1 week in and no social media posts thanking the community for 1 million/2 million/3 million/etc copies sold. Maraflop has likely sold less than 1 mil units across all platforms combined. Historic and colossal failure.
the day marathon got mogged by a indie card slop
>>734754009I'm sorry.WHYWHY WHY WHY WHY *monkey noises* DO YOU REALLY HATE US THAT MUCH?????
Ok, who cares?
>>734754147I care. The more live-service garbage that flops and shuts down, the better.
>>734754221By caring so much, you're just setting yourself up for humiliation in the off-shoot chance the game succeeds, you should just let it flop naturally
it's a cool game and I'm having fun, sorry nexon shill.interesting sci-fi. Not just "it's a wasteland" or "it's a wasteland with magical robots" I've found that most people who genuinely don't like it are kind of dumb, like "theres too much reading"
>>734754147Sorry troon until you stop forcing groomer games instead of good games we will celebrate every single time you fail
>>734754730SARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR YOU MUST REDEEM SARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
>>734754147the state of the industry clearly needs some correction, so this is a good indicator of player's tendencies
>>734753914Shut the FUCK UP, chud. My trans mom works for Bungie and she confirmed the game already sold 10 Marathillion copies!
>>734754147I think it's funny to watch Sony recreate that Dark Knight scene where the Jonkler burns millions of dollars, yeah.
>>734753914dont worry bungie im sure the shit on the floor child raping false god jesus/adonai will make sure you dont lose any money from lying raping cheating and stealingdont worry wicked of earth the child raping false god jesus has your back he would never let one of his evil elect be punished by the goyimim sure he will have the banks bail you out or lick your assholes morewe are all energynobody is omnipotent"god" is a parasiteall "gods" are parasites
>>734754819>>734754978>>734755149Okay, but consider the following:1) You're giving the game free marketing by talking so much about it here2) By caring so much, you're just setting yourself up for humiliation in the off-chance the game succeeds
>>734754337>humiliationsomething tells me that you don't know what this word means... ESL perhaps?
>>734754730What is nexon here
>>734755407>>734754337There is quite literally 0 chances the game succeeds at this point. No GAAS with this level of budget behind it has ever launched to sub-100k concurrent players and succeeded.
>>734755519Humiliation, in this specific case, means rendering your entire "boycott" campaign against this game into a joke (at your own expense, mind you) because the game succeeded in spite of your efforts, something that would never happen if you never talked about this game and just let it flop on its own
>>734755407>shitting on the game is free marketingIt isn't, which is something the paid shills never seem to understand. At absolute best, an anon in this thread will go check out Marathon on its Steam store page and give sincere thought to buying it. But at the same time, these threads are 95% 'here are the objective things wrong with the game,' so any anon in here is already aware of those problems. This was pretty clear to see around the time of the playtest, because the shills realized they couldn't control the marketing message and kept abandoning threads when they got too 'problematic' and made new ones. (They made so fucking many the jannies had to come down start deleting a bunch.)>on the off-chance the game succeedsI think that ship sailed the moment the launch day number couldn't beat Highguard's.
>>734755618Nexon are the publishers of Arc Raiders, who feel increasingly threatened by another extraction shooter that isn't actually slop.
>>734755831>shitting on the game isn't free marketingIt literally is. These giant daily threads keep "Marathon" on the board and in people's heads whether the posts are positive or not. Some anon scrolls by, sees 300+ replies of "objective criticism," clicks the Steam page out of curiosity, maybe even tries it to confirm the hate. Volume = visibility. Playtest proved it, the more "problematic" the threads got, the harder it was to kill the conversation.>I think that ship sailed the moment the launch day number couldn't beat Highguard's.Highguard was free-to-play, spiked to 97k, then died in like two weeks and is sitting at ~250-300 concurrent right now. Marathon is $40 paid entry, hit 88k, and is still holding 35k+ a week later with actual patches dropping. Not even close to the same situation.You're still proving the guy's point. By obsessing this hard and moving the goalposts to one meaningless metric, you're just setting yourself up for max humiliation if it doesn't instantly crater. Just let it flop naturally like you claim you want.
>>734756679The only way negative attention is marketing is if you just use the vague bullshit definition of 'engagement.' And like I said, the best outcome in that situation is an anon goes and looks at the game on Steam. The conversion rate is probably abysmal and something like 1 in 5000 anons would actually spend money. The marketing spend needed to shill undoubtedly costs more.>you're setting yourself up for humiliationAnon, Marathon has flopped by all objective metrics. Its player counts are woeful for a game of this budget, the population is trending down and has been since launch, Bungie is clearly panic responding to things by changing their MTX plans and adding more skins to the current season pass (just like Highguard did with its 5v5 and new hero ahead of schedule), and the usual suspects are running the pre-death 'g-give marathon a chance, guys..' journalist posts. The only thing that could reverse Marathon's fortunes is a drastic PVE pivot, but that isn't possible because the content simply doesn't exist and Bungie doesn't have the time to make new content for it at this kind of attrition with its playerbase.
>>734756679>Marathon is $40 paid entry, hit 88k, and is still holding 35k+ a week later with actual patches dropping.With the budget being what it is, and Bungie already being in dire straits, a CCU in the tens of thousands is simply not good enough.How exactly do you see Marathon jumping to a 100k+ playercount at this point, which is the bare minimum of what it needs to meet expectations?It's obviously not a Highguard, but if what we've heard from behind the scenes is true, it's entirely possible this game plods along with a 10k-30k playercount for a year and then Sony shuts it down anyway. It's happened with other GAAS before (XDefiant was one such example. Wasn't a Concord-tier flop, but shut down anyway).
>Marathon yesterday at 18:00 >42k players on PC>Marathon today at 18:00>43k players on PCYou lost.
>>734754730The big problem is how brutal the earlygame is. You're going to get fucking slapped by anyone that has any gear at all because of the huge ttk disparity. Permanent player buffs from vendors exacerbate the issue (they're cool though)combine the bad first impression people get from that with the character design and you've got a game that is actively filtering people in a bad way.
>>734757749>Marathon today at 1900: 44k>Marathon yesterday at 1900: 47kCare to revise your statement?
>>734753914>implying social media marketing posts are honestThe absolute state of you fucking nigger.
>>734758642Cope.
>>734753914They're gonna announce a combined total of 12,000 years played or something stupid bullshit cope metric tomorrow
>>734757761unlike a lot of extraction shooters though, getting slapped is OK. You can still progress very far without many successful exfils at all. A lot of early questlines don't require successful exfil, merely complete the objective, and then a successful exit is a bonus. The gear isn't locked to sweats only, you get decent gear for free right from the start. obviously, if you've only got a few hours in game and you try to deathmatch a squad full of dudes with lots of playtime and high level shields and sniper rifles, and grenades, you're probably going to get slimed, but it's not because your bullets bounce off their armour. If you try and take on a whole base of UESC goons and you're not careful and/or coordinated, you're going to get slimed. On the other hand, if you ARE careful and coordinated, getting the drop on some high level players can quickly reward you with a bunch of good shit very early. Doesn't matter if you have gold shields when I throw an emp grenade at your ass and my whole squad has ambushed you. Even with low tier guns against high tier players, the TTK is low if you're smart. Pic related, I stole this off someone using a foodstamps kit, because he was busy trying to kill every bot on the map.It's not an easy game, and that's OK, but it's not like fucking tarkov. I can't speak for everyone but I'm sick to death of the current trend of "who starts with more gear is almost invincible" sweatfest or "press q to destroy everyone in sight" everyone-gets-a-turn-at-winning shit. Casuals AND the sweaty unemployed bitchless can get out, reee.
>>73475815146k already.
>>734754009comparing numbers on something that actually requires good hardware and a functioning brain to card slop that browns can play on a potato is fucking retarded
>>734759720The day's peak will be in about five hours based on yesterday. It's still trending below the previous day's numbers, too.
https://www.bungie.net/7/en/News/Article/tau_ceti_cup_tune_inshill streamer only tournament
>>734760000>boost in numbers due to patch>still lost over 1k players since yesterdayoof
>>734760232What patch?
