After seeing the surge in players with the latest patch, where they addressed every single issue everyone had with the game, people are celebrating. The CCU situation for the first time since the game launched has improved on a week over week basis. This proves that Bungie knows what it’s doing, and Sony was right to trust them.Unfortunately, /v/ has lost and journalists have won because they were correct about this game.The new experimental BR like mode starts tomorrow btw!
And then you woke up
>>736986661>CyberAcmedid they hire the cyberpunk writers
Face it, you lost. Your hate campaign didn’t destroy the game. Now what?
>>736986661they haven't addressed the solo cryo issue
>>736986770I didn't do anything.But at the same time, the game has lost 70% of its players since launch and the downward trend shows no signs of reversing.I will continue to laugh at it, regardless.
>>736986661lol this brian guy is an actual marketing team member at bungie, surprised it’s not a troon with how woke that studio is
>>736986661>surge in playersThis is a lie, not only there's no surge in players yesterday they had the lowest CC yet and today they still didn't manage to beat it...
>>736986869The surge is basically 'we didn't lose 5k vs the same time last week,' which is technically true.But since the pop today is the result of the big mid-season balance patch, it will probably sputter until the weekend, pop again, then continue declining.A big sign will be whether it goes beneath a 20k peak at any point this week.>This is a journey and we're committed to getting it right.>getting it rightWhat's funny is this is almost an admission they haven't gotten it right so far, lol
>do nothing>game succeeds>people are still mad at me
>heads downlol LALALALA I CANT HEAR YOU WHAT PLAYER COUNT
>>736986869it’s up +4k over yesterday at the same time but yeah it’s grasping at straws all patches have had small increases like this. maybe the br queue tomorrow pushes it up a bit
>>736987015funny thing is with each little bump it gets like this it just ends up going lower than ever before afterwards next Monday is pretty much guaranteed to be under 20k maybe even low as 15
>>736986965It’s funny because on some of the gaming subreddits the blast havers are constantly pushing the game so hard, while the actual subreddit is sort of mixed. If you only looked at the main gaming subreddits or the ps5 one for example you’d think the game had no flaws according to the reviews and the players. And then the same people are coming to the threads about this patch and saying how it fixes everything. Well then isn’t that admitting that things needed to be fixed? But you were pretending that it was a perfect game before? insane astroturfing for this one man
"Surge in players?"It's like 14% down from yesterday's peak.
>>736987197peak is going to be in a few hours, you have to check by hour and yeah it didn’t lose players so it’s a win kek
Buy an ad, nobody cares about your shitty multiplayer FPS
>>736987131The actual subreddit being mixed is strange to me, since weren't they going full gestapo and banning any hint of 'maybe I'm not having a blast..' posts on sight?>insane astroturfing for this oneYeah, and we're even on the other side of the paid shilling part and the retards/resetera idiots/true believer fans keep trying to shock the corpse back to life.
I give it a month tops before they pull the plug.
>>736987331Well by mixed I mean if you browse the subreddit a bit you can easily tell something’s wrong with the game. There’s also a Steam megathread on there which is VERY down on the game. Saw people pushing back on having to type “I’m having fun/a blast with the game but…” sort of posts and insisting on criticizing Bungie. Which is in sharp contrast as to how it’s been portrayed by those shills in other subreddits where they downplay and downvote anything even mildly critical of the game and its dwindling playerbase. For this patch etc I think it’s not mixed, but positive. But it’s reverted a bit now from being a total hugbox like how it was before. >>736987370I think Sony has an earnings call next month. They’ll need to answer questions about this one and I’m very curious what they’ll do.
>>736987370wishful thinking, chud.
>>736987497>I think Sony has an earnings call next month.They do, on the 14th, and it's a big one for the whole financial year. Hopefully there's an investor with enough balls to ask about Marathon during the Q&A part.
What features specifically are unique and special to Marathon that makes it better than its competitor Arc Raiders?
>>736986661same shit, different day.
>>736987672they added incentives to work together but it's not wholesome chungus slop
>>736987197>>736986869You are bringing dishonor upon your fellow steam chart posters with your inability to figure out how many hours a day has. Shameful display.
>>736987828>they added incentives to work togetherSo does Arc Raiders, Arc are much easier to take down with randoms and people do it all the time.
>>736987861yeah then they take the good loot
>>736987672doesn’t have carebears and has actual pvp and style. no use of ai
>>736987370If the player count continues to drop then it probably won't last long past the first season. If it stabilises but doesn't grow then probably around to end of season 2 banking on some major update to fix things. But it is definitely on thin ice given the low ROI and lack of growth.
