Chuds lost! Marathon is not concord 3 and will be here for years! Post yfw we won Marabros
>Bungie doesn't want investors to pull out
How can they even salvage it? So far I've seen people criticize that its actually too hardcore to the point of only pandering to niche no life fags
slop'a'ton is old news already, anyone found out what concord 4 is gonna be?
>>735988916Guys of Highguard also said that, even made a roadmap.
>>735988916This will age poorly
BLASTERS TRUST THE PLAN. GAYTRIOTS ARE IN CONTROLB
>>735988916>stop updating>keep the servers running for 18 monthsSee, years!
>>735989528Either another shadowdrop with suits too arrogant to can it or snoy goes ahead with Chuck's game Fairgames (previously Jade's).
Marathon will keep going as long as there's people working at Bungie if you comprehend what im typing.
>>735989528>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 ExConcordConcordInnBattlewokeLACKbreaker
>>735988916Oh god it's the best of both worlds. It sold enough that Sony can't quietly take it out behind the shed and kill it but it didn't make anywhere near the numbers it needed to make. I love it. My cock's having a blast to this news.
>>735991542We're just gonna be edging for months until the game inevitably goes f2p
remember when ea said the same thing about anthem being a '10 year game'lol
It's Marathover...
Blast? Had.Server? Slammed.Lightning? Bottled.Mainstream? Written all over.Long haul? In it.
>Down 15k (over a quarter of its players) in 1 weekLOL
>>735991629>f2pthey may not bother if the microtransactions aren't lucrative enough
>>735988916Well anthem; a truley horrendous game, was kept on life support for 7 years Marathon is bad but not that bad, it will probably be supported for about that long
>>735992134>it'll stay alive until it dies
>>735988916Just like Highguard right? kek
>>735988916Highguard devs said they don't need player numbers to survive and they'd support the game for years to come too...
>>735988916AWESOMEI was afraid the chuds had wonguess I can safely buy in now
>>735992808Tencent pulled out and thus they ran out of support, Sony probably won't do the same since they don't want a repeat embarrassment after Concord.
>>735988916>It's here to stayThey say that about every game they are about to pull the plug on
>>735991825Form? Returned to.
>>735993258I genuinely hope they support Marathon for years without downsizing the team at Bungie, but I know they will to save money.
>>735993258>Sony will just keep burning money because it'll make them look badThat won't last foreverSony will say enough is enough eventually. Sunk-cost fallacy only goes so far
Marathon is going to be supported up until the point Sony can axe the servers without refunding everyone.
$60,000,000 on a $300,000,000 budget would be a cataclysmic bomb for a movie, why are games different?
>want to see the exact sales figures>look up "Marathon bomb"Wtf was I thinking I literally live in Boston
>>735988916lol
>>735988916Based
>>735988916Chudbros… our meme magic failed…
>>735988916Remember when they said the exact same thing about Anthem? And that sold way more than a million copies at launch
>>735988916>sales is le good!>actually game is fine despite poor salesThey be slipping
>>735995828Movies pretty much stop making money the second they're out of the theaters, especially now that DVDs and BDs are basically extinct.Even merch doesn't have the pull it used to, so the only real long-term money is whatever trickle they get from streaming services.If a movie fails, it's failed, there's no way to dig it out of the loss unless you get VERY lucky and it goes viral out of nowhere before it's removed from theaters.Games, you can update them, add MTX, cater to whales, add DLCs, put it on increasingly deeper sales over the course of like a decade, or easily cultivate a subreddit that sucks your dick regardless of the game's quality and have them naturally wank the game across the internet by osmosis.Of course this doesn't work with games that absolutely FAIL fail, like how Concord flopped so bad that even the most pessimistic analyst having a bad day wouldn't be able to come up with numbers that low.One understated thing I feel more people need to pay attention to with "Concordlikes" where the game's so poorly received that important/big updates don't bump the playercount much. It happened to Highguard in particular, Highguard released an update that helped fix the game's biggest complaint and allowed more players on each team to liven up the matches as requested, but the playercount didn't even bounce. Nobody cared enough to return to the game to say "maybe it's fixed now?"Marathon, same thing. A new update hits and it just kinda "eh". People that play Marathon play it and slowly leave, people that don't play Marathon don't give a fuck, so the game continues its downward trend.That SHOULD be a huge red flag to Bungie/Sony, but them trying to push through it kinda gives me the vibe that the game's one of those "make or break" projects that failure is something they can't just facetank like a healthier company might.