>>734760298https://www.bungie.net/7/en/News/Article/marathon_update_1_0_0_4
>>734760138lmao look at all these paid shillssnoy is hemorrhaging money at this point
>>734760462Thanks for spoonfeeding me. Any kind of boost from the patch should be reflected in today's peak, which should be in about five hours.
>>734761252Welcome, to Highguard 2.
>>734754147You sure do.
>>734754730You paid 40$ for a multiplayer only live service with battle passes, in game store and a single game mode
the cope in here is hilarious>>734733190
>>734759957Just take a break, maratroon. Just watch the game die, just let it happen. Playing the race card just makes you look like an idiot, chuds of all colors will band together to fight the troon menace. That's how dire the situation's getting for you.You ever hear about that theory that says humanity will only unite to fight a common enemy, like aliens? That's you. You are the aliens.
>>734761551Bold of you to assume I'm a paid shill, I simply refuse to give this game any kind of attention, negative or otherwise, and I'd like to advise other anons to do the same, lest they wanna end up looking like fucking idiots for no good reason on the chance they get proven wrong
>1 week later and chuds have to make "Here's how we can still win" threads It's never been so fucking over
>>734761890If you're ironic shitposting, get new material. If you're actually a marathon supporter, that image just reminds everyone how marathon is Concord 3.
>>734754337Unless the current userbase with these numbers are purchasing mtx out the ass, it will shut down probably within the year
>>734761992>it flopped okay? im right okay?? I didn't lose again like always!!!
>>734761890
>>734762091The same handful of images, as always. I'm wondering if you're not one of the disgruntled paid shills, because they too had a handful of (stale) images they used when shilling. Never worked, just as whatever seething you're doing is only convincing me how bad the game is doing since 'people' like you need to defend it.
>>734761890Ironically, the negativity is the only good/entertaining thing about this piece of shit, anon. Everything else is just mid as fuck, critics and reviewers don't wanna burn their hands on glazing the next concord installment, so they give it a 7/10 across the board. It's hopelessly, terminally mid and it will never get any better. Deep down inside, you know this.
>>734762195>losing the same memes multiple times >being so mindbroken over them that they begin to haunt you
>>734762363>wordswordswordsleft can't meme
>>734762363Yeah, that's one of them. It's just stale, shillbro. Seeing you people post is like eating a bologna sandwich every day. Nothing interesting.Meanwhile, the player count keeps going down. No way to shill that, I guess.
>>734754147me
The problem with chasing trends in vidya is you will ALWAYS be late. There's already a bunch of identical games that are either better or worse, but already have an established playerbase. People don't move from the games that are comfy and where their friends are to learn a new game that does the same shit. It's why WoW is so popular even though it's objectively dogshit compared to other MMOs.
>>734762569The only time I can think of a trend being chased accurately was CliffB's failed 'Radical Heights' game that was chasing the Fortnite BR crazy. They managed to shit it out while the trend was still hot, but the game wasn't any good, so it died immediately.
>>734754147I do, I enjoy it when wokeslop fails and I'm not sorry.
I want Marathon to fail because I'm tired of live service slop, not because it's woke or because the Bungie is in the shitter tooYou want Marathon to fail because twitter grifters conditioned you to think that wayWe are not the same
>>734759957You're right, the 250million$ massive shooter should sell substantially less copies than the indie 2d deck builder.
>>734762490>spent 1 hour of his life crying over memes that he's failed to refute multiple times before>"Y-yawn....y-youre just boring me"Okay, then stop replying, if you can ;^)
>>734753914>copies soldIt’s “players engaged” now
>>734762765Holy based blastbroYou got any more of dem screencaps? All Chuds Are Bitches
>>734762875Failed in less than 2 minutes X^) Sorry of your life
>>734762828I don't think they've done any marketing posts about 'runners killed' or 'times extracted,' right? Not good signs either.
>>734761618Sorry to burst your bubble, but I'm a man that's married with three children. I'm old enough to have played the original marathon, but luckily I'm not a macfag.Troons are a self policing problem, nobody has to fight an enemy that kills itself and doesn't produce offspring. Also, brown isn't a race.
>>734763014>sorry of your lifeThe shills being ESL jeets makes a lot of sense.
>>734762765>less
>>734763041So you're a reddit dad, noted. Tell me, does your wife's boyfriend approve of you skipping cucktime in favor of you playing this burning thrashheap? Also, it sure seems like a race when you can use em to your advantage. But hell, what was I expecting from some redditfag kek
>>734763271>/tv/ touristgo back to xitter, bitch boi
>>734763271>baseless pornbrained adhomwhat does anything I said have to do with fucking reddit, you idiot? I'm a /pol/tard, and an oldfag, and I don't have to prove it to some fuckwit on /v/, because you don't even play video games.
>>734763493>>734763589Looks like I was right on the money, look at those hecking updoots.The chairs are calling, sweeties. Wouldn't want to disappoint your bulls, now would you?
it seems like people who are actually mad at marathon are exactly the type of people who can't afford a computer that can run it, and the people who "just want to see it flop" are paid 2c per post by a korean corporation
>>734763041>I'm a man that's married with three childrenAnd do all three belong to Tyrone, or did Jamal and Hambone each get one in there, too?
>>734763778>cuck porn>updoots>reddit spacingyou have to go back, and even then ywnbaw
>>734755826>succeededAt flopping
>>734763889>KEK PORN KEK PORN>TYRONEwe get it bro, you like cuck porn
>>734763846It seems you have brain damage
>>734760000>50k at this hour yesterday>50k at this hour todaywell?
>>734764184>you're stupid!no YOU'RE stupid
>>734763846Again with the racism. It's so funny how leftoids resort to it when they feel cornered, fascinating.Again, you guys are the aliens. Your memes are forced, fake and fruitless and we can smell your desperation. Or, maybe that's your cum-crusted cuckchairs.>>734764028Why would I ever want to be a femoid? You, on the other hand, will never be uncucked. And go back where? You really think reddit's the place for me if I call out troonfaggots like you all the time? Come the fuck on now, cuckmaster. The game is dead, accept it and move on.(And yes, I put in extra double spacing to piss you off)
>>734763271>>734763778oh look it's Marineschizo being a retarded freak as usual
It took two weeks for Bloodborne sales, but I do agree that it's leaning towards a red flag.
>>734764441See? You can't even insult people properly. Go away, you don't belong here
>>734764547you couldn't argue honestly if you tried, so I'm not trying either. go and play some slop you low iq poorfag
>>734764427We can go tit for tat whenever the hourly updates favor either of our arguments. Like I said, the peak isn't for a few hours, and then we can see how it compared to yesterday and the day before. A bump, small or otherwise, is expected because there was a patch.
>>734764516Oh wow, it's the same troon reporting people for using image macros. Where the fuck do you think you are, assmaster?Then again, it's kinda fitting that a huge faggot like you would defend marathon, shoulda seen that coming kek.The game is gone, just like ao, sweetie.
>>734764656Argue what? How badly it flopped? How delusional you are? How much cope you're going through? Pick one faggot, and realize, you'll lose every single time.
>>734753914The is bleeding to death. Not as fast a Highguard and Concord, but a slow painful death.
>>734764723Nobody is defending Marathon here I'm shitting on it too. I'm just calling you out for being a weird faggot. Marine is graduating in two weeks for sure, retard
>>734764858how low does it need to go for Sony to shut it down
>>734765016I don't know, but reports say this is large budget game (over 250 million dollars). This means that it should be doing at Slay the Spire numbers.
>>734764937Macro-schizo...did we just...have a moment? Can love bloom on the battlefield?Oh, we all know she's graduating, just a matter of time. ao ruined her and now everyone has to suffer for it.How about maratroon, though? How come you hate it? Seems unline you kek
>>734765016Only Sony's bosses know that answer. I think it's clear that Marathon is never going to make a profit, so it's just a question of how long they want to lose money, and how much.
>>734765135>less than concordnot uplifting news, when the results continue to be red it's when they might close the servers. It might take a few months
>>734765191>macro-schizoI seriously have no idea of what you are talking about faggot>Marine2 more weeks am I right?>Why hate MarathonBecause it's a shit game from a shit company and GaaS is a cancer in the industry that needs to die. Also fuck Sony.
