Give poor Marathon a chance.
>no Linux supportNah
>>736966804A chance? Stop killing games then
I refuse
when will chuds stop obsessing over marathonget a life incel
No, fuck Bungie
Why did it flop?
Why does this game cost money? It should be free.
>>736966884This. We should all move on and get excited for [NEXT PRODUCT]
*Diarrhea Sputtering*
>>736967153>We shouldnot We, (You) specifically>and get excitedcompared to what? being a jaded pathetic loser that's seething about everything for 18 hours a day on a chud forum?>for [NEXT PRODUCT]no you simply need to shut the hell up and let people who actually engage with their hobbies (including [NEXT PRODUCT]) have a conversation about it instead of posting 'jaks like a little bitch faggot
>>736967192Game is too hard for the normies
>>736967230>marketing shill seetheLove to see it.You troons spent more time shilling this game on /v/ than you did playing it, you are of the same cloth yourself because you'd rather whine and cry on a threat criticising something than playing it. Don't act any better than anyone else you dumb cuckold when the contradiction is so apparent.
>>736967230You sound distressed.
>>736966804>extraction shooter>costs money>live serviceSTRIKE THREE YOU'RE OUT
>>736967308>You troonsobsessedshut the hell up retard>you are of the same clothwrong, I'm not seething or thinking about this game at all, I'm only calling your pathetic incel ass out which drives you insane apparently>>736967408ok incel
>>736967068Because it's a hardcore PvP-focused extraction shooter. It's even less forgiving than Tarkov.At least in Tarkov you can more-or-less sneak around, extraction is usually at the edges of the map, you can use Insurance to retrieve items you've lost, etc... You can sneak in, do some quests, and sneak out, without being forced to fend off fifteen players who are functionally walking tanks. Taking risks is usually optional. You can fight other players for their stuff if you want to, but that's up to you.But in Marathon, any and all noise you make is broadcast to EVERYONE on the map. They intentionally made this change shortly after launch to encourage more PvP encounters. To make matters worse, extraction points are generally in the middle of the map, and activating them generates lights and sounds to attract other players, which further encourages PvP encounters. And there's no Insurance, so if you lose rare equipment, you can just go fuck yourself entirely, especially as most of the gear in the game cannot be purchased from the store, it can only be found on the maps. The risks are not optional, you MUST fight everyone else on the map, and chances are you'll lose everything with no way to get it back.To make matters worse, if you want to access the endgame story content, you cannot do so solo. You're forced to team up. You're forced to wipe the entire endgame map of all enemy players in order to access and fight the PvE boss safely. The risk is not optional, and you can't even access the endgame map unless you intentionally bring expensive equipment with you, so there's a 95% chance you'll just lose everything and all you can do is go fuck yourself. And again: This is mandatory to progress the game's story and see anything interesting!The whole game is specifically engineered to be absolutely miserable for 95% of players, so 95% of players quit the game. It sold over 1,200,000 million copies, yet is barely pulling 22,000 players. What a disaster.
>>736967438>wrongYet here you are bumping a thread instead of playing a game.God how stupid you troons are.So much for Marathon's attention span value, it's more fun for you to be in these threads than play it.Says everything honestly.
>>736967438We've been called out, fellow chuds...........our response???
>>736966804Nope I am allergic to American globohomo bs. Genre does not matter, player counts dont matter, /v/ opinions about the game dont matter.If I get the 'ick' I shan't be playing it.
>>736967569Uhhhh *checks my notes* call him trans or indian?
>>736966804why do western journos keep shilling this game? is sony's influence with western journos that big?
>Just give the multi-billion dollar company a chance
>>736967703It's a good game that deserves more players
>>736967539>Yet here you are yeah here I am saying that you are a faggot retard >bumping a threadand?>instead of playing a gamecute projection chud, notice how I'm not the one with pretty much instant replies>>736967569it's over for real>you to be in these threads than play itI know chud reading comprehension skills is not their forte but I literally never said that I like or play marathon, the whole point is that (You)r pathetic incel ass has to shut the hell up and stop shitting up the board with your retarded takes, since I keep hitting a nerve I will continue to do so even while playing video games
>>736967745Were not talking about Concord, anon.
>>736967192what the fuck?! locking down the new content with retarded road blocks didnt bring back players?!
>>736967245True.. 200 million budget btw What were they thinking
>>736967803Correct
>>736966804>Give poor Marathon a chance.Why would *anyone* trust Bungie after the past 12 years of pissing on Destiny players and calling it rain? They have earned their current player numbers.
