It's one of the most niche games ever made at this scale, andI think the conversation around it has been almost entirely missing the point.Marathon is bold, punishing, and unlike anything else out there. It is absolutely not for everyone. But it's certainly for me.
>>737931450I unironically agree with this, but I'm not pretending it's not a divisive flop that no one but me wants to play.
I like the game but it's surely going to shut down before the end of the year. There's more devs than players.
it filtered me because it's a multip[layer game and i'm a friendless fuck
>>737931450https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SdqOC8NA7s
>>737931450I very much like the artstyle but I simply don't play multiplayer games anymore, much less extraction shooters.
Multiplayer games are unbelievably bad now so I don't play them
>>737932672This
>>737932672>>737933295yeah great artstyle really cool
>>737933370Yep
Game was good until they nerfed everything
The game might be good but i hate games with intentionally ugly characters.
>>737931450It's woke garbanzo and will dance on its grave this year and I will drink the tears of the laidoff cuc ks who made it
>>737933519Why does it anger you so much?
https://youtu.be/Ii7KWBOy9cs?si=II5NYH3LwUpO6ucm
>>737933586Chuddies are very emotionally vulnerable
>>737934338so chuds are the ones mad the game is dying or are they the ones making fun of ths game? the cope is so bad now I cant keep up.
>>737931450>But it's certainly for me.you and 18000 other people
>>737934570They're mad because the game exists which is insane
>>737934602where do you see that? I see most people laughing at its failure with 3 dedicated anons saying the game isnt shit.
>>737935034Here >>737933519
>>737931450The game is nothing like those images marketer-kun. It's not unique in any meaningful way.
>>737935124I think he hates the developers of the gane, anon. which is absolutely fine, given bungie is one of the worst micro transactions studios on the market. but, I still dont see your point. what else?
>>737935253>which is absolutely fineNo
>>737935297yes. they pad out games with unethical micro transactions. thats not very consumer friendly, anon. they also stole money from people and assets. those are very big no no in the industry, you understand that, right?
>popular mod exists>15 companies try to ape the concept>it's worse than the mod every time>btw buy the battle pass
>>737935345It's funny how anomaly is more fun than any of these extraction shooters.
blasts were had...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCrf5H2QvGo
Chuds always win baybeeee! This game is dead in 2 more weeks.
>>737931450
>>737937579Win what
>>737933484ur waifu a shit
>>737931450>It is absolutely not for everyoneIt sure is for cheaters, pre-made death squads, co-ordinated 3rd-world death squads of rooks, retarded americans, and Destiny zombies.I am happy that you are enjoying it (or got paid to say that and post your OP, i hope those 5 dollars go a long way in whichever shithole you are living in), however the game is deeply flawed.
>>737933370Why does the diagram on the left look straight out of Cruelty Squad
>>737937717Is this an AI sloppified version of an official chart? It looks almost like a shitpost but doesn't manage to actually be funny
>last time marathon dropped out of the top 200>"it was due to the maintenance!"what's the excuse now?
>>737935345>>737935437Unfortunately very true.
Jeff likes it
Just fucking release a PvE mode already. Jesus Christ, is it THAT FUCKING HARD TO UNDERSTAND?! Do they need 20 meetings just to come to a conclusion and then take necessary action? They REALLY need 3 month just to realise that a PvE mode is a solution to so many issues in the game and with the game? Abject retards - both them [Bungie] and Sony.
>Almost below 15k peakLmaooo
What did OP mean by this?
Astroturf thread.
>>737937717Shut up Grok.
>>737939206I skip a few days of following the threads and this shit is just starting to torpedo down
>>737939206>games are 7 years apart>yet this closediscordsisters! save us!
>>737939096>waste 3 months and thousands of $$$ in salaries to develop a PvE mode>PvE faggots drop it within 5 days once they realize how boring PvE is in games like thesePvE is in games like Marathon, Hunt, and Tarkov to act as obstacles to create tension and disruption for the main PvP part of the game
>>737939753>>waste 3 months and thousands of $$$ in salaries to develop a PvE modeThe fuck are you on about? They can enable it just like they did the duo queues, and it takes less effort than making a fucking ranked, you ignoble disingenuous bastard.>muh PvPFuck PvP, you cockriding faggots ruin every single game you come to infest - from RTS to MMO.
>>737931450Marathon is my favorite game of the year so far but posts like this are such disingenuous bullshit. The game is filled with problems and needs to be made more casual if it wants to survive. I love it despite its flaws but they're going to lead it right into EOS at this rate
>>737939918>The fuck are you on about? They can enable it just like they did the duo queues,If they enabled PvE only right now, in the exact same state that it is in within the game as it stands, with zero changes, it would be dead within a week because the PvE isn't challenging nor interesting on its own. Every single fight is literally a case of sitting behind cover and holding shoot on the UESC's head. They all have the same weakspot, and they die quickly. The only exception to this is the Wraith Warden. The Tox Warden is easy as shit to cheese by just sitting in a vent. They'd need at minimum 3 months to make some new enemies that aren't UESC copies and make some new PvE focused events for the current maps. >you cockriding faggots ruin every single game you come to infestIronic coming from an adamant PvEfag crying about muh PvP in a predominantly PvP gameAlso you can literally play PvE only, just stop being a shitter and clear out the entire map of players and then you have the map to yourself.
>>737939096bungie gotta be among the slowest studios out there to produce any content, like everyone is coding in a fucking cloud now but these retards with their tiger engine still have window boxes, they 20 years behind the rest of the industry with their antique practices, asking them to produce something new in 3 months? not a fucking chance, they'll need 3 times that time and 3 times the amount of devs to make it compared to any other modern studio, sony bought the hot turd and its hilarious
>>737933268Based. Fuck modern multiplayer games. They're all terrible
>>737938916They buffed wstr for some reason, as long as this gun exists the game has 0 chance of coming back.
>>737939096They won't because1. They have massive ass ego and will never admit they're wrong2. They build the game around le hardcore pvp audience and going for pve now will basically force them to completely remake entire game.
>>737931450>extraction shooter>unlike anything else
>>737938916>less players than Three ChinkdomsAhahahaha jesus
>>737940112Stale pasta is stale. Cook a new one, then again you are a fucking retard who will burn the kitchen down.
>>737938916there has to be a point where having the company make new content and keeping the servers running is just not profitable anymore. are they seriously just going to keep burning money?
>hey guys what kinda anti cheat should we use for marathon?>erm battle eye was great in destiny lets try that again!
>>737931450Should have sticked with Neo tokyo.
>>737931450>boilerplate comment where it can be applied to any other dogshit gameYou know what else was bold, punishing, and unlike anything else out there? The Gollum game.
>>737931450Remake the OG Marathon first, then maybe I'll care enough to try this piece of shit
>>737940749You realize you can search through the archive right? I guess paragraphs comprised of more than 2 sentences would look like a copypasta to you.Not sure what kind of cognitive ability I expected from someone who thinks just toggling "PvE mode" with zero changes would be a good idea
>>737933592I want to know how signed off on a horror game -adjacent soundtrack for this neon clown vomit game.
>>737942046Blow it out you're ass.
>get to level 100>sbmm starts to kick in>exfil rate goes down to about 5%>entire vault gone>entire cash stash gone>back to nothing mid season>don’t grind back up>just quitIt’s a very harsh genre. Basically to have certain players snowball down to that point.
Bungie can't do good ove anymore anyway because of their design philosophy after shadowkeepThey might aswell keep their dead extraction shooter concept and let mr ziegler change it into a battle royale instead
>>737942226it's not sbmm it's literally level based mm. Since only people who are over lvl 100 are unemployed try hards that's all you're getting.
