Many Sony must be glad they bought Bungie for $3.6 billion!
Even if it sold 3 million I doubt that would even be enoughThey spent WAY too much time and money and have Sony Execs breathing down their necks after wasting BILLIONS on them
>>735656981>including the screen cap of a big nigger-lipped robot looking puzzledKEK
>>735656981>with 70% on steamWhere are all the ps5 owners?
>>735656981>>735657014>>735657091>>735657127If it was such a flop you guys wouldn't be on here obsessing about the player counts. Y'all are hella jealous.
>>735656981It's a Marathon, not a sprint. Give it time.
>>735657209Its not a Concord level flop but its clearly not enough considering that time and money spent on it
>AAAAAAAACK
>>735657265That still doesn't address why people are literally obsessing over it. They didn't do that with Concord or any other flop. The game genuinely has a quality to it that makes people seethe so badly. Hella jealous
I'm having a splash
>>735657265and it's still around and will still be around, what's your point? Game has a solid playerbase of around 50k at peak hour. You lost.
>>735657383Probably because Bungie is a disgusting, Ubisoft tier slop studio and they deserve to die?
>>735657480Has nothing to do with it. Marathon is Marathon. And you are mad. Thats it. It gets to lots of peoples heads. For some reason.
>>735657383Live service games dying is and always will be something worth celebrating!
>>735656981Oh no! How could this have happened?Oh well.
>>735657383They didn't?Oh you're new. Go back.
>>735657014Jim Ryan was a mistake
>>735657014>Sony gaem>sold most on SteamWill shareholders and investors be happy seeing their console isn't the biggest "live-service" machine?
>>735657383>That still doesn't address why people are literally obsessing over it.I will deliver you the news in your retarded language.People(clap) are(clap) tired(clap) of (clap) extraction(clap) and (clap) hero(clap) shooters(clap) Tarkov (clap) and(clap) Overcunt(clap) exist(clap) Already (headbutt).
>>735657554Live service does more for gaming than any other type out there. By far the most played and interacted with. It's why gaming is so big to a large extent.
>>735657209You sound upset.
>>735657265Concord is once in a generation. >>735657383It's a contender for biggest flop of the year. And if it wasn't for Ubisoft, it probably would be the front runner. If you don't get it just lurk more.
>>735657729>>735657746>>735657762You can just smell the salt.
>>735657729Everyone’s sick of openworld slop too but they still bought crimson desert in mass
>>735657430*40k update your script man
He killed it.
>>735657209womp womp you lost troonydon't shoot up any hockey games about it
>>735656981>70% of sales on steam on a new release from Bungieman Gaben won so hard it aint even funny
>>735657737Yeah, it does more HARM to the industry than anything else.It keeps the goy paying more and more for drip fed content and customization.But you already KNOW that, you filthy KIKE.
It's over.
>>735656981>10m-8.8m copies sold is bad nowgrow up
>>735657729It doesn't matter at all though, all these games started development 3-5 years ago, they're still going to come out of the pipeline one by one, flop hard until the last, and then be heard from no more. Nothing can affect this process apart from a nonexistent audience being scrounged up from somewhere.
>>735657205>>with 70% on steam>Where are all the ps5 owners?There's literally a tax on the PS5 to play paid multiplayer games.Sony will have to decide. if they want multiplayer behind a paywall, they can't really expect multiplayer only paid games to do well on the PS5.
>>735657209I came here to laugh at you
>no SBMMdead game
>>735657091I hope the stress kills every single Bungie employee.
HUZZAH!Marathon is saved!
>>735657818Open world slop at least has a chance to have new mechanics. FPS hero slop is literally the most bottom of the barrel trash when it comes to game development next to indie pixel platformers.
>>735657014>Sold way more on Steam>Gabe gets his cut>Sony earned more money from PS5 than from Steam KWABOTY
>>735657209Decent bait ngl, it was the Y'all and hella that tipped me off though, you should just use one of those in the future.
>>735657383>They didn't do that with Concord or any other flop.WRONG! This is a board for discussing games, new games are going to see more discussion than old ones near their release, that's just how it works. Eventually people will lose interest in discussing the failures but it'll take some time. You don't see much Assassins Creed: Niggers in Japan discussion anymore, but that shit flooded the catalog when it came out. The same is true for most high profile games, be they successful or failures.
transphobes still seething about marathon. go play youre chud game crimson flop
>>735656981It's a Marathon; not a sprint... Give it time...
How much longer until they make it F2P?
Why did Bungie kill Destiny for an extraction shooter?
>>735657014it would have been an enormous flop if it wasn't for pc troons and their horrendous taste. why are they such goy cattle? their favorite streamer plays it and almost a million of those retards are instantly onboard.