Just cancel it and move on to the next game already Sony so I can laugh at the 1 billion dollar lost of you trying to brute force live action service success.
>>736966804did the suits at the top take a second to consider whether extraction shooters (that aren't cushty dadgamer friendlyfests like arc raiders) appeal to the masses or did they hope this would be the game to break through or whatcus you've kind of like made an inherently niche game
>>736967801>not triggered btw>posts several paragraphs of seetheOkay.
>>736967801>yeah here I amnot playing a game, and instead finding more fun in these threads.Which says everything that needs to be said about the game and how shit it is. Troons gonna loon.
>>736966804Guys… im starting to thinking Bungie has the leverage here. Why else would they be allowed to makes million dollar cinematics if the game truly is a failure?
>>736967703Yes. The games journalism industry is completely devoid of any semblance of integrity or value.
At least they're self aware
>>736966804this game is not for everyone and that's okay, if you have subpar taste you can always have fun in arc raiders instead
>>736966804I would rather play pretty much any other genre of video game besides an extraction shooter.
>>736968054Asshole fisting tattoo?
>>736966804Sure, if you pay for my time.
>>736968059>t. got filtered by ConcordPleb.
>>736968059Arc Raiders didn't kill a better game in the form of Destiny 2 to prop itself up, so it makes sense that it gets more sympathy than Concordthon imo.
>>736967942The problem was from the very beginning that despite it even eventually ending up as the best game in the genre, it would never reach the mass appeal market solely because how much it places reliance on people not being retarded which is extremely rare from a video game in this day and age. It's also the reason it likely won't survive, not the fact that it's Concord which no one sane wants to play or a mish-mash of genres like Highguard.
>>736966804I gave it a chance when it was free, and it was ass.
>>736968294This right here.
>>736967938You do know apathy killed those games in your pic right? Nobody gave a fuck about them, until they died. What you people are engaging with right now is called hate. In other words, free advertisement for the game, and fuel for the devs and sony to stick with it. Hate alone doesnt kill games, sorry to say. Especially one as highly praised as this one, by both journos and players. You retards really need to rethink your strategy here.
>>736966884I will stop when it’s dead. Then i will continue until Bungie is dead.
>>736967569My response is to not buy slop like Marathon and continue to shit on it online.
>>736968401Many people gave a fuck about them and mocked them with verve and gusto. That same mockery has not helped Marathon. Advertising for it would not help it since it is not a good game for most people.
>>736968059Arc mogs this slop
>>736968601Devilish
>>736968727>slop mogs slopdamn!
>>736966804Almost less daily players then a 10 year old game lol.
>>736968401Why did Highguard dev seethe so much about the ill reception his game received since it was first revealed? According to your logic, he should have been grateful for every "Concord 2" thread.
>>736967192oof
>>736966804>even Destiny 2 in its gimped, raped and shit state has more players in total than Marathon at any given point during the daySo what was Bungie's endgame with Marathon?
I only play chinese games
Well, here we are. For this week I'm modelling a projected average of 22,000 CCU and next Monday's peak dropping below 20,000.
>>736967801>doesn't like or play Marathon>clicks on the Marathon threadWhat a crooked monkey.
>>736967801>doesn't like or play Marathon>clicks on the Marathon threadWhat a discord-sowing monkey.
>>736968401>bad press is better than no press!>*dies*KEEEEEEEEEK
>>736967513>22000k players>1.2mil soldThat's.. 1.8%, anon.
>>73696751322k (on weekends) out of 1.2m is 1.8%
>>736967245Shouldn't tried to pander to them with paid streamers for two weeksIt's literally a game made for nobody cause casuals already play Arc Raiders and tryhards play Tarkov since Marathon is a child game compared to that
>>736968401of course it had to be a retard who thinks that all advertising is good, now it all makes sense, and whatever they are paying you, its too much
>>736967068the same reason a lot of things flop nowthey severely overspent on development with a gambler's chance of making it back
It's over
>>736966884i literally cannot care less about this game. i have never even considered playing it (and never will)
>>736967230
>>736967192But what's 3.6 billion anyways? Ironically Sony have to spend more billions to compete with Nintendo now. Fucking hell Sony's gonna lose so much money because they got third party support now. That 30% cut that comes to Nintendo instead of Sony, all those kids playing GTA 6 on Switch 2 instead of Playstation lol
>>736967513Sounds like bitch-made behaviour to me.How about they Git gud and learn the map and learn better positioning and learn how to take risks
>>736969406Hope to have a "Fortnite moment" where being the first big-budget game in a relatively-unexplored genre will both open the public's eyes to the appeal to the genre, while squarely positioning them as the dominant dev in that specific market space, so they can hoover up infinite amounts of money forever.Unfortunately, the genre they bet the farm on is one that just doesn't have mass appeal, not to say anything of every other questionable decision they made with the game.
