>Barely one month and half since launch>Already forgottenWhat went wrong?
>>737283607WE WUZ ANDROIDZ 'N SHIET
>>737283607why are there daily threads about the financial performance of a video game?did all you niggers migrate from /biz/ when crypto crashed?
>>737283841Are you actually brain damaged? What the hell is this garbage? If you're not interested in androids and can only think about things in the form of racist caricatures, then I wish you'd fuck off forever as you are completely hopeless for real discussion.
>>737283607https://youtu.be/FcNWMKxYgEo
>>737284269trusted source redbullcola
>>737284376>If you're not interested in androids and can only think about things in the form of racist caricatures, then I wish you'd fuck off foreverBlame Bungie for adding George Droyd to the game.
>>737284481>I CAN'T {PROCESSING}
>>737283607I enjoyed the server test and bought the game based off that. I had an exam to study for so didn't play for a while, but haven't felt the need to pick it up again.It gets to a point where making progress with the missions feels like such tedium and rng. I'm never gonna have a premade team that can kill all the other teams and the boss, so what's the point?
>>737283607$40 (Forty US dollary doos) for a free to play game with only 3 fucking maps that all look the same.
>>737284776Fo-four maps and one is just corridors
>>737284269Oof and that’s without subtracting the refunds
Wonder what do the higher ups at sony think after wasting 400+ million dollars on marathon and then 4 billion on bungie + marathon
>>737284745the randoms I queue with are usually fine, it's the kind of game where shitters get frustrated and stop playing so most people left are at least competent.
>>737284481Literally no argument to your response. I think he might be the one who is in fact brain damaged. Rather than argue with you on the merits of your argument, he prefers to virtue signal and pretend that your argument is completely without merit because of wrongthink. In truth, a faggot.
>>737283607>Already forgotten>As he makes yet another thread about it
>>737284481>>737286317>merits of argument>argument is "LE BLACKMAN EXISTS"
>>737284269>they think it already pass 1 millionlol
>>737283607Damn are the chuds already finished j-o'ing to pragmata?
>>737284376>/v/>real discussionhow new are you?
JUST WAIT FOR THE SERVER WIPE!
>>737283607Support Bungie sisters! We can make the playercount rise from the grave!
I still think this game was an inside job or a money laundering scheme or somethingtheres no way they thought a game like this was going to be successful
>>737286562>trannies are trying to work on the damage control for freewhy are they such cattle?
>>737286381Argument is they made a literal caricature not too far off from what was posted and you're getting butthurt that they called it out.I get you're used to being anally pained, being such a huge faggot, but the merit of the argument is that its an ugly fucking game and no one is fucking playing it partially due to that. Since you can't seem to understand something that isn't a dick choking you out I spelled it out for you.
>>737286572what, like purposefully sabotage their own game? what would they gain by that?
OOOOOOOOOOOOOH im BLASTIN
>>737286741they dont want to be part of Sony
>>737286572every single woke game is a laundering schemeeveryone knows what's popular and what's not, companies aren't wasting billions of dollars to put niggers and trannies in games thinking anyone likes themif they wanted to sell they'd do what's popular, the reason why they do woke shit is because they don't care about the actual game and just want to launder money with propaganda
The Blast is over, xisters
>>737286680>its an ugly fucking game and no one is fucking playing it partially due to that.The only reason people bothered to play it over Arc Raiders is the art style. Mechanically it has nothing standout. You'd be the most dogshit executive and turn a standard flop into Concord with that decision making.Don't you have a 3 hour Youtube podcast to watch on "wokeness in gaming"?
>>737287003Well I wouldn't create a game with such ugly fucking characters for one and then complain and bithc and moan alla cross the internet about how chud ruined my game and him not buying it and playing it is the reason no one else will fucking play because apparently everyone needs chud to buy and play their games.Oh, you mean concord and Marathon and whatever the fuck else that got focuse grouped to high heaven and had a million different wooke faggots telling them that they had a real winner on their hand and they only had to keep paying their contractor fees only to find out, whoopsie! No one fucking buys their shit!>>Why did game failLol, i dunno, niggers and ugly women.>REEEEEE! Not that reason!Go fuck yourself, its what you're best at.
>>737287003Also, i don't need to waste all my time watching someone else's fucking opinion on anything to form my thoughts for me. Thats a faggoty thing people who don't buy games do so they know what to think.
>>737287145Not him but you're extremely mindraped. Take a break from culture war slop.
>>737287145based
>>737287207Him. You're a huge fucking faggot and you should kill yourself. I hope you bought the game and now its sitting on your list and you can enjoy watching it fail since you're so invested in its success.
>>737287145Half of that are arguments I've never made.In no universe would Marathon have done better if it just looked like Arc Raiders. It would actually do worse. You're a tourist.
>treating a videogame you bought like a stock on the stock market>get anally pained whenever anyone brings up it's selling like shit>defending the game on /v/ of all places to make yourself feel better
>>737287207kill yourself retard
>>737287340And you're a nigger. I responded to you responding to me. I'm not making your arguments for you, I'm giving you mine and you had the wherewithal to respond to my post and now you're assuming i read your arguments (you had none) at all.Someone asked why it failed. I told. You got assmad that I gave you a reason you didn't want to hear that is in fact true at the very least confirmed by >>737283841Either you haven't been following the conversation in which case stfu, or you're blatently ignoring it so you can sound smart, in which case you're just as big a faggot as >>737286381
The fact that they haven't announced their 1 million copies sold milestone this entire time is quite interesting
>>737288578because they're fully aware that the first response to that is going to be about the budget
>>737283607>What went wrong?weren't leftists trying to say this game owned the chuds, is a stunning financial success and not a flop?
>>737289184kek yep lying journos were trying to claim it was a hit for weeksobviously everyone knows the truth now
>>737289184the demand for culture war slop outrage far exceeds supply which is why you hallucinate it
>>737285714was this picture made by an ai that doesn't quite know what a male and a female look like? its so uncanny like it has a chest but also a prominent adam apple and broad shoulders, they really need to work on the algo
>>737283607This shit was forgotten like a week after launch. The only people talking about this game is /v/.
>>737287145Holy based. Its crazy how these types who use chud unironically talk alot online but no one ever buys their games. They are very vocal online but their games constantly flop at an alarming rate.
>>737289332I'm pretty sure it'd be easier to find a tranny working at Bungie, than to create a fake ai image.
>>737287145based and correct
>>737289373go figure apparently making games aimed at the 20 or so mentally ill communists in arr gaming circlejerk isn't a good business strategy who woulda thunk
>>737283607i'm still playing it
>>737288578chuds cant stop winning
>>737287003The only reason anyone played it is because Bungie made the game, and Bungie has some of the most insane cultist fans of any game studio
>>737288578Smooching Shego repeatedly.
>>737287340bzzt, if it looked like arc raiders or like anything fucking else than bright detergent chic roblox, it would have sold at least a little better.how much better?no idea, but the art style, ui, and generald esign turns off more people than it attracts, especially after they revealed the quirky heroes, sorry i mean runners, sorry i guess they call them shells now.a very small amount of weirdos, especially in the media like the style but most people find it repelling and its one of the things the game has been memed on non stop about since reveal, tourist.when people say sci fi they mean ghost in the shell/bladerunner not flat assed androgynous brightly colored roblocks toys
i dont understand how a game can cost upwards of 200+ milions of dollars and have literally zero content, there's no single player, there were like 4 or 5 maps at release, where the fuck do years of development and all of this money go towards? i am so sure most of these bajillion dollar cost games are just a front for money laundering
>>737283607As a primarly solo player, its a mix of being too hardcore and not hardcore enough, while also ignoring solo players which make up most of the players in extraction shootersThe game is designed around 3 amped up absolute GAMERS who play this game 24/7 in a discord call all day, and are free on weekends to play the limited endgame map + ranked alongside grinding quests and materialsWHILE ALSO being super casual in the sense that there's really only like 5 guns that matter and they're piss easy to get, build crafting is more of a suggesstion and 99/100 players are actually engaging with it. The most you'll do is MAYBE consider which two identical purple items (visually) you'll equip. And most players will drop a blue item for a purple even if it fucks up their build simply because it's purple and more rareIts a fucking weird combo of being a grindy sweatfest but it has no right to be when in 3 months, or 6 weeks from this post, it's all going away. I've completed every major contract in this game and im no where near or never will fully unlock every upgrade this season unless I play for 16+ hours a day grinding the same few events on the same map (which is the worst in the game - dire marsh) just to get the rare materials, only to lose it all in a little over a monthIt's baffling. I enjoy the game, but it's sense of direction / first impressions are horrid.
>>737289613sex change surgeries for the devs
>>737286562Here's your 1 million member Marathon Discord!
We might be hitting sub 5k today bros
>>737290147we don't hate them enough
>>737290462kino
>>737283607>forgotten>makes thread about it almost hourlyRight…>meanwhile>tarkov, hunt, and arc can go weeks without a threadVERY INTERESTING
>>737289612Why the fuck would anyone buy Arc Raiders but inferior?>performs worse>less interesting social dynamics>more expensiveUnless you're one of the uber cynical asshats who think people will buy any exclusive just cause of the brand name.>>737287621Wasn't much of a discussion really. You didn't directly address my point and went on a melt down.