>>735658093Dude the communication and listening to feedback is crazy for Marathon I can't lie. This is a sick change
>>735658264Because they wanted to steal a bunch of new money and destranny wasn't making any money anymore because it fucking sucked
>>735657209>jealousI'm not the one losing my job :D
Why are people forcing themselves to hate this game? The hate is so performative and fake Marathon is unironically the best extraction shooter in the market. If what you're looking for is the extraction shooter experience. If you want fun stories with strangers then yes, ARC Raiders takes it. Otherwise Marathon does everything better than EVERYTHING else.
>250 million budget>1.2 million copies sold at 40 bucks a pop>before revenue splits only generated 48 millionSiony spent 3.4 billion acquiring Bungie btw
reminder that destiny 2 didnt hit lows this bad until like 5 years after release
>>735658093>nobody can find matches because our game failed in less than a month just like everyone said it would
>>735658346it sucks lol
>>735657825I don’t know how anyone here can hate this guy. He writes the most incorrect opinions imaginable and doesnt give a fuck. He’s based.>>735657541Has much to do with it. It’s actually a major stroke of luck Bungie is a game company and not into healthcare or defense or something with real world stakes, because they’re a fucking awful company that doesn’t give a single fuck about people. Most companies at least pretend to give fucks.
>>735657014That's a catastrophical failure, they're saying it had $250m dev cost but I'm calling big bullshit on that one.>Triple A studio>Six years or slightly longer in development>They also had to delay in a year likely due to them hoping the storm would tide overI'd guess $400 or more then factor in the heavy amount of marketing they've done with streamers etc... This is by all means on the level of Concord because its Bungie they okayed this shit well before Sony purchased them.
>>735658000Not 10, 1.2.
>>735658093>buy game>online only>can only access certain content when we say soISHYFDDT
>Open internet >See ANOTHER doomer article immediately This just keeps getting better and better
>enough sales to qualify as a "greatest hits" title on consoles of yoreNot seeing the issue here.
>>735658346>Marathon is unironically the best shit in the toiletOk, buddy
It's sucks and it flopped (as expected). Nothing more to say.
>>735658346Is this the new Copypasta? Lol
>>735657014Alinea Analytics is literally worse than vgchartz ever was
>>735658205Same, especially when combined with the hella.
>>735656981I really don’t get why you don’t make your own class and character in this.This game just has not much going for it.
Get woke, go bro-er.... I'm a stupid ugly kike and also go broke lmao
>>735657697it is the biggest live service machine. psn makes up nearly 50% of fortnite users entirely on its own. this fact was a huge thorn in sweeney's side during the apple trials.
Heh, wait until you see me actually do something.
Tassi (big Bungie shill) talked to people at Bungie and they said these reports are close to reality. It's over
>>735656981I think this has been said to death, but it needed a good single player campaign along with the extraction shooter multiplayer to attract people.
>>735658608I like how this big bungie shill has been doing nothing but fanning the flames the last couple of weeks
>>735658595like having sex? no chance lol, marathon is fine without you chuds
>>735658523>Confirmed by Paul Tassi and CircanaYou lost Maratroon, blast while you can ;)
>>735658608he's a destiny shill. he's been on the marathon hate train since the reveal because he's maong those that are mad bungie shited from destiny. he also writes for a content farm instead of being an actual journalist.
>>735657383>they didn't do that with Concord or any other flopMost of the "Concordlikes" collapsed before anyone even had the chance to "obsess" over them, and the ones that took a while to die were made fun of incessantly, so either you're just cracking some dumb joke for (you)s, or you were literally born yesterday and you're the fastest person to ever learn English.>>735656981>oldfags beg Bungie to port/remake Marathon for literal decades, something like 40 years now at this point>some are placated by viewing Halo as "close enough-ish" at best>Bungie finally gets some freedom and people want them to make Marathon games again>they get bought and buttfucked and make Destiny instead>tied up in Destiny games for decades now>oldfags are aging out, but some youngerfags get curious about Marathon and join in>Destiny fans start noticing D2 is falling apart with less content and fewer updates, feels like the game's crumbling or getting ignored>"Marathon" is finally announced to people mostly asking "what the fuck?">instead of Marathon, "Marathon" is another GaaS clown show loaded with MTX in a giant pile of other GaaS games loaded with MTX and has basically nothing to do with Marathon>"Marathon" releases almost exclusively to a massive fanbase made up of>game also releases at/around the same time as some heavy-hitting indie games that all outsell it>Destiny fans are mad as it's revealed that "Marathon" was why D2 was crumbling to dust>Marathon fans are mad that "Marathon" really is nothing like Marathon>extraction shooter fans are too busy playing Tarkov and AR to care>Bungie fans glance over and don't care much either>whales don't care because everyone in the game looks like plastic rainbows so there's no way to stand out and brag>normalfags don't care much either because the characters are too... odd>casualfags play the game once and get their shit pushed in, so they refund (if they can)
can we take this opportunity to laugh at all those who spent $40 on this trash
I'm gonna put it into perspective at how catastrophic this is for Bungie. In 2024 they laid off a huge amount of staff after Lightfall underperformed. Lightfall peaked at 314k on steam. Marathon peaked at 88k, less than Veilguard. Marathon also has way less console players than Destiny
no sympy for GaaS shitmake a real game next time and not a second job for addicted retards to waste their lives in
>>735657762>concord is once in a generationOr so we thought...