>>736966804buy an ad
>>736971443>Unfortunately, the genre they bet the farm on is one that just doesn't have mass appeaI mean it kinda does if you make it super casual like Ark Raiders. But for some reason they decided to make a ball busting extraction game instead.
>>736966804I've been playing PvP / MP games for 25 years and I am comparing Marathon against all the experience I've had in the MP space -- including Bungie's "best MP game" Halo 3 (many people think Halo 2 too)....Marathon is absolutely a 9 and on par with those experiences. GOTY for me easy.
LET'S GO ANOTHER CONCORDLITE JUST FLOPPED!!!
i like it
>>736967230You sound mad anon. Stay calm. There is another path...
so is extraction a fad? I think on the long run you get tired of losing your gearbattle royal has no such issue
>>736967068>>736966804It's ugly
>>736966804Too ugly
>>736967643Yes
>>736969698All im saying is… if you guys want this game dead, you are doing a terrible job at it. Not even Highguard got this much hate. Also, Highguard didnt have the luxury of glowing reviews. Most people that played it, for free, said meh, and moved on with their lives, leaving the game to its fate. Marathon has a whole defense brigade. You people call them paid shills, but lets be honest, nobody is getting paid in this board, including jannies lel sorry for the stray, jannies, i appreciate what you all do here, and btw you should be paid.
>>736966804what did IGN mean by this?
this will surely save the game
>>736973525>if you guys want this game dead, you are doing a terrible job at itIt's SIE who's going to kill it. We're just watching the crows come home to roost.
>>736973693>Experimental build in release>No solo queues again
>>736973831>you are doing a terrible job at it.Considering it quite literally sheds 10K players a week, has zero presence in the zeitgeist beyond meme fodder, and can't even sustain the few shills it has managed to acquire through sheer woke contrarianism, I'd disagree. I'll look forward to your cope when the game shuts down within the next few months.
I'm not playing/ haven't played Marathon but on the whole the modern day general playerbase can't handle PvP games, whether just dying to someone or losing ranked points/ ratings they are just too coddled to sustain such ego destruction.
>>736973908I don't know why Ziegler is so against solo queue, people want improvement to the solo experience and here they are getting ignored again
>>736967245you're a normie, and a nigger, because the game is CODslop. This ain't quake 3 arena or anything like that.
>>736966804>bold, cohesive, and thrilling extraction sh-
>>736966804oh no. destiny 2 is officially doing better than marathon.
>>736966804have you ever felt like you finally hit rock bottom but then your life situation got even worse?
>>736970782nah I'll just not buy the game and instead laugh at you for wasting money on a dead game and Bungie at crashing and burning this hardI might give Sony $5 in a Steam sale if they add an offline PvE mode
>>736967513What's actually up with these companies and their dogshit gaas extraction shooters and budgeting and marketing them as though they believe it will become the next Fortnite? Even Tarkov, the one serious extraction shooter everyone knows, was never that big. I understood them trying to do hero shooters for how safe and generic that was, but the industry randomly trying so hard to make AAA extraction shooters a huge thing is weird as fuck.
>>736968401> In other words, free advertisement for the gamsir this aint no ejjy rock band
>>736973908>>736974147Its because of monetization. Their data shows that solo players dont buy skins and shit so they get shafted. Makes sense since someone who plays in groups is going to FOMO other faggots in his trio/duo whatever to buy skins too for example. Marathon isnt the only live service slop that completly shits on solo players because of that.
>>736972697fads are popular, extraction never was
>>736968401>is called hateNo, it's schadenfreude. Me laughing at someone getting pancaked in a LiveLeak video doesn't mean I hate them anymore than me smiling at a wholesome video means I love the people in it. The 'hate = any criticism of a thing I like' trope is for boomers, politicians, and spinster wine aunts.>it's a free advertisement for the game!!Yes, and clearly it worked out well for Concord, Highguard, and all of the major flops that came before that /v/ also laughed at and mocked.>high praisedThe journo clique protecting its meal ticket (Sony), and Bungie asking the people in the Marathon discord to leave reviews (artificially inflating them) does not a good game make.>rethink your strategyNo, I'll just continue to do what I've always done. Nothing.