>>737942226Well look at the bright side atleast losing your vault doesnt really matter considering you get gear resets every seasonal update
I wouldn‘t play this turd for freeThey spend more than 250 Million bux for a niche Game
>>737942226Pretty much this. I've enjoyed the game but as a boomer I've no longer got the time to keep up with the sweats with hundreds of hours. I'll wait until the wipe.
It's over.
>>737931450gay artstyle for redditor faggots
>>737942848they released a budget report? where?
>>737931450It's so not for everyone that no one will be playing it soon. Pretty based.
The cheating in the game is absolutely rampant. It’s about 50% of lobbies you’re in, 1-2 teams per match.And Bungie knew it would be this way, so they cleverly hide all suspicious spectating. No first person, no kill cam, no spectating who just killed you.
>your game? weak>your playercount? nonexistent >your future? bleak...>only SIVA can save you now>RAPE bungie>RAPE bungshills>BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA
What are the chances they're already working on destiny 3?
>bold, punishing, and unlike anything else out thereAdd this to the blast haver list
>>737943278"leaks" said they are but honestly even if they are its just gonna be the same shit like we have nowBungie just sucks at making videogames. The real devs were the Activision teams
>>737942226>got to level 100You got all achievos, you got progression done, and might as well quit, unless you have some faction priority contracts to finish off. Come to think of it, bungo should just stop anyone above lvl 100 from playing the game.
>>737943091Might as well refund the game at this point, regardless of the hours in it, because it is a functionally broken game.
It’s a really weird social ecosystem when the game becomes “solved” and everyone has purple and gold gear. Basically everyone stops talking in proxy chat, everyone stops caring about the loot, all the tension goes from PvP because everyone’s mostly on equal footing. It’s strange.
LOL
>>737946027>below Destiny 2
this game brings me so many laughs and good times and i dont even own it!who woukd think bungie would single handedly end live service slop and woke art slop in one single master stroke?
>>737942117Me too. If anyone at Bungie deserves a raise, it's that guy.https://youtu.be/lX3ObkamPSIhttps://youtu.be/p5ZWVZCw6dshttps://youtu.be/1URYdcaCySo
>>737937717>nassive spikenice infographic very 2003
>>737935124enjoying garbage dying =/= anger, its called Schadenfreude, which is the experience of pleasure, joy, or self-satisfaction derived from learning of or witnessing the troubles, failures, or humiliation of others. Originating from German (Schaden "damage" + Freude "joy"), it is a universal human emotion often linked to envy, rivalry, or a sense of justice. In this case, justice, you see, ever since this thing was announced, everyone knew exactly how it would go, its very public humiliation ritual sends a very very clear message to Sony, hell its better than a quick instant failure because this white elephant is proving that even longer term support, and sales, and all that, don't work.in other words, we told you so, we laugh now
>>737946539How is Marathon woke?
>>737946027>delta forceIts the most botted game ive ever seen its fucking retarded. Whats worse is that I actually liked Warfare mode in it but even when I tried using VPN for chink IP region matches were still full of bots lmao.
>>737937717>trust sained
>>737938916lmaaaaaooo
>>737941245it launched at that pointoh god lmaooooo
>>737939753nobody likes the pvp part of the game, extractions fucking suck hell the battle royale like mode is more popular
Remember to reply to everyone with "skill issue" and "filtered" xisters!
>>737931450When the shills say its a "niche game", what do they call Arc Raiders?
>>737947043Hugbox Though the reality the marathon community is a bigger hugbox than arc raiders
>>737943239RAAPE
>>737943278anon atm theyre too busy working on their resumes
This game is the Gettysburg for woke California devs.It won’t be their last defeat but it will be the decisive one.We chuds are still going to kill Fairgames and Horizon Zero Slop but 10 years from now, when we look back at the war against degenerate western developers we will think of Marathon first and foremost.
>>737946027man l4d 2 is so good
>>737947029Making a PvE mode the same way Bungie made a solo mode wouldn't work. Moving between PoIs would be trivial. Entering PoIs would require nothing but firepower and a bit of positioning, and you could stay there with no worries until the next reinforcements. Exfiltration would be trivial, and since you are alone, the wait for exfil beacon to charge would be pointless. There would need to be a LOT of changes.
>>737946801hey you are still here!i was worried youd gotten fired since the last few threads archived and i didn't see you!keep up the good work, god bless you blindanon
>>737947112doesn't community mean multiple people?
>>737947335>i was worried youd gotten fired since the last few threads archived and i didn't see you!Just because I didn't ask a specific question doesn't mean that I wasn't posting there.
>>737947213kek
>>737947256based marathon.horizon fornite devs must be pissing themselvesfairgame$$$$ toolmaooo
>>737947370Y-Yeah?
>>737938916christ thats bad
>"HURR DURR GAME BAD">proceed to circlejerk with bots>200 replies
>>737947328yes yes, the funny thing is that everyone gets that, what you dont seem to get is that that's exactly what most of the people remaining want, they want to finish their contracts and be free from their ocd and be able to uninstall this piece of shitcheck any place where people play this thing including the general (if its still even alive), the ocd retards are trapped and wont be free till they either finish their contracts or the game is shut down lmao
>>737947043>what do they call Arc Raiders?Better?
>>737938916is this chart right? that can't be right, 206?
>>737947591>what you dont seem to get is that that's exactly what most of the people remaining wantNo, I don't get, because I don't hear this opinion anywhere outside of these threads. I don't believe that this is a real prevalent sentiment.
>>737947043I personally call it "boring".
>>737947765well to be fair you dont have the best memory nor arent that oerceptive, i mean people have explained to you how woke this thing is no less than what like 30 times and you still dont get it so...
>>737946795The shills have been trying to paint /v/ laughing at Marathon flopping as /v/ seething/being divided over it since Cryo launched (and flopped), so it's barely worth giving them time.
dead game
Here's some fresh delusion from the Steam forums for Marathon:>But haters think the game is bad because the ccu didn't skyrocket, That's because it's not the weekends yet.>but I'm confident it'll go to around the 40k to 60k within the next 3 days with the weekend. >yep, with console it seems likely to hit those numbersThe guy replying also seems to be some kind of Marathon forum lolcow, who posts in every thread. Maybe it's Tahnit on his Steam account, lmao
>>737948738You're a lolcow
>>737948738Retards like this make it even funnier that this game will be dead in 3 months tops.
>>737948738>Look at this random person from Steam that said something I disagree with about a game I don't playI really don't understand what drives someone to behave like this.
>>737948859The funniest thing will be how these forever fans simply won't accept the game failing was because the game was bad. It will be the chuds/the market/players not 'getting it'/other games, and everything else.>>737948990It's called 'laughing at delusional idiots supporting a flop game.' If you don't understand it, you don't belong here.
>>737949058>m.jpgDid you see that image on /vg/ and improperly save it?
>>737949058Bungie's CM is having a melty and blocking people? What?
>>737948586>15k peakohnonono
>>737949195Their CM is a total fag and is basically a lolcow. Even disregarding that he's completely useless
>>737949421His job must be pretty easy these days since there's fuckall to talk about with Destiny 2 or Marathon, I guess
>>737931450>It's one of the most niche games ever made at this scaleThis right here is the problem, you can't make a niche game with a AAA+ budget because no matter how amazing it is you'll never see a return on investment. Know your audience and plan accordingly.
>>737949058lmaooo
>>737933370do you have any idea how telling it is you needed to spell out what you're trying to gaslight people into thinking as opposed to just leetting the image speak for itself. usually those types of character rosters shit for the birds but i see nothing abhorrently wrong with these designs, they're definitely not made for everyone but to act like they have 0 appeal like concord, lawbreakers, highguard etc is just disingenuous.
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>>737949707Im a trans vandal main btw dont know if that matters or not
>>737949707NTA, but that character roster picture told me immediately>game is Bungie woke>game is ugly and the art style isn't for meThe only people i've ever seen throw a wobbly over it being posted are shills
>>737949707ehhh i dunno...
