As suspected, Marathon's budget is bloated as fuck. Bungie needs a minimum of 6.25 million copies each sold at $40 to even dream of breaking even.https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2026/04/09/checking-in-on-marathon-a-month-after-launch/
Costed sounds strange.
>costed
>costedAlso how do these generic multiplayer shooters cost so muchIt's not a massive MMORPG with 23068235 quests all fully voice acted, where is the money going
If this game was so good, why couldn't organic word of mouth from the players save it?
How do you even spend that much money a multiplayer game with not enough content Eastern Europeans could've made 4, 100 hour long 8/10 games with that much money
>>736728316>>736728560Embarrassing! Forknife was f2p and CS & DotA were fucking community mods. All of these games have/had CCUs in the multimillions, yet Marathune is scrambling to keep it above 4 digits. Lesson learned is to make a standout SP entry like HL or WC with basic MP and mods and just let the community cook.
>>736728360>>736728371>>736728419holy newfags
Why did the Rook Marathon thread get deleted but this one and the other one about Bungie sales stay up
>>736728360>>736728371>>736728419you need to go back
>>736728316>ConfirmsLol that's not what confirmation is>CostedBharat_Nation still spamming /v/ thread I see
>>736728316>I can confirm>Likely
>>736732291>>736732354>~300 developers worked on Marathon (confirmed by game director Joe Ziegler)5-6 years of development (started ~2020, shipped March 5, 2026). Fully loaded cost per AAA dev in Seattle: $150K–$200K/year. Do the math: 300 devs × 5 years × $175K average = ~$262 million. The widely circulated $250M estimate checks out. And that's before marketing, which for a game of this profile could easily add another $50–100M.it really is that grim, shilloids. lmao
>>736728316That isnt accounting for Steam's cut or any other costs.
>>736730098>Why did the Rook Marathon thread get deletedit wasn't? unless you're talking about another Rook thread
>>736728360>>736728371It's British English, Americans would just say "cost".Enjoy it while you can, British anything is basically an endangered species these days with how enthusiastically the UK and Europe are handing their countries over to the 3rd world.
>>736733263kalergi plan and albert pike's letter about the 3 world wars in action
>>736733263Boo hoo nigga colour your armour for fish and chips tele loicense innit assault spoon
>>736728316>Forbes confirms>look inside>its Paul Tassi
>>736728316>I can confirmhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7l0Rq9E8MY
remember when you guys were saying $400 million in a previous thread
>>736733263>It's British EnglishIt fucking isn't.
>>736733263American cultural pressure through media like this very imageboard is the bigger killer of the king's english
>>736735027For Concord, yes
>>736735027remember when the ~$250M estimation was established weeks ago
>>736733694>>736734847>>736735070The British citizenship test has questions about Islamic theology. The idea being that you can't be British anymore, unless you're able to navigate Muslim culture.
>>736728316cant they bleed players with microtransactions?
>>736728316for the millionth time - this isn't "Forbes," it's a random person's blog, hosted on the Forbes site. Look at the URL!> sites/paultassi
>>736735027250 million is just dev salary. You have to factor in marketing and the theater cut
>>736735331cosmetics dont really work when you have a woke art style
>>736735331to a point, but if the player count gets so bad that you can barely find matches, even whales will stop buying mtx because they'll figure the game is dying soon