>the steam CCU going down bit by bit everyday>PS5 users report 3-5 minute matchmaking times when not crossplaying>Xbox user achievement rankings has Marathon underwater at #30 or worse
>>734765238That 250 million dollars doesn't take in account the delays and marketing.My guess is that it's now triple, so I wouldn't be shocked if it was around 750 million dollars. Sony fucked up real bad if that's the case. If this game fails Bungie is probably fucked.
>>734765361>PS5 users report 3-5 minute matchmaking times when not crossplayingIf that's true, it's a real bad sign because Highguard had the same thing. If PC players also start reporting long queue times despite the CCU looking to be 'stable,' it only adds to the schizo theory about Sony botting the player count on PC.
>>734765351Well, damn, macro-schizo. Hell, I like you. You can come over to my house and fuck my sister. Seems like love CAN bloom on the battlefield. Next you gonna tell me you like tits and ass as much like the rest of us healthy heterosexuals. Imma be honest, bonding with you over our shared hatred for a troongame wasn't on my hecking bingocard, but here we are.
>>734762091Ah yes the AAA Ghost of Yotei that has a way higher budget cost than the AA Stellar Blade that has a much cheaper budget. Guess which one not only recouped the costs, but also made a profit and had an immediate sequel announcement
>>734763846>2c per post by a korean corporationThat's 1.5c more than you're making in Mumbai
>>734765592bungie has already officially confirmed that PC is the primary platform for this game so the console numbers must be really bad
>>734765901>Bungie has officially confirmedNo, this is something Tassi who cited a source within Bungie. There's no reason to doubt it, but there's no reason to treat it as gospel, either.>the console numbers must be really badThat seems all but a given at this point, but I would be interested in seeing a source for the long matchmaking on PS5 claim, also because I thought the game was supposed to have crossplay on by default.
>>734754147Certainly not me, I didn't do anything.
>>734765361>>PS5 users report 3-5 minute matchmaking times when not crossplayingthis one's insane, the game has consoledrone written all over it
>>734753914HERE'S HOW MARATHON CAN STILL WIN
>>734761252>500k on sts2>made by like 10 guys and a <100k budget>blastathon flops>team of 500 if not more, triple digit million budgetwith that manpower/money they could've made 50 cardslops with half a million players each for a total of 25 million playerbase
>>734766604most of the extractionfags are on PC and most of them are obviously not playing marathon. bungie could not peel people away from arc, hunt or tarkov.
>>734765361>3 to 5 minute wait on matches for PS5Holy fuck that's bad.
>>734753914BUNGIE-SAMA, RELEASE THE WEEKEND WARRIORS TODAY, I DON'T THINK WE CAN SURVIVE UNTIL FRIDAY
>>734765361>snoy game>getting Battleborn month 2 queues on week 2holy grim
Day 1: 88,337Day 2: 78,498 (-9,839) (-11.14%)Day 3: 75,133 (-3,365) (-4.29%)Day 4: 77,371 (+2,238) (+2.98%)Day 5: 66,593 (-10,778) (-13.93%)Day 6: 62,495 (-4,098) (-6.15%)Trend vs Day 1: -25,842 (-29.25%)
The game is already a sweatfest.Not even one week in.There's ZERO matchmaking except one based on your account level, which is pure bullshit.>team of 3 free kits>go up against a squad with purple shield and two blue shieldsExtremely fun!
>>734767126>only ONE gain since release>it's the smallest playerbase shift
>>734767161>>>team of 3 free kits>>go up against a squad with purple shield and two blue shieldsDESU that's what you sign up for with extraction sloppa
The game is actually good. I like it a lot. Pvp is way more fun than arc.
>>734767290Arc is a hugfest tho, there's no PVP
>>734755407>any publicity is good publ-ACK
>>734767193>ONE GAIN
>>734767161you paid $39.99 + tax to be pubbie meat for bungie dads and weekend warriors, you get what you deserve
>>734767014KWABOTY
I think this is a game for all time, might be the best game ever made, even dethroning Starfield.Bungie I thank you for this blessing.
>>734763778Not any of those anons. Kill yourself immediately. It's an emergency.
>>734767397Bungie should change their name to Rope at this point, for this reason and also because they're never bouncing back from this
>>734767391I've been running pvp on Stella for months since there's nothing else to do in the game. I always enjoyed Halo and Destiny pvp so this suits me way better. I get why people enjoy Arc more since it's more of a social experience but for me, Marathon is way more fun.
>>734767161But just think about how much fun you'll have when you and your friends are the ones kitted out and killing new players! It's literally the game version of 'I suffered, so why shouldn't they?'
>>734767480That's just weekly maintenance in the chart. What's more strange is how it instantly rebounded to 30k.
>>734767547CARLOOOOOOOOOS
>>734767547>Bungie Rope
>>734767456>>734767281I never played extraction shit.Never liked halo and the people who surrounded it, xbawx three shitty retards with a permanent chip on their shoulder compared to oldschool boomer shooters or CS.Game is cool when you play with and against people of your skill level still, but i can see it becomming absolutely unplayable if sweatshits dont stay in ranked mode forever.Yeah i'm bad at FPS, probably bottom 10% players skill wise but i'm trying.
>>734767703the indian bots are paid to stay online
>>734767547JAJAJAJAJA
>>734754819based, this is to send a message to all corpos that we're tired of their shit
Can someone tell me what's "woke" about the game? I don't enjoy niggers or trannies in my games or shows but this has none of it, or am I missing something? The lore is good, I enjoy reading the codex stuff, something I usually don't do.
>>734767720Maraflop is literally the same as tying a bungie rope around your neck and jumping off a bridge. They knew this game would fail and flop. Why do devs willingly commit economic suicide like this? How many must die to shareholder induced suicides until western aaa returns to how it was pre 2012?
>>734768027there are trannies and gays on the dev team. that's it.
>>734768027the characters are beyond androgynous and as you know, there's been a part of society hellbent on getting rid of masculinity/patriarchy. at this point even a drop of blood is enough to alert people because we're all tired of their bs.
>>734768428Yes but I don't see any of that in game. For me the whole "go woke go broke" was about woke politics infesting media, race swapping charachters, forcing tranny ideology down our throats etc. There's none of that in this game however. I don't really care if there's some tranny coder making the game.
>>734768027This is a good starting point.
>>734768428Every dev team has trannies on board because it's easier to turn nerdy men into women than it is to turn women into programmers.
>gamers kept telling us>'we want Marathon!'>so 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
Is there any offline mode at all? If there isn't and the servers go off in half a year, is it just a paperweight? I assume that's part of the reason why they had to do full refunds for Concord, but what's the "okay" amount of time to wait before telling people you can't play the $40 base price game ever again no refunds?
>>734766820>triple digit million budgetsony is probably over 3 billion in the whole from acquiring bungie 4? years ago and likely collectively from both companies investing several hundred million dollars into getting marathon out the door
>>734768650Ok, but all of that kind of works in the universe tho, right? Transhumanism as part of a scifi game taking place 800 years in to the future is not "woke" to me. I enjoy the cyberpunk genre where transhumanism is a common theme. I wouldn't call that whole genre woke because of it. It's not forced in Marathon, It makes sense and adds something to the lore/game/atmosphere imo.
>>734769157also holy shit if this is real then the state of this game is beyond pathetic. They are NEVER going to release hard sales numbers.
>>734753914If the game was an fps shooter that continued the Marathon lore I would have liked it, but making it an extraction shooter with gaas it needs to be taken don't.> "just don't play it bro, let others enjoy different things."No, fuckers have already taken my turok, prey, and titanfall. If I don't speak up and destroy this shit then more of the things I like would be taken to be someone elses shit.
this game will be dead in 1-2 months.
>>734769015What about it? Transhumanist design choices in a scifi game?
>>734769143Anthem did like a year and never refunded, so maybe that.
>>734769063>Sir, our poop pizza business has failed, joining our poop burger and poop soda joints>Hmm, there's a major demand for the return of ice cream, alright men, start working on poop ice cream, that one will be a blast!
>>734769015>android>master chief>edge lord assasin >coomer asian chick>android>ninja girl / e girl cosplay character???