>>737950036sameits all so fucking uglythe colors too
So what the hell happens at Bungie HQ went it peaks sub 10k at the two month anniversary?
>>737931450$0.02 has been deposited into your account, saar.
>>737950403Screaming, because that's also just a week before Sony does their big annual financial report and it's likely investors will ask questions about Marathon that Sony execs will be embarrassed about answering.
>>737950403Not much, probably. It might as well have already happened since graphs are easy to extrapolate.
>>737950403That's not going to happen. The 2 months anniversary is next Tuesday, so looking at the trend, the daily peak should be about 13k.
>>737950842blast bros we so back
MARAGYARDUANS................CHARRRRRGGGEEEE
>>737949707LOL. I remember seeing practically this exact same post for concord and highguard. Even the same shitty aggressive attitude. Even highlighting Bazz and the obvious tranny on highguard got nothing but autistic screeching about politics as a folowup.
>>737950403Probably nothing, and your projection is a bit to euphoric. The kill lever moves to Sony's hands at some level of financial failure, and the actual budget figures are invisible. It would not be suprising at fucking all if they announced some big change with the investor reports, something like massive layoffs. >>737950535The REAL question should be about Sony's entire live service strategy. Fairgames is being launched as a free to play competitor to their own game, and is also, lets called it troubled. The less they say about Marathon plans, the worse it is for them.
>>737951364>Fairgame$ is being launched as F2PWhat? Last I heard, it was still in limbo with no launch date or price model set, at least nothing official from Sony anyway.
>>737950842the reset is gonna be funnyeither big blast boost or sudden death and complete crippling of the matchmaking mechanism
>>737950842the game is sub10k most of the day
>>737951904I know. Your point?
>>737931450nigger talking about scale there's 2 maps with 1 tiny farming map and a keyslop map so bad nobody wants to play it
>>737948103I call it ludokino
>>737951439ITS BACK FROM THE DEAD BABY. Tassi hinted at it a few weeks ago, and they're doing a playtest. Extraction shooter. Free to play. Now will it do worse than Marathon?https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2026/04/ps5s-fairgames-is-a-free-to-play-extraction-shooter-and-its-not-dead-yet>>737951668Possibly both. Returning players, but after the first weekend of cryo, the sweats get their disenjectors and go on a rape spree.
>>737931450marathon is the greatest flop "flop" ive never played.
>>737950842Isn't it crazy that they have almost no players left and yet they still can't ban cheaters in a $40 purchase only game. Battleye might as well be an invitation to hack with no consequences.
>>737933370Nah cuh, you niggas are trying way to hard with these. You are allowed to cry about the game being to hard, live service format not being to your liking, Bungie having troons working there, even the game lacking a singleplayer to create a safe space for your bitch asses, but trying to gaslight people into thinking these designs are on the level of Concord, Duskborn, Forspoken? Nah, this is why you motherfuckers have lost me as an ally to this anti-woke movement. You have become just a delusional and disingenuous as libshits.
>>737948738Both of these posts read like advanced satire, but is probably retardation. What update is he speaking on?
>>737952249>ok, Marathon was a huge flop that cost us hundreds of millions>we've got this other extraction game that our playtesters have repeatedly said is not fun to play>I know, let's release it as F2P>and if it flops too, we've still got the Horizon game coming in a yearI can't even imagine what goes on in these Sony board rooms when they make decisions like this.>>737952342The second guy is a resident Steam forum lolcow who has been having meltdowns in every thread where someone shit talks the game. I think the update they're talking about was some recent matchmaking changes, but idk
>>737931450>Marathon is bold, punishing, and unlike anything else out there. It is absolutely not for everyone. But it's certainly for me.Did you copy this straight from some game journalist shithole? I don't care whether you are baiting or paid to shill, at least put some effort into your post
>>737952432Theres SOME level of logic. We need live service games. Lets buy this live service expert.We want a live service game to go with the PS5 launch. There's a new company made of ex bungie vets, just needs some contractors to have it ready by launch date. WETA did design, so we can get sony movies and tv invovlved in shows/promotion.And the result is fucking concord at a AAAA budget.
>6,946 players online.Just fucking log off already. God damn. Even Highguard's players knew when to dip.
>>737952601Concord has to be the result of some kind of executive really pushing the game and nobody telling them no, because anyone could look at the game, the price, and everything else and say 'it will not succeed, and it damn sure won't be the next Star Wars.' I refuse to accept any other explanation.
>>737952616I wasn't planning on playing today, but just for you.
>>737942156Why do you keep painting a target in yourself?
>>737952774Good goy make sure to buy some lux while your at it
>>737952774>Shooting yourself in the face to own the chuds.
>>737949058[llama noises intensify]
>>737951176That is because Bungie bought/contracted some PR companies to create fake game presence - from reviews, playtime, etc - basically, some companies have a heap of 3rd worlders who get paid pittance and they play the game until stated goal in contract is achieved. Obviously this creates a distorted perception and some actual idiots also buy into it because they want that satisfaction of being there for the event/release of the game and hype.Basically, finances dont look all too good, and the number of players who bought AND played the game does not exactly match the narrative reviews present. They dont even bot it - they just hire slaves.
i'm a sexless virgin nobody likes but that's because i'm just niche slow burn kino. everyone is wrong about me
They will never stop pushing the "criticism is born of anger" meme, will they?
>>737953924What else have they got? Defend the game on its merits? Try to talk about the player count? There's literally nothing else to do but deflect and blame everyone and everything so long as it isn't Bungie or Marathon.
>>737931450>yet another extraction shooter>bold>unlike anything else out therewho actually gives a shit
Isn’t it funny that Fairgame$ will probably mog and kill this game due to being F2P and having PvE? Sony is doing some advanced humiliation ritual for Bungie.
i looked at the marathon reddit out of some morbid curiosity and there’s legit 5 threads up with people in broken english asking if they should buy the game and 200+ comments on each of them saying how much of a blast they’re having and how casual friendly it is. it is such naked and pathetic astroturfing that i think a large % might actually be real third worlders gravitating to the game. what do you think?
>>737954312If bungie is paying for that, they deserve it. Reeks of paid pajeets. If they’d paid an actual good agency they’d be spamming Vandal and Thief gooner fanart/cosplays not whatever the fuck this is. It’s pretty clear that in the end that’s what sells
>>737952774don't forget to leave it running and consuming energyBungie needs you!
>>737954312>implying any games subreddit wouldn't be the exact same
>go ahead marakeks... BEG for forgiveness and maybe I won't keep you in the dungeon>BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA
>>737954778Can you truly call yourself a fan if you aren't spending $5k a month to rent a few racks in a data center to run as many copies of the game in parallel to help pump up the Steam numbers?
Sony status?Bungie HQ status?Tahnit status?
>>737952903>>737953087>>737954778Finished Run/Hide 1/6. I sure do hope Orion makes good on his word and we'll see new UESC units next season.
check cleared
>>737952725That's the best part. It absolutely wasn't. We know enough of the players where it wasn't just one executive. that's more like Hulst and Horizon Hunters. It's that idea spread throughout the entire chain, from Sony execs to Bungie execs, to firewalk execs, down to devs like The Professor, and rank and file at all 3 companies and the press and the industry at large.. They gassed themselves up to the point where anything other than maximum toxic positivitity was chud shit. Even after concord's failure, you still had the party line that it was just a small contingent of irrelevant chuds who went on a harasssment and hate campaign that got the game off track. As a result, Veilguard, which is a different company pulled review copies from streamers and social media people they had previously spent fucking money flying in to see the game. The bubble needs to be so tight that even ex bungie leads who worked on the game and weren't even shitting on it are pre blocked. >>737949058That dude got metooed out of the company, and was apparently too chudly. He also wanted a game that had shit for casuals to do instead of all sweats all the time, somewhat more like the AA grey zone.