I thought this was about metzen lol, he overdosed while speedballing last weekend and was pronounced dead at the scene.
>>735657697same thing happened with helldivers 2
>>735658093why can't rank AND Cryo Archive be available the time?
>>735657762>Concord is once in a generation.
>>735658680mat piscatella hasn't said anything and it will be a while before there's march data. last time he spoke out was to debunk alinea's claims about re requiem.
>>735658608Funny Sony is dropping PC porting while Steam is the sole platform keeping their latest AAA monstrosity afloat.
Marathon needed to not be phenomena to make back its budget costs. Not a run of the mill, by the numbers trend chasing slop, pitched to the shareholders who wanted fortnite money promised to them by ex-Halo devs.
>>735657014>Allegedly sells 800k copies on steam>Barely 10% actually played it with a peak of 88k????
>>735657209>>735657383>t.
>>735657430it's about to go under 40k 24hr high, anon
>>735658346
>>735657762>>735658738>>735658778>Main seriesConcord Origins: HyenasConcordConcord 2: HighguardConcord 3: MarathonConcord 4: Fairgame$Concord 5: Hunter GatheringsConcord 6: Last FlagConcord 7: 4LoopConcord 8: Time Takers>Spin offsDestruction All ShartDustborn: A Concord StoryAvowed: A Concord RPGConcord RelootedDragon Age The ConcordguardUnkown 9 WokeningFoamsharts1348 ExConcordConcordInn
More like Anthem 2 thasn concord, anyway who cares its over for bungie
>>735658809The total steam sales after a couple weeks usually range from 5x to 10x the all time peak players
>even Fortnite is firing a billion employeesThis entire industry is fucked isn't it
>>735658738Someone's gotta compile all the GaaS flops of the last couple years, I'm tired of people just saying there's only like 3 "Concords".Hyenas and Foamstars are two that never get mentioned, and I remember at least one of those asymmetrical horror multiplayer games came out like a wet fart and collapsed.Bonus points if there's a list on the side of AAA games that shat the bed and died too, like Metroid Prime 4 is a particular standout case in that if that leaker (or just logic in general) is right, Nintendo spent close to $100m on it only to maybe sell 1-2m copies total, despite Nintendo's social media team spamming the game since release, even as recently as like... yesterday, trying to eke out some more sales.
>>735657383ikr? I'm having a blast myself.
feels so good to see most of the corpo dei shit getting dumped in game genres or series i dont care about
>>735658809toital active users is not the same as peak concurrentshttps://bsky.app/profile/matpiscatella.bsky.social/post/3mgs2owfzdc2znote it's much harder to crack the top 10 on consoles despite him saying re9 actually sold best on ps5
>>735658938 (me)Basically this, I mean: >>735658778 Also I vote that any AAA game that shat the bed at a Concord-tier level but isn't GaaS should be referred to as a "Concord-lite", heh.
>>735658938Got you bro >>735658846
>>735658784They're only dropping PC ports for movieslop, because no one bought any of them. As for their multiplayer games, Helldivers 2 guaranteed that they will never, ever leave Steam.
>>735656981>make weird looking androgynous robot thing as their player characters>surprised it flopped
Why do you even care? None of us even own a PS5? We're never going to buy one, and sony will keep slopping out. Why don't we just roll back a bit, take a pause, breathe out and talk about a game we enjoy. Saravah. Peace be unto you.
>>735658846>no lawbreakers>no battleborn
Destiny 1 despite its problems actually had soul. Destiny 2 is marvel slop and Marathon is pure garbage
>>735657383Seethe?