>>735988916I just wanted Bungie to make a boomer shooter.
>>736002000
Gamers are so fat and stupid they'd rather play a marathon simulator than actually train and go run a marathon in real life. Why has this been such a big deal for weeks?
>>735989714This lolEoS in like 6 months or so.
>>735993258In immediate response to Concord, Sony issued Bungie management a direct ultimatum that Marathon would have to perform or their company would be dismantled and its staff shuffled into PS Studios.
>>736001731TLDR
>>735988916Yeah, because Sony is gonna kill off anything else they can to recover from Marathon's failure while avoiding killing bungie itself. Hell, didn't a random Sony studio got close some days ago?
>>735989201it was clear from the very beginning they needed casual game modes, but they were too afraid that it would dilute the core concept of getting buttfucked
>>736002767>than actually train and go run a marathon in real lifeVery few people on earth want to be long-distance runners, most people are already put off enough by the sight of them publicly shitting themselves before finding out that it happens with enough regularity that something like ten percent of the cohort develop full-blown fecal incontinence.
>>736003730never drink coffee before a run
>>735989201They can't, but they also can't declare that whilst they still want microtransaction sales that'll somewhat recoup the damage.
I don't even understand how is marathon is in fight against the chuds It's just vibes based bullshit
I can continue to ignore the title while retards shove fingers down their throat because they can't understand how games don't fail every time they yell at it "flop flop flop"? Nice. I'll go back to enjoying my games and you faggots can continue to larp as investors
>>736003860it's not logical anon, it's just election tourist Muttoid behavior
It's because Mr. Fink admitted that woke is a failure and is dropping the DEI incentive. This is the wokies' last attempt to prove to him that woke works. Sorry sweaties, no more free money because you're black and gay!
>>735988916Every live service failure always says this, then announces shutdown half a year later. In a way, them having to release this statement is more telling than radio silence.
>>735989003every day I see anons talking out of their asses. publishers fund games. sony owns and publishes bungie.if sony kills marathon they will shut it down, not pull funding, whatever that means in your fantasy.
>>736004048Did he explicitly acknowledge this or are you inferring that from the reduced noise from DEI funding outlets?
>>735989201The key problem is that the core gameplay is appealing to only a small population that can't cover expenses, and might not be able to cover ongoing. This population considers itself hardcore, so shit to dilute the game like a push for PVE will not be taken well by this core. Making something the normies like would take so much in resources that I they might as well make another game instead. Eg Apex from Titanfall.>>735989831>>735991420>>735989528You think Jade's game is actually coming out? >>736004736He said it himself last year and made explicit changes in his own company. Check your local coked up bizfag for details.
>>735992271>>735993258The Sony Bungie contract actually sets the rules here. And anthem sold way, way higher than Marathon.I don't have a clue what Sony's strategy is. Sony probably doesn't either.
>>735988916why should I care if these fucking retards keep wasting their money?
>>735988916Ah the usual >"Noo it totally won't die!" >t. lying game journo milestone
>>736006187Larry the Fink said he's just going to reword dei and esg to bridge. he's still a lying jew who wants to undermine the governments of the world.
>>736003467STEINER'S COUNTERATTACK MUST SUCEED OR WE ARE DOOMED. >>736003716hell, even any kind of solo mode was a last second add.>>736003860Bungie is pretty far left and actually tried to purge itself of eveyone right of AOC a while ago. But don't sweat it too much. Political dumbasses are going to be dumbasses.
>>736004131Anon is sloppy, but calling Sony's purchase of bungie an investment isn't wrong at all. And Bungie has an independence contract. Sony might not be able to shut down Marathon unless Bungie can't afford it themselves. >>736006349He's not providing incentives though. He's trying to make the companies pay for it themselves.