Ngl the begging for this shit to fail has become more cringe than the game itself. And it doesn't matter cause there's like 2 more Concords on the way. Why are you so... angry?
>>736987978The first reset is going to kill the game dead if it even makes it that far.>>736988035Observing the game failing isn't begging. /v/ is sitting in the bleachers, eating popcorn, and watching the car crash happen live; doing nothing themselves, in other words.
>>736986661Why aren’t they paying YouTube to plaster their ads? Why are they paying journalists for their do-nothing advertising?
>>736986661>Dead cat bounceActually the pattern is consistent with the week to week trend. Tuesday Patch brings people in for one day then the numbers go down again
>>736988035The begging for this shit to survive is the cringiest shit.I'm tired of all these shill niggers shitting up the board constantly. Marathon should be banned completely as every thread just devolves into shitposting.
>>736988035180 pages of discussion on this games ccu on resetera btw kek
>>736988186This is an extra big patch though, which is why the bounce is large. Probably as big as when Cryo first came out.>>736988214Unless you consider 'laughing at the game' to be shitposting, the threads are pretty mannered without porn posting or any shit that I'd consider to be actual shitposting. Stop seething or something, idk
Bought it on steam, ran around for almost two hours yelling niggerniggernigger in to my three dollar microphone, got banned, refunded, enjoy that CCU boost, bungo, I'm doing my part
>"bump" is 5k less than last tuesday
hows that workin out
>>736989815good keeps linuxers out
>>736989815Having a blast
blasthavers....i......um.....ACK
>>736988035Because I wanted to play and enjoy Marathon, I wanted it to be something it is currently not.Thus now I want to see it fail.Either cater to me, make a good game or get fucked.
>>736987370This early and they’d have to refund everyone. They’re not about to refund 1.5 million copies when waiting would be cheaper. Think before you post.
>>736986661DOOM soldier... HOLD!
>>736990787>cater to mewoke chud behavior
>>736988035Thank you for showing me the light, I will no longer make fun of your game. not
>>736989932>can keep Linux away>can't keep cheaters at bay Why are cheaters so much more powerful than open source plebs?
This game is fun.
>>736992257Probably from the cheating
>>736987370for a game like this, maintenance mode is 100x more likely than going offline like concord or highguard
Needless to say its not a Concord/Highguard situation. 20k active is satisfactory, a lot of people thought it was gonna be shit because there was a plagiarist on the team who got caught, they sacked them and kept on grinding, plus brand recognition + respecting the lore helped buoy the support for the game too.
>>736986753Marathon '26 has a post-cyberpunk setting
>>736988035It's just schadenfreude. Bungie has amassed a lot of deserved hate over the years
>>736993206>helped buoy the supportGood morning sar
>>736993206except you forgot to mention that PC is by far their biggest playerbase. The game is an absolute failure on consoles which is ironic considering bungie games are supposed to be known for appealing to the casual community over there. Normies dont want Marathon, its too complex and wierd.
>>736993206It's something that is losing millions in the triple digits. "This massive ship that sunk is nothing like the Titanic because it got a bit further on its trip" are the words of a fool trying to look smart.
>>736986661SORRY FOR MARATHONING
>>736993551even millions in the triple digits is an under estimate. This game was THE game that Sony was looking forward to after spending 4 billion on Bungie. The loss is literally billions.
um, concord bros? i thought this game was supposed to be shut down and bungie to be completely closed by now? what happened? where am i supposed to move the goalpost to now? two more weeks? six months? 6 years?
>>736993691Bros where are the 400k on discord?????
>>736986661i thought this game was supposed to shut down two weeks after launch just like all the other concordswhat happened, bros?
>>736993691>>736993927Not beating the bot allegations lmao
>>736994273and yet you won't answer the questioncurious
>>736986869You are kind of retarded, Anon.
>>736994658>Big update >Same playercount as 3 days ago Absolutely embarrassing
>another shootergive me swordsand no fuck ironmace
>>736994658>yuuuuge surge in players>4k playerskek
>>736994965hot ass webm
>>736994658Thats it?
Highshart said the exact same thing.And then they announced the game was shutting down 2 weeks later
chudbros its time to have a blast...
I love that we've reached a point where 26k peak is something worth celebrating lmao
test
The patch addressed some of the pain points people have with the game and also people are saying hackers are getting banned and they're being refunded rank XP.
Why was my post getting sucked into oblivion?
