normally dislike super competitive games. It depends on the player but once this game grabs you it's hard to stop playing. I also really like the dark sci-fi tone and soundtrack. Bungie cooked.
>>734725115
>>734725134they are nervous the whole house of cards will crumble on live service slop
>>734725134It's all a secret plot by Sony (who pays for these articles) to draw more negative attention on Marathon to hasten its demise to give them a very public and understandable reason to close Bungie.
>>734721304This, it's like if there was a new System Shock game and they made it into a battle royale microtransaction thing. The reaction to that would not be pretty at fucking all, and this Marathon is approximately halfway towards such a flub. Doesn't even make the game bad, it just feels wrong by its very nature like seeing a house built out of pickles or something.
>>734725150This isn't an AI post. That would be an insult to AI
>>734725134Damage controlThe Streisand Effect is too powerful for them unfortunately
>>734721686>Bungie CEO:>Am I out of touch...? No, it's the gamers who are wrong.
>>734725115>Play game>Give critical review of game and its problems>Get told that your views are invalid because you didn't play it/are bad at games/are an incel>Suddenly people are a lot less charitable in their views of the at best mid gameThis is what really killed it. Trying to sell us a poorly assembled McDonalds burger by trying to gaslight you that it's actually gourmet cuisine.
the whole live service industry could collapse because of bungie lmao
>>734725045The female director cooked and if you didn't like the show you are simply a racist misogynist chud incel troll and your rating is fake and should be deleted, simple as
>>734725046All the data for how well stuff does on netflix is hidden, and I think you advocate for wanting Steam data to be hidden as well.If you think about it, this is basically a subversion of capitalism. By hiding data, stuff that does well and stuff that does poorly are kept on an equal playing field. This means less incentive to rise above the competition and as a result products stop progressing in quality.By drawing attention to metrics, you hold their feet to the fire and scare the shit out of them. What's the purpose of this? So they'll make better products in the future. They'll hire less incompetent people in their development team. They'll fire the bad devs. Every steam charts thread made is improving the gaming industry.
>>734723093Libya sure.Everywhere else? lol
>>734725214its starting to look like theyre actually forcing a streisand effect instead of doing actual damage control compare that to bungie asking reviewers to delay their reviews i feel like these retards want the game to fail more than we do
Could they not be burning the midnight oil to at least put in a single player campaign? Or maybe a coop campaign?That could damage control to a certain degree unlike these 'no review until the game is out' and 'no looking at Steam chart' marketing strategy.
>>734723093My brother in Christ they have the average IQ of a mental retard. They’re never going to amount to anything. Wypipo have given them trillions of dollars and they still eat each other over there.
>>734725134They probably spent 100s of millions on this game, without taking into account marketing and no one wants it.
>>734725550bungie's company culture hates singleplayer now. why do you think they were ok nuking most of d2's campaign.
>>734725192>it's like if there was a new System Shock game and they made it into a battle royale microtransaction thing.great way of putting itrespect the classics
Down 3k from the same time yesterday
>>734725632it's the same people that said "never do too much because people will expect more from you"
>>734721035>LEAVE THEM ALONE OK?I don't think I will.
>>734721035I don't give a shit about the numbers, I don't give a shit about the steam charts and the steam chart threads.I don't care whether other people are playing this shit.I'm not.
>>734721035no increase steam chart threads
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