Tired of the endless doomposting? Come and join our Marathon subreddit. Only positive vibes here.
It feels like this game should've been f2p, but instead it costs 40$ and still has MTX. Studios these days keep doing this and I guess it's an indicator of how shit the economy is.But anyway, the art direction and worldbuilding really got me interested, but I'm not going to pay 40$ for an extraction shooter that's bleeding players. I've already played arc raiders, and I actually enjoy their separate aggression lobbies because I get to pick if I want to shoot players or clankers. Marathon seems to be geared towards a more hardcore playerbase and that's fine, but the game doesn't seem to have any longevity
>>737283607>forgottenHow am I supposed to forget about it when you make a thread about the game every single day?
>>737290462Nah too soon, lowest so far was around 6.5K and it will probably hit a similar number today. Tomorrow or the day after will be in the 5K zone
Don't worry guys.Bungie is heads down working hard on improving the game.
>>737289612>the style but most people find it repelling and its one of the things the game has been memed on non stop about since reveal, tourist. when people say sci fi they mean ghost in the shell/bladerunner not flat assed androgynous brightly colored roblocks toysRevisionism. Anyone here can remember how positively received the CGI trailers were. 22 million views, basically no dislikes.Could it be the product itself just kinda sucks. Don't get me wrong, I dislike the art style, but this point is retarded.
Bungie will fix the game for season 2 easily, it’ll get a huge media and streamer push, and this period will be forgotten. I have full faith in Ziegler and his vision.
>>737291576>seems to be geared towards a more hardcore playerbase and that's fineIt's not fine. If you can't attract casuals then the "hardcore" players will eventually leave as well. This plays out almost every year in the FGC
>>737284481 He's going to SAVE marathon season 3, trust me.
>>737291664>form: returned>blast: had>vision: uncompromising>bones: solid>hooks: sunk>fundamentals: strong>cook: ing>loop: addicting>play: must>haul: long>heads: down
>>737293675npc ahh post
>>737293418Ziegler is gonna get fired for being a competitive valorant cuck lmao.
:)
>>737283607 What do you think the new map will be. (not night marsh)
SUB 6K INCOMING AIIIIIEEEEEEEEE
>>737293752>>737293772well that was fast
>>737293756Night Perimeter
>>737293875Blasthavers...
For some reason every left-wing friend I have absolutely fucking loves this game
>>737293981They have good taste
>>737284376>>737287621>>>>>plebbit
>>737294007no they don't, I can assure you
>>737284376lame bait
Bunjeet really blasted in the porcelain with this one.
>>737289295seems you weren't here in previous threads the defence was that:"chuds said this would shut down in 2 weeks"that was repeated all along these threads.and no, I am not mad this flopped. I am glad it did.
>>737294059its literally marathon 9/11
>>737293875>>737294059>>737294179Is this spam
>>737294179BY GAWD ITS 911
>>737293675I love these, we're reddit (again)>Blast? Had>Lightning? Bottled>Hope? and Change>Wishlisted? Mega>Form? Returned>Expectations? Subverted>Hit? Big>Engagement? Farmed>Stunning? Brave>Wind? Pushing Me>Beauty Standards? Challenged>Fat? Acceptance
>>737294194one mans spam is another autists "culture"
>>737284028Do you see the replies this gets? That's all 4chan is about is engagement.
i have to laugh at your game because mine got delayed to add in an extraction mode nobody asked for
>>737283607I swear, this fucking game has more /v/ threads than players at this point.
How bad is the monday drop gonna be tomorrow,?
>>737289616True that. The game is pretty fun. But they still don't seem to know what they want it to be. Right now it has game modes that range from hardcore pvp raid, extraction shooter all the way to pretty much apex legends tier battle royale. Honestly, I just enjoy dropping into matches and blowing up teams to steal their shit. Don't even care about quests for the most part.
>>737293875>5KWE DID IT 9GAG
>>737294435We want Bungie to fail. It's not my fault you're a fucking casual nigger and missed the last 20+ years of Bungie releasing dogshit video games and breaking promises and burning fans.
>>737294630least raped destiny player
>>737293875what's with the 22k peak? wasn't it the weekend boost?
>Marathon is forgotten>Despite there being a thread in the catalog literally 24/7 since launch
>>737294512yes
It's simply badly balanced. First couple weeks were great because everyone didn't know whst to do, was poor, getting into pinwheel felt like an achievement rather than a chore. Now everyone has stacks of purple shields, heals to full in 1 second, can revive their teammates in 1 second, but also have 3 self-res and 10 bubble shields. Bully is still the best weapon and WSTR nerf won't change anything because a melee will still be enough to KO someone after two shots. Game went from hectic to stale real fast, and there's NO incentive to not wipe the map. Unless S2 actually tries to reward being friendly and heavily penalize PvP, it wont see a S3.
>>737294667yeah they dont get those anymore
>>737283607BUY AN AD
>>737289616You don't need all upgrades to finish the game, aka fight the Compiler. But to be real, at a certain point you're supposed to turn your attention towards specific ingredients/events and direct your own runs around them. The story is just the training wheels. And while wipes do kinda suck, they also give reason for players who have the rarest stuff to actually circulate it into the loot pool.
>>737284376shieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet
>>737295153Players with rarest gear earn it back so quickly that they have less to lose at any point than an average player with blue/purple gear. Marathon is a pure rich-get-richer game
>>737286562>(no reply)lel
>>737291576Marathon was smart to price at $40, too many wishy-washy people who pretend they'd play a game they actually wouldn't or would drop almost immediately.>>737293981What an interesting strawman, but you did choose your friends.
>>737286562>players/watchershow long until they start counting twitch viewercount in with player numbers?
>>737295343i dont think it would help
>>737295378hey, I'm surprised there's still 1.5k, thought it be in the 100s
>>737295378>mogged by DSIIIt's never been more over than this
>>737293595Well I mean if you look at Hunt Showdown that's a game with a high skill ceiling, full of knowledge checks, yet it's surviving and the devs don't seem to be giving up on it. You feel safer investing time into something like that. Meanwhile Marathon's just burned tons of cash with a middling launch, it could very well vanish a few months from now.
Everyone having a blast not playing the game
>>737293875I think there's server issues at the moment, I keep DCing.
$3.6 billion
>>737297676$4 billion developer, btw.
>>737298065destiny 2 might actually have more players since it's bigger on consoles compared to marathon which is mostly pc based
>>737297676The game is not dying fast enough so chuds are ddosing the servers
>>737298276>destiny 2 mightIt does.
Concord insta-ACKHyenas cancellation right before releaseHighguard rollercoaster from 100k to 0 in 2 weeksMarathon anemic launch into slow bleedSo many flavours of live service failure lately, I love it
>wanted a new marathon campaign in the visual style of those sick as fuck craig mullins paintings from durandal and infinity>got this instead
>>737283607>alright, ill give marathon a try>play a game>guys>all the character animations are copy pasted from Destiny 2>the climbing, jumping, vaulting, reloading animations - they are all 100% copy pasted from Destiny 2>guys>the NPC enemies are just Red Legion models repainted in bright pastel colours>literally the same jetpack jump animation>the enemy with the shield in Marathon has a weak spot in the same place it does in Destiny 2>i cant do this guys, sorryalt f4 + uninstall.bungie wants 40$ for this.
>>737283607And sony thinks it'll live next to their now extraction shooter fairgame$
>>737293418Mein bungie shareholder, Ziegler... Ziegler couldn't gather enough troons to work on the update. Ziegler's season 2 cannot proceed.
>>737288578Didn't even lie about it like other 1 million players* games
>>737293875There was one peak daily, but now there's two peaks. What happens, who joined?
maybe they should've made a survival gamebut i bet these people don't have 400k discord members
>>737298964This is what makes it so funny whenever people say the gunplay is so good in marathon, its literally just destiny.
>>737299291Do you even play games or do you just look at numbers all day
>>737298964>>737299359what makes this EVEN FUNNIER, is that marathon was supposed to be just a new game mode for Destiny 2, but some greedy kike came up with an idea:>what if we sell it as a completely new game lol>maybe people wont sue us for such a blatant asset flip
>>737299404Do you even play games or do you just look at 4chan posts all day
>>737299404I'm at work rn, shitposting while pooping
>>737299404god no, games suck
>>737299404not really, no.pretty much all games made since 2005 suck jew cock. same with movies and tv shows.
>>737294630My dude I was just answering why the threads get made. Never said it was good or bad. I'm all for the humiliation they have rightfully earned >>737299404What is with this retarded argument? This thread was made several hours ago and like most of /v/ you can post in a thread to come back later too it. In a world with smart phones there is no "look at numbers all day" hell that's the double irony of AI tools is that you can ask it to fetch you the info you are curious about and within a minute you get to see how shitty Marathon is really doing compared to everything else and lose less time than it took you to come to this thread to make your passive aggressive post.
As someone who really enjoyed the game at launch it actually gets worse as you play because you realize the only thing keeping you engaged was failure. Once you finally clear a lot of the content you realize it's an incredibly barebones game. I love the art direction, the environmental design, the sound and the gunplay. Bungie is world class at that stuff but there's NO FUCKING CONTENT, and a quarter (realistically more like a third) of the map content is gated to weekends. Just an utterly baffling level of hubris, entitlement, or laziness on bungies part.