>>734769276Diversity stunt casting with these just being empty robot shells but clearly they're black guy/asian woman/asian guy and so on.
>>734769561>"clearly they are black guy">All charachters showing skin are obviously whiteWhat did he mean by this?
>>734769672Look at the lips, bro.
>>734769015Not for a live service game, fag. Games like these live and die by the rate of attractive cosmetics coming out. Nothing, NOTHING can redeem the ugly shit in maratroon. It's dead, Jim.
>CHARACTER DESIGN IS WOKE>Ok, what part?>THEY ARE BLACK AND TRANS>They are clearly not. In fact, they look white.>LOOK AT THE LIPS, ANON. Grasping at straws now, are we?
>>734769898I'm having fun
>>734770160Would you say you’re having some sort of, oh I don’t know anon, blast?
>>734769898Game is good. I bought it mostly because of all the forced hate from faggots like the garfield avi guy on X and It's honestly really good.
>>734770259I guess? Some of the quest design is really fucking dumb and Dire Marsh is much less a fun map than Outpost and Perimeter. But overall I'd say it's about as much fun as the battlefield 1 release was for me.
>>734756679That literally doesn't work, you give social media way too much credit when twitter is not even real, 100k people gave High guard a chance, saw how meh the gameplay was and noped out, marathon can have all the paid shills or anti shills possible, if the game was good it wouldn't matter, but it's not, simple as that
>>734753914Personally I am happy these projects fail one after another because every time one of these abominations launch you can see a clear uptick in paid advertisement threads saturating the board with "totally real" people who are really really enjoying this 10/10 game that YOU need to play RIGHT NOW! which all magically disappear on the drop of a dime the moment the ad money runs out. It's exhausting to wade through all their inorganic faggotry threads and the millions they lose on these games every single time without fail becomes more and more justified.
>>734770426Why is it not a good game in your opinion?
>>734770439Meds
>>734770340and how many hundred tweets have you posted about the game since the stillborn launch?
>>734769534bungie KNOCKS it out of the park again, leads to BLASTS being had as this LIGHTNING in a BOTTLE gives us all a much sought after RETURN to FORM
>>734770494>posting polish twitter niggers
blastbros...good evening, wednesday checkin. channeling my inner chartism edition.
>>734770642It's patch day chartbro, so a small bump is expected for prime time.
>>734770642in case you missed it, enjoy.
>>734770482It's common sense. Anyone who observes things will notice things.If you like the game then great I'm happy for you. The number of people interested in this could maybe fill up one thread, maybe two. Instead it's the same pattern of one to two weeks of endless flood of "definitely real" posters (all located in a single pc cafe in bangladesh) filling up the catalog with their garbage. This present meta of paid advertisements is disgusting and deserves to fail, which it is currently in the process of doing so.
why did they have to make their characters so fucking ugly? who in the fuck approved those designs
>>734770896The vast majority of the people here don't even talk about the game here on /v/, they just pointlessly doompost and spout retarded conspiracies instead of actually talking about stuff that's kind of fucked in the game like the weapon and shell balance
>>734770920>we want the anorexic gimp audience
>>734769945>WokeNo, but they look like shit. Gltich looked good in the trailers but they her look like shit too.
>>734770469Extraction shooters are already a dead genre in a oversaturated market if you play one you played every single oneAlso it has no graphical cohesion, wtf is the game even supposed to be? It literally looks like some graphics students drank one too many and just said fuck it Also 40$ for a multiplayer only game with MTX is just the cherry on top, I shit on fifa fags for this and will shit on this one too
>>734770920Evil hates beauty.
>>734770920>>734771104By troons, for troon> As the power to the last remaining Marathon server was switched off, Anon put down xis mouse and stood up from xis chair to commit to xis final task on this unfair heterocentric earth.> Anon didn't understand. Xie transitioned. Xie got a job in game dev. Xie worked for a prestigious company. Xie made the game of not just xis dream, but the dream of many others as well. It was all for naught.> Anon had a vision in xis mind as xie got up onto the stool xie had prepared earlier. A vision of one of the company's creations. An androgynous robot giving xim a cold, neutral gaze as though overseeing what was to come so it could make a report to it's masters.> "I failed to own the chuds" xie told it.> "We failed" it reassured xim. "we failed together"> Anon sniffled in sadness. It was loud, bubbly and a little bit gross, which would have made xim giggle or at least smile, if the current situation xie found ximself in wasn't so dire.> "At least.." Xie started again after a moment of contemplation, pulling the noose down around xis neck, "We had a blast..."> Anon tested the tautness of the rope. It did not give way or stretch like a Bungie would, and xie gave ximself a little nod of satisfaction.> "We had a blast..." xie repeated. "...Right?"> "We did" the gynoid of xis imagination replied as it blurred and faded slowly until only it's voice remained.> "It was lightning in a bottle" the disembodied voice said before the room went completely silent again.> A single tear flowed down xis cheek and with a brief motion, straightened the front of xis blouse and stepped off the stool.
>>734771159I like the art style and I don't like milsim in shooters. The only mtx is cosmetics which I don't really care about.
>>734771135Sure, that's valid. But the complaint from the sub 85 IQ reddit tier culture warriors is that the game, somehow, is woke. Is "design I dont like" the same as woke now?
I quite like gaudy ugly thingsand yet this is possibly the most revolting art style I have ever seen in my life
>>734770920We're all stars now...In the dope show...
>>734767009wrong, that is how long i wait for mario kart world racesthat's just how online gaming is these days
>>734770920bungie is still one of THOSE companies and they are a parasites that cannot be removed without killing the host. Bungie is dead, try to remember them for the good stuff they made and not what the skinwalker tried to make afterwards.
>>734770920I like almost all of the desings, except maybe the destroyer. its interesting to me that apex had cringier and more '"woke" character designs with the tank dude being openly gay in the lore, yet /v/tards openly ate that shit up without a second thought. guess retards here just follow whatever is trendy at the moment.
mods confirmed to be on bungie's payroll
>>734773364Based
>>734773364Nah, there's just been too many threads in the catalog. They did the same thing when the shills were spamming them a few weeks back.Although one of the night time jannies is a real cunt who goes even harder and only lets one or two threads stay up at once.
Bungie did not respect the vibe shift, ergo they must fail.
>>734773712and he loves to remove the thread with the most posts, too.>oh yeah let this 20 reply thread with no activity be the one that stays up and lets prune this 350 reply one
>>734773364It's one or two of them, but it's funny watching them get ass mad
>>734762091Nice try 'Berg, Stella Blade has sold over 6 million.
That's sad because the game is actually really good. Bungie is paying the price of their past greed, I just hope I'll be able to enjoy the game with a healthy player base for 6-8 months. Some games do make unexpected comeback, a man can hope...
>>734771063Why would we discuss balance when the game dies within ~2-3 months? Look at the downward trend there's no point discussing balance.
>>734770920
this game got legs I see marathon lasting 10 years easily Cryo Archives is just the beginning haters need not apply
>>734775429Blast status?
>>734762091I haven't seen a single person actually talk about GOY since the launch. Not even a mention, screencap or anything. Nice fake sales.
uh oh not looking good blastbros..
Hello saar, I am poor punjabi boy from india.Boss bungie pay me five us dollar cents for every ten replies to my posts.Please do the needful so I can buy phone and scam the elderly for stable income.Thank you kindly sir, it'll be repaid in yout next life.
>>734770439I enjoy the payroll blastards, knowing someone is forced to be a wagecuck on the most autistic forum, get laughed at and called a tranny, but can't do shit because they rely on the $5 an hour. Better than the millionth "who's your favorite zelda girl" thread.
Seeing these goalposts move over the week has been a blast
>>734769898Overwatch was the perfect example>pornable female characters>huge success>blacks, trannies, theythem uggos>almost killed the game>quick 180 back to qts>game now surging in playercount
>>734754730This is basically why I got it on top of the honestly pretty crisp gunplay, you just don't really get sci-fi like this very often so I'm gonna see where they take this game. As for the OP, I would assume the same that it might have yet to break 1M copies, but I don't think the game will be going anywhere for awhile. What we're at the moment it seems Bungie will be willing to bend over for the community to keep it alive, too much money and dev-time to drop it.