>>735988916That's great news for nobody!
>>736001731Movies are all streamed now.Money is being, but by kike streamers, not kike producers.And cinema-fags hate people watching their precious films on phones
>>735989201Not everything has to appeal to casuals like yourself, they make games for you already. They're called Mario and you play as a fat disabled man so you don't have to experience anything new.
>>735989528GTA Vi
>>736001731If a movie fails it gets written off and Hollywood accounting will make it work. Most of the money also mainly goes to big names. It's different in the videogame industry
>>735988916You’d think it’s be a wake up call that game development is bloated beyond belief if even a million sales is considering underperforming because the dev cost was so high.
This board is gonna be fucking unusable once Sony shuts this game down. Might need a general to contain it.
>>736006628More like concord 16 after a wee bit of extra delay
>>735988916What exactly do you expect Bungie to say?>"Oh no, guys, at this rate, we're going to shut down within two years!"Honestly, a lot of the people who are leading the western entertainment industry aren't even smart enough to wrap their heads around why or even how closures and cancellations happen. "We answer to you? Excuse me, sweetie, what's your name? John Smith? I don't see that name anywhere on my employment papers."Thinking two or three steps beyond their immediately reality is too much for them. Great people to hire when you need a creative mind, BTW.
>>736006861Itll be kino
It’s a good game.
>>735989201My guess is sony will force them to make it easier, you can't really whale past gameplay in something like this I wouldn't thinkAlso it's really retarded a $40+ game half half of it locked behind really silly requirements and once you're in, it's not fun and you have 1 entry per try before you have to grind your way back in...to do the same shit you just grinded in but with a new map
>>735991420Im gonna keep it a buck fitty tree, bros, this reddit/streamer humor is lowkey kinda cringe…
>>735988916if it was here to stay there'd be no need to say it. Do you see Crimson Desert or Resident Evil 9 making articles asking fans not to worry about the future?
>Marathon is here to stay, chuds!>Bungie devs when Sony decides to close the studio
>>735988916Its not exactly up them, now is it?
>>736001731if a game fails, there's nobody to pay for MTX and DLC though. If you make back 90% of your budget in sales then MAYBE steam sales and DLC/MTX can help you get in the green, but a game that's sold in 1 month not even 30% of its budget has absolutely no hope.
>>735991420You forgot the Star Wars game whose name I've already forgot
>>735988916>Sony will just let us bleed several million dollars each month forever I mean, I hope they do but it's not likely LAMO
>>736007889what studios/projects do they even have left anymore if they cancel this? Fucking Fairgame$? Not counting singleplayer cuckmann shit.They might unironically pump more money into marathon because it's their last real hope at a relevant multiplayer title.
ITT whole lot of cope
>>736007274>imageIf that is true then why are tech companies scrambling to hire us?
>>736008380disproportionate amount for zesty bucks skews the stats
>Why would someone hire easily controlled retards who work for less as long as they can annoy everyone around them?
>>736008380same reason they hire browns en masselow IQ subhumans are cheap
>>736007993they do have helldivers2
>>736008380ESG funding and government policy pressured the institutions to hire you into positions of authority. Gays are a highly nepotistic and tribal group that hires, promotes, and circles the wagons around their own. If the hiring practices of the past 15 years were a good idea, we wouldn't be suffering from the competency crisis and the complete collapse of the structural integrity of the west.>Oh shit, I'm losing the argument! Quick, let's pretend like I didn't just admit that the rich have been putting us into positions of authority across the economy!Heterosexual white men are the one group that's been successfully tricked into having no explicit in-group preference and a drive for collective self-advocacy (you're a controlled opposition useful idiot if you think that any form of collective action is communism; this is where real power lies, and it's how we did things up until WW2). When you have a bunch of factions coming in to essentially loot a group that's just rolling over and letting them take everything, of course that group is going to get crushed. Things like competency and ethics don't even factor in at that point. The idea that we'd all sit around the campfire singing kumbaya in a colorblind meritocracy was always a lie and never what they wanted, and we should be very angry with those who sold us that lie to us and have unjustly made us the villains in our story with one-sided half-truth, especially those who directly exploit the dishonest narrative for special privileges.