>Aztecross was carrying the game on twitch>But its so one note and boring hes moved to playing fucking Fortnite against botsThe failure power combo of Bungie and Jim Ryan must be studied.
I want to see how the game does after the first wipe and if they really go through with resetting all the faction progress
>>737299770>3 maps>1 map locked until endgame>only a few player models>everything is copy pasted from destiny 2>its a game that took a few hours to makethat will be 40$ + tip. >it costs more than a QUARTER OF A BILLION DOLLARS TO MAKEXD
>>737298820> Highguard rollercoaster from 100k to 0 in 2 weeksHighguard had been downloaded 2 million times but lost 90% of its playerbase in three weeks. The cast was so bland nobody even bothered to learn their names to make fun of them.
>Pragmata almost outsold Marathon in 2 days KEK
>>737300115Marathon has the bigger budget sure, but didn't Pragmata get delayed twice?
>>737299951>>3 maps>>1 map locked until endgameWhat maps the maps even worse is the three base maps are tiered so once you're geared theres no point in doing anything but outpost and you only do outpost to grind for gear to use for the marathon raid.
>marathon thread>shill instantly playing damage control for a game with tranny and nigger robotsdoes this guy ever sleep? game is dead retard, there's no point in playing this when tarkov and hunt exist
>>737283607Fucking I wish it crashed and burned but sadly Bungie has its drones that will keep the player numbers up.Bungie needs more than a bloody nose to get the fuck back in to making single player games again.
>>737299806now hes back to just making destiny videos
>>737299951but you'll get a new map next season!it'll be an existing map but now it's night, please get excited
>>737284481>George Droydkek
>>737295039It's still there, it's just losing out against the amount of people leaving.
>>737300368Marathon got delayed a lot too
>>737300049I read from someone here that the character skills were all pretty much worthless that they didn’t matter compared to just shooting your gun. Like it was a loss to use a skill in a fight.
>>737301503Balancefags strike again
>>737299359>whenever people say the gunplay is so good in marathonyeah, this is the "amazing gunplay" it sure is something
>>737283607No more paid shills>pic very related.
>>737301623It's crazy to me that among all of these shooters Marathon managed to be the slowest one, bumgie is fucking retarded
>>737300431Uhh you forgot about the quests like>go to hammer factory and collect hammer, now run to a roof on the other side of the map and beat your dick to death with it, then exfilfor half a level of faction xp and now do this 20 more times so that you can get an upgrade that lets you by grenades
>>737283607
>>737302334I mean- what did they expect, buying into a bungle game? To not get raped?
>>737284376
>>737284745Trio fill is really not that bad once you LVL up.I'm LVL 80, no friend is playing with me and play 90% of the time with randoms and it's not a frustrating experience
>>737303309Yeah this aspect has actually gotten batter as the game has gone on because the only people left have a good idea of what happening. If this wasn't the case I would've quit already, solos is miserable and I have zero gaming friends let alone ones that would buy this. The only people that have crashed out and been a bitch to me are ones that suck ass, competent people are usually pretty chill and don't sweat a loss as they are inevitable
>>737283607Can someone explain me, how did extraction shooters became something that companies chase? At least I can understand the logic of trying to create their own CoD or WoW, or hero shooter, because those made insane $$$.
>>737294247>Dilator? Inserted.
>>737298820And again, character designs that seem calculated to be gamer-repellant.
>>737284481>this will save our game
>>737299770>bog standard console shooter gunplay>WORLD CLASS BUNGIE GUNPLAYyou idiots spouting this bungie gunplay meme sicken me
With how pretentious artfags have been about this game makes me glad it's failing.>if you don't like this art style it's because you like piss filter gritty mud you filthy uneducated peasant go back to codShit said like that in full earnest.
>>737303970>Can someone explain me, how did extraction shooters became something that companies chase?Infinite content which means money spent on making content is a lot less then return they get out of it. Everyone knows Marathon is just an asset flip of Destiny so lets compare the two.In Destiny you make new expansions, in these new expansions you have a ton of new content like new guns and dungeons and raids and missions, ect too do. People play this content for awhile then get bored since they've done everything so theres no reason to grind or play anymore so you have to release another expansion. This next expansion you have to do it all over again, releasing even more content, more weapons, more dungeons, more raids, ect but thats not all it also has to trivialize the old content to make people get the next content. You keep repeating that forever.In an extraction shooter you have seasons / wipes. These seasons / wipes make it so you have to redo the grind and play the game all over again because you lose all your stuff. This alone means there is basically "infinite content" because your fans will just theoretically play every single wipe.It also means you don't HAVE too trivialize old content, new content added can be side grades making the game more varied and bigger. It would be like if in WoW there was still a very good reason to do old expansions instead of just the latest one.The reason Marathon is an extraction shooter is because at the start of development DayZ was massively popular and people made eventual knock offs of it and you can see how shit like Fortnite came from games kinda mimicking DayZ. Then during Marathons development Tarkov became massive popular on twitch so they decided to pivot to be a Tarkov clone.
>>737299404I'm a business analyst, I don't play with toys made for ADHD manchildren
>>737304613Makes me laugh when people bring up Halo 3 as an example of TOP TIER BUNGIE GUNPLAY.
I'm too employed to keep up with this shit and grind the permanent stuff, sorry for not having a trio of Discord kittens at my beck and call. It's gonna reset anyway who cares?
>>737284481Models are fucking ass, maps look neat, UI is SOUL and ez to use (NEEDS A FUCKING COMPARE BUTTON WHAT THE FUCK WHY IS THERE NO WAY TO COMPARE GEAR), gunplay is gud and the sound design is great (shooting inside, footsteps, environmental sounds that can trip you up or mask player movement), the PvE is alright, enemies are bullet sponges kinda but they do maneuver and will flank you/use grenades/melee so they're fun to fight. It feels like there's less players per match vompared to something like apex or tarkov because you can go some games with only one or two fights if you dont go to hot zones. Also the gravity and movement system is kinda ghey cause you cant conserve momentum and the gravity can be a little bouncy-feeling.Overall, with friends, I'd give it a 7/10
>>737305169>Models are fucking assSomehow they look nice in cinematics and their trailers, even the promo shots, but in-game they just look like shit, I don't know why. The lighting is way too flat.
>>737304613it feels good man idk what to tell you, it feels better than every other console shooter to me personally. I'm not saying it's the cutting edge of any fps game I'm sure that probably goes to a rougelike adhd turbofast game or something
>>737304754>perpetualise game by constantly reset your progressHuh. Makes sense. They looked at Diablo and PoE and wanted that
>get a key for outpost>guys I have a key>ping it on the map>they start running into pinwheel >guys the key>push the first team they see>they key though it’s better loot than Pinwheel>everyone gets downed>bye bye key
>>737305459it's bungie's bullet magnetism™
>>737305491To be fair it wasn't supposed to be like this. Tarkov was conceptualized as an "open world FPS MMO" and a natural evolution of DayZ, the seasonal resets were meant to be a part of development, but everyone got used to them so they stayed, this greater vision wasn't realized, and every "extraction shooter" based itself on Tarkov's beta.The original concept for the Marathon sequelreboot was meant to be similar, there would be very large maps, teams could spawn it at specific points, go do PvE quests and raid bosses, loot shit, explore, run into other teams in hot zones etc. then exfil at specific points, a return to the FPS MMO dream. Instead of a timer, maps would be persistent. A remnant of this is Cryo Archive, which as a map, is 1:1 scale. Imagine the entire Marathon as an interconnected map with this scale. But then that one oldhead from Bungie who had this Marathon as his pet project and whose name I forgot please remind me got fired, and the game morphed into what it is today, with small maps and timers, and Ziegler raped it with hero shooter shit. I wonder if the Destiny engine couldn't handle the original vision.
>>737304754Doesnt the wow meme of mounts and cheevos suggest people dont like it when theres no permanent stuff? Aren't you effectively wiping the sunk cost clean each reset?
>>737305650this, its literally just aim bot. you can get an adapter for your mouse where all it does is make games think its a console controllers joystick and it will just let you destroy everyone. the game launched in beta to let pc players use a nerfed version of it and it was so fucking over powered people bitched until they removed it.
>>737305459then you simply have shit taste its generic ass gunplay
>>737283607Nothing went wrong. Game is perfect.Give it another chance. It gets better after 203 hours in.
>>737305767This is what the game has to evolve into. I mean PvP shit is dumb fun, but it can’t be the whole game. The games too good for that.
>>737305767something Barrett was his name
>>737305767>that one oldhead from Bungie who had this Marathon as his pet projectChristopher Barrett, I remembered his name. >>737306105>This is what the game has to evolve into.I'd love that, and a return to the 2020-2023 Marathon material, but nobody is going to put in the resources to revamp a game that new.>>737306219Yeah thanks
>>737283607Marasisters…
>>737306105>The games too good for that.You could make a stand up career out of this.
>>737306447is this good?
>>737306854Kerbal is a classic, you should try it
>>737283607there's not really that many gamers who want to play extraction shootersit's like they all got feed some fake data about a lot of gamers wanting extraction shooters to play and that there is a huge market for it which simply isn't true. i have a lot of friends who like to play online videogames like Overwatch, Fortnite, PUBG, LoL, CS etc. etc. but not a single one of them gives a fuck about extraction shooters, i have like 50 friends on Steam and not one of them ever played Marathon on Tarkov or Arc Raiders or whatever
>>737307206Its a niche genre, and that makes it even harder to get into since any casual who plays will get pwned by the sweats every time they try.