>>737953606They probalby should have hired the slaves to job to the casuals. It's funny that the bungie employees aren't even playing this shit.
>>737957617>bungie>new units next seasonRetarded nigger faggot
Lmfao
>>737953924It's an attempt to judo throw it. Marginalize it. Discredit it. Wall it off as just some malcontents. And farm it for content. Unfortunately it feeds into the toxic positiviity bubble. It's pretty sure that the devs, which don't play their own goddam game have no fucking clue about why the game is so repulsive to so many people, and what they needed to be doing 12 months ago to fix it.
>>737957757Ironic, since the only way Bungie can survive is to overdeliver on season 2 (and probably season 3).
>>737954193I think that's not a safe assumption at all. But lets see it. MARATHON VS FAIRGAME#. TWO SLOP ENTER. NO SLOP LEAVE.
>>737957846Thats not gonna happenThey were at all time lows on edge of fate and never fixed anything or put out great content and the community hated itSame thing is gonna happen here
>>737957832To be fair, considering the structure of Reddit, this makes sense. There is nothing new to be gleamed from Steam charts, so might as well move all of its discussion into one place. /v/ has something similar. When a game gets too many threads for while, they start getting deleted, which the assumption that people should move to /vg/.
>>737955058>>737954312Sony blatantly bought out the top r/'s for this. The company they have botting up their narratives is kurppahosk
>>737958139>sony>giving money to reddit for positive attentionit's pathetic, but i believe it
>>737957684They are going to choke to death on the 'chud' concept. It has such vitality for them that it's like a teenage boy looking at the hottest girl in school in her cheerleader's outfit: irresistible to look at, think about, obsess over, and modify behavior to affect. My favorite feature of the California Hugbox that it requires the self-diminishment of its adherents in this way. The difficult decisions and the hard work can only be avoided in the name of not catering to chuds, with 'chuds' being the audience - but it is actually preferable to not please them. Sucks for the state of modern gaming but it is schadenfreudeastic to watch the failure of people who declared war on me just because the elites were scared after Occupy Wallstreet and wanted a culture war.
>>737954312>>737954429Consider this: 200 to 400 posts saying buy the shit on each of those vs the steam numbers, adjust for console. It's several percentage points of the entire play population all jumping into those exact threads wanking the game off. But looking for group has maybe a half dozen people, and we're going into cryo. >If they’d paid an actual good agency they’d be spamming Vandal and Thief gooner fanart/cosplaysBungie cant do that without microagrressing itself to death.
Where the hell are the 400k discord members?
>>737931450hardcore extraction shooters are in the same category as fighting games. they don't actually have a community because the games live off masochists with plenty of time and willing to learn and improve as if it was a job, or cheaters.That's why every fighting game tends to be dead after a year including smash bro style games competitive games can't maintain a playerbase
>>737959286who creates this shit lmao
>>737959304Yeah. As much as Marathon is a piece of shit, the majority of people don't play videogames to be challenged in any single way possible. They crave the walking simulators and the "you press button = you win" dopamine high.
>>737957684No, there had to have been executive backing because Sony went out of its way to buy the entire studio making the game, then greenlit extra budget spend for more dev time AND all the insane mixed media shit like the Amazon animated series having a Concord episode. A studio huffing its own farts in isolation just produces a Highguard situation, and that was just a AA-level game; not a $400m+ AAA 'it's the next Overwatch/Star Wars' Jonestown situation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAWXtyp0JIo>I got a lot of flak for an article I wrote, y'know, way back when, when there was the disastrous summer of plagiarism and playtest and stuff, about how Marathon is... like it's just not gonna work for Marathon, like it's just over for Marathon. And, through all this, through all the playlists, I don't... I really don't see a way back in terms of how this game can suddenly surge and become Bungie's next big thing and get, y'know, a lot of people attracted to it. I don't see it. I don't see a PvE mode doing it, I don't see free-to-play doing it. And you know, I don't see a way that they can do that, because they have launched this game as, y'know, a very high-skill ceiling extraction shooter, where one of the most popular modes right now is a mode where it plays the least like an extraction shooter.Paul is going full doomerHe thinks it's over for the game
>>737957832>There is no panic at the front.
>>737959286>20 Tracks of Failure>Total Playtime: Too Long for What It IsI know it's AI slop, but I love these retarded images.
>>737960049Christ, that's what Tassi looks like? His face reminds me of Robert Z'Dar's.
>>737933370The "Black Woman" is actually the original Marathon protag design, you fucking poser. Meanwhile the "terrible looking robot" is black woman coded. Your propaganda fucking sucks.
>>737933370I think this really killed the game.
I hate that /v/ has become so Indian and has an incestuous relationship with X. This steam chart bullshit is just the new version of the nft/shitcoin chart watching, just embarrassed financebros who didn't buy buttcoin. And this entire "my game vs your game" shit is just console war shit for 2026. Makes sense if you submit to izzat.
>>737952293lmao trying too hard bro
>>737960424..but there is no 'my game vs your game' happening in these threads? All the chartposting with other games has only been 'look at this other, successful game' as a counterpoint to how bad Marathon is.I've posted a few charts myself comparing Arc and Hunt to Marathon and I've not played any of those games.Cute pic, though.
>>737931450>It is absolutely not for everyone. But it's certainly for me.okay did you want to tell us why, or was announcing that you like it enough reason for a thread
>>737958780I remember the art director for the new obsidian shit outrunning all the PR for the game, and getting into a public slapfight with the CEO of Tesla saying how he was going to work extra hard to make sure the chuds enjoyed the game less. I can only imagine the facepalm of marketing at that. But we are seeing a little bit of movment. I mean Ghost of Yotei fired some junior people on the spot for being complete nutbags on twitter. Even triggered a claimed boycott from some lefties.
>>737959854Missed the point. They absolutely had executive backing, but I'm saying it's not just one dude. They got large numbers of everyone in multiple companies to drink the kool aide and see it his way. It wasn't just one studio with concord. it was Firewalk, bungie AND sony.
>>737960209The security officer wouldn't be struggling like that for one goddam compliler.
>>737960049I didn't know Cory was also a video game journalist.
>>737961416Personally, I think the rumors about Concord being Hulst's baby are true, because he would be powerful enough in Sony where nobody would dare say 'This fucking sucks, actually,' especially these days when the game industry is laying people off every other day.And Bungie wasn't really involved directly, but a few Firewalk people did come from Bungie, I think
>>737952293You can't fake the funk with that nasty junk. This is 4chan. you're going to need better than that shitty AI generated digital blackface to get anywhere.
>>737961493Damn, is that really what he looks like now?I guess the LA air really is not doing him well
>>737961045Anon is completely desperate and just looking for angles. Just take a look at the famitus thread for what company wars looks like. No sign of ANY marathon shit there since launch week BTW. Of course that's because Marathon sales there have been complete fucking ass, but it's been so irrelevant that even the most hardcore Nintendo Nigga isn't bothering to shit on the game.
>>737957832tbf that sub is just rage central, everyone who isn't trolling or 85IQ dad of marathon moved month ago to lowsodiummarathon or okbuddyrunners
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.
>>737961523Bungie was also guiding Sony's entire live service strategy. They don't double Firewalk's budget without Bungie. It's also got to be a very short list at sony of execs that can greenlite multiple AAAA games, plus the obscenity that's the bungie buy.
>>737961732>f2pServer costs and maintenance will be prohibitive. They might just pull the plug and call it a day.
>>737961732I am satisfied with the game going out like Anthem.
>>737961732>look, I posted it again!/v/ will continue laughing at this flop and you'll continue making this bullshit up and seething about it.