>>736988035Begging? People are just watching it unfold. You make it seem like this game even had a chance lol
>>736989815Getting hacked down to wireframes and walls in the first few weeks should be grounds for clawing back whatevet Bungie spent on BattleEye. That service is garbage, Exiles used it too and it stopped no one.
>>736989093k
>>736993206LMAO the only reason sony is pretending this isn't dead is to trick investors. They're terrified of what's gonna happen they everyone finds out they wasted another half a billion.
>>736987978The only way a game with these post-launch dev requirements survives on 20k CCU is with a sub...
>>736994965What movie?
>>736993548>The game is an absolute failure on consoles which is ironic considering bungie games are supposed to be known for appealing to the casual community over thereYeah in fucking 2010 maybe
THE VIBE SHIFT IS REALMARATHON WON
>Concord is here to stay!
Whomst
>>736989815The shills were right...This game is pretty fun!
We nearly hit Sunday peak numbers!This is fucking huge!Marathon is coming back!
>Some Destiny 2 schizo will be in these threads spamming SteamChartz for another 20 years because Bungie did him wrong Why does every topic/game have a dedicated poopdick. EVERY topic
The blast must go on
>Some Destiny 2 schizo will be in these threads spamming SteamChartz for another 20 years because Bungie did him wrong Why does every topic/game have a dedicated poopdick
>>736987370If Marathon can limp at least to November it's GUARANTEED to win GotY.They'd be crazy to pull the plug, even if it's down to 1-2k players by then. So long as it's still alive, Journalists will be falling over themselves to give it GotY.
>>736997770Good. Fuck bungie
>>736998000>Journalists will be falling over themselves to give it GotYWhy? It's not even a good game.
>>736986661Holy fuck this game is x10 more enjoyable with this new commendation system. And actual organic way to incentivize cooperation. ABMM eat your heart out.
>>736998382It will let them own the Chuds.
>>736998598but I didnt do anything
>>736998000the TGA orchestra playing Marathon's shitty music and some Bungie drone coming up on stage to accept an award for their game with 1k players 200m in the hole would be pretty goddamn funny tho
>back to 4 digit ccuKEKAROOOOOOOOO
>>736998695Now imagine if they played a song from Mewgenics instead lmao
>>736986661Lol the game is dying, it's not going to make it and you mainstream media shills are still doing hit pieces on indie games when trash like Marathon deserves the tortanic treatment. Every post you disgusting shills make is just another post that galvanizes my feelings on pirating first before paying, and every single time, the indie games win out and get my money while mainstream corporate trash gets nothing from me.
>>736986770Lol holy shillbot, nice try with that bullshit talking point. No one cares about the game, we enjoy watching triple a slop designed to nickel and dime, fail. We just didn't buy the game and now we're watching it go down in flames and you're crying because you didn't get to steal money from the customer. Get a grip.
>>736986841Lol the fagbender Brian and all these corporate shills are on all the mainstream places like gamespot, ign, gamesradar etc. that fag Brian is probably doing damage control on here for the game lmao.The best thing about this game is that they can't just shut it down right now, because it would cause immense reputational damage for their next live service bullshit game and the meagre players they tricked into Marathon who are the die hard cucks, will never touch the next game. So that means the longer this game is kept running, the more losses they're making. The more articles I see about the game, the more I know it's slowly bleeding out but they can't patch the wound because to do so would create more damage. It's beautiful to see, and you won't hear about it because of corporate shills pushing a narrative, but all signs and pattern recognition point to the game losing money and being in a lose lose situation with either shutting it down now and doing the damage or pouring more money into it and hoping players will come and start buying their micro transaction scam but that's not happening and we know they're bleeding out.
>>736987131One hundred percent, it's all manufactured but failed hype. The real customer base has had their pattern recognition detectors kick in and they recognize it's all a narrative hype farm they're trying to create in order to trick people into buying their game. I love these threads where the shillbot comes in and claims they won, I still remember tortanic and the insane lies from the entire gaming media press about how it was successful and how everyone who didn't buy it was an incel piece of shit who should die because they're worse than nation defiling parasites like central banks. They did the whole defend the game thing to death so hard all the way that when it was finally revealed that the was a failure, the backlash and glee from people who didn't get scammed was reframed my gaming media corporations as just people being evil and wishing the good guys to fail LMAO. The cope on these game failures are always fun to follow and mock.
You insufferable retards lost.I'm already seeing tons of buz arpund the new update. Bungie successfuly saved the game.