>>734773364Yep. Thread yesterday literally just talking about sales got deleted
>>734761890Mental illness
>>734773712yeah because there aren't too many RE threads about the loli characters either
can we make it to 60k peak tonight marasisters? it would be nice to only lose 2k players in 24 hours instead of 4k.
>>734753914Have you guys talked about the lore of the game yet? It's one of things i'm very interested in.As far as i know its supposed to be set after the other OG Marathon games? And recently Durandal has been communicating with the Runners on Tau Ceti? How and why is he back there?Is the game's Timeline set in Marathon 2's original timeline or is it set in one of the weird timelines in Infinity?
>>734753914Shit, you're right. Even that piece of shit GBF Relink put one of those out.
>game didn't flop so now people are scrambling to compare player numbers BY THE HOURholy shit what level of delusional cope is this?
>>734759957maybe marathon should be able to play on said potato. sure as fuck looks like it. never understood why you wouldnt want to make your game run as well as possible on as much hardware as possible
>>734754147I do, nigger. I've had to watch in real time as the company that made some of my favorite games of all time throw away everything - their skill, their dignity, their values - all of it, tossed out just to have this be the capstone of their pursuits. This dogshit will be the final word in the story of bungie, and I can't stand it. I hate that they fired all the guys who made Halo and Destiny good. I hate that they willingly became a studio of tranny gargoyles who don't like video games or good stories. I hate that they would prioritize live service bullshit twice in a row, even as it literally kills the only game they even really have left. I need marathon to lose, so the last of these mongrels can lose their jobs and be homeless for the rest of their lives. They don't deserve their jobs, they never have and they need to learn that they hard way. They have to lose, because this must all end.
>>734753914ok, jeet
>>734780568bro thinks he's the joker
>>734779854No one knows at this point but I'd gamble on it being another timeline and not a direction continuation of 2.
>>734779660Yeah, it just passed 60k. It might even slightly exceed yesterday's peak on the strength of the patch, but it won't be by much.Tomorrow's numbers should be interesting too, because if the drop is bigger (4-6k) it means the patch didn't really impress anyone.>>734780074It already flopped, you moron. The bad numbers at launch combined with no growth means it's dead as a live service game. What we're doing watching the numbers is closer to studying a patient in hospice character to satisfy our scientific curiosity.
>>734780074>hour 1: player numbers are bad>I kek>hour 2: player numbers are still bad>I KEK>hour 3: player numbers somehow get worse>my sides are in orbit>hour 4: player numbers somehow keep getting worse and making formerly bad numbers look goodI derive infinite joy that gets better the longer it goes on. I savor every hour. It feeds my soul to see bad games and shit developers tumble down. When a performer performs, you as the audience have a duty to watch the performance, and in that aspect, Marathon is delivering an excellently concordian performance. I am showing it more respect than those playing it, for as a mere observer I can use more of my senses to consume its colossal stumble, and when the act is done, I will stand and clap.
>>734754147this, tired of the 40yo balding retards droning on about this game
>>734780871>>734780923alright man you have fun watching the charts while i play the game
>>734780962I'm playing HoMM3 and occasionally checking these threads and the charts. And eating dinner between turns. Pretty damn comfy I have to say.
>>734780962Why aren't you, then?
>>734781023oh you're eastern european and can't run anything else, you have it bad enough already i'm not even gonna make fun of you
>>734780962you aren't playing tho, you are arguing in the autismo website
>>734781057>>734781172i just got off a 6 win streak
>>734781091You know it's like 3am over there, right? No, I'm just some asswipe with a $5k machine playing 30 year old games and eating some overpriced bullshit soup I got from Whole Foods
>>734781229The fuck do I care? You could be getting more streaks instead of purposefully coming to a thread you disagreed with just so you could say>w-well I'M having funLike if it's so fun for you this is the last thread you should be in. Or was the /vg/ general too negative for you too?
>>734781353not very convincing sorry man
>>734781412>j-just let me pretend the game is dying because it has 20 less players than an hour ago ok?
>>734781229is your streak gonna save the game?You probably just stomped a handful of newtards who hadn't heard the game's shit and sent them straight to the refund page.Doing the lord's work
>>734781487nothing i can do will save or kill the game, i just think it's pathetic to be doing shit like this >>734770642>>734770871and you retards need to called out lest you think otherwise
>>734781475True, the game's really good and it's a shame it's getting all this negative press. I've been playing it all week, and only stopped now after this latest game. There was this other player running around just screaming "OOK OOOK OOOK AAK", at first I thought he was a retard larping, but no, it was a genuine black man. He said he was into me so I gave him my discord, deepthroating him in VC rn. The Marathon community is so wholesome.
>>734781640you should publish your works on AO3 since you seem very interested in writing about your fictional sexual encounters with black men
>>734762091Damn that's sad if true. NPC consoomer ruin everything.
>>734781581If we were all in a bar, I'd by chartbro a drink no questions asked, but I wouldn't even sit next to you and your Marathon shirt and collar
>>734781475>already below 80k>game cost 250 million to make>sony bought bungie for 4 billionEither go have fun with your game or explain exactly how this game isn't flopping. This tactic of acting smug on the internet while not playing your game didn't work for highguard fans, and it won't work for you.
>>734781826it's fine, game on the left had a way higher budget and less profit margin. That's what makes a flop, not raw number of sales or players.
>>734781867are you a sony investor? if not, why are you so preoccupied with their finances?
>>734754147me since i'm an investor
>>734781961>but how does this affect you personally?We've reached that level of cope, have we?
>>734781961I am. Now run along and play the game you love so much, before I make the call and have the plugged pulled for good.
>>734781961>now you need to be an investor in order to see if a game is badnew goalpost just dropped
>>734781961I am literally the CEO of Sony. This game is garbage and we will be announcing the total shutdown of Bungie next week.
>>734753914Marathon will make highguardollars, maybe even concordollars.You will eat your words.
>>734782219ONE MARATHILLION DOLLARS
>>734782254the share holders are going to freak, bro.
>this is an actual skin for the gameKEKAROOOOOOOOOO
>>734781961mmm... yes... I can see it in my crystal ball anon...You... ah, yes, you work at Bungie... QA junior if I'm not wrong?You took a deal for lower pay in exchange for some stock, so you have a vested interest in this game's success and are projecting your insecurities...I can sense... yes... I see where those insecurities come from... sniiiiiiff... I knew it, cheap hair dye, half-emtpy diet coke on your desk, and a few crumbles of dorito dust in a crumpled bag under your monitor, right behind your Toriel from Undertale overpriced figurine.I see layoffs in your future, including your desk pal Amethysta who's already having anxiety attacks. Nothing you can do I'm afraid, try applying for Blizzard.
>>734782369What's the problem?
>>734782369an unfinished skin?
>>734782369Dude, is that fucking whiteface?
>>734782369George Droyd
>>734782423he runs faster and gets a buff for stealing objectives
>>734782369GEORGE DROID!!!?????
>>734782254Every Marathon Dad Dollar will be worth *five* Bazz Bucks.That is the exchange rate Sony will set once I've kidnapped Herman Hulst.
>>734782369Missed black history month by a neck.
>>734782575the model also looks like he's missing a neck
>>734782369why does he have 2 white amogus sucking his thighs
>>734782575These are apparently skins Bungie added to the current battle pass, because they were getting roasted for how thin it was. Guarantee you it was part of a later pack they just brought forward ahead of schedule.
Welcome, to Marathon.
>>734753914Remember guys, it's a MARATHON not a sprint!Just because it didn't blast off immediately, it doesn't mean it won't grow over time and get huge!
>>734782648Nobody cares about halo or destiny this much, grow up faggot
>>734782760Meant for>>734780568
>>734782760>Nobody cares about halo or destiny this muchThe only people still defending Bungie for ANYTHING care about Destiny this much.