>>737961932Anthem took years to shut down, so as someone who likes Marathon, I think I'm also okay with this.
>>737961838>It's also got to be a very short list at sony of execs that can greenlite multiple AAA gamesThat's why I think the rumors about it all being Herman Hulst's thing could be true. He was the top off of Playstation until he got demoted after Concord, too. Now he's a co boss or something.
>>737961902The fact that they're actually going ahead with Farigame$ is a sign that monetization for Marathon is fucking terrible, as unilmited AI generated shit in the store was one of Farigames strengths. Would sony move marathon to free to play to compete with Fairgames? I think they just literally spend tens, even a hundred million just to avoid looking too bad.
>>737962204>a sign that monetization for Marathon is fucking terribleAnyone who actually plays the game could have told you this. The store is out of the player's way, and what's in there isn't particularly interesting.
>>737931450>>737931941Absolutely, fellow Sirs. I too agree that Marathon is an epic masterpiece that is just misunderstood by the average gaming layman, too complex and refined to be fully appreciated. Thank you for speaking this truth, I am truly having a blast.I hope Bungle goes bankrupt. Fuck these idiots.
>>737962331Spamboy there thinks it has a long life as a F2p game ahead of it.
>>737962331Bungie themselves also proved this being true because they buckled to community pressure saying 'it's bullshit that $10 gets me 1000 lux but the skins cost 1025 lux', and then they also added more skins to the shop because nobody was buying what was there.The art style just doesn't lend itself to fancy skins, and since Bungie was never going to make the characters sex at all (big robot tits and asses), what the hell could they possibly sell in the skin store? A different neon clown vomit skin? Bigger boat shoes? An even more stereotypical looking George Droyd skin? It's amazing they thought the MTX store would sell anything to begin with.
>>737959694yup games where sessions can end up with 0 or even negative progression tend to cater to an extremely small niche. every mainstream game even games like elden ring to battlefield give you some form of progression even if you're absolutely awful at it.
>>737957832kek
>>737961045>>737961683Please don't be so disingenuous. Much of the complaints about Marathon come from Arc Raiders players (no PVE) or Destiny players (muh Bungie). That type or argument tactic works on X but not here.
>>737964192lmaoout of curiosity are you the how is it woke dude?
>>737964184>survival isn't promised>neither is population>analysis mode: DOOM ONLYfucking kek
>>737964192Arc players don't give a fuck about Marathon because they're busy playing Arc, or didn't you notice Arc's numbers not even flinching when Marathon released?The sad reality is, shillbro, most gamers don't care about Marathon and the only ones talking about it consistently are anons who like laughing at flops (me) and disingenuous cocksuckers who try to defend it (you).
people will be enjoying marathon well into the future ;)
If extraction shooters appeal to you, you are either a sadist, a masochist or both.
>>737954312Turd world game
>>737964969>well into the futureHow many years do you predict?
>>737965797At least a hundred. What people don't know about Steam charts is when the number goes to zero, it can go below the chart into NEGATIVE numbers where people are legally required to play, or your Steam account gets shut off. I don't like it, but that's just the way it is.
>>737966060So true! I cant wait to tell all my friends(who are having a blast btw) about this. Chuds are gonna be so mad at this
fuck Tarkovfuck Dark and Darkerfuck Forever Winterfuck Hyenasfuck Maraudersfuck Cycle: Frontierfuck Disney Extraction Shooterfuck Arena Breakoutfuck The Cube, Save Usfuck Halo Extraction Shooterand 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.
This shit might not actually survive a year
>>737966361Could you imagine tho>want to play Pragmata>ERROR: YOU HAVE NOT PLAYED THE REQUIRED 90 MINUTES OF MARATHON(TM) TODAY>fuck you, just let me->PLEASE STAND IN FRONT OF YOUR WEBCAM, RAISE YOUR ARMS, AND SAY 'I LOVE MARATHON(TM)' TO CONTINUEThe sad part is it isn't too far away from that 'McDonalds!' patent Sony got a while back.
IM HAVING A BLAST!IM HAVING A BLAST!IM HAVING A BLAST!IM HAVING A BLAST!NO NEGATIVITY IN THE DOJODELETE THE FEEDBACK SUB-THREAD, THIS GAME IS NOT FOR THEMWTF WHY IS THERE SO MANY FUCKING TRYHARD SWEATSYALL NEED TO KEEP THE GAME RUNNING TO HELP BUNGIE FOLKS
somebody please define the crucial elements of an extraction looter and main differences from other genres.is it being able to extract (leave) a match/level anytime you want?no "real" win condition when a match is over (or you leave early)?risk of permaloss of gear/character?hoarding loot?
Wow concord 3 has quadrupled concord 1's lifespan
>>737965156I just like collecting stuff, shooting, and being sneaky.
>>737967679Collecting stuff that you are at all times at risk of losing, you mean. If you are not bothered by that risk, that means you have masochistic tendencies.
>>737964192See red. Leave blue.You shill fucks have tried to blame every other community around. People with a memory longer than a camping assasin on solos remember when fucks like you tried to claim CD of all types were going after it. The truth of the matter is that this game really isn't even getting normal Companywars level hate.
>>737967679Unfortunately, Cryo Archive is heavily based towards nearly head on PVP.>>737967596Well, it is a AAAA effort from Bungie itself. It's no suprise it's lasted longer.
>>737967996So I guess it's not concord 3 at all
>>737967426i think the core element of modern extraction slop is extracting delusional execs money a secindary element is shutting down or flatlining rather fast, another one is coming out to trendchase years after the trend has diedoh massive marketing expenses are core too
>>737963490You know… back in my day, we used to call Redditors like you out. Why the fuck are you screencappin shit like this and posting it on my board? In what fucking universe is having the same opinion as reddit a good thing? You retarded tourists have gotten way too comfortable around these parts, WAY too comfortable. To the point you’re actually making Marathon sound like a good game.
>>737968639It's still a big, arrogant, out of touch flop that will never make half it's budget back, and is almost certainly losing money every month of its existence. Instant death isn't a requirement, especially when it's Sony's call on how much money they want to lose.
>>737970058>To the point you’re actually making Marathon sound like a good game.Too eager to show your real hand you useless kurppahosk fuck.
>>737970058lmao marketing bro youre so bad at blemding in its ridiculous
>>737970403i would say for something to be like concord it would have to have a big budget and a quick shutdown, this game has a big budget but it's not getting shutdown so it's not a concord
>>737971424too specific, i think concird means big profile huge budget failure that appeals to nobody, its not about how fast they shut down, i mean highguard lasted longer than concord snd its a concord.so is maraflop
/rg/ raped general
Marathon was simply too smart to win
Should i ask my wifes boyfriend to buy me this game? (Serious answers only)
>>737951161Wtf I literally say it like this do i know you...
>>737972171OMG YEEEEESSSSS COME BLAST WITH US!
>>737939698>400 peopleGrim
>>737972568Cant wait! I look like the guys in this webm. Im so excited for him to buy this game after work. But first i need the bull to please my wife a few times and finally i'll become a marathon chad.
>>737946027This makes me think shooters as a genre are dying. Fortnite is also hitting new lows, same with Call of Duty.Im aware a lot of games are feeling this however. Maybe there is a crash, maybe GTA VI will save us, maybe it will catalyze it.
>>737972890People are tired of waiting around for a better FPS that hasn't happened. AAA studios have sharply degraded in the last decade. FPS is still massive but all the current options are highly flawed whether it's because they're catering to only 1 kind of person like CS2 or because the devs themselves are coasting on the AAA drought ritually receiving backwash of players churning between shitty games hoping to catch some money.