>>736987331Lol watch them come in and claim how the people here who don't want to get scammed are just as evil as the liars who are astroturfing the game. It's like how women do some heinous shit and when a man doesn't want to marry her and be her slave, she claims he's just as bad as the feminists that he doesn't want to marry. Lmao.
>>736988035Lol wow, the bots are evolving. >Is not a failure>It might be a failure>Ok so it failed but you're an incelLmao
>>736986661>games playercount completely falls a cliff when americans go to sleepgame will be dead before december 31st 2026
>>736986661>meaningless corpo drivelwhenever someone feels the need to point out that they are doing their regular job, it's pretty bad news.
>>736986661>aim assists stat on guns>controllers benefit from aim bot>bullets have "magnetism" - increased projectile hitboxHardcore game my ass. And they hardrail it as a PvP game too. Fucking retarded muppets.>>736986841>marketingRetarded bunch of dudebros, megasluts, and they all use gaslighting as a first-line defence against all and any. Should be gassed and then fed to CEOs.
>>736986661>players
>>736998382because they still believe the world is the same as 20 years ago and they still hold a monopoly on information and can make lies real by repeating them often enough
>Perimeter Beginner lasts until level 12 >Depleted self revives and Mercy kits >Solo faction bonuses and commendation rewards>Massive recon buffFuck it, I'm making a new account purely for solos
>it's not f2pwtf? do they really expect people to pay to access a game most people think they're going to withdraw access from soon?
>>737000648You're retarded, 1.5 million people already gave Bungie $40 + mtx purchases.>But what about me?You were never buying anyway, stfu faggot.
>>737000815>You're retarded, 1.5 million people already gave Bungie $40 + mtx purchases.200m+ budget btw LOL
>>737000815>You were never buying anyway, stfu faggot.no shit, that's what I wrote you retard
>>737000870Sony also spent $3.7 billion on Bungie itself. I'm sure Destiny has helped to make a little of that back, but Marathon hasn't even put a light scratch in that lol
Brb gonna blat myself off
>>737001618That colour is so fucking irritating. They could've used green - it's easy ont he eyes. They really fucked up with loading screens.The initial ones are kinda ok - its just a QR pattern on the soft dark gray background. And then you get that blue/violet eye-rape when loading into match/map. Fucking hostile design.
>>736986661>The CCU situation for the first time since the game launched has improved on a week over week basisit did not, it's lower than last Wed you lying nigger
>>737001618Trip report I exfiled and left my team to die because they stayed in one single building the whole round
>>736986661>where they addressed every single issue everyone had with the gameThey added an offline mode with an original campaign?
>>737002552They need to redo the cinematics for 21:9 if I'm going to be looking at them so long. Even the blurred sidebars from social media would be an improvement.
It's just not going well.
>>736986661they saw what the perfect recipe for an extraction shooter looks like in unc raiders but marathon development was in later stages, and they didn't have time to fix everything.
I haven't booted up the game in 3 weeks, not enough content and suffers from the exact same problem all extraction and looter shooters suffer from of Why am I even doing this?Tarkov finally fixed it, by 1.0 giving you the ability to literally escape and end the game. What does Marathon have? Kill the compiler, get end game weapons only to use them on perimeter fighting people for blues and greens? Is it supposed to be ranked which like every shooter for the past 15+ years has been infested by rampant cheating?
>>737004086 At least the Marathon discord has over 400k members ig.
I have decided to hook up a mic to talk to my teammates since no one seems to know what to do, and I'm fucking shocked at the tragic state of bluetooth in Windows. It's the flakiest, maybe-sorta-works thing I've encountered in years. Weird, because I remember bluetooth in 7 and 8.1 being basically plug-n-play. Even worse, all my BT headsets work perfectly well in Linux on the same computer (except for spatial audio which requires some plugins that I can't be arsed with). Meanwhile, the mic in my JBL's is never recognized, the mic in my Sammy's is recognized only half the time and my Airpods Max show up their custom name, or Airpods Max, or Unknown Device depending on... I don't know. Android, iOS, macOS, the TV also just work. The jeets have truely ruined this OS.
>>736986661Surge?
>>736986661highguard comeback when
>>737007476When Stop Killing Games finally wins, we'll all be blasting in Highguard and Concord
>>737006256bluetooth has very bad audio latency and if you use it for gaming then you will be put at a disadvantage
>>736993454>>736986753CyberAcme dates back to the original games retards
>>736993206>20k active is satisfactoryThe absolute fucking cope some of you come up with to deny that your game is dead.No, 20k is not satisfactory. Investing hundreds of millions of dollars for that result is fucking abysmal. You're a retard. Please never start a business.