>>736009686Haven't they already sudoku'd it?
>>735988916Miserybros... we need more company.
>>736010363You're addressing this to the people who've decided that all of the women in media need to be ugly, right?
>>735988916go for it bleed bungie to death it doesn't deserve to live
>>735988916https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1UtRnGn5hc
>>736010561Sub 12k....
>>736008380Because most of them aren't actually trannies, but easily groomed aspies that tend to be idiot savants. Just like furries.
Wouldn't sustaining Marathon also weaken Destiny 2 since both will be using Bungie's and Sony's resources?
>>736010767ThisTroons are just autistic white dudesAnd the tech industry always hired autistic white dudes
>>735988916>despite poor salesGood on them for confirming another flop Hopefukky it'll break even in thr next ten years
>>735989201>its actually too hardcoreHow is the game hardcore??
>>736010561It may fall out of the top 100 within its release month. >let me tell you why this is a good thing.
>>735989201The core concept is unappealing to normies.
>>735989528You can't have a concord 4 if concord 3 didn't happen, get a new meme ranjeet.
IGN gave it a 9/10Why is this happening, /v/?
>>736012605Funny how critics panned crimson desert but it peaked on its second weekend
>>736012801to be fair, if CD was full of nigs and fags, they'd rave about it, the same game
>>736012605Journos genuinely aren't human
>>735989201The point of making it hard is so that they can attract the hardcore no lifers that gamerdads can't compete with, then you can sell the latter group the solution through the store front. Slowly making shit p2w and pay for convenience is a tried and tested method for any game that wants to make most of its money through their storefront.
>>736015174that makes sense, I supposewhat went wrong here, should they have made it F2P?
>>736007459This trvth nvke broke the chuds.
>>736007459>>736015563live sloppa will never be games
>>736015173BOUNCEBACK HAS BEGUN
>>736006252they are banking on a cyberpunk/NMS type of revival now
>>736015787one had a popular anime and the other had CONTENT
>>735991764
>>736012605Bungie didn't want to pay for a 10/10 so the sunk costers aren't as liable to stick around.
>>736015173i’d say it’s time for gamergate 2 but there’s no real conspiracy here, just troon jornos shilling for troon devs
>>736015384They have to choose and either make it f2p or give up mtx. Instead they made the jew choice and tried to have both.The style reminiscent of a Colgate tube and the solo experience being absolute garbage also doesn't help capturing the extraction shooter public.
>>735988916its here for the marathon, not the sprint
>>735988916>>736016524HOW LONG MUST WE ENDURE MARATHON THREADS
mods should delete marathon threads tbqh, they are off topic and add no value to the board
>>736016750The shills have official surrendered!
>>736016829new rule: no woke propaganda "games" except for explicitly mocking them as the wokeflops they are
>>736016750>no value to the boardbut it makes me laugh and bring me joy
>>735991825>Long? Hauled.
>>736016750This. We need more gacha anime slop threads
>Game lost 60% of its players in less than a month Blast status?
>>736007274>That picI don't want to hear shit from rightoids and anti-wokes after the Iran fiasco
>>736009698All of it debunked Just admit that the left and liberals with their open mindness is better at creative work.You can go back and do "manly" work like breaking back on a construction site or smth
>>735988916>Marathon is here to stayIn 5k-20k oscillating hell world unless they do something major around the first reset
>>736018072yes, 4chan chuzds... big vocal supporter of Israel...
>>736001731>Marathon, same thing. A new update hits and it just kinda "eh".But with 1 million sold and Sony backing, Marathon should at least have enough gas in the tank to try a PvE pivot. Though if that happens, it'll also reveal how little confidence Sony/Bungie actually have in the game as a pure extraction shooter long term. Damned if they do damned if they don't, but making that change and slowly pulling Destiny players in might be the only way to get long term gains after Cryo Archive didn't move the needle.
>>735988916>Everything is fine, Game has long lifespan! Spend money now!I don't buy it
>>736018856Saying stuff costs them nothing.They just need to hold on hoping it gets better, until they forget about it and don't ask for mass refunds.