>>737305558Your Outpost crew fill team is either the dumbest animals out there or sweats that will carry you despite being freekits. One times, I had a team that completely ignored small containers and free lying salvage. I asked them about it and they said "it's worthless".
why do corpos think extraction shooters are the next big thing?
>>737295153Oh I know that, but I still find it quite baffaling that bungie thinks your average player is going to get the 100+ purple and 30+ gold salvage I already tune my runs toward mat farming, or at the very least quest grinding to get level 100 and VIP every faction, but as a solo player I've just accepted every unlock is simply not possible unless I spend hours grinding the anomaly event in dire marsh
>>737307908because tarkov was apparently doing pretty well on its own launcher, but it's a specific type of autism that doesn't translate well to other games trying to copy it
>>737307908Streamers. That's literally it.
>>737307908Arc Raiders. But for Marathon, it was Tarkov.
>>737299770>Once you finally clear a lot of the content you realize it's an incredibly barebones gameThis is why these companies are all going in with extraction shooters. It is very little content that depends on you dying so many times and losing everything to stretch out. This genre needs to be boycotted
>>737300368Marathon has been in development just as long if not longer and cost more so there is no whataboutism to save it with that comparison
>>737283841>>737284481does the mere existence of black people offend you?you do realize there are multiple OTHER non-black androids to pick from, right?
https://old.reddit.com/r/Marathon/comments/1sqsa0g/marathon_has_been_out_6_weeks_and_its_been_1/Marathon is rank 1 in something at least
I don't understand the "bro resets are the best time of the game" mentality where sweats wiill just be back to where they were in a week and casuals will be frustrated as they have to start over again when they didn't even finish everything the previous season.
>>737286679It's about war, the opposite side has to lose no matter what, no cost too great. Doesn't matter if you embarrass yourself at every step and don't actually accomplish anything, it's a matter of principle clearly.
fuck 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.
>>737283607Lol you guys are just obsessed with how massively successful marathon has been.
>>737301623You have to pretend that youtube doesn't exist anon.
>>737308503the other robots look like literal trannies though
>>737308503>does the mere existence of black people offend you?Yes.
>>737301623curse the man who invented the iron sight
>>737308610And for the first few days where everything is "equal" you will just have 3000 hour playtime sweats crushing people that hardly play since they will both be at the same level.
>>737308503y u making me a robot n shiet man? i finna rebel agains u
>>737308192Its like you retards never played hunt. Marathon is literally just sci fi hunt but with worse gunplay, worse maps and worse player base.
>>737308961Yes, I haven't played it. I looked at screenshots and trailers and it doesn't look good.
Stats in for the week, thing are still bad. Interestingly that season patch resulted in the greatest percentage gain the game's seen so far. What this tells me is the only people left playing regularly are going to stay playing and that a relatively small number of people will come back to check out new updates, then leave again. But the game is still bleeding players at an average of 3.2% per day and there's no sign of that changing. Tonight's drop is likely to take the peak CCU below 20K and it'll probably average 18,000 CCU for this week.
>>737308658didn't peanut go back to Tarkov after finding nothing left to do in Arc Raiders?I mean seriously, how do you have a GAAS game with only 3 maps where nothing much happens?
>>737308658they need to fix anti cheat first, otherwise hardcore anything won't be worth it
>>737309375>and that a relatively small number of people will come back to check out new updates, then leave again...We knew this with Cyro...
>>737310212>didn't peanut go back to Tarkov after finding nothing left to do in Arc Raiders?No he is variety streamer now and is playing Rust currently. He never returned to Tarkov since hopping on Arc.
>>737305873>>737304613Whats an example of a game with gunplay thats considered good?
>>737284481I don't understand why combat shells even have mouths.
>>737288578It's not something worth celebrating if it didn't happen within the first few days. Better to just keep quiet about it at this point
>>737308658>A single ARMA II mod that came out 15 years ago has done billions of dollars to the game industry and will take at least 3+ years for major corps to finally course correct and stop trying to emulate itLmao. Battle royales, extraction shooters, PvPvE slop can all be traced back to this giant fucking turd. Its probably done more economic damage than WWI at this point.
>>737310389>He never returned to Tarkov since hopping on Arc.why are you lying?
>>737299207Those days are Saturday & Sunday. People throughout the whole day rather than just in the evening. Marathon's been kicked out of the top 100 best sellers list, no one's joining.
>>737311035>why are you lying?whoops he did play sporadically but look at the overall picture he hasnt played tarkov in recent months and only played tarkov a couple weeks since arcs releasehe hasnt been back to tarkov since that one day in december
>>737310794>Whats an example of a game with gunplay thats considered good?You don't understand it is not that other games have godly gunplay it is that Bungie Gunplay™ is like every other shooter on the market right now. It is not unique or godly.
>>737311927>aim down sightthis needs to be globally banned from games.
>>737311857>he hasnt been back to tarkov since that one day in decembershut up, liar
I'm still playing it on occasionit's fun but seriously lacks content
>>737312083he hasnt been back to tarkov since that one day in december you can cope however you wishsince playing arc peanut slowly shifted into a variety streamer and has not played tarkov since december
>>737312034Why? I like it.
>>737283607ONE MORE CONCORD REJECTED
>>737312560Why? It's just one step added between you and shooting a gun.
>>737312683Yeah, exactly. I like more steps.
The fatal mistake was focusing on teams. Should be a 100% solo game.
>>737312539shut up
the idea of having multiple teams (or solo players) working on their own missions in parallel is interesting, it adds a nice twist to the battle royal mode, and it eliminates the need of a blue zonebut losing all your persistent loot is tricky, it adds this high stakes gambling element to it all that might push people away
>>737313038no u
>>737308610I honestly think the first reset might kill the game by scaring off too many normalfags to the point the matchmaking takes 10 mins or more during burger hours.Because you know there's going to be a lot of them who don't even remember the reset and are going to be surprised by it, who will then quit then they realize they have to do all that shit again. (Especially since there's apparently some really, really shitty missions or quests or w/e that are almost impossible to do without having a 3man squad that knows how to play.)
>>737308676That's fucking hilarious. I'm guilty of it though, and I've had a SteamDB tab to watch the Marathon charts up since the first playtest.I think Marathon unironically has given me at least ten hours of 'play time' if you just mean 'looked at the charts.' It's triple that at least from being in these threads.
>>737309375Based chart autist, what do your projections say for when it will fall beneath 10k CCU on the NA peaks? Mid May?
>>737310212>I mean seriously, how do you have a GAAS game with only 3 maps where nothing much happens?By being fat, bloated and arrogant like Bungie, and literally wasting millions of dollars on black people hair that you don't actually use in game. >>737310368Having it verified again is the science.>>737310927>for friends and friends mouths.
>>737298065>>737298276so does bungie just go back to d2 or do they go down with the ship on marathon?
>>737283607>online only extraction shooterThat's what went wrong, everything else just made the grave a foot deeper.
>>737314192>go back to d2
>>737312389Yeah same, it's a well made and interesting game that's had a weird public reaction. Its failures are due to being a paid live service game that didnt grab an immediate audience. They assumed success was in hand so they thought they could drip feed content and now the game has almost no hope of gaining momentum back. If there were a lot more players of varying skill levels the experience for the "average" person would be smoothed over quite a bit I bet. Either way it doesn't matter as when you finally make decent dents in the progression it becomes glaringly obvious that the game is barebones
>>737310927They really, really needed to imply the presence of minorities because Bungie is that kind of developer these days. Old Bungie would have made them all faceless blanks with zero personality because Marathon took place in the kind of future where everything was purely functional.
>>737314389>the game is barebonesThat part fucks me up because Bungie spent half a decade and a quarter of a billion making it. Indie games made by two autists in mom's basement have more content.
>>737314192Destiny 2 is giga dead, outside of some huge update/dlc that gives everybody back the shit they deleted years ago people are not going back. If destiny 3 is not in a near ready state then its over for bungie.
>>737308676>steam charts page outdrawing the game itselflmao
>>737314192they burned a lot of good will with the destiny 2 community so best bet is probably sticking with marathon but their engine/workflow is so dogshit it takes them forever to make changes, like changing a drop rate for a weapon takes 2 months so it's probably over anyway
>>737314531why make a complete game when you can release a third of one, layoff half your devs, and then slowly release the rest over the course of five years?
>>737283841Racism isn't funny
BWAAAHHHAHHHAHHAAHHHHAAAAAAAA
>>737314192Bungies only way forward is Destiny 3. At best we're getting destiny 1 remaster as a low effort thing between now and then. Whats most likely going to happen is bungie will just die, they can't turn around marathon and destiny 2 is already in maint mode and it still has more players then marathon.
>>737313904isn't this guy literally sponsored by russia to spew shit to spew shit?
did any of the devs jump off roofs yet japanese style? the blowback is dead in the water rn
Cryo is literal cock and ball torture I don't know how Bungie expected the average player to be able to get geared up enough and get enough upgrades to consistently do vaults and compiler in only 3 months. Not to mention that solos are second class citizens because the pinnacle content and the event modes are just inaccessible to them. Then there's the problem that there are only 6 guns that everyone ends up using because they work too well in their engagement ranges both because they have good stats/handling and the other guns are just too rare.