>>737009301actually it's okay because they sold 2 gorillion copies everyone's just taking it slow with their 10 minutes a day to play
>>736986661Marathon is the only game where I saw the aggregate ownership tracker DECREASE week over week
>>736986661fuck Tarkovfuck Dark and Darkerfuck Forever Winterfuck Hyenasfuck Maraudersfuck Cycle: Frontierfuck Disney Extraction Shooterfuck Arena Breakoutand especially fuck Marathonwhat a fucking stupid genre, ain't nobody fucking figured out the gameplay loop let alone the endgame for these stupid multiplayer extraction shooters.And don't even think of bringing up Arc Raiders as some sort of success, they've already losing players and i wouldn't be surprised by the end of the year they'll be less than Warframe with 30k or so players.
>>737009796Disney trying to get into the extraction genre makes me think of that failed Activision attempt to make their own version of Amiibos, called Skylanders. Unless this Disney thing is PVE like Arc and has optional PVP only, like Division 2, I don't see Disney fans tolerating pvp sweats kicking their asses every day.
>Marathon is here to stay
>>737009898Disney is completely rudderless and I wouldn't put it past them to do something so out of character as make a brutal PvP shooter wrapped in Disney characters, kind of like how they accidentally jump started screamo music in the 2000's.The business story here is hilarious as well. Iger, a jew, was the CEO and after some trivial corporate drama was kicked out by the board. The new CEO green lit years of LGBTQ shit and all of it flopped. The board revolted again and brough Iger back and his first action was to declare that they need to get contemporary politics out. How wretched can a media company be when a jew is like, "whoa this is not okay"?
>>736986661
>>736987959Didn't they get caught just stealing an artists work? Isn't that worse than ai?
blast havers the surge was short lived...
>>737010126The more believable story I heard was Iger needed to leave for a while to dodge some messes that were expected to happen, so he installed the new CEO as something of a fall guy and poison pill. Then, when the mess predictably occurs, Iger can return as the big hero who came back to save Disney. It's all corpo politics and dickheads floating off on golden parachutes while the business burns around them. Apparently something similar happened at Bungie when all the execs left after their Sony purchase money passed its 'you can't spend it yet' deadline.
>>737010180Spamming about a game non-stop isn't doing nothing btw
>>737009898>Skylanders>Spyro Trilogy Remake gangbusters>no Spyro sequel plannedSpyro 4 fucking never
>>737010634Erm maybe spam less shill threads and maybe we won't spam as much
>>736986661They should have spent money differently.Pay thirdie monkeys to PLAY the game instead of blowing 400M $ on advertising.
>>737010802>Admits to spammingConcession accepted shartyfag
Man the vibe shift comeback of Marathon needs to be studied.
>>737010937OK*game dies*
Hype? Hope? Future? Playercount?
>>737012347>hypeBarely existed>hopeBlasted>FutureEOS>PlayercountProjected to hit sub-1k by July if not sooner
>>737012347new br queue live soon, we're back to launch numbers i bet
>>737001871SHould've just let us browse the menu in loading screens. Let us read all the lore they only put in text
>>736986661Concord deluded themselves in the same way too
>>737012492Eh I think it'll be in forever oscillating 5-20k hell world unless Bungie does something major
>>736986661>surge of playerwhat surge?
>>737012609I doubt it, free kits are kinda boring and putting everyone on the same level with them isn't really going to change that. If it's a traxus or cyberacme day too it'll be dead on arrival.
>>737012734There's definitely some low player count where a death spiral starts because matchmaking takes too long, which causes more people to leave, which makes the matchmaking take even longer.Nobody except the most fervent addicts would tolerate 5m+ of waiting for matches where you could die inside of 60sec. And there's like two minutes of cinematic bullshit going into or leaving matches, so you might have a 30 minute period where you can play maybe one match between all the waiting, loading, fighting, and dying.Casuals aren't patient at all.
>>737000815Do the math on 1.5 million (lmao)*40million-30% vendor fee then blast off
>>737000815>All of these 1.5 gorillion players paid for microtransactions, trust me!
>>737009796Why don't they make Marvel Extraction? They just have everything they need. Whole Secret Wars concept is perfect for extraction. Beyonder gather all heroes and villains on planet with dead highly developed race to fight against each other. Heroes and villains just need to walk around ruins and extract useful artefacts for final battle. So fucking obvious it would be a blast! Besides after Doomsday they going to make Secret Wars movie, so fucking huge marketing for game. Stupid disney just want to make a stupid flop of a nobody cares game instead of another uber win like marvel rivals. How retarded all bosses in all gamedev studios are?In this post an idea on billion and they just keep shitting shitty games.