>>737957684Funny you mention, barret refiled in the proper court in january bc it was dismissed due to it being a money-damages dispute and not fit for chancery court.So he's fighting themAnd you'll probably recall this is not the first time this happened: when bungie wrongfully fired joseph staten and marty odonnell.Staten rolled over and went seperate ways, but Marty sued and WON huge damages from bungie.Barret probably would have pushed the game to be more like Arc, possibly even better, with persitent servers, and that would have been cool and the right call. Arc feels oddly persitent but isn't fully, woulda been cool. I hope he wins.
>>737933370Insane how trooncoded they all look.Its like they wanted to make the Jaguar commercial into a game.
>>737962417I have never been angry at someone else liking a video game.
>>737973921>xe xays while posting anti arc raiders posts on twitter
>>737931450Posting steam charts is bigotry
>>737973717you don't even know what you're talking about
>>737974049>posting anti arc raiders posts on twitterhuh?
>>737931450dead by the end of the year
>>737931450I don't meet the minimum T requirements for such a game
>>737974049I have never deluded myself into thinking people who disagree with me all share the same traits.
>reddit spacingYup that confirms it thank you
>>737974182Nah it's fair the transhumanist element of this kind of media becomes a convenient shield when it's used by troon propagandists like bungie. In this case people want bungie to prove they aren't being complete faggots by including tasteful fanservice, but they are, and you know that.
>>737974072I fucking hate bigots when they kiss each other in public. Bigot rights went too far
>>737974356I know thats why I called you trans
Why are u dudes still obsessed with this if it flopped
>>737974395two the ribbits are good looking, two are meh looking, and two are ugly looking.again, something for everyone.
>>737974461Because it is funny to watch Sony crumble. Im a Linux user I literally cannot play it, they refuse to let me. So i mock them.
>>737974561Why do you complain about a game you can't even play then that seems the height of sour grapes
>>737933370I avoid rooting against Sony just because I'm on Nintendo, but these characters don't look appealing to me in the slightest.
>>737960424>is just console war shit for 2026I see you too have reached the correct appraisal.
>>737931450Marathon isn't niche, it's just bad.
>>737974484but they won't do fanservice* (or aggression mm, proper cosmetics, etc) and more importantly people want to see bungie prostrate themselves for their behavior by including some GitS type fanservice>no artistic nudity in your cyberfuture plagiarist product>not even a scene where the shells conscience seem affected by their eunuch artificiality >generally negative reviews of character designsI'm not even asking for feet pics I want to see the edginess and for bungie to beg for customers to come back
>>737975172I don't give a shit about that, I just want a hub space
>>737933370>$250 million dollars>300 devs>Stolen art direction>4 maps (3 at launch)
>>737971612I concur with this definition
>>737975245that too, far far west has a soulful hub
>>737973468Firgot picrel
>Marathon is just toooo hard and complex, that's why it failed!And yet Tarkov is still going strong.Can a shill please explain PRECISLEY what makes this game hard? The guns are easy to use, with simple recoil. TTK is piss low, so you don't need to be a crack shot. The enemies are extremely easy to understand. Robot, shoot in head. Robot with shield, don't shoot shield.Player abilities are either extremely straightforward (invisibility, jump boost, personal shield, instantly revive, all literally just "hit button for power up" type beats) or so situational that you can pretty much just ignore them and still be successful.The only complexity I found was the inventory management system and shop unlocks, but that's just poor design. Attachements and mods are all abstract geometric shapes, so you have to read each tooltip to figure out wtf you're looking at. That's not real complexity, that's just clunky.
>>737931450why aren't multiplayer games able to survive with a couple thousand players anymore? that used to be fine. today if your game isn't fortnite levels it's' shut down in a month.
you go title title for your thread FROM YOUTUBE!!!
>>737975245it's crazy they don't have a hub space.What's the point of having an extraction looter without being able to admire your collection of loot?I want a housing or trophy rack/room where i can lay out my loot to admire and take screenshots with to show everyone else.Seriously, why has nobody done this yet?
>>737975576No safety pocket
>>737975576It's built around trios but there are better games to play in groups, as it is it's just Bad Apex. Playing it solo is superior but the game isn't tuned for it at all (e.g. triage's ult requiring teammates to extract value from usage, assassin's everything etc) and the queue times are awful because, again, the game isn't meant to be played solo so it churns solo players like crazy after a while, so you either play Bad Apex or not at all.It honestly doesn't require a lot to improve the game and actually keep people playing, but Bungie are so stubborn and weird that they'll probably just keep twisting it to fit some party game vision they have instead of just enhancing solo queue.There isn't enough vault space to feel comfortable throwing gear away so everyone hoards it, the longshot exists, the maps feel repetitive because Bungie designed all their quests to funnel people through the same points. The game isn't "bad," there are just so many little things wrong with it.
>>737975576The main problem is that the maps are too small for the amount of teams going in and the uesc bots are laughably weak For all the lore hyping them up, the only real difficulty in this game is from other players
>>737974072>Marathon username>Marathon user picture>it just FEELS like bigotry (this set of objective data that makes a game I don't like look bad)What children.
>>737933370The helmet ones could be salvaged so easily if they simply closed them, but the ugly, giant nigger lips REALLY need to be out for bonus ESG blackrock points I guessThe chink one isn't bad, aside from the flat doll body
>>737976761>contd.It doesn't help that Bungie also locked Cryo to groups. Any solo players that wanted to experience the endgame map (you know, the one with the cool boss they saw in the trailer) are forced to queue up with others.I really can't overstate how much better the game feels solo and how disappointing it is that Bungie just leaves it as an afterthought. The atmosphere and sense of pressure is unmatched, and it ALL completely evaporates when you're in trios. There's something really really special about Marathon when played solo..They made a game that's borderline unplayable solo and subpar in a group.>>737976898The maps are also small, that's not helping things.
>>737975512>requesting a jury trialHoly shit, no way Sony will be happy. Jury trials cost companies stupid amounts of money. Guess we can just add another few million to Marathon's dev budget for whatever payout he's going to get when they settle it.But if he goes full retard, turns down a settlement offer and actually drags them to court, it could be a massive shitshow.
I really love the lore, levels, factions, weapons, runners which aren't triage or assassin. People say it's woke shit but every POI plays differently and visually looks great. Triage is really the only part that ticks that box for me.I hate the game itself though. It feels like it really wants me on a treadmill similar to modern matchmaking, battles rarely feel complex it's greys vs blues and purples 90% of the time with the odd rook on the side.
>>737970058bro i've had a 4chan since 2007. the screencap is making fun of blast havers on reddit since the sub is a hugbox. are you merely pretending to be retarded?
>>737931450The game is not good, it's demonstrably shit and uses outdated mechanics and shooting that's been getting reused since D1's original release, the balancing is completely fucked and the PvE aspect is irrelevant which makes it completely miss the point of it being an extraction shooter, instead playing more like a shitty battle royale game.
>>737977694all that energy into being mad and wrong when you could be enjoying a good game
>>737977760I'm not wrong, but true I could be playing a good game now obviously not this shitheap you shill nigger.
uh ohthe 2nd bump is not looking too bumpywheres my west coast blasters?
>>737977932West coast burger peak is in 2hrs. I'm surprised, because isn't it usually a bit higher on Thursdays?
>>737977932IT'S STABLE, CHUD!
>>737978112Sucks that it's gonna go up in two hours
>>737931450It would be a success if it had a good single player campaign.
>>737978112lmfao
>>737974436I actually learned the other day that /v/'s condition has a name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out-group_homogeneity>people in my group are all individuals with different interesting opinions.>people outside my group are all leftists/trannys/shillsit's the result of it being easier to just lump everyone else in the "other team", brainlet behavior
>>737978327>I actually learned the other day that people in my group are all leftists/trannys/shills
>>737977193>and it ALL completely evaporates when you're in triosI dont think that's true, probably with randoms though.when I play with friends we play just as stealthy as solos and end up clearing 80% of the time because random queue trios wont stick together so we always just win the 3v2 after hearing them all stomp around.I dunno, I like the game as is but clearly no one else does.