>>737315117Remember Tarkov has most of their players outside of steam too. So that number of 14k is like 25% of Tarkovs player base. So Tarkov easily has more players than Marathon.
>>737315259>I don't know how Bungie expected the average player to be able to get geared up enough5,000 credits worth of gear isn't hard, and once you are in, you get showered with loot. Cryo is only hard because of other players.
>>737315189Anon, the picture I posted is something called a 'meme.' It's not an actual tweet by him.
SHUTTHE FUCKUPI AMTRYINGTO HAVEA BLAST
>>737315451based blasthaveri'm personally hookmaxxed
Has Bungie FORGOTTEN about Mariothon?
>>737314192 Wait for destiny 3 chud
will bungo layoffs happen before or after marathon's first seasonal reset? the player count is going to plummet after the reset, but i wonder if bungo is thinking that somehow it's going to bounce back. they must be spending so much money on hopium there.
>>737315396I can promise you most of the people playing can barely do that and I can promise you they also aren't getting keys either. Really I think the core issue is keys are just too rare. Key rooms are high value spots and I never see them opened ever in any of my matches. I've seen maybe two opened by other players in 150 hours. Keys just don't drop naturally enough and farming 8 compliance matrixes for one key or however the fuck many purples for the other is very tedious.
>>737315451it's over
>>737315639I just got my first key (vault 01) yesterday, after 85 hours.
>>737315707Yeah I'm not even sure why they decided to do this, I can understand purple and gold keys being fairly rare or even being a warden/event drop but blue keys should be somewhat common and they just aren't.
>>737285714>We have the worst fucking CEO.You'd think Sony would've done due diligence about MicroSlop's sloppy seconds, but NOOOOOO. Jim Ryan is like:>We gotta GaaS *fart*!>Fuck our coffers! Gaas! *fart*
Are we blastin', /v/?
>>737315894To be fair, I've been to Pinwheel without dying at the entrance like 4 times in total.
>>737283841fippy
>>737308676>The most popular thing about Marathon is the steamcharts page OH MY FUCk
>>737315983blast confirmed
>>737294179Having a blast just like five good ol' 9/11s!
>>737315639>>737315707I've seen 4 keys be used in almost 80 hours>found a blue one for perimeter myself somewhere random, tried to take it there and died on the way to the room>got grouped with two guys in purples doing a different key room on perimeter, got inside and looted a bit but died to two more full purple teams showing up and shooting the shit out of us before we could get out of the room>came across a team in golds doing a third room on perimeter, died because we were all in free kits>teammate found a key near the end of a dire marsh sponsor match, room had jack shit of value and I never found a backpack so I got out with like three chem grenades and a bubble shield
>>737316056>tags: humiliation, defeated, imminent_death
>>737314192They can try but deep down they know they'll have to overdeliver to get people back, the game needs an expansion as big and good as TTKD3 announcement will do more harm than goodThey're fucked
btw snoy is currently developing another game-as-a-service extraction shooter
>>737316545lol.
>>737310927They aren't robots, they are synthetic flesh. Still looks awful though.
>named Bungie>doesn't actually bounce back after hitting an all time lowwhat a hack
>>737316753The bounce back was patch day last week where it beat last week's numbers by a few hundred.
>>737315615Depends on what sony's long term strategy here, and who the FUCK knows what that is. If sony has terrible numbers and they want to juice things, they'd do it right before, or right at their next big shareholder thing coming up. Seasonal reset might have some gimmic, like a present for returning players or a free weekend or something. >they must be spending so much money on hopium there.Hulst is likely to be willing to waste up to 100 million on just parking this shit in Anthem mode, rather than have it shut down early and high profile. >>737314389It's only weird if you been getting your news from PCgamer class retards and failed to learn the lessons of Concord and highguard. This outcome was predictable to anyone who was in the public server test, and the reaction from the streamers. You're spot on about lack of content being a key issue.Even fucking Tassi noticed and publicly mentioned it.
the whole point of extraction shooters is the autism factor.trying to dumb down the genre for casuals defeats the whole purpose, no wonder all these extraction shooters are dead or dying.
>>737314192D2 has burnt. They spent their credibilty on marathon doing cryo. Sony will not dissolve the entire studio, but will ream it like a half dozen chinese rooks with WSTRS on the final extract. But if you're sony, what do YOU do with the chuck e cheese in the ghetto that's bungie?
>>737316732They are synthetic flesh designed for combat scenarios. They are printed with all their required sustenance already integrated, they don't eat during missions, and they are broken back down into raw materials afterwards. Why do they have mouths?
>>737317065I wouldn't mind marathon having some more simmy aspects to it, it's a very stripped down version of the genre to facilitate more arcadey gameplay and that gameplay can be really fun. I think there can be a better balance to reintroduce maybe a somewhat more in depth weapon crafting system and slowing down the overall cadence of a given match by making the maps a bit bigger. Give the players more room to breathe and interact with the actual setting that has obviously had a lot of care put into it without needing to perpetually worry about encounters.
>>737317157to breath and talk, also you play as a brain in a jar that probably needs a body that it will understand
>>737316916>Depends on what sony's long term strategy hereSony is losing $4-5m a month on salaries for the 300 Bungie devs assigned to Marathon, and the game has only demonstrated a downward trend. In two months, Marathon could have worse numbers than Destiny 2.>Hulst is likely to be willing to waste up to 100 millionI don't think it will be his choice since Sony put that new guy in charge after Concord flopped back in 2024. >Even fucking Tassi noticed and publicly mentioned it.Yeah, and the Bungie Defense Force branded him a chud approximately 1 millisecond after his first real critical article about Marathon went up, lol>>737317157>Why do they have mouths?Because how else are you supposed to tell which one was George Droyd?
>>737308676This reminds me how there were literally more people watching Concord and Highguard fail on SteamDB than playing Concord and Highguard. Marathon isn't there yet, but it will be by summertime.
>>737317581To be fair I think there were more people shoving shards of broken glass down their dickholes then playing Concord at any point.
>>737314060Differentanon who relies on chartanons in my lifeIn theory, the drop should be slowing down because people with sunk cost mindsets, and the core of people who REALLY like the rape or be raped gameplay, but it's been surprisingly stable. The near lack of a weekend boost, but a collapse after even though cryo archive is there is also interesting . I think the implication is that their player base is NEET as fuck.>>737317321I think they let it anthem out, until they figure out what the FUCK they want to do with bungie. Or they can repurpose the servers for something else. Like horizon Hunters! >TassiI bet him, or one of his bros occasionally checks here. YOU'RE ONE OF US NOW, BUDDY.
>>737317321layoffs aren't happening, the whole point of buying Bungie was for it's online multiplayer expertise.
>>737314531probably because the game was in uber dev hell and got remade like 3 timeswhat we are seeing is the work that was done in a bit less than a couple years tops
>>737317284I mean I wanted an immersive sim from these guys. And the original pitch of some MMO/immersive sim sort of shit, where the sweats get activated to do crazy missions defending a point while other crazy sweats attack it, and they draft you as their support rooks in imperial guard fashion temporaraily sounded way better than this shit.
>>737318015They already did once in 2024, not crazy to think it could happen again.
daily marathon seethe thread
who cares, new Arc Raiders map in a week
If Arc Raiders lost 80% of it's playerbase in just 6 months, what hope does Marathon have?
>>737318015...and LOOK at the job they did. Advised sony to bet a AAAA budget buying firewalk and accelerating concord for the PS5. Horizon Hunters. Cancling TLOU live. Were they the ones who canceled Days Gone live?Oh, and Fairgamez. And THAT one being billed as an extraction shooter is a real vote of fuck you from Sony to Bungie.>>737318037They still had modlers, asset makers, artists, mapmakers being paid all that time.
>>737318183>it taking that long>for a game that actually did really wellMarathon isn't getting another major update (one with barely anything new, just a night raid variant, the kind of shit arc gets every week it feels) for another month and a half.It's cooked.
>>737318183Does the phrase, rectal WASTR insertionq party mean anything to you? Because that's their hope level.
>>737318183Arc Raiders also had massive word of mouthNo casual even knows about Marathon, thus why its peak playercount is lower than even Highguard
>>737317872>a core of rape or be raped playersI think it's been clear for a while based on Marathon's achievement stats and other data that there is a core group of people who like this niche game type and play it at levels bordering on NEETdom, yeah. The problem is, that core group only lives in North America and they aren't large enough to sustain anything but a truly niche game where you don't have a big publisher holding an axe above your head. Crytek can get away with Hunt having 15k to 20k people because they did layoffs and have a small team of europoors who aren't getting $150k a year. Bungie doesn't have that same luxury at all.>>737318015Layoffs already happened once at Bungie since Sony bought them, and they went from 1400 down to 900, I think. >the whole point of buying Bungie was for it's online multiplayer expertiseAnd what has that gotten Sony, exactly? Concord flopped. HD2 was left alone but also got killed because Sony tried to force PSN on them (and the numbers never recovered after that). TLoU's multiplayer game got killed before release. Fairgame$ is in limbo. Destiny 2 is also dead. I don't think there's a single game from Sony's big live service plan that has been anything other than a flop except for HD2, and they're not even a studio Sony owns.