>>735658393>I don’t know how anyone here can hate this guy. He writes the most incorrect opinions imaginable and doesnt give a fuck. He’s based.ironically enough, I find his takes to be great at figuring out if I'm going to like or hate a game. He's got practically 100 percent accuracy in reverse on his descriptions.
www.wokeflopwiki.com
>>735659003#ur2slow
>>735659004DADS OF MARATHON DROPPING THIS SHIT LMAO
>>735657014how does a sony first party game not sell 500k on their own system
>>735657737Doing more doesn't mean doing good. These mainstream blockbuster esque games always boil down to either the same old formula or chasing a trend from some lightning in a bottle AA game. Industry needs to collapse into a pretty 2010s state for vidya to be both fun and sustainable and every giga flop like concord, hyenas and marathon pushes us towards that, and away from mindless Indians like yourself polluting the hobby
>>735657209
LOL
>>735656981insane how dev team size and dev cycles have bloated to the point that 1.2 million copies isn't enough sales.
>>735656981Bungie was never good and Halo got hard carried by slow retards that didn't get introduced to Quake or DOOM firstAlso Halo's art style got hard carried by artists who had actual taste in things like Ghost in the Shell
>>735656981!#%$ YOU, I HAD A GOOD TIME.
damn those gooks that made crimson desert really made a mid ass game and still btfo'd sony and bungie
>>735659153this is the crux of itit's the same way with the film industryjust throwing money in an incinerator
>>735659092>1679 entrieswokies... i think we need to go back to sleep...
>>735658450Consoles of yore big games didn't have 5x AAA budgets.
>>735659182Actual trvthnvke.
>>735659143>Not even Resetera is defending Marathon
>>735657014>3.6LOL
My fellow Redditards are giving up on the game en masse.It is so, O V E R.
>spend 200 million on some generic ass fps game with an shitty art style >be surprised when it flops
>>735659143I believe they switched to "I'm hooked"
>Destiny is dead thanks to marathon >Marathon flopped Bungie status?
>>735659214part of me thinks it at the very least broke even, but Sony/Bungie expected a bottomless well of cash that something like Fortnite or Roblox has. Sony in particular seems to be desperately chasing a live service game they can infinite money with
>>735658093This nigga is in the future
>>735656981Havin a blast!Makin a splash!Playin Marathon til there's a rash on my ass!
>>735657383Be glad it's getting any press. People needed something to talk about and it was Marathon. If no one talked about it at all it would've died silently, pathetically.
>>735658093>Ranked can only be played by the unemployed based
>>735659345He's getting banned
What is Cryo Archive and why is it supposed to be so great for the people who bother grinding to even get it?
>>735657209>Y'allyou're not black, anon. stop talking like this
>>735659092based, this website will be bigger than reddit one day
>>735657209You're such a fucking employee holy shit, this game has such aggressive "this game good" thread shilling here yet no one likes it, do you know how that looks?
>>735659284They didBtw, Era now has TWO containment threads for Marathon
>>735656981I’M HAVING A BLAST MAKING A SPLASH
>>735659405yall is a white southern thin
>>735659008>release your movieslop a year after ps5>at full price>with shit performance >>WHY IS NO ONE BUYING THIS ON STEAM?!?!Do the nukes and anime really fry their brains this hard?
>>735659219What is it with "them" and the color purple?
>>735658738>>735658778Highguard is a big ass crater, but the sheer magnitude of Concord can't be underestimated. If you take the entire bungie demolition, which includes marathon AND concord, that's a different story.
>>735659405Sorry Jamal you don't own y'all
>>7356594454
>>735658771gamerdads are NOT welcomeonly the unemployed who can commit to OUR SCHEDULE
>>735659379it's a destiny raid but you have to jump through hoops to enter it
>>735658778>>735658846>No mention of TORtanicProof all this concord spam is by literal zoomer newfags
MARATHON. IS. NOT. FOR. *YOU.*WHEN WILL YOU CHUDS UNDERSTAND THIS?
>>735659564>it's a destiny raidIsn't this one of the most aggressively PVP extraction shooters though?
I love my wife Vandal
>>735659092>Categories: Pure Wokeflop, Partial Wokeslop Womanslop, Moneystealer, Redditcore, DIGRA Indie, Governmentflopts crazy
Does Marathon have any footfag pandering?
>>735658093>Not enough players to sustain multiple gamemodesholy flop
>>735659512Synthetic faggot if he were a tranny would be a solid 7.2
>>735658065we like sbmm now?
>>735657014it would make billions on switch 2
>>735656981i'd rather play with a respectable 50k decent human beings than 500k chuds
>>735659092why is everyone pretending this is a real thing
>>735659724Is she a robot? what's the lore?very cute clanker if she is a robot/android.