>>736971443>ok guys, we need to come up with a game that can just hook people, and I mean anyone>yeah, we need something that can just organically blow up, like Fortnite did>all right, how about.. a hardcore PVP extraction shooter that is built around pre-made 3v3 squads? Where you lose loot on death, and even if you keep stuff, you lose it every three months anyway.>sounds good, but.. something's missing>..how about we have go with an experimental art style that focuses on intense colors, geometric shapes, and sexless androids?>oh nice, my kid loves Duplo!And thus, Marathon was conceived.
>>736973693This might:https://www.bungie.net/7/en/News/Article/marathon_update_106
>>736966804>game has cool art direction>guns looks like they are made out of playmobil and lego>they just shoot bulletsInstant immersion break
>you're telling me I can make a game flop?>no, Neo, I'm telling you that when the time comes, you won't have to do anything
>>736966804
>>736975220>The 'hate = any criticism of a thing I like' trope is for boomers, politicians, and spinster wine aunts.Picrel, they cannot argue on anything remotely close to reality because their entire worldview is based on falsehoods, so they simply project their 24/7 emotional outbursts on you. They cannot fathom that you may ever have a logical point based on rational thinking and factual data, so they have to accuse you of what they do, having a temper tantrum due to irrational emotions.
>>736975614It's that and a ton of postmodernist 'reality can be whatever I feel like it is' bullshit, but I don't want to get too deep into it since it's more /pol/ than /v/.As for Marathon, the post patch chart recovery looks a lot flatter than usual. No springing back up as if everyone was just online and salivating to play. Maybe a bot farm got turned off somewhere.
>>736966804>YOU NAZI FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT PLAY THE STUPID WOKE CORPO GAME!!!
>>736966804not paying $40 for eye cancer
>>736966804No, I'm just not interested in it
>>736976554>>736976505You fucking incel chud terrorist pieces of SHIT
>>736967192I remember when people were memeing about "30k stable playerbase, sisters!" like a week ago and now it's barely above 20k? This is legitimately dying quicker than a singleplayer game that people beat and move on from.
>>736976838I think it'll be above 20k at peak today since it's patch day, but sub-20k on Wednesday or Thursday is possible.I'm wondering what the number is for matchmaking to take so long that people start saying 'fuck it' and leave. 15k? 10k?
>>736967245Deadlock is 10 times harder and has 10 times more players.
>>736976838Cope, chud
>>736977007I think people are doing that at off-peak times, hence the drop in lows from 10K to 6K.
>>736973693This sounds like a half ass bandaid to try to stop gold plated PVP kings from shitting on some dude that plays 2 hours a week. The thing that stops me from having even a smidge of interest in the game is the forced wipes. I'm not going to put hundreds of hours into a game only for 100% of my progress to be deleted. Shit tier design. My captcha timed out while waiting for this shit to postfucking aisdfojasdifasofi
>>736966804SHAKE STATUS?
>>736977114Off peak numbers being shit just means the game is dead outside of North America, that's all. Only burgers like this crap.
>>736977050>Deadlock is 10 times harderI played both. You need to be pretty fucking retarded to say that Deadlock is harder.
>>736970782Because most adults have a limited amount of free time and will instead opt to play a game that's actually fun vs trying to keep up with unemployed sweatlords in a game that probably won't be around by the end of the year.
>>736977393>take my opinion seriously because of all this slop I play
>>736977494I just needed to fit both Deadlock and Marathon into the same screencap, and didn't care enough to do edit it.
>>736968401>free advertisement for the gameI don't think that's working very well for it.
>>736977640>I just needed to fit these two slops in the same screencap
>>736966804> Install rootkit to buy and play the newest trendchasing gaas slopI'm good.> "I'm having a blast"I'm sure you are, enjoy.
>>736977749Are you a different Anon from >>736977050? If no, then why did you even bother to compare games you consider "slop"?
I still don't see why you would want to play Marathon over other games despite journos trying to convince us otherwise. If a game needs to beg people to play it, it probably isn't a very good game to begin with
>>736977837How fucking retarded is it that they need to install all these invasive anticheat spyware on your computer and people are still running around with cheats on? What the fuck is the point?
>>736966804no, bring destiny 1 to pc
>>736977875It's a real blast to play
>>736977875> If a game needs to beg people to play it, it probably isn't a very good game to begin withAt least not if hundreds of thousands already did give it a try and quit a week after.Other (including more successful) games dream of those starting numbers.
>>736967513sounds like they didn't understand this genre to begin with
>>736976691I'm sorry anon, but that's just the way I feel about this.
>>736966804I already finished Marathon and Marathon 2Currently I'm playing Marathon infinity
>>736978184I'm calling the police.