>literally below Tarkov right now and it's just the steam Tarkov version that nobody playsGreat success, chuds owned
>>736019080It's not even in the Top 50 anymore
>>736016829>official surrenderedgood morning sir
>>735988916No joke it's probably at like 5k players on Ps5 right now
>>736006550Why are they spending hundreds of millions of dollars making games that only appeal to a subset of spergs then
>>736010561https://youtu.be/PQKidnFsTUg?si=XQcTLte2kSUT_v7N
>>735989528Fairgames or Horizon but former is probably legit vaporware at this point
>>735992271Anthem sold like 5 million thoughalbveit lmao
>>736019264Well, that's not my problem to solve, is it? I play videogames, I'm not a Deloitte consultant.
>>735988916I mean, Marathon 2 still exists even though literally no one ever even plays it.
>>736019080The Hunt showdown is mogging it in both peak and the current players. It’s fucking OVER. Meanwhile, a new article just dropped.
>>735991420Wasn't there another Live Service shooter like Hyena that got cancelled 90% done and advertised but never fully released?
>>735991420Everyone always forgets Tameems Concord
>>736019702>Marathon 2I'm a fucking burnout retard. I meant DESTINY 2
>>736019753Lot of hero battle slop got released around 2018 it's hard to keep track
>>735988916Sony said the same for Concord. If I remember right highguard also said they dont need players.How'd that work out?
>>735988916Sony can't let this game be seen as a failure because it would make them look fucking terrible for investors.
>>735991420Hyenas never even released so swap that with battleborn, the real OG concord like
>>736003730>most people are already put off enough by the sight of them publicly shitting themselvesSomehow that never makes the news. Or is witnessed when they run down. In fact, it kinda sounds like you're making it up.
>>736019737Didn't polygon go out of business?
>>736006349If he's a liar why do you believe him when he says he's just gonna rename a failed social project?Would you believe Sony if they announced they're renaming Concord as Spiderman 3?
>>736020343it's fine they just jacked up the price of ps5 100$they will be rolling when GTA6 comes out
>>736020512they fired most of the staff, it's run by a few editors and lot of chatGPT, like most online publications now
>>736020512It's a name only deadskin mask at this point pretty sure they have like 5 employees
>>735988916
>>736020575Nintendo will win the holiday if GTAVI comes out in the SW2 and they have the OoT Remake. It's beyond fucking over for Sony if that happens.
>>736021216>switch2KEKLMAO even
>>736021180Every edit you make to this just detracts from the original point and makes you look more silly.
>>736021180saved >>736021358seething
>>736021284It's stronger than the Xbox Series Shit sweety.
>>736010561>Under 40,000 on a SundayHoly fuck.....
......does Sony think paying off journos will make the game stop flopping?
>>736021691Right now we want to spread positive word of mouth to get more people to buy the game. 9's and10's are a great way to let people know how good the game is.
>>735988916>Bungie saysDoes it even fucking matter what bungie says now that they've got a sony branded dildo shoved up their ass?
Lmao
>>735989736>GAYTRIOTS ARE IN CONTROLGOD WINS. 10 YEARS OF NOTHING. NCSWC
The journo tactic doesn't appear to be working
>>736021358You got owned, son.
>>736021901It'll stabilize any day now! ANY DAY NOW!
>>736018072>Iran fiasco
>>735988916Wonder what percentage of the original Halo devs are still working at bungie
>>735991420Lawbreakers was the real Concord Origins. Hyenas didn't even release.
for the last 3 weeks my morning routine after i sit down at my pc begins from refreshing /v/ and scrolling through marathon threads, it is very addicting
>>736022079There's some but all the main talent of Halo is long gone
Why are zoomoids and alphies so obsessed with sales and population charts?
>>736019737>- Why yes, mr.Sony Nippon-San, that would be 500 million yen and the spot is yours
>>736022146It’s blatant proof of corpocuck lies so they deserve the hate
Everybody with a brain knows it's lip service and they will pull the plug as soon as it become convenient to them.Anybody who trusts what a corporate type says is a fucking idiot.