>>734782675the weekend million players are coming
>>734782483>>734782448it really is him lmaofent reactors activated
>>734782653>hmm, we are under immense pressure from our fans after our failures with Destiny 2>how do we improve our reputation>I know, in our new game our paid battle pass will come with just one skinFucking lmao. I don’t understand how they put the battle pass out in the first place with just one skin. I bet they knew they would get backlash for it and the quick “fix” with a bunch of new skins added was just a PR ploy they planned from the start. I already saw Marathon trannies on twitter saying “wow, they aren’t messing around! They are responding fast to our feedback!”
I see the 6-streak shill finally left the thread, must've gotten buck broken and ran to cry in the office bathroom.
>>734783419Imagine the dread and desperation festering in the halls of Bungie right nowThey know they’re all going to be unemployed by the end of 2026
>>734759716>if you've only got a few hours in game and you try to deathmatch a squad full of dudes with lots of playtime and high level shields and sniper rifles, and grenades, you're probably going to get slimedConsidering all the other players are going to have lots of playtime, nobody has ever explained to me why the fuck I would want to play an extraction shooter in the first place.
>>734753914I think its looks cool, but I can't justify another 60 dollarydoos when i'm already enjoying arc raiders
>>734783743If you don't want to potentially play against players who are better at the game and have more time and therefore understanding of it under their belt then you probably just don't want to play pvp/competitive games at all.
>>734753914Still having a blast. Sorry chuddie, you lost.
>>734783907>another 60 dollarsMarathon is $40, just like Arc was.
>>734784052Surely dollarydoos specifically denotes australian dollars. Do I have to resort to calling them roobux?
2k down from yesterday
>>734783743they have the same issue as PVP with loot MMOs. If it's not a cheater, it'll be some neet retard who beelines your ass with the best gear and nukes any progress you've made.All these games always go the same way: the more casual players get driven out, and the sweaty PVPfags run out of prey, killing the game.The games need PVE players so the PVP players can feed on them, but once they leave, it's a downward spiral.The only reason Arc Raiders is doing well is because everyone decided to play it like a hugbox and severely shame people who dare PVP.
>>734783419I feel like this might've hit too close to home >>734782415
>>734784124Bets on whether the weekend can break 75k again? Or will we see a dip below 50k first?
>>734753914I doubt they'd make a post for 1M in a week. Some people don't get that this would be an embarrassing number for this project.They might for 2M.
>>734784272Its a weekend so I at least think itll hit 70k again. Probably higher.Also.https://steamdb.info/stats/globaltopsellers/Seems like even Crimson Desert is above tbe game now.
every thread about this game has relentless shilling on reddit seriously look at how bad this one is https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/s/Cj1cTTJMg2does bungie think it’ll really work, it makes me more annoyed rather than getting to me try out the game. on /v/ it’s the opposite in that it has ironic shills and haters instead. all in all everything surrounding this game is garbage and if bungie actually paid for ai generated marketing it’s over for the games industry. also what the fuck is up with drones asking for ps5 footage of crimson desert, never saw this for any other game before
Marathon is gatekept by an entire subreddit. Most of them are the playerbase and they're enjoying trying to make this a "niche soulslike" with a small playerbase. I am a diamond ranked player in D2 PVP and even I don't want to play with those faggots.
Bungie cancelled their GDC talks. I wonder what that means.
>>734784620It’s just a way for them to cope with the games failure. >It was supposed to be a mega blockbuster, but in lieu of that, I can psychologically lessen the blow of my favorite developer going bankrupt by pretending I’m an elite hardcore gamer who’s tastes is above the plebs of the gaming landscape
>>734784843>>734784620its just blast havers having a blastnotice how barely anyone talks about slay the spire 2no one needs to say that theyre havung a blast with it because its a given
>>734784751it means the game is lightning in a bottle, and they don't want to share those secrets with other developers. they got something truly special here.
>>734784932>notice how barely anyone talks about slay the spire 2they are too busy actually playing their game to even make a thread about it
>>734754009i bought 2 copies of sts2 but havent played iti got it for a friend whos physically handicapped and cannot use a physical keyboard, and so i got it for her to play on a touch screen computer
where is the layoff tweet sony do your fucking job
>>734784932No one is talking about Marathon either. It's mostly just people fishing for the next Tortanic/Concord/Highguard.I'm genuinely surprised Marathon is getting this much attention, good or bad, since it's a firmly "ok" game. It's not offensively bad but it's not GOAT let alone GOTY material.
You guys realize the best part of the game, Cryo Archives isn’t out yet right? I’d expect the player count to easily hit 200-400k when it does. This will be coupled with the reviews on Metacritic also coming at the same time, where I’m expecting an easy >85, based off of what PCGamer and IGN think.
>>734785289In this day and age first impression make 80% of the purchase.It take very long time to recover from first impression failure (like no man sky)
>>734753914is 80k not enough to keep the game alive?
>>734785202they are evaluating whether fairgame$ has a chance if this fails, or if they want to try and salvage Marathon.
>>734785098Kill yourself. Snoy is deciding to cut off the marketing budget if discussion of the game is already dying.
>>73478540410k is plenty to keep any game alive, it is nowhere near enough to keep shareholders happy/have the revenue they need/want
>>734785289the vibes are shifting as the people realize the games a lightning in a bottle, personally im having so much fun
>>734785427what on earth possessed them to make fairgamelike yeah i dont mind the anticapitalist eat the rich thing but it sounds extremely tone deaf when its fucking sony making it, or microsoft with outer worlds
>>73478540480k on one platform. This is a crossplatform game.Playerwise it's fine. Sonys sale expectations is another thing but the cost of Bungie and by extension Marathon is so astronomical that if they honestly expect to recoup their investmentloss instead of just damage control then Sony are out of their fucking minds.
>>734753914Maratanic
>>734785238>it's a firmly "ok" gameIt's a dogshit UNFINISHED game. An okay releases with full finished content. An okay game gets all critic reviews out around release. An okay game isn't chaning it's MTX system within the first few days of release. An okay game isn't barebones with nothing to do or aim for other than stabbing other people to steal their shit to stab more people in the next game.There is NOTHING to do in that fucking game and it will only have ONE raid for the next THREE MONTHS.
>>734785404if bungie was 1/3rd it's studio size, and ran at 1/4th of it's budget maybe. if sony decides to do a massive restructure and layoffs at bungie, which is likely at this point, there's a good chance Marathon will close down, and if not shuttering the game then it is absolutely going f2p by the end of the year and they'll dole out some free mtx or exclusive skins for people dumb enough to have bought the game.
>>734785404anon they expected it to be CoD level they spent more on acquiring bungie than ms did for zenimax/bethesda
>>734780938Kind of odd how it's all a bunch of uncs talking about this shit. What gives?
>>734785483idk what that has to do with anything
Didn’t Sony already call out Bungie for having an extremely high burn rate? They were probably on thin ice even prior to the launch. GDC cancelled makes sense, Sony must’ve just said FUCK OFF when they asked for the budget. Or they didn’t want to get laughed at.
>>734785404Sony is going ride or die, all hands on deck with every studio they own. Everyone's being enslaved to make live service GAAS sloppa, searching for their white whale, and any studios not printing gorillions with 15M playerbases are getting nuked.
>>734785640Bungie already has downsized. Twice.
>>734785768make it thrice
>Blast?Had>Form?Returned to>Lightning?Bottled>Next big thing?Written all over>Vibes?Shifted>Comeback?Studied
It won't flop. It will be a game with a moderate success and moderate playerbase that will be just profitable enough to exist for years until they release a new version or most players move on to newer things. In other words, both chuds and troons get owned because neither of their expectations are fulfilled.
>>734785986>that will be just profitable enoughThe entire subreddit complains about predatory microtransactions. They're not buying shit.
>>734785986ya i dont expect this game to just die in a month like concord or highguardthis game isnt doing well by any means, and thats just a fact, but i dont think sony is going to pull the plug
>>734785884>This?So much.
>>734785884Has anyone actually referred to Marathon as a return to form a comeback or the next big thing?
>>734786045Lmao, literally every single fucking game out there with monetization has thousands of people crying about it and then there's the whales blowing everything they have in it.