>>735659598most extraction shooter players are gambling addicts, and so they like to wager the gear needed to survive entering into a raid area, the macguffin for their quest, and extracting outit's a sign that this is the most degenerate form it's going to get before unironic crypto games try to break out into the market
>>735659797>shethat's a they bigot.
>>735657209Uh oh Jeet, looks like that pay increment isn't on the cards for you
>>735659724Ok, Extra Credits>>735659797People get downloaded into disposable bodies
>>735656981Marathon is EASILY the most fun I've had gaming in the last 10 years. I'm not sure why it hasn't caught on. Are people put off by the pvp focus? It plays phenomenally and only gets better with time invested. The art and design is top notch. I can't even play Arc after experiencing the highs of Marathon.
>>735659724>the coziest exclusive chud-free gaming zonehopefully they don't go f2p and instead start charging a subscriptionSIGN ME UP
>>735659787can't resist the hot new memes
>>735659797>SheThat’s transphobic chud
I'm amazed people were even defending this.But also,>TORtanicStill made its money back with a profit, and didn't get shutdown <1 year later. Which is far more than any of these flops can cling to, when they have to explain how they pissed away hundreds of millions of dollars to the board.These things are more disastrous than that.
>>735656981i just don't give a shit about shoot gamescome up with something fucking new
>>735657014I was going to say I'm surprised Snoys didnt turn out in droves for this shit but then I remembered they only buy over-the-shoulder cinematic handholding move diarrhea games
>>735659845>The art and design is top notchok shill.
>>735656981Who is the target audience for this
>>735659985
>>735658932Epic overhired, and while they're dropping 25 percent of their staff, they're still profitable.>>735659153Yes. And the employees arent' productive. Marathon is barebones in map and PVE content. That's a central reason for it's failure. Casuals have nothing to do but be steamrolled by sweats.
>>735659879don't be racist. f2p would mean more people of color get to enjoy the game. chuds will ignore it anyway hopefully.
how do you stop him? how is he so powerful?
>>735660005Blast Havers and Splash Makers
>>735660024Looks like AI made this, desu.6
>>735660005I like how none of these robots look whiteand if you asked about it they'd just say THEY'RE SHELLS THEY DONT HAVE RACE CHUDeven though all of them are clearly black or asian
>>735656981how did they sell like 800k steam copies when the concurrent player number hasn't even cracked 80k since the very first day? and it drops down to like 10k every night so don't say it's half australians playing at off hours
>>735657383>That still doesn't address why people are literally obsessing over it.First off, Sony spent about four billion dollars to buy Bungie and have them develop a new game for them. This doesn't take into account the fact that Bungie was also in charge of the other 2 dozen GaaS projects Sony had going on at the time and given the fact that almost all of those got completely shitcanned, it almost seems like Bungie sabotaged those projects to remove Marathon's potential competition. Marathon being a failure means that it's a bigger tortanic than the actual tortanic, but unlike Marathon, TOR actually managed to actually bounce back so it's still alive and seeing new content today.Second, look at the other games that came out out alongside Marathon. The sequel to one of the most popular indie games on Steam, an unholy Pokemon/Animal Crossing lovechild, and Crimson Desert, which proudly announced it hit the 3 million mark despite game journalists and twitter trannies running a smear campaign against the game for being Korean. It looks really fucking bad when all of those had a significantly smaller budget and will achieve evergreen status in the years to come, meanwhile Marathon is now confirmed to be more dead than TF2, a 19 year old game.It's like a car crash in slow-motion, and it hasn't ended just yet.
>Outsold by silly kot game.?
>>735656981The game has good and bad qualities to it. Overall I like it but I probably just don't have the energy for it because of the difficulty and my aversion to playing with other people. Overall I like it but I can see why a lot ot people wouldn't. Its just set up weird, its exceedingly difficult and punishes failure so hard that a lot of people will drop it early on, and has a lot of controversial aspects like being live service and an extraction game and am aesthetic and art style that a lot of people just don't seem to get. Perhaps it was too ambitious and experimental in concept to overcome those hurdles.
>>735660005Troons
>>735657014>$48,000,000 earnings (without removing the 30% cut)>budget is rumored to be $250,000,000That's like an 80% loss.
If your game can't break even with 1.2 million sold you're setting yourself up for failure.
>>735660267
>>735657209>y'all>hellahi tranny
>>735658093Remember how Overwatch had the arcade and sometimes there'd be fun events like the snowball fight and soccer? Yeah people how those events were only available for a limited time, but tolerated it because you didn't have to fucking grind like a cotton-picking nigger just to queue up for those.