>>737009796Besides after Doomsday they going to make Secret Wars movie, so fucking huge marketing for game. Stupid disney just want to make a stupid flop of a nobody cares game instead of another uber win like marvel rivals. How retarded all bosses in all gamedev studios are?
>>737012998I'm sure a Marvel Extraction game is being planned or is in the works. After how big Marvel Rivals got, there's no reason for someone not to roll the dice on making an extraction type of game with that IP.
>>737012998nobody likes extractions.
>>736986661>the future of Marathon is exciting.Welcome home.
why are people here so asspained about one of 500 multiplayer shooters
>>737014098Uh, because {made up/irrelevant thing}!
>>736986661heads? down.blast? had.
>>736986661If I were to guess. The team knows they're not getting another chance, so they have no choice but to go all-in on Marathon.
>>737014098i'm just laughing at this being the first game after sony bought bungie for 3.6b
>>736986770what campaign?
>>736994658am i missing something? where is this huge surge in players?
>>737000815>1.5 millionlast numbers we got was aprox 1.2 million, by now they can probably be at 1.3 million and thats being generous
>>737010262They removed all the plagiarized work, this is why they delayed it for 8 months extra dev time.
>>737010937Nigger, blaming the sharty for people mocking the game just makes you look desperate. And they don't have the numbers for that anymore anyway since they rangebanned the third world
>surgeMay I see it?
>>737014892It was basically yesterday's peak, which was about 3-4k higher than the day before's. But still slightly under the same time last week.In other words, instead of losing 1-2k vs. the previous day, it 'surged' +5-6k, resulting in a net total add vs. the previous day of about 1-2k.But the downward trend is still clear as day and it's likely the game won't see a high of 30k ever again except maybe for a brief window this Sunday.
>Marathon gets sunsetted>YOU HAD TO BE THERE!
>still no matchmakingsorry im not playing to be an event for better players (95% of the people playing this game)
When are they vaulting that raid?
>>737015173I'd expect the game itself to get vaulted first at this rate.
>>736986753Secondary moment.
>>737015248That's on brand for bungie
>>736988035There is no begging needed, it's inevitable
>>737010673you are legally entitled to kill this man if he is wronghttps://youtu.be/DpxF0mV9-Ic?si=LFewqB25XD5J9DU0
and Deadlock has 71,780players right now according to steam charts and there has been zero marketing and you have to be privately invited to the game lol
>>737016870Deadlock also mogged Concord back before Deadlock even had a fucking game banner on Steam.
>>737016870Deadlock is f2p retard
I reject live service slop
>>736993206>>737009301Sony has bought Bungie for about 3.6 billion, this game cost an extra 200~300 million, without counting the servers costs, marketing, and whatever they're wasting on Destiny 2 alongside Marathon, it's an almost 4 billion USD disaster and 20k "players" is nowhere near satisfactory. This company will most likely not survive until the last quarter of this year.
>>737019437As a reminder, even back in 2025, there were articles talking about leaks where Marathon needed to be top 5 on the NPC/Circana list to be in profit territory. And when it came out, it needed to sell 8-9m units (at $40 average cost) just to break even, then only sold 1.2-1.5. And it costs Sony a few mil each month to pay for the Marathon dev salaries, assuming it's still 300 people.I don't know if there's a way for the game to ever make a profit. I don't think a FFXIV/NMS style turnaround could even do it.
>game is called Marathon>players have to race to the endgame before the servers get shut down
>>737019510It's going to be wild if there's an EOS announcement and people pull a Concord where they rush matches to get all the achievements before the severs turn off
>>737019561Now that you mention it, this is a little bizarre>https://steamcommunity.com/stats/3065800/achievements40% of people didn't even play 21 matches? really?
>>737019618The achievement stats have painted mostly the same picture since launch: Of all the people who bought Marathon, most dropped it quick, while a small, core fanbase play it excessively.That's also a death sentence for any kind of MTX plan they had, since you can't expect a lot of whales with a small (and shrinking) audience.