>>736966804I thought about all the blast I could be having but ultimately decided to go for lightning that was a little less bottled.
>>736967068It's just not that good. All those "uhm, it's niche", "uhm, the market is oversaturated" horseshit wouldn't matter if the game was great.
>>736977961Kernel level anticheat is never necessary, nor are they perfect. On server based games there are other methods to fight cheaters about as efficiently.However rootkits are the "easy way" to do anticheat. So its about 3/4 laziness, and 1/4 malice (potential to collect some additional data and send it back home).However gamers are walking dunning krugers when it comes to tech knowledge. They eat buzzwords like that up readily. So the added value of kernel level anticheat for corporations is that most normies get placeboed into thinking there are fewer cheaters, and that makes them less likely to complain even if they do encounter them.
>>736967192>below 20k peaks in your lifetime>even if you die next week blessed
>>736975220>free advertisementsSony paid for all those articles. Don't fool yourself. >but we're getting paid to pretend it's worth buyingI guess you aren't fooling yourself, you're just enjoying a little split personality there.
>>736966804I bought Arc Raiders because of the hype around it and played a grand total of 3 matches before I got bored and uninstalled. Definitely not falling for this shit genre again.
>>736978425> Sony paid for all those articlesThe sad thing is they probably didn't pay for ALL of them.Many games "journalists" do it in hopes of becoming paid shills one day.Which is also why so many continue to glaze big, expensive release.That is of course ignoring those who just do that shit for the agenda. With stuff like Marathon some will probably just praise it because the expect the "wrong" people to hate it.
almost 20k players alreadydoomer bros i dont feel so good...
>>736978307is the gameplay not good or is it more of a "don't want to lose my gear to cheaters" not good
>>736966804i did 30 years ago
>>736978801If you've ever played Apex Legends, it feels like a slower version of that. Nothing special IMO, I knew from the server slam that I wasn't going to spend money on this
>>736973693>taking gear starts out of the extraction shooterthey're gonna rework this game into a battle royale lmao
>>736978723The player count always pops a bit after patch day, and they're doing more experimental shit. The overall downward trend hasn't shown any signs of stopping, either.
>>736979658I'll probably go up again tomorrow due to the experimental game mode.
>>736979719The "experimental game mode" just forces everyone to free kit it up. Which means you can't win big by coming across some dead guy who the super sweat decided not to loot completely. It's all going to be trash.Now as garbage as this is, it's still less harsh on the noobs than the existing non stop rapefest, so there might be a bump, but I would be suprised if there's a big change from what ammounts to a shitty arena shooter mode.
>>736979719I think that's in the game now, right? Either way, it's up 500 players vs the same time last week when there was no patch, so the patch bump seems to be getting smaller. (I think the last patch bump was 2k?)
>>736979905No, that's tomorrow.
>>736973693what's the incentive to join this "experiment"?
>>736979967Oh, ok. I saw another anon mention that today is a special patch because it's the 'mid season balance patch?' Probably explains the micro-pop.>>736980012'I don't want to wait in 3/5/10 minute queues', I think.
>>736966804Maybe. If it would stop bleeding numbers I would consider it, but I'm not dropping $50 on something that's going to be dead in a couple of months on its current trajectory.
>>736980012Have some fun.
robert it do go down tho
>>736980171a blast, perchance?
>>736966804Have we reached the Bargaining stage of coming to terms with death?
>>736980158Flopathon added a little widget that tracks that exactly, lmao
>>736980223Perchance. I guess it would also be interesting to see more or less pure skill at play since everyone will start with the same stuff. If the no-lifers are still stomping, then maybe Bungie will add SBMM for season 2.
chartwatchers will be displeased to know that the numbers are up from yesterday
>>736980268Neat.
>>736978045They didn't. ARC Raiders faced the same problems as Marathon but came up with an incredibly elegant solution: Aggression-based matchmaking.If you engage in PvP, you're more likely to get matched with other players who engage in PvP.If you instead try to cooperate with other players, you're more likely to get matched with other players who try to cooperate.This completely solves the problem. People who just wanna play Team Deathmatch can play Team Deathmatch, and those who don't, simply don't have to.Best of all, there's nothing actually stopping you from suddenly shooting someone anyway during cooperation, so there's still tension even when working with other players. All the upsides with very few downsides.Marathon, in comparison, is made by people who want the whole game to be PvP.They are only now, five weeks into release, adding a system (C.A.R.R.I) that rewards you for cooperating with other players.The roadmap they released at launch shows it was planned all along, so why the fuck did they wait until the game was in a fatal freefall before implementing it?>>736969702>>736969739That's even worse. I wrote 95% to give myself some leeway with player numbers.