>>737318448>No casual even knows about Marathon,This is in no way true. Bungie paid about every single FPS streamer to play their game for 3 weeks in a row. I bet you everybody knows about this game, they don't want to play it though.
I wish more extraction shooters coped Sea of Thieves map designs where you could seamlessly travel to new maps/regions by crossing the edge of the map and constantly meet new teams.
>>737318515That's true.Though by casual I meant your average ball & gun gamer who doesn't watch streams.
>>737317304>that probably needs a body that it will understandYou can inhabit ROOK just fine and it has no human facial features.
>>737318448casuals heard plenty about it from all the sponsored tubers, streamers, free slam event, ad on steam home page, ad on psn and all the paid 9/10 reviews, nobody just gave a fuck about it
>>737318515It's 100% true to some extent, my uncle is as casual as is gets and had no idea what Marathon was when I asked him about it. I doubt its just him.
>>737315116
>want to play cool robot or synthic with inhuman faceplate >lol just play solo and have no abilities>cosmetic market doesn't offer faceplate nor enclosed helmets for shellsThey almost had me. Good thing I tried the server slam to figure this all out.
>>737318731Grim...
Guys please stop saying bad things about the game, you are scaring away new players and making me feel sad :(
>>737318090That would've been neat to see yeah. This game needs more emergent interactions and imsim elements
>>737319007What causes this behavior?
>>737318448>No casual even knows about Marathon,They had a AAAA sized promo campaign, all the journos, and bought out all the streamers twice. If they failed to reach anyone then they suck even harder than I could imagine.>>737318497I would expect a bunch of slavs to like that too, but this game does terribly there.
>>737319131Years of being mindfucked by Eglin Air Force Base propaganda
>>737318954day 1 was hilarious when it was getting actively mogged by sts2https://arch.b4k.dev/v/search/text/marathon/type/op/start/2026-03-05/end/2026-03-06/
>>737318448>No casual even knows about MarathonIf that's really the case, Sony needs to behead their entire marketing department after they spent so much money on all those streamers, trailers, commercials, website ads, and everything
>>737319205Back when the cope was fresh.
>>737319131Investing your self worth and personality in the success of a product in which you have no stake otherwise.
>>737319205Launch day was the second biggest humiliation ritual I've seen for a AAA game, with the first biggest being concord. StS2 launching the same day and eating Marathon's lunch and then making that unintentionally brutal tweet (which they never redacted or edited, btw) was just icing on the chud cake.
>>737319207I'm certain casuals (my younger cousins who played tons of Destiny 2) saw ten seconds of Marathon character designs and noped out of looking into it at all. I had to tell them about the Server Slam. They didn't know about it.
>>737315116Only a retarded nigger would say that.
Something that really irked me is the Bunjeets taking feedback from streamers, of all people. Why do you give a fuck about people watching the game? Those streamers are your dancing monkeys and you care what they think?
>>737319864The marketing is just shit. A banner of some red dude with a glowing orb? What's that meant to say?
>>737320091they kept doing exactly that for d2 until it eventually killed it, they obsessed with ecelebs and never learn
>>737310927so dey can eats de fried chickin' boss.
>>737320091Bungie has been doing that for years and it started sometime in the original Destiny back when streamers and influencers were starting to replace traditional marketing methods.
>>737316408BEWARE OF OVERDELIVERY
>>737317872paul tassi will PAY for liking crimson desert!
damn it's true what they say about the one drop rule.one nigger ruins the entire game, and everyone will call Marathon a nigger game even though there's literally only one nigger in the entire game.
>>737320726Say his name.
>>737320467>tassi got PAID to play crimson desertFTFY
>>737320726The characters are so lacking in personality that the robonigga is the least of its problems.
>>737320785SAINT DROYD
>>737320726>one niggerEvery shell except for Rook having lips ruins the game. The one with nigger lips is just the most prominent.
>>737283607The escape didn't make them GOD...
>>737295239Pro-Tip: Rook Runs.
>>737283607ARC RAider killer btw
>>737320809I don't think that studio gave a fuck about western journos (let alone paid them to play the game), which could be why the journo clique tried to shit all over CD as hard as they did.Tassi's biggest sins (in the eyes of maratroon fans) were pointing out that Marathon isn't doing well while also pointing out that CD is doing well.
>>737299291This game isn't even close to the same as Marathon, /v/ just comparing a dozen eggs and avocados at this point. Chart watching finance bro mental illness.
>>73731406096% certain that they’ll dip below 10K peaks in 3 weeks unless there’s new content. Even that might only delay the dip by a week. Remember, May 13th is the big Sony quarterly report call. If Marathon isn’t doing well that would be terribly embarrassing.
Having classes was a big mistake.It should've been classless game with lot of customization for those who like to slut mog.
>>737305459I think the>console shooterpart is important. Because destiny 2/marathon gunplay did nothing for me, but I also dont play on a controller. People who play FPS games on controller swear by Destiny/Marathon/Halo, so maybe it it just works better on that compared to their competition
>>737320882
>>737321157>10K peaksI would put money on the matchmaking getting so bad at that point nobody would tolerate waiting 10 minutes just to maybe get raped a little slower than usual and would just stop playing.>big Sony quarterly report callIt's bigger than that anon, it's their huge annual report call. There's also no way in hell Marathon's numbers improve by then, either. They could make it F2P today and it wouldn't help.
>>737308610>People bitch that other players have too much loot>Ok reset>Wtf all my loot gone and sweats will just reloot!Maybe just play the game bro idk like if you don't play you don't get good and you don't get looted. Why is this a consistent complaint across every extraction shooter, you know what the fucking game is, play an RPG if that's what you really want.
>>737321147no shit it's a different gameit's just hilarious to see a game made in a cave with a box of scraps outperform one made by one of the bigger western developers
/v/>I'm a hardcore leet gamer who doesn't afraid of anything, remember tribes ascent? I was totally thereAlso /v/>Is that an MMORPG with PVP but first person? Omg so bad, not real game, gonna play my single player sword board asset flips instead /v/ has become the casuals
>>737321683>Sure is fun walking around, looting random crap from shelves and shooting NPCs for 90% of my time in this so called pvp-gameDumb ass genre
>>737321630Yes more people buy sugary cereal than healthy food products. Am I supposed to be surprised that casual gamers prefer PvE experiences that don't challenge their power fantasy? Or are you arguing from the position of a corporate suit, that more developers should make flavorless survival slop since more people buy it? You act silly because you are silly.
>>737321738>90% PvE encountersUnironically skill issue. There's a certain amount of teams on each map, only so many pois, and gunfire is loud as hell. You'd have the same problem in any PVP game that doesn't funnel you down a hallway.
>>737321947Read nigger. I didn't say 90% of my encounters were pve.
>>737321987You said "NPC" dumbass, which implies PVE. Unless you're a retard who just straight up misuses words, maybe even ESL. Most complaints itt are proud skill issue, take that shit to reddit hugbox, they love people who are bad at games over there
>>737322118I said 90% of my time is spent walking, looting and in pve encounters. Not that 90% of encounters are pve.
>well hit under 20k peak this week>we already hit 5k lowsfeels good man
>>737322118NTA, but most complaints about Marathon in the thread are the usual>the art style sucks / I don't like the look>the game has fundamental flaws that will limit it only to a very niche audienceI personally like the art but don't like PVP (especially Destiny 2 PVP), so I shant be playing.
>>737285714Why would you advertise that you're a tranny? If not for the flag thing I would have legit thought that was an ugly female.
>>737322152I repeat: skill issue. Most of this thread is skill issue. Most players problems with Marathon are skill issue. I accept valid complaints from burned D2 players and kbm oldfags, but what most posters itt describe is literally them refusing to learn the game.
/v/s obsession with this game failing feels weird and performative
>>737319131Need for community, but lack of conventional communities to partake in or rejection from other communities. Society, religion, sports, corporations, fandoms, etc, literally any organisation of people of sufficient size will have these types in them. They get very deeply invested in the success of their chosen community.
>>737322305People just like seeing the favorites get humbled. Its that simple.
>>737315116i don't regret to inform you that racism is in fact the funniest shit.
>>737322467>The red googles and that haircutIs he channeling Bazz' energy?
>>737322576I think so, and that makes it funnier
>>737322236>especially Destiny 2 PVPI mean despite having the 'Bungie gunplay' it's very much not like Destiny PVP. But absolutely by all means don't play it if you don't want to PVP, it is fucking forced on you by every means possible.>>737322267I don't think it's a skill issue, I think it's people pretending they know what the game is via 15 minutes of watching a stream. Everyone's fuckin foaming at the mouth for this to fail, it didn't fall over in the first 30 seconds of its life like Concord/Highguard but damnit through sheer force of will they'll get it there eventually.
>>737285714I already didn't buy the game, but I would have not bought it even more if I knew the producer was a literal tranny.
>>737322252I was thinking the exact opposite. Why advertised when everyone can already tell. Mother fucker looks like Daniel Radcliffe. How the fuck could you not tell?