>>737019497only way is if they re-leased it with a single-player/co-op campaign, which is pretty much impossible for them at this point.really blows my mind how these companies just spend a retarded amount of money completely forgetting what made them successful in the first place
>>736986661marathon is such a fucking embarrasment when it comes to the bungie name. i know its not the same bungie but for refrence halo 3 had:>fully fledged campaign that offered both couch and online co-op with a bunch of secrets/skulls offering replayability>multiplayer that had several different kinds of modes that were all popular for each respective player from le wacky modes with grifball and zombies to more hardcore players>forge mode that allowed for community made often modded maps to be shared and downloaded off of the bungie website>theatre mode that allowed you to go back and record gameplay on a whim and share it around>customizable armor that you unlocked through gameplay>years long rumors about ways to get recon>an ever present counter that let you know how many gamers were online at any given time with a world map showing hotspots of who was on>released 5 years after halo 2>on the fucking 360say what you will about halo being babbies first fps but since halo 3 there have been few games that have honestly matched the quality and amount of content that it offered. Marathon is a fucking joke being priced at $40 with the game not even having the first raid included. Anyone who bought this should not be taken seriously when it comes to games and rightfully scorned for giving nu-bungie a fucking cent especially after theyve proven that at any time theyre willing to rape the fanbase of their games.
>>736986661>Mid season>they already know they are halfway through reaching EoS
Bungie lost
>>737022671The seasonal reset will probably kill the game, desu
>>736986661>Marathon>FutureThey are going to have to pull a No Man's Sky sized miracle.
>>737024982>bungieNever gonna happen. They are known for doubling down on retarded design choices
there's a retarded shill in this thread that said he's hearing a lot of "buzz" around this update. meanwhile, one day out and it already bled almost everyone's that came to check it out. one day.
so are they going to do anything about the cheaters or have they just given up?
>>736986661>>736986770see you in 3 months when bungie layoffs begin
>>737022284the divide between the old bungie and nu-bungie needs to be addressed
>>736987370Drumpf lost, get over it
>>737027338Its still higher peaks retard
the lore seems kind of cool, here's an idea: release an animation miniseries based on it, like Cyberpunk: Edgerunners
>>737028515Only two, though? Yesterday, which was higher than Monday, and today, which was higher than Sunday. Neither were higher than the weekend's regular peak on Saturday.
>>736990906That's a lot of yapping
i learn not to trust nu-bungie after spending 1k+ hours on D2 + hundreds of dollars on DLCs
>>737027437They've given bonuses to the cheaters it seems. One thing the game has, particularly in asia where the server pop is fucking dying at times is that you have pre stacked teams of 5 up to sometimes even 9. All on shared comms. Only one person runs the cheat, so if that account dies, everyone else gets spared. They just added incentives for those stacked teams to extract together.
[Buy a fucking ad snoy]
I wonder if they paid all these journo publishers a contractual lump sum. Which guaranteed coverage for a period, instead of having to purchase a bunch of individual plug-ins. Would explain why every pop outlet and social media influencer are all so suddenly fascinated with this darling of a flop, despite having a blast.And that 1̶0̶0̶ 1̶5̶0̶ 200+ million dollar price-tag on the budget. Jesus Christ. That number only ever seems to get bigger.
>battle royale instead of a single player modethey will never learn
Bungie bump
>>736993206>20k active is satisfactoryHow was Highguard doing when they've announced EOS?
>>737033880From a Forbes Article, senior contributor—>I can confirm Marathon’s budget is over $200 million. Likely more than $250 million. That does not include ongoing costs for maintenance and new content now.$250 million now. What the Christ.
>>737033948Battle royale would actually be preferable to extraction slop. At least in BR everyone drops in with nothing and gear has to be acquired on-site, instead of sweaties amassing themselves a vault full of the best shit the game has to offer and then farming lobbies with it.
>>737034125marketing is usually 50%-100% of the development cost and seeing how they spent so much money on streamers (66k for one day per streamer) it is probably 400 million in total and counting + the 3.6 billion dollar price tag to get bungie in the first placeconcord which cost 400 million (200 for studio, 200 for game) was also a recommendation from bungie so 4.4 billion in the hole
>>736986661yeah I mean nobody's playing it. nobody's talking about it. it's a flash in the pan. bungie can keep coping though
>>736993206Sony's entire live service rep is at stake, and they're apparently willing to burn 100 million plus on top of the 100 million plus what they're down on dev costs alone. There's a dozen critical problems with marathon that's obvious for any anon worth their shock rifle combo. The game is fucking bad. If the game is going to survive long term, it's going to need to look very different than launch. >>736993691Listen less to retards. Do more nothing. They either fix the game, in which I have a good game to play, or it dies an entertaining death. I don't think I can lose here.>>737012347>Hype? Dead at launch. Carpet bombed with the Cryo update.>Hope? I think the correct do something about it is to make a new game at this point.>Future? Depends on sony's charity. >Playercount?Check again after wipe.