I'm reposting this because I want answers.I have a question for people who are playing this thing and have made it to the end of the game. What exactly happened to the colony? Because it's pretty clear the original games canon doesn't apply. What the fuck is actually going on because it seriously looks like the collapse was because of straight up magic.It seems like a totally nonsensical and overwhelming number of things with the common thread that the planet is using supernatural forces to fuck up the colonists:- make AI go rampant- give colonists dreams as warnings to fuck off- make colonists psychotic- create novel contagions that are for the most part fatal- create novel organisms that follow zero evolutionary logic or consistency i.e. magic goo that pollutes food and literally spontaneously combusts when placed under observation- literally a time vortexThe entire game tells you it was expensive to send the Marathon, rescue mission, and the Runners. The clients are paying two parties, the UESC and the Runners, to gather information and kill each other like how the fuck does that make any sense. And on top of this, it was magic that fucked up the colony. It's like they put every single fucking sci-fi trope into the game. Why the fuck would a human consciousness would want to get shipped a hundred years across space to kill each other for money? Is the twist going to be that the Runners are all AI?I'm listening to all the audio logs and there's one of a guy who survived and he says he "has to tell the story" and he fucking says nothing about what the fuck happened. The people who wrote this story need to fucking die the "plot" is just so fucking retarded. The only logical conclusion is that Satan is on Tau Ceti.
>>734785986>>734786185You fags tried this cope with Highguard, too. Chuds won, get over it.
>>734785884>Kamala?Brat.
>>734786198W'rkncacnter
>>734786302Are you serious? The race of magical hell demons actually shows up at the end of the game?
>>734786198why would you expect a team of actual trannies to have any understanding or respect for the lore of a franchise older than themselves, let alone do it justice in a fucking online only game?They'll make dumb shit up that breaks canon and throw around names to try and trick boomers, and that's the extent of it.
>>734785616calm down sis, it's not that deep.
>>734786502Yeah. They're the boss
>>734786243nigga aside from learning this week that apparently it is "concord 2" I don't even know what highguard is lol, step away from the screen sometimes.
>>734765361>3-5 minute matchmaking times when not crossplayingi just got done playing titanfall 2 which has ~900 on steam rn, assuming no origin players even though im one because, i just bought it when it was exclusive. im getting 1-2 minute times upon loading. 3-5 is actually horrific.
>>734786729Nah fag, I'd rather stay and watch this shit flop.
>>734785404Its daily average is around 70k but declining each day. And the 'keep the game alive' stuff is relative to its budget and ongoing operating costs. In Marathon's case, they need 150k CCU minimum, basically what Arc is getting.>>734785535>playerwise it's fineNope. PC is the lead platform, so even if you assume all systems together are giving Marathon a combined daily CCU of 100k (and that's being generous), it's not enough to offset the 300 devs at Bungie assigned to the project who cost millions each month.
>>734754147Famitsu goers
>>734787219Why are you arguing like a leftist and refusing to understand what I said?I'll break it down real simple for you.For the player, as in playerwise, your generous estimation of 100k IS good. It's not DoA you will never find a game or only see the same people tier like actual flops like Specter Divide or everyone's favorite Concord was.I even had a separate sentence about Sonys expectations.The game may well still get the plug pulled if Sony thinks this is another long term gamble they can't risk but as of right now the customer isn't at risk of buying a game that doesn't have a healthy, FOR THE PLAYER, playerbase.
>>734753914Blastin' makes me feel good
>>734773693kill yourself
>>734787627The player's experience is only indirectly important as it relates to keeping the game alive. No, Marathon was not a bomb like Concord, and no it won't go EOS in two weeks like Highguard (RIP tomorrow, too), but it is a commercial flop and there's no reason to believe that will change. The only question that matters is how long Sony will tolerate it losing money before they decide to make a move, and Bungie's fate is probably tied up with it.
>>734753914This piece of shit game has rave reviews on steam and single handedly destroyed my trust in steam user reviews. We're now at the point that they can lie about user reviews on steam somehow. Maybe they give out free copies to shills for high scores.
>>734790194Bethesda did just had, all devs inflated the reviews. Unluckily for them, that game actually sold great so the pissed off buyers outweighted the shills and it dropped to mixed.
>>734790194Perhaps it is the other way around and it's a good game after all and the naysayers are wrong?
i know it's 5am in eu but the game has been searching for a match for 15 minutes now, dont even have squad fill enabled. big refund incoming
Here's OPs twitter account
>>734790584Ok shill, here's a (you), enjoy.
>>734790631Absolutely fucking based.
>>734763778The mark getting worked into a shoot in this gif always gets me
>>734770920>GAWWWD!
>>734790631and here's yours
>>734785361No mans sky made a huge profit at launch that allowed it to fund rebuilding the game.Marathon lost 200 million dollars at launch. It will be shut down within a year as it's going to miss every internal target and performance review
>>734792553>Marathon lost 200 million dollars at launchproof?
>>73478721970k used to be the average. Thing is that you can very easily spot the downward slope on SteamDB, and its mostly because this is a game made for no-lifers/streamers first, or people that have 2 other friends on immediate standby to play with. The universe and art direction draws people to it, but people are leaving because the time investment required can be too damn much and there's nothing to this game BUT the extraction shooter loop.
>>734790584No, because Bungie asked people to give the game a review in the official discord, so those idiots all rushed to do it to help correct the record and own the chuds.
>>734792681There won't be enough data until the end of this Sunday to accurately say what the average is, since it only launched last week. The weekend average was 75k I think, and it's been losing 2k to 10k a day (peak to peak) since then. And yeah, the downward trend has been unmistakable since the launch weekend.>3v3This is what killed Highguard too, by one of the lead dev's own admissions. And it's probably what's killing Marathon too, among other things.
>>734780568the fallacy fallacy
>>734780568appeal to triviality posters try not to sound like unhinged retards challenge level: IMPOSSIBLE
>>734792797>There won't be enough data until the end of this Sundayuntil the end of the month, that is when the true player base typically emerges, save for outstanding cases of really hyped up games.
>>734792641>You must fulfill my imaginary criteria to disprove my delusionLol fucking loony troon you can openly search the numbers
>>734793041>end of the monthI think two full weekends is enough, but I agree that data will get more accurate over time in general. But also, I think the big end of the month patch will also briefly boost numbers, whatever they are at that time.
>>734769898he meant "this is a good starting point" in relation to how woke the game isbungie ripped the artstyle from a tranny then added androgenous/tranny characters to play in the gamealso they want to sell paid skins that are just alternate paintjobs, not even a new outfit
>>734780568Something about Halo that resonated most to me was the fact that internal human strive evaporated the moment the Covenant appeared and glassed a planet. Throughout the game there was practically zero conflict through humanity and in time, the nobility of humanity inspired a fraction of the Covenant to break off - the Elites and Hunters realizing that the Covenant had become corrupt and unjust and that the humans shared their virtues. And the thing that drew me into Halo long enough for me to see all that was the music. There were really only two Halo songs that they constantly remixed through the three games but they were perfect. Destiny had no songs close to those.And now Marathon has:"Marathon's bold visual direction inspired the Audio team to explore non-traditional approaches to sound — ones that would subvert player expectations and blur the line between music and sound effects"And it's all dogshit. It's so fucking bad - it's trash like Cyberpunk's music was bad. Halo's music was good combined with good visuals; Marathon's music is bad combined with bad visuals, like you said they just lost everything that made them good. I don't know how you can have an entire studio sit back and just accept Marathon's music. The fucking Marathon animated short had the Runners listening to Classical music and enjoying it like it brought peace to them and it's like the people at Bungie just totally fucking missed the obviousness that their choice in music for Marathon was fucking stupid as hell.
>>734754147I caredeath to GAAS, death to cali game development
>>734793158You're the one with the imaginary numbers.
>>734793424You can Google: "How much money was paid to the bungie employees that worked on Marathon" and you'll get the estimate for how much the game costs. $200 million is the lowball estimate
>>734792641Just use Google retarded tranny
>>734793667I can't believe I'm interacting with an actual cattle slave who thinks the Gemini summery is even close to accurate for just about anything.I sincerely hope you are just a bot I'm wasting my time with and not a flesh and blood human
>use the name of a game series that had a GOAT artstyle 20 years ago (and still slaps today)>ignore the GOAT artstyle>make the game with a new dogshit artstyle that is clearly trying too hard to be unique>Get dabbed on by indie card gameWhen will these retards learn? Just make the game look good, add hot women, rake in the cash.