>>736974104When you die in Marathon, you lose your entire inventory. You don't just lose points/ratings, you actually lose all your weapons and equipment, permanently. It's far, far more punishing than other PvP experiences. Even other extraction-shooters like Tarkov have systems that let you pay in-game currency to get your inventory back. Marathon doesn't.
>>736980423Marathon could add ABMM today and it wouldn't do much. The maps are too small and the UESC robots are too generic and limited in type to make a PVE Marathon anything other than a content poor (and uglier) Destiny.
>>736966804No.
>>736980516Do think that they should add a safe pocket and/or item securing via DCON.
>>736966804Give them a chance to delete content you paid for with no compensation again.No I don't think I will, in fact I hope it crashes and burns.
>>736980423It gets glossed over a lot since most people posting about Marathon haven't actually played it but the game released incomplete. It's missing a lot of things that were clearly meant to be in the game at launch. One faction doesn't have a quest line and their cosmetics are only being added in this patch even though they're equivalent to the other factions in every way.
>>736966804I don't play multiplayer shooter slop.
>>736980591I don't think the shills are ever leaving 'Denial,' honestly.
>>736967245It's literally an antisocial casual game with poorly made content. People keep regurgitating that it's difficult this is the new "bungie makes good gunplay" when they're really just talking about on-hit fx. Marathon has bad content and weak gameplay so dying wastes your time. People don't like having their time wasted so they stop playing and nobody can blame them
>>736966804I can't wait until it has less players than Sex With Hitler 2
>>736966804>extraction shooterI'm good, you go on and have your fun.
>>736980012Unlimited free kits, and the people you fight won't have the same gear advantage over you. The minus is that you can only recover garbage from this mode.>>736980625First, no. Second having SOME way of shipping shit home safely isn't a bad idea, but needs costs and balances and mechanids. I don't th ink they have it in them to do this.
>>736966804Its a necessary evil. You may not like it but its true, where would all the marathon shit eaters be if they're not contained within marathon? Have you ever considered that?
Umm bros the numbers are up...
>>736981285Yes, by a total 30 people from this time last week.Today is the big midseason balancing patch, anon; something they put on the roadmap. And it got maybe as many people as you could fit in a normal commuter bus.
>>736966804can't, no Linux allowed
>>736966884>the RETARD said, despite the OP being about yet another industry shill plugging this fucking dead piece of shit for the 6th week in a row
>>736966835FPBP.You'd think Bungle would've learned after Destiny 2, but NOOOOO.
>>736975010>Makes sense since someone who plays in groups is going to FOMO other faggots in his trio/duo whatever to buy skins too for exampleI love to imagine the scenario of this being true because someone internally has to say with a 100% straight face "our skins are so awesome we need ways to highlight them for players to spend money on" when personally the only note worthy one I've seen is the goth chick
>>736981701Marathon uses the same engine as Destiny, that's why no linux.
Just wait until the dads get off work/v/ will eat their words
>>736976838It held above 30,000 for a month, but it's been losing like 1,000-4,000 players a day.It never reached the 80,000 it had at launch past the weekend. It's been no where but down and day old "24 hour peaks" on StDB for ages now. It's honestly shocking Bungle and Sony haven't thrown the towel in yet. It's clear Cyro and all their temp shit isn't bringing people back in massive numbers.
>>736981887>it's honestly shocking Bungie and Sony haven't thrown the towel in yetThe numbers weren't dire enough to cancel it after a month (like Highguard), and it wasn't a complete disaster (like Concord), but it's clear the game won't ever make a profit. Sony's next investor call is going to be real interesting if Marathon is struggling to pull 20k peaks by then.
>>736979640That was what they started with from the two-three reboots it's done, wasn't it?
>>736981773And yet both use Linux friendly Anti-cheat, so it can't be that.
>>736982102I thought BattleEye explicitly didn't work on Linux?Maybe it's the version of BattleEye they're using?
This update seems to have brought back back a lot of players. +5k increase over yesterdays CCU for the same time, and the first time since the game launched that it has a Week over Week increase for the same day. And tomorrow we have the BR mode dropping!Bungie cooked! Time to come back, guys.
>>736966835>>736981701>>736981773>>736982102Destiny 2 ran on Stadia (Linux-based) but Bungie block Linux deliberately and explicitly for whatever reason.
I'll give it a try when it goes free
>>736982194they freakin did it, mass chud suicide today at rush limbaugh's gravesite
>>736981887The Concord and Highguard studios were new, there was no reputation to keep alive. Bungie on the other hand has a ton of prestige, so saving face is kinda important for marketing reasons.