>>737938741I feel like Marathon is trying to be a cleaner version of what Cruelty Squad asserts about a far-future humanity where culture has eroded to the point where every piece of visual media you see is either minimalism or biometrics
>>737979183Finally some honesty
>>737979183>spends months shilling the game and fighting the haters on twitter >1 month after launch abandon it What causes this
>>737979907cheques stopped
>>737978327Thats coolI learned that people can be fanatics for troon slop
>>737979907money?
>>737978268Holy shit, I've never seen a chart so healthy! WE'RE BLASTING OFF, BOYS
>>737978538Fucking GOTTEM
>>737979907Shilling? Tassi has been lukewarm at best on Marathon for most of its life. In fact, his opinions were so 'problematic' that he got demoted to chud status a few weeks ago by the blast havers.
>>737980809I'm more amused he gets fatter in every video
>>737981046Like I said in >>737960182, he's just turning into Robert Z'dar (which is fine).
Tassi jumping off the hatewagon i guess his minions will follow suit
>Marathon but with a singleplayer extraction sandbox mode similar to Forever Winter to do campaign missions onimagine
>>737977193>I really can't overstate how much better the game feels solo and how disappointing it is that Bungie just leaves it as an afterthought. The atmosphere and sense of pressure is unmatched, and it ALL completely evaporates when you're in trios. There's something really really special about Marathon when played solo..their metrics must show that solo players don't buy skins
>>737933370it's the goddamn tekken 1 character select artstyle in 2026
>>737981220Forever Winter has the same problem as well as in Arc though in which players are grossly more powerful than any of the enemies despite the lore supposedly saying otherwise
>>737981681bro if Marathon's character select screen had screaming panthers and shit on it the game would be way better
>>737949707Fuck off, they just look bad. They have no appeal, maybe you have bad taste.
>>737979183acceptance is the final stage
>>737931450calling it "niche" gives it too much credit, as if it's doing something super unique. extraction shooters are basically battle royale games but with the loot carrying over between round. it's not that innovative and marathon neither invented nor popularized that aspect.marathon's only real "innovation" in the genre is trying their hardest to make the game sweaty in a failed bid to appeal to streamers while completely killing the player economy. its failure has been obvious since very early on. you can't have a successful multiplayer game that punishes the least skilled players so severely because they'll just quit and then a new tier of players will be the (relatively) least skilled and they'll start having a bad time and quitin shit like fortnite or counter strike or cod, even if you suck you can still enjoy a game and get a few kills. in marathon, it doesn't matter if you get 10 kills in a round, if you die after that then the round was an objective failure that resulted in negative progress. maybe you'll get some xp towards your season level, but that barely matters compared to your quest and loot progression. the most interesting part of this game is how sony/bungie spent so much time and money on this game but apparently nobody spent five minutes thinking about how this was an unsustainable system
>>737941245they'll keep it going for a while out of vanity (sony is desperate to wash the concord stink off of themselves) but i'd be surprised if bungie doesn't have massive layoffs by july
>>737957832i'm pretty sure that's old and they got rid of the megathread as well since it was just a giant hate thread for the game lol
>>737938946Source?
>>737960049>where one of the most popular modes right now is a mode where it plays the least like an extraction shooter.it really is hilarious how the only thing that even slightly slowed the decline of this game is adding a game mode where there is zero loot risk. bungie just proving to themselves that the core concept for this game was a massive mistake
>>737961732people saying it was concord 3 were always retards who don't understand just how much of a colossal, unprecedented flop concord was. that game went offline after TWELVE DAYS. marathon is a flop, but it's not concord-tier
>>737974461>>737974717It's not just a flop, but it's the front runner for flop of the year. barring some S2 miracle, it will have lost more than twice the money that Highuard lost. But if you don't give a fuck, that's fine. I am absolutely sure someone exactly like you will show up next thread asking the same shit.
>>737977230The trannies in question have tried to completley burn him out of the industry. If they were sloppy, or acted illegally, which I think is pretty likely, he may demand a Avalone kind of apology.
>>737978030Because of leadin to cryo. Maybe people are burning out on cryo,
>>737982901well yeah some other entries in the flopiverse are not going to be as good as the first, that's just how it goes
>>737983079A proper discovery effort by his lawyer will probably root out the actual bullshit here, and if he can prove those psychos acted with malice, he'll bend Bungie over his knee and rape them in court. I'll be surprised if Sony doesn't just give him a huge settlement to avoid going to court.>>737983130That's why. And hey you know what, it got them a whopping +1k vs yesterday's peak. Blasthavers, cock your hammers!
>>737979223I had no fucking clue what was going on at any time during cruelty squad other than my eyes itching.
>>737979907A significant amount of his status comes from his bungie Insiders, which are about to become unemployed untless they turn this thing around.Pretending that everything's ok, or ignoring the story won't do it, because bungie will get it's insides busted out like a pedo at a dancing desmond concert. Tassi was slow on concord and highguard and Ubis' bombfest.
>>737981206He has minions? In any case, all of his numbers and leaks have been spot on, with bungie.
>>737981730It would be GREATLY improved by Heiachi Mishima throwing triage off the highest building in the place.
>>737982763At the very least they seemed to have zero understanding of the amount of completely unlubed rape the lower ranks would put up with. They expected them to ditch their contracts and rook it up.
>>737982901You're right in that Concord was an extintion event meteor, and the sequels are letdowns by comparison, but there's still tidal waves and aftershocks and volcanos. A big arrogant AAAA failure is more than enough for me.
>>737983182>if he can prove those psychos acted with malice,Well, they have crazy fucking employees telling chuds not to buy their goddam game, and then blaming chuds for not buying their goddam game.
>>737931450Hello fellow gamer!I too am taking the opportunity to play Marathon™, the new extraction shooter game from Bungie™, my favourite developer!I agree completely with your opinion, I'm having a blast and think everybody should try it!
>on the steam top sellers list marathon is over 10 spots below....>arc raiders the wasp set>thats right, marathon is being outsold by a 20 dollar skin for arc raiders
>>737931450>It's one of the most niche games ever madeit's an extremely generic shooter, there's nothing niche about it. And the art style looks like an 8 year old's idea of cyber punk
[Buy a fucking ad snoy]
>>737957832Kekw
>>737983751>>737973717>>737974182Differentanon. Lets test this. A shot from the jaguar ad vs ingame. .
>>737960049Bungies biggest dick rider going full doom mode. Christ what a time line.
>>737983874...and I botch the post. Pic of car.
>>737983910And one of the crew.
>>737960182he actually kinda seems like a fat Jake Gyllenhaal
>>737983910>>737983971Pretty obvious. The building and car would fit in with zero modificaitons. The ipink environment if anything is more interesting that what they have in game but would fit in fine.
>>737983751I like the architecture and random numbers and letters everywhere but hate the colors and charactersAm I alone in this? They were so close to making something kino but had to fuck it up and it's just ugly as fuck for everyone.
The game is fundamentally a good game. It’s very solid. The entire problem is the extraction element and a lack of any “Halo/Destiny play”. If the extractions led into private PvE instances where you could actually stress your loadout and cores, the whole experience would jump up to a 9.5/10. Right now the game is forever stuck in this stubbornness to be “PvP king” when that’s not what Bungie was founded on at. Bungie are developers of heroic console fps with deep lore. Only half of that is present here, and it’s juxtaposed by these terrible extraction shooter offsets where you can be wiped about 10 different ways and lose 10 hours of progress.
Why couldn't shells look good instead of tranny freaks?