>>734793846>good graphics and hot womanThat bungie died with Reach. Its all digital activists making games now.
>>734753914any day now chud
>>734793789>Requires 10 million sales to break even>Primary market is Steam (see picrel), which peaked at 88k players>Sony paid 3.6 billion for Bungie.Lay offs are imminent at this point, flip those burger faggots
>>734769015Especially in comparison to the original concept art for Marathon by Craig Mullins.
>>734753914>1 week in and no social media posts thanking the community for 1 million/2 million/3 million/etc copies soldIt's been 2 years and Square Enix still hasn't released any sales celebration numbers, but the devs are constantly giving interviews to game journos talking about how well Rebirth is selling, so you can't always take a lack of a sales announcement as bad news. Sometimes it's actually good news.
>>734793317That whole short with the recitation of Ozymandias was great.
>>734794182>Craig Mullins.Not concept art. Official post release glow-up art because bungie at the time didn't have a "professional" artist.
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>>734794313fair enough, though my main point that his art is superior and had an already unique and aesthetic design stands.
>>734794376Right, that's Remake, not Rebirth.
>>734794481>They did it for the first game>They didn't do it for the sequel because it obviously sold less and posting inferior numbers for an already struggling Square Enix would for sure have a negative impact with investorsThere, hope that helps copebro
>>734793804>If I keep ignoring reality I'm never wrong>The open wound is a real vagina>Im a real woman nowHahaha whatever dude. The death certificate will say "male"
>>734769015for me, it's coomer asian chick
>>734753914>Not even a 1 bajillion "players" post
>>734753914KEK you wish chud, they're having a hard time making the banner cause it increases way too fast.
>>734794934Even the Pokemon game that launched on the same day just posted a 'we sold 2m units, hooray' press release.Has the Bungie social media people said anything? Any official posts since launch?
>>734753914>muh next tortanic, muh next concordWhy you niggers so obsessed? Not every slop will be a flop, just deal with it.
>>734794786>>They didn't do it for the sequel because it obviously sold lessIt didn't though. The devs keep telling news outlets that Rebirth is selling well. Square Enix just didn't announce anything.
>>734795082Can't tell if this fag is retarded or just dishonest
>>734770578>Can't even make it a 3x2 that expands into a 4x2 when they add more characters>are just fine with it looking like thatModern video games are just asking for death at this point
>>734795192Marathon might be doing well even if Bungie doesn't release a sales statement, because we know Rebirth is doing well and it hasn't had one.
>>734795337>marathon might be doing well>steam player counts are downright pathetic for the size of the game >already confirmed that the game barely sold at all on console and steam is its main platform
>>734753914Reminder that Sony paid 3.6 billion dollars for bungie, or 90% of what Disney paid for Lucasfilm.I'd be reluctant to pay that much even if it came with the Halo IP.
>>734785289Not even 1 % of the playerbase will even make it to Cryo-Archives.It really doesmt matter.
LMAOOOOOOOO
>>734754147This. So much this.
>>734795923Grim...
>>734795923Vibes are shifting. The lightning in the bottle phenomenon is happening. You’ll realize when they launch the new map, Cryo Archives. It’ll be #1 on Top Sellers and 200-400k CCU. Heard they’ll also be sponsoring a bunch of streamers for it whenever that happens, so Twitch viewership will also be through the roof.
FFXIV was niche until it wasn’t, No Man’s Sky was a scam until it wasn’t.I like the game. I think the art is really unique and engaging. I think the sound design is awesome. The music fits the unnerving vibe. The gunplay is soooo good.I hope it sticks around because it’s far more creative and entertaining than what I’ve seen in the past 3 years.
>>734779854I'd say it takes place before Marathon2, I played the first 2 levels of M2 today and Durnadal tells you the Pfhor came back in full force 3 months after you left Tau Ceti 17 years prior and sacked it. I haven't been able to progress the coded much but it doesn't seem like the Pfhor sacking either occurred yet or we're dropping in after it had already happened, I haven't seen any reference to the Pfhor sacking just yet. Tycho got mentioned in one of the Codexs, and there is that foreboding Compiler on the cover art, so who knows, once we actually get back on the Marathon ship maybe we'll know.
>>734795923>outsold by a game not out yetI hurt myself today
>>734772082Fucking lol, this takes me bad.
>>734795337Rebirth sold so bad they had to scrap for tendie sales tho
>>734795923Was the stories 3 demo good
>>734786995Egawa was such a master of female design.
>>734796225This. So much this.
>>734793789>$250 million to develop>$190 million including marketing and operating expensesHow can marketing cost millions? Just send out free games and purchase a couple of ads in magazines/videos.
>>734795923MONSTER HUNTER STORY CHADS WE FUCKIN EATIN
>>734796983>How can marketing cost millions?Anon ecelebs take 100k per sponsored stream and thats low balling lol.
>>734797367I can't tell if you joking. I hope you are.
>>734797431Grubby literally turns down thousands of dollars in sponsor offers because he doesn't give a shit anymore
>>734784129Fromsoft found a nice mix in some of their games. Where PVP is always optional and people that want to fight have tools to summon each other in or invade worlds where they are outnumbered.
>>734797431xqc got an offer of 4m for promoting warzone.
>>734797530>>734797629What the fuck.Streams were a mistake.
>>734796983 my internet world is fully ad blocked and i dont watch TV. I didnt know they even had marketing.
>>734797629Lmfao is that why he didn’t play Marathon? Too expensive for Bungie.
>>734769015based of them to include my nigga george droyd with the fent reactor
>>734780170Modern devs can't make shit. They spent 5 years on 7 characters and 4 maps. Every graphical setting except max/one from max is just shit autogenerated by engine, that's why lower settings almost exactly as bad as max
>>734786198There is a Dreaming Alien God. The same conspiratorial elite that sent the Marathon in the first place wants to exploit it. The Runner digitised minds are subject to rampancy.
>>734765361>3-5 minute matchmaking times Deadlock is the same.
>>734756679>you're just setting yourself up for max humiliation if it doesn't instantly craterObviously it's not gonna instantly crater, but it's gonna be a slow death. 35k players is not enough to keep a big studio like Bungie alive, they got 800 employees in a rented office in one of the most expensive cities of the country. A game like Tarkov with that many players could keep its studio going, but definitely not a studio like Bungie.
>>734768650>the characters are beyond androgynousWhat the fuck are you talking about?
>>734780871>Yeah, it just passed 60k. It might even slightly exceed yesterday's peak on the strength of the patch, but it won't be by much.yes, it poked past 60kno, it did not beat yesterdaythe patch did nothing to stop the bleeding
>>734799978Isn't that just completely fucking stupid? It's obviously within the scope of what has happened because the door has already been opened to magic but how is that at all satisfying? Because the endgame here is that the Runners become co-opted and now what, you have an entire fucking planet crawling with insane Runner clones? And because they can get off-planet using the ships that sent them and/or using the Marathon they begin to infest the solar system with no way for Earth to stop them?And we're just going to have to be happy that this was all accomplished with alien magic? Isn't that just too stupid? Aliens AND Magic?
>>734769945>Behold, a white man
>>734770920He actually looks better in the game.
>>734775429Would be nice to have a few more non-end game ass rape maps.
>>734782469That's just the Thief's trait. This is already in the game.
>>734782648Those are the med drones. He throws them and they provide passive healing to teammates.
>>734760138To setup a tournament this early on, and even use streamers exclusively as the participants is some next level shilling. Seriously guys, this isn't going to work. You've already paid a bunch of people to stream your game, and the majority of the consumer base responded with apathy. It's just burning money for no good reason.
>>734792797>3v3>This is what killed Highguard tooHighguard was stillborn because its art direction was generic and unappealing, and its gameplay was uninteresting. Being 3v3 didn't help, but even if it was 5v5 on launch, little to nothing would have changed.And to add to this, Marathon being 3v3 isn't even true. It's more like 3v3v3v3v3, as there are many teams per map, and later solo-only Rooks also spawn.>>734793317>Cyberpunk's music was bad.Utter dogshit opinion.