>>736982185That hasn't been true since Destiny 2. It's just Jason Jones and other Mac-era faggots are incompetent: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/anticheat/vendor/battleye/
>>736966804>it's b- b- b- boldCould've just made a game faithful to existing Marathon designs. It would also have been bold.>i- i- it's fine it's not popular!!!This is just like when people tried to defend keeping abilities as part of the main gameplay in Halo (and other features) because it needs to "keep up" and only after it didn't work it's suddenly fine for the game to not have great player retention.It's not just sci-fi series either. I like IW but I would never expect that to be the best option for a new CoD entry.
>>736982194so chuds lost AGAIN? kek and tomorrow will have yet another increase holy fucking kino, total chud death
>>736982228it's really unlikely that it goes f2p, not sony's style
I don't play the game, but I like seeing that cheeseburger ad
to: MARKET RESEARCHfrom: THE MONEYBAGSsubject: FUTURE EXTRACTION SHOOTER FEEDBACKbody: WE ARE NOT STREAMERS AND WE DO NOT WATCH STREAMERS, TARKOV HAS BEEN OUT FOR 10 YEARS AND NOBODY WANTS TO PLAY A "TWIST" ON IT, WE DON'T PLAY IT BECAUSE WE ARE NOT STREAMERS AND WE DO NOT NEED TO TRY TO GET INTO A LOBBY WITH OUR FAVORITE STREAMERS, THE GENRE IS GAYeof
>>736982764copied Cyberpunk
>>736982883You say that, but perhaps we can convince you to play if we make it more gay, more sweaty, and more predatory?
>>736983016Cyberpunk didn't invent dystopian slop(classical definition of the word).
>>736967513>putting all the extract points in a central areaWhy would you do that?>its bungieOf course, nevermind.
>>736983256>>putting all the extract points in a central areaThat's not the case for Marathon. Exfils can appear in any of the predetermined locations, which are all over the map, mostly near PoIs. But final exfil is always near the center, which I like because that makes it more or less equidistant from the map edges.
>>736966804Maybe if it was free
Arc raiders has better PvE and better PvP. Why should I play this?>for the storyIts bungie, the story is going to be 1/3rd tranny shit, 1/3rd gay shit and 1/3rd poc/latinx shit.
>>736983980>Arc raiders has better PvESure.>and better PvP
>>736984076Marathon PvP has aim assist so strong bullets curve midair, with a full on AIM ASSIST stat that you can level up.
>>736984076I can dive and slide in Arc, I can't dive in Marathon. Need specific shells to do cool movement tech.
>>736984207to be fair, it isn't actually aim assist.it's bungie's patented bullet magnetism(TM). Similar concept but different, since aim assist pulls your cursor to enemy bodies while bullet magnetism just nudges the bullet toward certain areas. Or to put another way, aim assist is proactive, bullet magnetism is reactive.
>>736966804>the heckin game is changing man
>>736984385>its not aim assist>its bullets curving midair to hit their targetThats worse.
I picked this up because my brother told me it was fun. Never played an extraction shooter before because Tarkov looked too sweaty and Arc Raiders aesthetically looks like shit, but wanted to give it a shot.I am having a good amount of fun I think. Nothing incredible but it's a fine game to play with some background noise to kill time and it's pretty amusing when you do actually run into another player or find them dead. My only real complaint is the bad enemy variety, otherwise I would say this game is pretty good. Why don't people like it? Visually Arc Raiders looks like mud, at least this has a cool art style.
>>736985162>I am having a good amount of funHmmm honey, we say “having a blast” over here
>>736985162>at least this has a cool art style.Bait used to be believable
>>736966804Bungie has spent the last decade seemingly trying to piss me off, why the fuck would I give them money again?
so chudbros what's the GP (gameplan) now that Marathon not only survived - but also thrived?
>>736966804but I'm not the target audiencethey don't want chuds to play their super special chud-free game, so why should I?
>>736985727I'm going to keep doing nothing, it's easy and it's fun
>>736985828>I'm going to keep doing nothingHow is he so powerful, bros?
>>736985727you think i give up this easily? i'll simply try a differnet chaos magick concoction. bungie underestimated my power from the very beginning
here's your massive update bro
>>73698787620% increase from same time yesterday
>>736966804Bungie: Yo all these casuals got FILTERED, not our fault!Sony: Say less senpai I still love you *slits studio throat* *commits seppuku*
>>736987876The second bump will push it pass 100k
>>736988028And $4 is 100% more than $2. Percentages aren't impressive when the base is so miniscule
>>736966804>extract shooter>give it a chanceno
>>736988147Sorry they took away your concord 3 bro
>>736988235Took away? This is Concord 3 set on LP mode, lil bro. The flop started in early March and it's continuing in slow motion.