>>735656981>>735657014Well, at least it did way better than Concord
>>735659598Yes. >>735659379Sony threatened all the publications to hold off on reviews until cryo archive's release, and the major ones did so.Turns out cryo archive is a super sweat only destiny raid that needs to be run multiple times to do anything, and locks out all but teams of 3 with gear that they're willing to risk.>>735659942TOR also effetively put in so much more effort and dev that it's more like they made a new game.
>>735660024Thanks for proving my point.
>>735660209
>>735656981>make game targeting “hardcore” players >it fails >mild_shock.webmSeems especially foolish to do it in a genre like extraction shooter
>>735660323Concord issued complete refunds. In order to compete with that shit, you need to be like Hyenas or POP remake levels to even come close
>>735660267Maradads…
>>735659797Ignore the retards desperately trying to imprint tranny shit onto the game, all the shells are she's or him's. They're synthetic robots basically, the player character's body is up in space and the mind is transplanted into these things to go on the planet and collect resources or kill shit.
>>735658778I have never heard of Last Flag
>verification not req’d
>>735660050yeah I guess they can just pump out cosmetics for us to buy to keep the good times rolling
>>735658730Lmao
>>735656981>robot niggerKek, of course it failed.
>>735657918zamn zoomies look like this!?
>>735660267already? it hasn't even been a month yet
>>735659570Let it go Grandpa Jesus Christ you're on your remember the Alamo kick we Bazzin and Blasting now
Destinyfags got raped so hard by bungie they're going to obsess over the company till the day they die
i ate beans and i cant stop farting.
>>735658264They ran out of ideas
>>735658778Kino
>>735660172>Sony spent about four billion dollars to buy Bungie and have them develop a new game for them.Marathon had already been in development for 2 full years before Sony bought Bungie.
>>735659073Everyone keeps saying soul wtf is soul shit makes no sense.
>>735660702it just means "I like this thing"
>>735660597The only people getting raped right now are Maratards
>>735660186How does it punish failure hard? There's more issues like how gray shotguns and snipers outperform everything else and the map content being extremely sparse and small for the amount of teams dropped in
>>735660005Fucking hell the nigger looks almost exactly like an ape. Kinda based to be honest
>>735659073True
>>735658264This is just tranny Destiny extraction zone
>>735658730>losing to veilguardgrim
>>735660819No because it looks good unlike destiny
>>735660680it will be okay, sony just needs to invest another 500M and wait 8-10 years for Bungie to make another game. That one will surely be profitable.
>>735660702You don’t understand because you, in fact, are soulless.
>>735660865No u
>>735660865Well fuck you got me
>>735659307Maybe I’m retarded but I feel like you can blame Pete parsons for destiny more than specifically marathon >start a bunch of side projects that will ultimately fall apart to inflate the perceived value of bungie despite destiny being your only money maker>pull talent off of destiny to man these projects >lightfall development suffers and has bad reception>layoffs >edge of fate is a decent dlc but performs poorly because of lightfall>more layoffs>say that current content model is unsustainable and switching to smaller, more frequent updates>failing to deliver those on time Putting so much hope into marathon probably didn’t help but it doesn’t feel like the root
>>735660440LOL. It's post humanist. It's the level of progressivisim PAST trannies.
>>735660863>No because it looks good
>>735657014Bungie's management are happy they get to escape the sinking ship with a large payout as they screw Sony.
>>735661149Trying too hard
>>735661203Yes, that looks better than Destiny which always looked like bargain bin power rangers to me
>>735658264Because even they can't keep multiple live service games running at once. Plus, they probably believed that people would move from Destiny over to Marathon like some kind of whale exodus
>>735661231Not trying at all. That's the devs themselves who said that.
Bro I tried, I genuinely tried to like it, and I like the idea of extraction shooters, it seems like a genre I should be able to get addicted to. The problem is not one single game in the genre has good shooting mechanics or fun movement, not one at all.Inb4>YOU SHOULD TRY VANDAL YOU SHOULD TRY THEIF THOSE CHARACTERS ARE SOOO SOOO FAST WHEN MY TRANS GF PLAYS THEM I CANT KEEP UPTheres a one minute long cooldown for each time I want to grapple or rocket jump, and I cant even rocket jump without some super rare end game item that never shows up. Also any form of movement, the slide the grapple the double jump, sprint, all completely remove your ability to aim and shoot. Also, recoil, ADS on non snipers, sprint, its just every single dogshit shooting mechanic that shouldnt exist rolled into one. I tried, I really tried, it just sucks.
>>735661248If that's true they would've shit canned destiny 1 and vaulted most of 2
>>735656981b-b-b-but /v/ told me that there was NO way the game sold 1 million copies and it was an omega giga flop on the scale of concord.,....