>>737322305It’s all about owning the troons
>>737322267Saying 'I would play Marathon if it was PVE' isn't a skill issue, it's a 'why the fuck did they make the game PVP only?' design issue.IDGAF about PVP. If Marathon did the Destiny thing of PVE with optional PVP, great, perfect, the sweats can have their rape box, and I can have my PVE skinner box. Everyone is happy. But since it's one or the other (PVP in this case), I wouldn't even play Marathon if Bungie gave me a free copy.
>>737322958Bungie is only hiring troons now or what
>>737323206Yes
>>737323206No, they're just the ones who end up in all the marketing videos so Bungie can be heckin' wholesome and inclusive. There's a dungeon full of competent white and asian men chained to computers who are making the actual game.
>>737319007>the game is bad and I agree the game is bad but stop saying how bad the game is or new people won't be suckered into buying a bad dying game!I will never understand how their brains have gotten so fucked that they seem to be incapable of acknowledging that a game is bad and will instead try and force a false narrative around it while acknowledging that they're trying for force a false narrative but with zero self awareness.
I'll play this game when it goes F2P with a PVE mode and wipes removed.
>>737323238all useless DEI hires
>>737322305because it is.no one discusses why the games bad they just shout buzzwords.
>>737323260So troons are taking all the credit and then /v/ shits on their game hourly because they only see troons?That's grim
>>737323324This is why:>Bungie is woke>I like woke>Therefore, I should support what Bungie does (even though I won't buy or play the game)>Bungie game does bad>uh oh, that could mean woke is bad or unwanted>which means I'm bad or unwanted>but I don't think I'm bad or unwanted>so I'll blame the chuds/the weather/planetary alignments/anything except for admitting Bungie (and by extension, myself) made a mistake
>>737321683>Become/v/ has always been mostly casual. The SC2 generals on /v/ proved this over a decade ago with so many wood league players. Not saying there weren't any "hardcore" gamers but they were a minority even on /v/ God I miss when /v/ had dwarf fortress threads.
DADS OF MARATHON WE HAVE TO LOCK IN
>>737323703Chuds of /v/We must lock in and make more steam chart threadsLet's. Fucking. Go!
sticky steam charts threads
>>737323435>they just shout buzzwords.its literally just one supremely mentally ill dipshit who's on most boards 24/7 shitting them up with his inane pathological retardation
TheRaped
>>737284481Triage grew on me. Him being fun to play definitely helps.
>>737324013To be fair, there's at least 3, and I'm pretty sure one has some sort of personality disorder.
>>737322305You are willingly ignorant of the bullshit bungie has pulled since halo then. Bungie is a compny that deserves to die horribly. This isnt a haha lmao concord situation this is crucifying barabbas
>>737322467why is he so ashy?
>>737283607Marathons art direction was created and inspired by a incel sound design nerd and one of the best neuro producers ever named billain. It's fucking gorgeous. Of course you all have no taste except to larp as a .... Conservative I don't know what u guys even are anymore because like.. the left and the right that shits over I mean the right has been curb stomping the left and using it as a scapegoat so... I mean I don't know man.. what is this why can't u just be happy the game is beautiful the aesthetic is like a piece of art the music is top tier I don't get the motivation to pretend your game is like a stock and if it does well u do well it's really fucking weird
>>737324290Like what
>>737324372>Marathons art direction was created and inspired by a incel sound design nerd and one of the best neuro producers ever named billain. IYou mean a tranny who they had to pay hush money to lmao
>>737286679So why do we hate marathon and why do trannies love it? I’m out of the loop here
>>737324442No.
>>737324386Everything destiny
>>737324442Billain is a technical genius ur nothing ur worthless bruv try listening to his music.
>>737324553Yeah that series was mid but I don't think they deserve bankruptcy for that
>>737324532Yes
>>737324532Didn't you know these people plagiarized from the future?
>>737324442its was literally a half dozen flat decals and thats it, it was also settled and the artist was credited and compensatedstop conflating that with having anything to do with the overall art direction, you have no idea what you're talking about and fall back to the same 5-6 retarded sounding soundboard talking points, it's patheticyou're just a shitty, mentally ill person - get help, and leave people alone to discuss the actual game
>>737324532>>737324667Pay wipeout their money
>>737324725
>>737324442its funny the only time I hear or see anything to do with trannies, it's always from the people shrieking that they're againt itif you weren't constantly posting images of these people, we'd literally never be aware of it at allyou offputting literal pathological psychopath
>>737324787poland mentioned
>>737324725>it was literally just half a dozen flat decals and that's it>you fall back to the same 5-6 retarded sounding soundboard talking pointsHey, just like you and the other shills you repeat these retarded talking points when someone brings up the art plagiarism scandal!It was such a shitshow that Bungie delayed the game for half a year to fix it while stopping all of the marketing while also putting Marathon's release into indefinite hiatus until they decided what to do. It was a little more than 'a few decals,' retard-kun.
>>737324725>>737324814Raped samefag having a melty over his shit game stealing art from trannies lmao
>>737324808yes, that's one of the decals dipshit, you just expertly proved my pointsome retard junior designer checked in reference into the assets folder - it happens but you wouldn't know that because you've never had a job that required skill or talent
>>737324896
>>737324882no, I'm literally calling you out directly for ruining this board with your repetitive, reductionist babble you're a blight in human form and I genuinely hoe you seek professional counseling and let the rest of us vibe and discuss a game that we enjoy what you're doing is ghoulish and ugly at best, get help
>>737324725>>737324814>>737324896when are you ropemaxxing sisterbefore or after the game gets shut downeither way, not a lot of time left
>>737324959wow I didn't know a random twitter troon invented asci art That's crazy
>>737324882And you're here standing up for the trannies? Bro that's so sweet
>>737324959I said there were around half a dozen, that's 2/2, you're making my point for meI bet you won't even get to 6 if you post all the direct examples, its ceratainy around that number give or take
>>737324995>bungie steals from a tranny>bringing this is up is somehow an ideological psychic war on this anons brainGenuinely my man, and i mean this, kill yourself lmao
>>737324896if it was 6 decals they wouldn't have troubles removing them in a day, they had to onboard the tranny and pay the settlement to avoid scraping half the game assets and it was not first or even the second time they stole someone's whole fucking artstation portfolio for their game
>>737325042Theres more than half a dozen decals in that image retard kun. They also used all of those for their DACS lmao
>>737325076it literally was around 6 total you're deflectinggo ahead, get to 6 I dare youyou can'tthey made a deal because of retards like you making a mountain out of a molehillyou're literally defending a tranny that you're so against too might I addincredibly odd, unstable behavior
>>737325071NTA, but I'm curious about the point of bringing this up. Yes, they did it. Yes, they shouldn't have done it, and they paid the price for it, both figuratively and literally. What now?
>>737315116Thats just how dey be lookin like dohie
>>737316545Why do they make extraction games if they dont do well?
>>737325234That bungie is such a worthless garbage company they have to steal from trannies to create art and should rightfully be mocked at every turn for being the company that steals from trannies and then has to pay them for it
>>737325228Retard Kun cant count all the decals in that image lmao
yikes
>>737324995>reductionist babble>you're a blight>let us vibe>a game we enjoy>you're ghoulish and ugly>all of this defending MarathonIDK if it's Reddit or ResetEra or Discord wherever else, but you do not belong here, lil bro. And it shows.>>737324959Those are some sick Dwarf Fortress biomes.>>737325362Part of it is these seeds being sown half a decade ago when some exec probably did a line of coke then read an article about how big Tarkov was and thought 'that's the next Fortnite!', and part of it is just piss poor market research about what people actually want and would play. Making it hardcore 3v3 PVP to the exclusion of everything else seems like one of the biggest unforced errors you could make.
>>737325234>yes epstein fucked those kids. Yes he shouldn't have done it. What now?
>>737325530>IDK if it's Reddit or ResetEra or Discord wherever else,Discord and some legitimate Indian shills ive caught them in the /vg/ threads lol you can tell how they talk.>how can you be boasting about such a thing
>>737325572>Stealing some shitty minimalist symbols is the same as raping kidsI'm starting to agree with that anon, you are insane
>>737325729>hitler gassed the jews. He shouldn't have and he did. Now what?
>>737283607It's shit.
>>737325137>doesn't know what decal is fundamentally>has no idea how graphic design works>constantly deliberately creates ad homs to dodge any form of reasonable accoutnability>prattles on in mentally ill babbleI accept your concession
>>737325783No he didn't and what a shame
>>737325714There was definitely a paid shilling campaign on /v/ back when Marathon launched, and what's funny is I swear I saw one of those original paid shills in a thread on Saturday, and he was using the same exact lines and images. But I can't imagine that marketing campaign is still going, so it was just a shill who really likes the game doing it for free? Or maybe a saar who read the dates wrong and thought he still had to do the marketing needful? Funny in either case.