>>736988301It's like a leftover birthday balloon from a month ago that got caught in a tree and is slowly getting more deflated and sad
>>736966835BasedEven fucking EA is looking to unfuck their Linux support
>>736987876>STOP THE COUNT
>>736990161lmaoan actual flatline
The real doomer take here is that these mega corps can keep churning out super expensive failures and not even be remotely negatively impacted by it. Sony throws away billions on these turds and it won't affect their bottom line.
>>736991265>it won't affect their bottom lineThat was only true for Xbox (being part of MS), but even they got neutered after wasting too much money. (Granted, almost $80b to get ActiBlizz and Bethesda, plus decades of loss on the Xbox hardware was way higher than Sony wasting $4b on Bungie.Sony's a lot more deliberate with their money, and their new CEO was already shit talking Bungie as early as last November about how much they cost. VC money also dried up bad since 2025. I think companies aren't gambling on $250m+ moonshots anymore.
uhmmm... chudbros??
>>736991391so if it stables on 50k would that be a success?
I did. It was alright
>>73699139126.5k looks to be today's peak, and that's after the biggest patch/feature add since Cryo, which popped at 36k, I think.There's a very strong possibility the game never hits 30k again without going F2P or making some kind of other drastic change.
>>736991671might hit 30k this weekend with the patch + usual little weekend bump but yeah still grim.
>>736988235>Conco-- ah Marathon is totally a success It wouldn't be half as fun seeing those shitty games fail without you spergs trying so hard to fight reality.
>>736991265Of course, it's affecting their bottom line, their profit margins are shit. Sony is just lucky that their main competitor is going full retard, so they are pretty much uncontested in the normalfag gun and ball market.Microsoft being incompetent is what's keeping the Playstation alive.
>>736966804why the fuck are journos STILL going on about this game?
>>736992092they are being paid to do it
>>736992092>month old tweetchuds getting desperate
>>736966804Fuck no.
>>736992092Because sony is one of the biggest advertisers in all of gaming, especially with Xbox stepping back. The bigs cannot afford to lose sony dollars. It's why every major, midsized, and even almost all the minor outlets rolled over for a one month effective embargo, without even mentioning it in their coverage.
>>736977275Not even Burgers want it. Only a certain segment (mostly Journos) give a shit about it.
>>736991574It won't. It's been losing players and only gaining like 5,000 each update. It's not going to break the 1,-4,000 player bleed. +1,000 for ONE day (1 day) is not bailing the sinking ship.
>>736993149>rolled over for a one monthretard
I'm so annoyed all the blatant shills get to get away with it. They came here, flooded us with threads, acted like huge cunts, and suffer no consequences. Pisses me right off.
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH IM BLASTIN
>>736966804>Think of the poor billionaires!>The investors aren't making money!Fuck em
>>736993674thats part of what makes laughing at their failure so sweet all that money, all that effort, and they still lost. a 200 million dollar loss.
>>736993856For the devs I suppose. I'm just annoyed that I doubt they'll learn a damn thing and the jeets they hired still got paid. It's all about gaslighting success until the failure becomes undeniably evident... but I suppose they are so inundated in their cult beliefs that its better to take the ship down than to fire all the they/thems and learn to make development enticing to normal people again.
>>736966804>gamerant/gamespot/kotaku/thegamer/IGN /etc telling me to give [game] a chancehow about no?the game is for the modern audience, and i'm not part of it
>>736966804I still dont know what the fuck an extraction shooter is. Everytime one of these things come out and becomes a fotm i feel like abe simpson
>>736978214Nice, I had a good time with both 1 and 2, replayed them a couple times too. Haven't gotten around to beating Infinity yet, the story's pretty scattered about, levels are a fair bit tougher too
There could be shills here, he thought
Projected max concurrent player count for all platforms.Marathon: 38053Destiny 2: 54213
NeverEVERplaying an always-online game
>>736994138>go to a big map with a fuckload of others>loot a bunch a shit>decide whether you want to work with or kill and rob other players (probably the latter)>extract from location to keep it all after a certain amount of timeThat's basically it, just the next evolution of Battle Royale.
>>736967068Human beings have discovered what the term "live-service" means so only non-humans are engaging now.
>>736969227>more daily players are on a mid budget game from 17 years ago than a $1B game that came out 4 weeks agolmaoing