>>737033880They didn't. Sony made it clear that this game was the centerpiece of their push until november. It's the threat that anyone who steps out of line will not get any future ads.
These are in no way good numbers but if the exercutives at Sony think it's best to keep sinking money on it then who am I to judge?
>>737034915The new patch revitalized the game
>>737034915NOOOO SISTERS KEEP THE GAME ON EVEN IF YOU AREN'T PLAYING TO FIGHT THE CHUACKKKK
>>737035048In what way? 24K in the last 24 hours doesn't sound revitalizing at all. All time peak was only 88K. Just accept it's a dead game.
>>737034915They'll say it's our fault as usual and the cycle continues.
If you are not betting your money on blast havers winning, then what the fuck is wrong with you?
>>736987123I'll buy it when it hits 0, I don't want to play with anyone else.
>>737035049they really do be saying this
>>737035115It walled off the freekitters in a low loot fragfest so that normal trios is even sweatier than ever. It also gave dev blessing to the team cheating that was already happening and gives BONUSES to those fuckers. And it gave the first sign of anything but straight plummeting of players. That's enough for the usual shills to declare victory.Still the patch was not 100 percent idiotic. We'll see what happens from here. At this point they're just trying to stop the bleeding enough for the reboot. Game is ass. Their survival depends on dramatically changing it.
>>736987648>>736987497>what will happen?
>>736987959Wtf I like carebears.
Just a reminder for all the 'dead game' folks, the original talking point was that it was 'dead on arrival'then dead in week 1then dead in week 2then dead in week 3then dead in week 4then dead in month 2There's people in this thread now talking about sony investor calls and shit because beleive it or not this was never another concord situation and they are having to rely on speculation about what a hypothetical sony investor might think at this stage.Not to mention, if player numbers get so dire, it will likely go free to play and linger on for ages.
SURGEBROS...
>>737035506I always said it would be a slowburn.
>>737035506How does this even affect you?
>>737035506even shills aren't buying skins since they're so dogshit, free to play makes zero sense
>>736993804Can discord even handle 500k users on one server?
>>737035506So, how far have you gotten on Cryo?
>>737033380So basicly, they are playing arc raiders while every other player still plays marathon.Bungo retard alert.
its funny how there are infinitely more livelihoods that depend on marathon flopping than depend on it succeeding
>>737036246no not really
>>737036123Yes. That's pretty much it.>>737036246There's 27 thousand fucking people in the credits of marathon anon. That's the size of a large town.
>>737036754>There's 27 thousand fucking people in the credits of marathon anon. That's the size of a large town.Ain't no way. Even the RDR2 credits doesn't have that many people
>>737036754>>737036617>That's the size of a large townnow imagine how many twitter indians and slop youtubers rely on concord 3 to afford another bowl of rice or pokemon cards
I just don't get it, if you really like the game and enjoy playing it why are you here arguing with retards then? Go and play it, fag. Continue having your blast.
>>737037371who are you talking to
>>737037371He needs new lambs to slaughter because everyone else playing is too psychopathic.
>>737037282I highly doubt its more than 850, anon
7K playing right now, jfc, there's more indians being hit by a train right now than marathon players
>>737037371If you don't like the game and think other games are better, then why aren't you playing them instead of making the hundredth thread about how Marathon sucks and is dead?
>>736986661It's mysterious how "9/10" games have players in the tens of thousands and "6/10" games in the millions.
>>737039247200+ million well spent i'd say
>/v/ is so unbelievably retarded that they truly believe this game will be shut down any day now>when D3 is still on the horizonWork with me here, /v/. How is it gonna look if they shutdown yet another GaaS, and one as well recieved as this? Bad, very bad. So i ask you, Who THE FUCK is gonna trust them with another one, let alone a D3, if they kill Marathon? Absolutely no one. Sony isnt as retarded as you people, they know they have play ball for optics sake, and to boost morale.
>>737039873It's almost like...people are retarded...
>>737039873Truly a mystery for the ages
>>737039873Normies like slop over games that tell them to actually git gud. Its not rocket science.
>>737041447Is this what Bungie is telling Sony now?
>>737039873Reminds me of this
>>737041021>Sony isnt as retarded as you peopleOne word proves you wrong:FAIRGAME$
>>737041021>Sony isnt as retarded as you peopleX to doubt
>>737041021>D3>after bungie displays their hate for destiny