>>735656981>70% of copies were sold on SteamWhat a great time to scale back on bringing games to the PC
>>735657265How isn't it a concord level flop? They literally lost hundreds of millions of dollars.Player count is irrelevant, it's all about destroyed capital.
>>735661463>a game selling over a million is the same as the game selling 10k
>>735656981>1.2 million copies sold>70% of copies sold on steam>all time peak of 80K or soSo is snoy just making shit up now and hoping cryo saves them?
>>735661334This is an omega level giga flop
>>735656981This game died when they slapped a 40 dollar price tag on it.
>>735661463>>735661334Order of magnitude. Concord is worst bomb in all of media ever. This is just the leader for flop of the year, competing with Prince of Persia and Highguard.We don't want to devalue exactly how huge a bomb Concord was with this distant runner up.
>>735658027the charge for playing games online is why I never considered getting a PS5fucking stupid. Already paid for the system, the game, my internet, but now I have to pay for the privilege to possibly play online every once in a while? Retarded. If that wasn't the case I doubt I'd have a gaming PC now.
>>735661520>What is budget?You lost Maratranny
>>735661801The beta was losing players at it went along. I don't think people would play it if it were free.>>735661728They know cryo won't save them. Their strategy is going to flail around for a bit with settings and matchmaking.
>>735661728Anon when people tell you that CCU is literally 1/10th of the sales at a minimum they aren't lying.80k CCU is ~800k sales.
>>735657014Did you have stroke while typing that or are you just an ESL?
>>735661334Its not an official source, but you knew that.
Post more of the cute clanker with the blue x on her mouth
>>735657918>leftBWC>rightBWC
>>735661463>it's all about destroyed capitalThe purpose of a publicly traded business isn't to turn capital into profit, what century do you live in?It's to convince investors that they can make more money in the future. The difference between "middling failure" and "massive, abominable failure with zero recoup" is very important in this regard.>>735661876Concord's budget was literally bigger than Marathon's.
>>735656981>>735657014>Steams trannies are the biggest slop eaterscolor me surprised
>>735661910>i-i-it's wrong anyway!Then why are you posting it you colossal faggot?
>>735656981>over 1 million people need to look in a fucking mirror and be disappointed with themselves
>>735662013You're not going to try to claim this is tracking to be a middling failure, are you ? You think the chart compression is going to break north?
>>7356621091.2 million sales is at worst a middling failure, even if it shut down tomorrow.
>>735657209This is high quality bait. Congrats on knowing how to play the retards here like a fiddle.
>>735657091>Even if it sold 3 million I doubt that would even be enoughIirc, someone mathed out that they need 6+ million just to break even the estimated budget.They're fucked beyond measure.
>>735662013Bungie alone cost them $3.6BConcord had a fast death, while they have already spent three weekends paying streamers to shill this flop
>>735660680That doesn't change the fact that Sony paid out the ass for Bungie and only received a massive flop in return.Bungie's not even obligated to make Playstation exclusives, they put the game on Xbox which even Sony has never done before.
>>735657014playstation fans have better taste than steamies
Reminder they wanted this game to be in the top 5 sellers of the year to be considered a success
>>735662187If you think they expected this game to make a $3.6B return you are mentally incapacitated.
>>735659016Lawbreakers and Battleborn are sadly too esoteric for zoomies. In fairness, though, they didn't have the massive financial backing that made their deaths funnier, but they still had their tone-deaf leaders completely deluding themselves into thinking their games would be successful. You're right to bring them up, though. They deserve to be remembered, even if we never knew how much worse it would get at the time.
>>7356612901 was still managed by Activision, they have infinite money from CoD that they could afford to keep the game going for years to come.
>>735662234Reminder it's a Marathon, not a sprint. Give it time.
>>735662135At a price point of 40 at an estimated budget of 250 mill plus marketing? Alright. Unless you've got radically different numbers, you can stand on that without me. I think it looks Ubisoft bad.
>>735660702Homunculus post identified.
So what's the issue with marathon exactly?It seems to have a stable playerbase as well
>>735662335>at an estimated budget of 250 mill plus marketingThese estimates are largely bullshit, but even so yes.
>>735662184How does this basic ass MP shooter require so much money to make anyway. Not only is the artstyle stolen it also allows for simpler assets and textures. This looks like a game that a team of 20-50 competent guys can cook in a year.
>>735656981It's almost like people didn't want a ugly art style extraction game
>>735662392Mixture of retards who desperately want another concord and raped destiny fans mad that destiny is over.Utlimately it's not mass-market generic soulless corpo-slop for casual retards and that enrages the modern /v/ audience.
