>Game has to be in the top 5 software sales of the year>In a month the shares from the Sony aquisition divest and leadership is selling and jumping ship with their golden parachute>While Destiny is down to 50k players across all platforms, has delayed its roadmap by months and its next major update is now pushed back by nearly 2 monthsSo in less than four weeks are we going to watch Bungie die? whats Sony going to do with the company?
everyone good at Bungie has already been laid off, all that's left are the new people with zero vision or taste, and they're being forced to make abysmal dogshit
Is it really that hard to produce a game with>Content on launch instead of "it's a good base for them to expand on">No battlepass>No preorder exclusives>No microtransactions
>>732268816when you have to answer to investors that demand you to continuously make money after the game is out and when you have to make enough money to justify your studio being bought by *3 FUCKING BILLION DOLLARS*, yes.But it's also their fault.
>>732268816Yes faggot. Try doing it
>>732268860>>732268880Tell investors you want to make elden ring then.
tortanic bros gonna be feasting well.journo damage control is gonna be in overdrive.seething all around.lols and gigles for shall be had in abundance.it has been writen
>>732268880Give me the entire studio that made fucking halo and the backing of microsoft then.
totally forgot we have a third installment of concord on the way
THREE MAPS
>>732268285Marathon isn't the next Concord. Normalfags have already forgotten about the art theft fiasco and Arc Raiders opened them up to extractionslop. They added bloom in the latest vidoc and you've now got hordes of people saying they fixed the game. I think it'll hit at least 100k concurrent on Steam.Of course Bungie burns millions of dollars a day so that won't be nearly enough. But Marathon will at least stick around for a year or two.
>>732268860But it's not just Bungie.
>>732269116You're just gonna run off with the money
>>732269903well yeah it's literally every videogame company since they're publicly traded and have major profit incentives. Executives don't care if games are good, even if good games make money. You'll only find good games nowadays on private companies like indie studios or Valve
>>732269764And you think thats enough to outsell GTA6, Horizon 6, Pokemons 30th anniversary game, the years cawadoody and all the surprise successes? because if it can't its a failure.
>trusting bungie after destiny 2Good luck to whoever fall for it again.
>>732270107no, it's obviously not going to be top 5. i'm saying there's a massive difference between underperforming and being the next concord
>>732270142>after destiny 2Sounds like it's you who fell for dumb shit since you're a bit slow.
>>732270194In their own words if it cannot beat those titles to get into the top 5 it is a failure.
>>732270249yes i know, i'm saying there's a massive difference between underperforming and being the next concord
>>732270217I don't know, I never played it. My friend did try to pull me in tho, but he play WoW so his opinion don't matter.
>tranny art/color schemes
>>732270331Dead is dead. In 3 days or 3 weeks its all the same to Bungie. Theres a reason everything has been delayed and theres no roadmap for destiny even though they promises one in november. If marathon flops they wont work there anymore so none of that matters.
>>732268285It's bungie. They can release the worst game ever made and millions of players will gladly pay $80 + tip + tax.
>>732268816Just make an indie game at this point
>>732270459Sony spent 3.6 billion on Bungie, failure is not an option. When Marathon fails to meet their delusional expectations they'll keep injecting it with cash for at least a year, the idea that they'd just give up after launch week is absurd.
Don't really care about the business side of things because I'm not Bungie/Sony. The game itself looks good though
>>732268285Comes out between the middle of two AAA games that are actually hyped too. They're fucked.
>>732270767Do you think Sony bought Bungie with the intention of making an immediate return of 3.6 billion? This isn't how these megacorps function
>>732270142>t. jilted Destiny player You retards aren't a good judge of anything
>>732269764>They added bloom in the latest vidoc and you've now got hordes of people saying they fixed the gameDishonest. They've obviously done more than thathttps://www.youtube.com/shorts/4AmV_K7OV70
>>732270991They brought Bungie expecting to be able to inject their live-service "expertise" into all of Sony's other live-service games.Look at how well that turned out.
>>732270991Destiny's in the grave, unless they want to wait half a decade for D3 to release then Marathon is their only option for any sort of return.
>>732271184Megcorps don't make these purchases for "returns". They make them to turn inflating cash on hand into revenue streams and to signal to shareholders
>The problem is Microsoft>The problem is Activision>They're indie now, they don't have the budget for huge changes>The problem is Sonydoes any other studio have as large of a victim complex as Bungie? seems like they're completely unable to do any wrong
Is Extractionslop fun? Thinking of trying ARC but I’m wary. Marathon looks more like an Apex rip off
I can't really fault Bungie for making another GAAS; they're not autonomous and are just doing what Sony tells them to do. At least they're making some interesting choices with the art style, premise etc.