Hunt showdown now has a consistently higher playercount
>>736006550They do if they want to make money lmao
>>736022146People have always been obsessed with sales, it's just the info is more readily available now especially with Steam player count.I'm fairly certain several corporations are looking into a way to get Steam charts shut down or ways to influence the numbers to look favorable to them. It's fucking with their business and they can't control it and I'm certain they hate it.
>Take classic IP>Change it so much it becomes literally unrecognizable >It sucks and no one plays it and it tanks hard>WTF!?! REEEEEE!!!! This is FAR more common of an occurrence in this industry than it needs to be.
>Game officially has more reviews than people playing at peak hours
>>736022146Zoomers can literally only do things if everyone else is doing them as well. They need influencers to function. They'll have a panic attack at the idea of playing the 'wrong' game.
>>735995904
>>735988916Anthem only closed doors this year btw
what are these games beating marathon? I've never heard of half of these
>>736022103same
>>736016750
>>736022584they don't have confidence it's going to stand on its own feet, so they bastardize some other known ip to bait extra sales from people who recognize itlike silent hill
>>736016750>Discussing a video game is off-topic on a video game board
>>736022601Is there a way to know how many people are playing on xbox and ps5? There is obviously more players playing marathon than what steamdb shows cause some people are playing on consoles. But is there a way to see how many people are playing in total overall? How many people do you guys think currently play Marathon across all platforms?
>>736022103
>>736022727I literally would have bought a modern Marathon.though. I will never touch whatever the fuck this travesty is.
>>736022721lol imagine looking like that and thinking its acceptable to go outside lmao
>>736022779marathon is not a video game it's woke propagandanext
>>736016750>videogames on a videogames board is off topichow i wish retarded niggers like you would just fuck off somewhere far
>>736022787Not really, you can get a rough estimate based on trophy and achievement percentages for total players but there's nothing like steam CCU for consoles. And that's how the publisher wants it.
>>736022681Factorio is kamige construction and management sim.Mahjog Soul is majong, free Raft is survival crafting on a raft.Eternal Return is f2p chink Persona5 mobile top down game.IdelOn is f2p 2d pixel MMORPG.
>>736022787No one is playing on consoles
I'm actually amazed that posting shartytoons doesn't get you perma'd at this point.
>>736022881Well damn, I guess he was right.
>over a million soldWhat a load of shit
>>736022897mogged by post abovewokemaxxing stays on redditwe are chudpilled on /v/choke on your own shit cunt
>>736022881Marathon isn't even woke aside from some shells having ethnic features. I just want it to fail because there's a chance with every failure that Japan will pull their heads out of their asses and take control back from the faggy delusional Californians running the PS brand.
>>736023745ugly on purpose artstyle made by a faggified zombie bungie staffed by chronic dilettantes that post troon nigger shit all over their socials is not woke? based and upvoted and kill yourself
>>736023859Its not as obvious to the casual glance as, say, Concord
>>735989201They can't, the game is cooked. Peaked under 40k at weekend primetime.
>>736024052it's about as disgusting, just in a different way
>>736021806>Even Reddit knows the game isn’t doing well
>>736023745> Marathon isn't even wok-ACK
>>736023890already losing to a 7 year old game after less than a month.pathetic
>>735991685Didn't they drag it's corpse along for 8 years before pulling the plug when it was realistically dead at the end of release year?
>>736022932thanks anon
I gotta be honest I've been dooming this game pretty hard, and yet it's managed to fail harder than I thought it would in every aspect
>>736011123Any PvPvE game is actually just a PvP game where anyone retarded enough to play PvE gets constantly farmed by sweats until they realize they're wasting their time and quit playing. It's too "hardcore" for anyone wanting an actual PvE experience, and not a waste of time followed by some nolifer sniping their shit and taking their loot.
>>736022830He's got a girlfriend who holds his hand in public. Can you say the same?
>>736024690Yes
>>736024541Exactly my experience in Marauders, except add blatant cheaters to the sweats.