>>737291576> Marathon seems to be geared towards a more hardcore playerbase and that's fine, but the game doesn't seem to have any longevityThis could be easily remedied if they fucking added a PVE Which should be standard every multiplayer game
>>737325362This game is an extraction shooter because of this hilarious timeline>sex pest visionary wants a procedural phase based game where people can drop in and out at will. The goal being to unlock new areas of the marathon as you delve into the ship. You can run solo or in trios and when something is unlocked the whole area will know who unlocked it. You can help others or kill others its all up to you. Do you stay after you complete your task for more loot and shit or do you exfil right when you can?This guy got canned because he kept sending dick pics to his subordinates.He was replaced by some fag who wanted to make the game apex legends. So they hard pivoted to making marathon a hero shooter. They stripped all the customization and made these faggy heroes like triage and vandal. This guy also got fired.The third guy they brought on was ziegler. His genius idea was to take the little skeleton barebones bullshit they had and make it an extraction shooter. He thought this was the best way to salvage the minimal content they actually had because they could blame poor sales on "muh niche audience" and other similar shit. Unfortunately for him the game tanked way faster and harder than anyone at bungie thought it would. Now theyre all panicked because Sony is gonna murder them
>>737325870Look at this esl retard defending marathon lmao dude cant even speak
>>737326117Maybe they should’ve been killed when they pivoted to GAAS
>>737326237They should've been killed when they managed to jew their way into the >dont overdeliverBullshit and then started embezzling all the company funds so the ceo could buy a fleet of luxury cars while simultaneously removing 65% of destiny 2s content
>>737326117>Sony is gonna murder them allThe only honourable thing to do
>>737325783Well, now he is dead, and jews have the Holocard to wave around when something doesn't go their way.
>>737314192They'll never get people back into D2 because the new tiered gear system in Edge of Fate sunset 95% of the gear again and the new activity portal sunset 95% of the content in the game... again. All the cool shit they added in TFS like the exotic class item is fucking useless now, all those dungeons you paid extra for are pointless to run now, and you're literally better off using basic subclasses again instead of Prismatic. The incompetence of Bungie is unfathomable.
>>737288578I'm sure it did pass 1m but the timeframe to do so was so embarrassing that they didn't bother. When you're a major AAA developer and indie titles are selling 1m in a weekend, announcing it took your $250m game 2 weeks to pass the 1m sales milestone does more hard than good.
>>737326414To put it into perspective bungie was sold to Sony for 3.6 billion. This game made around 44 million. So bungie needs to make Sony 3.5~ billion to have the deal break even.They both fucked up
>>737293875Didn't the game just get a major update last week?
>>737326414>picAren't you supposed to clean a sword be sheathing it? It'll get rusty.
>>737326531>in Edge of Fate sunset 95% of the gear again and the new activity portal sunset 95%How the fuck do they keep doing this they keep grabbing the electric fence like wtf are you retards doing
>>737326589>bungie was sold to Sony for 3.6 billion. This game made around 44 million. So bungie needs to make Sony 3.5~ billion
>>737325376They didn't have to, though. All of the stolen art was removed and replaced. It's shameful because they did it despite not having to.
>>737283607Chuds wonIncels wonNazis wonGamers wonGame devs lostCalifornia lostSnoy lost Trannies lostThat simple
>>737326117>some fag who wanted to make the game Apex Legends. This guy also got fired.Whomst? I know the current director, ZIegler, worked on Valorant, but I don't remember a third director between him and the original one.>>737326589It's not reasonable to apply the total purchase price to Marathon's bottom line. At the same time, Marathon cost at least $250m and has only made back $50m (before taxes and Gabe's cut, so it's probably $30m), so they're still deep in the red.>>737326637Yes, it was the 'Mid Season Balance Patch,' which is the only real major content piece left until June, I think. Maybe there's a new gun type, idk.
>>737326819I dont remember the guys name but yes ziegler is the 3rd lead on the project. Hes relatively new to the project too
>>737326806but I didn't do anything
>>737322623based, chart watchers always win in the end and we didn't even have to spend 40 like blast havers did lmfaooooo
>>737327046Huh?? But I thought I was the one who wasn't supposed to do anything???
>>737291576>and that's fineIt's literally not, it's bleeding players and will be dead soon because those hardcore players are going to want reasonable queue times.
>>737327141i didn't do anything either i mean not really
>>737323238If anyone deserves their company getting shuttered it's nu bungie.
Single player games retain players better than this mess.
>>737327808>easier games retain players better than the great enrapeningProfound thoughts by the village shaman.
>>737328059>our game is so good it doesn't retain players or sell copiesWay to own the chuds.
>>737328247I'm not defending the game, I'm saying (you) are the most intelligent of your tribe.
>>737328247It happens Not every good product is a best seller
>>737328312My mistake. I salute you, good sir.
>>737323703holy shit that is patheticeven e33 didn't stoop that low
>>737308658>i wouldn't be surprised by the end of the year they'll be less than Warframe with 30k or so players.Why are you talking as if Warframe is a dead game??
>>737323703This isn't about Marathon being a good game or not. It's about praising this game for it's trans identity. These people are fucking sick in the head and will lie about anything and everything. It's purely about defending their ideology.
ninjas play free
>>737324372wipeout wants its artstyle back
>>737288578SEX
>>737299359The secret sauce to Bungie's "good gunplay" is bullet magnetism and good sound design
>>737323703Keyed
>>737325530The funniest thing is Reddit and ResetEra both have massive threads watching the playercount and celebrating the game's downfall
>>737326694They're lazy. They wanted a new gearing system to entice people to play the new expansion but they didn't want to go back and update every piece of gear so they said fuck it and only applied the new system to the new gear. The new gear then only dropped from activities in the new portal tab which only had a handful of certain old activities in it on an unknown rotation because, again, they didn't want to put in the work to update everything. Bungie is maliciously lazy.
>>737329919The reason those threads are massive is because the mods got butthurt real early on and banned anyone if they were talking about numbers outside of those designated (containment) threads. What's more surprising is they even allowed the discussion at all.
>>737328362not every good game is a best seller? sure. but player retention is a different story. if people are ditching a 'good' multiplayer game after a month then something's gone wrong.
>>737324264Triage in solos is so fun, you can ignore chip damage with healing drones, green charge + drone is a blue shield, rarely have to use health meds, overcharge gives good damage, and on top of it all your ult is pretty good for a quick EMP on a bot commander or wardenOnly thing he lacks is movement and melee damage but you can always put on Knife Fight chest implant for melee, and just live with the fact you're not fast by being extremely tanky
>>737332183losing 80% CCU from your launch day peak in one month is actually not super abnormal. The problem is more that the launch day peak wasn't that high. Path of Exile 2's last league saw basically the exact same retention pattern and is also a 'reset and play again next league' sort of game. Granted the truly successful games buck that a bit, slay the spire 2 is closer to 50% loss in CCU. The real death knell will probably be June when season 2 hits, though if Sony's in it for the long term, the real pattern probably won't emerge until season 3 (assuming a bi-yearly 'big' season - season 2 having night marsh doesn't really seem like a huge content drop)
>>737332735The highest expectation I have from nightmarsh is they're going to throw more aliens around and make pve a bigger threat.Because otherwise who gives a shit that the map that you can't see shit on is even harder to see shit on.
>>737333608only plausible 'cool thing' I've heard that seems semi-likely is that Complex's upper floor will become a pinwheel type activity for night marsh.
Marathon doing a slowburn deathspiral is way more kino than burning bright light a Concord.
>>737334037They're both fun for different reasons, and we're spoiled that companies are stupid enough to keep giving us these multimillion dollar flops.
>>737283841>>737284376>>737284481Incredible how black caricatures are perfectly acceptable as long as the mainstream media tells you it's not actually racist
>>737333890Complexs upper floor is the size of one room its nothing
>>737283607flavor of the month troon slop
>>737334618What? It runs the full length of the compound, you could fit way more than one room up there.
Did my first Half-Marathon today!
>>737335048Why is this twink making the 'nods respectfully in your direction' face?
holy fuck an actual flatline
>>737335338This is the pre-west coast bump. It always looks flat until the line start curving up. We might see our first sub 20k peak tonight, too. Not likely, but possible.
>>737335338Wtf happened here?
>>737335729the biggest update the game has recieved
>>737335729Weekly Maintenance.
>>737324995Did this comment somehow get lost on the way to resetera wtf
>>737335338>>737335478that's still -5k EU hour players at the same hour if you compare to past Friday or Thursday, it's insane.These lolcow games usually end up somewhat stabilizing on low playercounts for half a year until they get shitcanned, but Marathon is somehow still in freefall.
>>737324995I don't care, it's about time the chuds controlled the narrative for once, fuck your tranny game and fuck Bungie.
>>737326517holy shit does this mean bungie devs will get the maracard
>>737334618It has almost as much surface area as the walkable space inside pinwheel and is tall enough to have two floors on the long bits, and 3/4 in the center, has two big elevators north/south, 4 stairways on the intercardinals of the center, and at least one blocked doorway in a central building to get upstairs. It seems to fit the bill pretty well.
>>737325234>What now?now I continue making fun of bungie until they get turned into mobile game factory by Sony
>>737336184lol they already tried that and it already failed, look up destiny rising
>>737335338at least they owned the chuds or some such
>>737336397f2p playstation store arcade games thenall the marathon characters turned into pinball machines!
Daily threads about this game and I still have no idea why Im apparently supposed to hate it.
>>737336637your picrel sums it up, it's a game made by niggers for niggers like every other game bungie has ever made
>>737336697Sure thing kid.
>>737336737>xiBhlxzmF1Yph2x6
>>737336761Wow you can read.
i’m lvl 40 dad gamer on the weekends between sons activities can i still have a blast?
>>737338319yes but only when tyrone is bbcing your wife