>>732271405Is Bungie blaming these companies for their faults?
>>732270767The leadership that made that panic purchase is gone and the new leadership has publicly spoken about what a disappointment lyin jim ryans horseshit was. You dont keep pissing money away down a pit thats already lost you mad dosh. Marathon is to prove the companies worth and if it can't and fails guess what its another money pit and they wont keep giving chances to a company who have only put out lemons for nearly 20 years.
>>732271461Their comms during those eras definitely did along with the community. Claiming a lack of creative freedom due to ownership or the need to pull back on ambitious releases due to lack of budget during the self-owned era
>>732271492>a company who have only put out lemons for nearly 20 yearsDestiny 1/2 was a financial success. As was Halo 3, ODST and Reach
>>732271661They don't own Halo and Destiny has gone from 7 MILLION players to 50k and declining. Thats all they got.
>>732271541>Their commsSource?>the communityIrrelevant.
>>732271726That has no bearing on my comment, which was a refutation of the statement>a company who have only put out lemons for nearly 20 years>Destiny has gone from 7 MILLION players to 50kYes and it was a massive financial success.
>>732270447White, green and black are "tranny colors"? What?
>>732271731not my burden to educate you, the internet exists
>>732271923I appreciate the concession.
>>732271492Hermen Hulst is still there. As head of PS Studios it was his job to visit Bungie regularly and make sure they were not slacking under Ryan.
next time you can just type bump
>>732271981Hulst is famously a figurehead with no power as the japanese leadership are slowly forcing the western leadership out again. He isn't going to do fuck all.
The art style is atrocious. Nobody wants to play as a neon plastic asian robot with toy guns
Yeah so anyway the game looks fine
i have never played destiny, i got destiny 2 for free years ago and never even installed itwhenever i think about it the game just looks like it'd be cringey woke garbage
>>732272350Nothing about the game is woke from the looks of it
>>732272350that makes sense given that the base game is free. Yes I know bungie is aggressive with expansions and paid content, that is not a gotcha you faggots
>>732272437wrong>>732272452>that makes sense given that the base game is freewell it wasn't whenever i got it for free
>>732268285marathon is the nortubel of bungie
Thready reminder that bungie was and always is at faultdon't forget who>removed the matrix system>made half if not more of the store paid only>filled the store and "lootbox" item with useless recolors/items to lower the chance of getting something good>removed the knockout system from the "lootbox" item>reduced the size of every expansion all the time while asking for more money>made excuse all the time when asked for proper armor set for activities while they had no issue shitting out 3-5 armor set for the mtx store>most of those sets would fit perfectly as activity rewards, latest example being the gladiator set>antagonize the community all the time(warlock identity incident)>streamer biasI could go on all dayNever believe bungie apologistsOut of spite I hope Marathon fails, but at the same time i hope they get forced to turn it into a PvE game to make money out of it
>>732272502makes sense you didn't try it back then (pre 2019) as the game was shit on launch. We had it good for a while there but it's been on steady decline for a long time
>>732272668>i hope they get forced to turn it into a PvE game100% this is what it should have been since the beginning. They could have just built it following the destiny model and it would have been a commercial success, using the extraction game mode as a replacement for gambit and then adding normal deathmatch and control point shit for standard pvp.
>>732268816They're really releasing AAA releases nowadays at full price, but supporting it like it's an "early access" title. No wonder the industry is in such a financial & creative slump.
>>732270107You retards can only think in extremes.
>>732273317Thats not an extreme dumbass. They said it needs to be in the top 5 sales of the year and those are almost certainly going to be the top 5 sellers of the year.
>>732272928ARC stole their thunder anyway, they should've been smart and make it a PvE extract shooter but bungie is really that fucking stupid to believe that they're always in the right
>>732273396Hey schizo, you replied to a post about how it’s not going to be Concord.You did not reply to a post stating it would be successful. Are you so desperate to shit on the game that you confused who you were talking to? The game is gonna fail, we all know that but it’s not going to be the event that Concord had. Itll have number that are too high to immediately declare it a failure but too low to ever give it a chance at success.
>>732273545it's going to be shit, cope
>>732273579I KNOW, RETARD. Who are you fucking arguing with? Is there an invisible poster in here that no else can see? No! It’s in your head you schizophrenic asshole.
>>732273794cope
>>732273794Bro, we are you. You have been argueing with yourself for weeks. This isnt a website. Its a word document.You shouldn't have taken that sativa.
>>732270107>GTA 6luckily not releasing this year.
>>732274147only physical the digital is still launching this year.
>>732268816I can't believe Epstein was literally to blame for all of this.