Heard this game plagiarized Neotokyo, the one with Winrai
it finally happened
>>736023890OOF
>>736025578AIEEEEEEEEEE
>>736010561Swirled around a bowlShot through a hole
>>736001731It's weird in a sense that Dispatch is considered a success despite being a movie and 1 million of copies sold while also suffered from years of development hell.
>>736023890Humiliation ritual
>>736024987Prove it
love seeing DEI devs get raped and fired
>>736026074Just because you are a loser doesn't mean we all are
>>736024325Yeah, Bungie is a retarded studio plagued by DEI, that's the larger issue of California faggotry in the PS brand. It doesn't particularly come through in Marathon though.
>>735988916checks out. This was the story of Destiny 1 and 2 only worse sales than those two. Can't wait to see their next title which goes over even worse and they still hold on to it to lose even more money. >>736011505Arc Raiders proves that wrong. Actually a lot of them do. Bungie just gets to obsessed with the grind of a game and that makes most out right hate it because if they wanted a game that just demeaned they waste weeks on end to make any progress they just play an MMO.
>>735989201They can't, the goal is to wait until things cool down and kill it when less eyes are on it. Or alternatively do what they did with Destiny and just relaunch it as a second game hoping that no one puts together they are just selling the same shit twice.
>>736026521>>736011505The Hunt: Showdown and Tarkov (who nobody plays on Steam) are beating its player counts. It’s literally the worst performing extraction shooter with this much marketing behind it. IGN, Kotaku, Polygon etc are STILL trying to push this game onto people. It’s insane how bad this is performing.
>>736026725It's only going to get worse too. Next month Diablo 4 and Starfeild get DLC, May is Forza Horizon 6 and the new 007 fps, come the fall of this year and no one will be touching this.
>>736026521>Bungie just gets too obsessed with the grind of a game and that makes most out right hate it because if they wanted a game that just demeaned they waste weeks on end to make any progress they just play an MMOThey have done this three times now, each time the masses reject it but they keep forcing it.Why?
>>736027135To quote Marty O' Donnell: >"Getting Bungie out of Microsoft was good. Not getting Microsoft out of Bungie was bad"The heads got corrupt with greed to their core. They are no better than a soulless shareholder seeking money and nothing else.
I can't believe it's not even in the top 100 anymore, and new content didn't even twitch the needle. Like it's over. I don't see how they can turn this around. It's basically in its end of life phase now.
>>736023046It's probably true, but the 'over' part might just mean '1,027,595' and not '1,900,000.' I think they know they're not getting to 2 million, so they want to save themselves the embarrassment of making announcements that stop coming, unlike ACS did.
>>736023890@grok is this real
>>736025578Russian Fishing 4: Dark horse contender for GOTY 2026
>>736007883Outlaws. It was funny watching clips of people punching a stormtrooper to death with their bare hands
My friend from highschool is one of the dumbest most easily influenced people on planet earth, following every fake trend that hits his retard algorithm and then dropping it a week later when the algorithm moves on, and even he didn't give a fuck about Marathon.
>>736029137Yes, this is real. SteamDB shows a 24-h peak of 39,852 players for Marathon and 40,182 players for Hunt Showdown. You can confirm those numbers by looking at SteamDB yourself retard.
>>736026297We're all here forever
>>735989201Shouldn't /v/ like it if it's hardcore?
>>736030641I figured it was, I was just shocked that it's already treading water at 10k. Maybe Cryo really scared away people after all.
>>735988916They said the same thing about Concord.
>>735989201>How can they even salvage it?The only way would be to spend another two or three years to turn it into a Destiny 3-lite type game that's PVE friendly and has non-PVP content, sort of like Arc.Problem is, that would cost at least another $200 to $300m in salaries alone AND Marathon would bleed players until collapsing (which kills the brand) AND Sony would still be paying for the rest of Bungie (the other 600 who aren't working on Marathon) AND there's no guarantee a rebooted Marathon could pull off a NMS if all it brings to the table is generic PVE content on a few maps.In its current state, I think they're fucked. And not 'lol it's /v/, flop flop flop' fucked, I think they're in serious danger of Sony pulling the plug after Marathon starts passing below Destiny 2's numbers.