>>735662431Bungie is a team of 800 devs in Seattle
>>735657209>noooooo how dare you voice your displeasure at blind trend-chasing and life-service garbage rrrrreeeeeeeeeeechoke on a dick
>>735659591doesn't seem like it's for almost everyone
>>735659016When you carve a niche out for yourself, you outshine all predecessors. Just like there were no first-person shooters before Doom, there were no Concords before Concord
>>735662485Astonishing.
>>735662480Ig but it's definitely getting to the point of mental retardation beyond the usual "I am just making fun of it okay"
>>735662248I'm pretty sure the company that spent $3.6B on a company that shutters multiple projects, leading to the closure of multiple studios, only to lead to a flop live service is, in fact, the retard.
>>735662485>seattlethat explains so much
Look at all that content! One map in 3 months and it's a night version of an already existing one
>>735662392you are not a serious person
>>735662480Put the fries in the bag, wagie.
>>735662480>Utlimately it's not mass-market generic soulless corpo-slop for casual retardsNice bait
>>735662335Concord had a budget of 300 mil and made ZERO dollars
>>735662585Yes but the failure was in their absurd idea that Bungie would magically sprinkle fairy dust onto everything and Sony could pump out a billion live service games, not that Marathon didn't do well.Unironically, Concord is the primary failure of Bungie's acquisition.
>>735662619you're clearly not mentally stable since you've spent almost the whole month obsessing over playercounts
>>735662630I have literally not heard a single criticism about the game that doesn't come down to that.>extraction shooters are bad!Not casual enough>the artstyle is ugly!Not corpo-slop enough>ttk is too low!Not casual enoughAnd so on.
>>735662695>>personal insultok i win
>>735657825>he killed itNo. Not yet.
1.2 million units sold is the worst number because its fucking low enough to be unsustainable in the long run for an extraction shooter (that already blew its first quarter load and couldn't increase the player base), while the being too high for Bungie to actually consider refunds in order to make the game f2p as fast as possible before it becomes completely irrelevant.
>>735662619>you are not a serious person>he says, posting his custom spreadsheets for playercounts on a game he doesn't like???>>735662735>you are not a serious personIs already a personal insult.
>you're clearly not mentally stable since you've spent almost the whole month obsessing over playercounts
>>735662718FPS games are for braindead casual retards by definition holy shit you don't even play videogames right?
>>735662759This, if they have sold sub 500k maybe they could’ve refunded everything or rush EoS, but now they are forced to at least stick around a couple months for their “dedicated” player base
>>735662802Hahaha sure they are retardGo back to your JRPGs or whatever
>>735657014800,000 sales at $40 USD is about $32,000,000, With Valve's graduated revenue cut, they paid 30% of the first million in revenue, then 20% on every dollar earned after that. Which means their actual revenue was somewhere around $25,360,000Marathon cost somewhere between $100 Million and $200 Million to develop and market. Which means that Marathon lost between $75 Million and $175 Million for Sony. It's just not worth it to dump this much money into video games, making video games can't be treated like an industrial process. It doesn't work. You can't throw more people, more research and more machinery at the problem and expect better results. The amount you spend on developing a video game is not determinative of its success on the market. A developer that puts that money to good use in developing a fine quality product like Rockstar can make a lot of money that way, but that's because they're creating a spectacle that everyone wants to see. They weren't treating it like the flavor lab at Frito Lay where absolutely every aspect gets tuned for maximum appeal. They made a compelling Wild West story that felt like a technical marvel. They never said "Most players don't care about the writing that much. Let's make it an easy to follow rollercoaster!" They never said "We need to do what everyone else is doing, but better, and with a trendy style." They had competent, highly coordinated people putting all their effort into a product that actually carried some kind of vision.You need talented programmers, skilled artists, musicians, and close communication between everyone involved to actually achieve something like that. Picking up an "It's X, but Y," pitch by HR-brained people, carefully cultivating a brand image, and leaving it to a bunch of disposable green new hires and Chinese and Indian contractors across five time zones as your 20 actually competent people are on cat-herding duty is hideously inefficient.
>>735656981No shit, but who the fuck did they think the audience for this was?99% of people playing games today have no clue what the Marthon name is/was.Not to mention the people playing those types of games already have the one they're probably going to stick with.It's like putting a brand new, unheard-of fast food place in a section of town with 5 well-known and well-liked places already there.inb4 >food analogy
>>735662718>Not corpo-slop enoughIt's a literal plastic mutation of the human form. Bad design is bad design.
>>735662761i'm really sorry me and my numbers offended you but is the playerbase stable?
Wait for the full version.
>>735662802The concept of a touhoupedo saying this