>>737986729there's some assholes making comments/posts about how marathon is the best FPS since titanfall... how? how tf does it compare at all!?
>>737986809There's sloppers who think apex is titanfall but better so I imagine its just the same goy cattle influence causing people to have shitty opinions
>>737982105And would you look at that: the competition that's beating it has systems in place that allow players to progress quests via sticking the item in your safe pocket. even if you die you still make progress or get tons of xp for doing anything that gives you skill points. You might lose valuable loot but your still moving forwards in arc.They correctly solved this issue and marathon did not.
>>737986926*le big sigh*apex was a fucking mistake
>>737987023 Apex legends is the best game that's been ruined totally and utterly. Coming from someone who used to solo Q diamond from gold or lower in about 3 to ONE days time, when I returned to the game in 2024 I found the competitive integrity was so out of whack due to controller aimbot aka legal aim hacks that I had no fun as I'm a mouse and keyboard player. How can I learn and improve my micro gameplay when my enemies have different micro? It's not satisfying. It's not that I can't murder rollers it's just that I'm not fighting people on an equal playing ground one way or the other, and that's not entertaining or fun to get better at.Either I'm bullying them or they have an unfair advantage. I don't want to play with those inputs. I can tolerate if the aimbot isn't good, bc at least it doesn't get in the way of me learning against real competitors with m+k, but I still would rather not kill or fight those people bc it's pointless fodder and doesn't offer the challenge I seek, its only ruining the playing field. Gets in the way of my game.
>>737987350i meant it more because it had no titans. and it pretty much killed any chance of titanfall 3.i love big robot games vs flavor of the month FPS
>>737931450I really like a lot of the artstyle and what its trying to go for, it's just a shame its wasted on some extractionslop game and they didn't just make a strong single player narrative where you explore big open maps in the style of DOOM/Nu-DOOM
Just play the original trilogy. It's free, still kicks ass, and won't be shut down in a few months.
>>737931450I'm all for niche gamesbut if you're making a niche game, maybe you should budget accordingly so you don't need 5,6,7 million players just to break even
>>737986729That looks worse than all of the shells.
>>737986809Is put it underneath Titanfall 2, but it’s still in a high tier. Marathons endgame maps are two of the best in the whole genre.
>>737987636Thanks shill
>>737982763i think it’s less the loot risk and more not getting instaraped by premade teams with gold gear and thermal snipers
Game’s got too much pressure for normies and too little whimsy for everyone
>>737981592I would’ve grabbed the battle pass if solo was actually playable, lol. It’s obvious they push trios so hard so teammates can act like walking billboards for cosmetics.
>>737931450>>737931941We simply didn't even buy it. Its not divisive or niche it simply never even got my money. What appeal is there for destiny and halo combat designers making an extraction shooter? Its inherently at odds with itself. Arena shooting foundation molds itself to conform to one life only gameplay. Destiny ranked was boring for the same reason.
>>737989859>Its not divisive or niche it simply never even got my money... [blah blah blah "I dont like it"]do you know what divisive means you drooling retard?
Imagine if they gave vandal a nice ass...
>>737978112lmao
>>737978327cept they really all leftist trannie shills, sadly
>>737986953Marathon has fail-progress in the form of contracts, most of which don’t require exfilling to complete.Being able to shove a high-value loot item up your ass so that others can’t take it is tension-killing dogshit design.
>>737978617its okay to have bad taste tranny shill leftist sis
>>737979907he got demoted to chud
>>737983609lmaooo
>>737992361you can tell whos a leftist trannie shill because they sit these absolutely horrid batshit lunatic takesyou know whats a dogshit design?marathonyou can prove how fucking horrid the design is empirically with ease, look at the player numbers and drop off. nobody likes this shit design not even the shillswell maybe the tranny leftist shill bro that posts batshit inane nonsense like "how is it woke", but hes gonna be playing with himself soon god bless his soul
>>737938741because your only reference of anatomy is from the cruelty squad menu
>>737988313you can't be a big robot in marathon. it's shit
>>737992560You’re meant to talk about the actual game, not /pol/ buzzwords.
I genuinely don't understand why does sony spend billions of dollars just to make woke slop instead of actually good games with quality instead of politicsImagine if instead of shit like this we got high budget bloodborne, jak and daxter, ico, etc.
>>737992361>most of which don’t require exfil Haha yeah about that
>>737992957Marathon isn't woke
>>737992791The mech is mechanically the worst part of Titanfall.
>>737992998>Marathon isn't woke
>>737993028That's not marathon that's a person
>>737981830>acceptance is the final stageActually it's metastability
>>737992998lmfao>>737992957because when it was greenlit anyone who wasn't a woke retard was getting banned from everywhere so jim ryan and herman hulst and a lot of corpo suits got convinced the woke retards were popular.then fortunately elon bough twitter, the trannie leftist cucks left for bluesky, and normal people began boycotting woke shit en masse.now the woke slop that was in the pipeline is arriving stillborn into a world where nobody can even stand the aesthetics let alone like them other than the retards at gcj and that one shill hereseen horizin hunters hathering? it has a fucking diabetic peg legged hamplanet lmfao
>>737993040that thing is not a person
>>737993110It's not marathon either
>>737992998hey youre still here!have you considered that if absolutely everyonr everywhere agrees that its woke perhaps you are just wrong/out of touch/ weird?
>>737993125guess what his relation to marathon is
>>737993152If they can't explain why it's woke then yeah, everyone else is wrong
>>737931450Aside from the aesthetic it's just like any other FPS. Except the stamina system is way more intrusive and ruins the entire game.
>>737993203everyone has explained tho, i see like 10 people per thread biting, you just ignore anything anyone says bro
Should've just ripped off DOOM eternal. The original marathon played like a DOOM rip off anyways.
>>737993378So far I got>1) the people who worked on it are woke! Sure a woke studio can increase the chance of the game being woke but it's not a 100% guarantee. A tranny can make tetris, no colors, no gay story just tetris and it would be retarded to call that woke.>2) it's ugly!!!!That doesn't make things woke, yeah the characters aren't pretty but it's cyberpunk. Nobody called cruelty squad woke
>>737993009then play any other FPS if you're that retarded
>>737993427nu-doom is trash so it wouldn't be much of an upgrade
>>737952249every fairgames playtest news say that they still havent found the fun factor so it is a zombie of a game, it is dead, it just doesnt know it
>>737938741My first thought was Eva. They obviously took a lot of inspiration from it and gits with a spattering of other old anime.
>>7379935632016 was prettt good
>>737986293how do you think it looks good? buildings standing up with no rhyme or reason, cargo containers all over the place, the weapons and models all look like shit (uesc robots look fine but very generic)please can you explain why you like it? it looks horrible to me, no visual cohesion at all
>>737993563It'd at least have a viable single player mode. Then they could say the people leaving are the ones that just finished the game.
If you want to read the current player sentiment around the game. https://x.com/marathonthegame/status/2049904112016457845?s=46I have big hours in the game and feel the same.
>>737971612It's not true that Marathon appeals to nobody, though. It actually had a lot of players for the first month (at least by the average game's standards), and you see people leaving because of quantifiable and fixable issues with the game instead of the whole thing being unappealing (which was the case for Concord and Highguard). Marathon also probably has more (non-ironic) fanart than both of those games combined.
>my neovag when playing Marathon
Notice how much social dissent there is in extraction games. Arc has the entire community split in two with PvP, Marathon is too oppressive, people are always complaining in Tarkov. You can’t have people at ease in the genre. Someone’s always losing big or winning big, and the problem is that the loot mechanic swings that number so that 1% of players and cheaters are eating the game alive.
>>737992560I can tell you're brown by the ESL niggerbabble you're posting
>battle royale>bungieshan’t
>>737994628lmao your posts always crack me up sis
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