Bungie's magnum opus will stay around for years to come.https://www.gamesradar.com/games/fps/bungie-doesnt-see-marathon-going-anywhere-we-know-where-we-want-to-take-the-story-over-the-next-few-years/
>>738077586Gaslighting.Marathon is dying bit-by-bit.
>>738077586>Bungie's magnum opusIt's funny because it really is better than any Destiny or Halo game they made
I'm just here for the steam chart screenshot, i'm gambling on 10k today.
>>738077586You post this shit everyday with a new shill article. Why? They paying you? I sure hope they're paying you for this anon.
>>738077742Chuds are paying him with thread bumps into triple digit replies
>>738077586eos in half a year tops
>>738077807Not if they sage, which I'm definitely not doing.Also it is wild that fucking Mewgenics has higher daily player counts than Marathon (like today). Somehow games like Crimson Desert can maintain Marathons all-time-peak even so far after release (today).
I don't see it going anywhere either
>>738077586Every underperforming live service slop deludes themselves like this until time proves them liars. The question is how long
>>738077586Uhhhh chudsissies? Our response?
>>738077586>we know where we're taking the story>but also we're leaving it up to the players :^)
>>738077586I sure hope so. I had fun playing today (one might even say that I had a blast), so I would very much prefer if this game stuck around and improved.
>>738077586I'd play, it if it had a campaign
>>738078113It sort of does. The contracts you do for the factions each tell a story. Well, at least the NuCaloric ones do.
>>738077586Bungie is so fucking dead. All they had to do was make Destiny 3. Fucking morons.
I do not know anything about shooters or looters or whatever and I have never heard of marathon outside of them stealing art, even to this day. Grim.
>>738078491No, single player campaign, I don't enjoy reading logs while being raped by sweats
This would only make sense if they were selling big tiddy big booty runner skins.
>>738078113Same. It is wild Marathon isn't a co-op 60 hour multi-choice campaign game. One with multiple endings.
>>738077586no shit, what else are they gonna say.
Sometimes dead is better.
>>738077586This pretty much confirms new priority contracts every season. But I'm not sure if it will be possible to play the past seasons' contracts. I hope it will be, because I'm not certain in my ability to finish all of this season's contracts.
Goodmorning saars is this where im supposed to do the marketings?
>>738080129Yes.
>>738077668Yeah but it isn't enough of a financial success to warrant further investment.
>>738077586Ah yes. The story. Marathon's story. The story of Marathon, the OOL GAAS extraction shooter's, extremely important story that everyone is dying to see the end of.
>>738077586>over the next few years>yearsLMAO good one, after sonys next earnings report soon theyll be lucky to have a few months left
>>738080230Sounds goodMarathon is a return to form in iconic bungie gunplay. Its a hard-core PvPvE extraction shooter on the planet Tau Ceti where runners must scavenge for loot and battle each other to successfully extract. Players can complete contracts and rank up factions for additional rewards and unlock amazing lore cards to better understand the universe of Marathon. For those of you that really get into the game you can even hop in to the cryo archive and face against the compiler himself with the chance of getting some super exclusive loot. Make sure you buy boughted the game and get some lux for the upcoming microtransactions in season 2
>>738080331There are GAAS with extremely good stories tho like Outlast Trials.
You could say they're in it for the long haul, huh?
>The story>Multiplayer extraction shooter>StoryInb4 " ackshually the story is very good and engaging!"
Why are some people so desperate to prove this slop didn't fail?
>>738080445It's pretty ridiculous how much of the "shill language" is standardized and recognizable enough that someone could make a post like this. I guess there really isn't an incentive for the legitimate shills to make an effort to be undetected or spice up their posts though since they're already paid.
>>738077586Uh huh.Lets see what this months Shareholders call with Sony has to say about Bungie.
>>738080445>Marathon is a return to form in iconic bungie gunplay.Is it, though? In terms of gunplay, I'm not sure if Bungie departed from their from in Destiny.>Its a hard-core PvPvE extraction shooter on the planet Tau Ceti where runners must scavenge for loot and battle each other to successfully extract.Checks out.>Players can complete contracts and rank up factions for additional rewards and unlock amazing lore cards to better understand the universe of Marathon.I personally wouldn't use the word "cards", and the interestingness of the bits of lore you get from contracts varies. I find the lore you get from extracting valuables more interesting overall.>For those of you that really get into the game you can even hop in to the cryo archive and face against the compiler himself with the chance of getting some super exclusive loot.Emphasis on "chance". I reached 100 hours in Marathon today and I'm yet to successfully extract from Cryo even once. And I've only found 1 key, for vault 1. Reaching the Compiler is really difficult, and by "difficult" I mean "grindy".>Make sure you buy boughted the game and get some lux for the upcoming microtransactions in season 2It's all just mediocre cosmetics, anyway.
>>738080539Western games journalists built their entire identity around the tranny ideology that Bungie is a major tentpole of. Doesnt help that its a Sony game and they all suck off Sony to no end as well. They cant cope with the fact that it flopped as hard as it did, especially after years of them all becoming increasingly mindbroken with the fact that every major western game dev is imploding and laying off all their employees or downright closing their doors. Their bias is obvious when you see how they all treat games from other regions like recently with Crimson Desert. Theyre all coping hard as they come to the realization that their journalism outlets and all of their butt-buddy studio friends at places like Bungie are completely irrelevant now. They are all seething, coping, and squirming around slowly as they get snuffed out of existence. I for one am glad to see it happen because every single on of them fucking deserved it.
>>738080539Nigger you better not be using the word slop while having played Crimson Desert. You wanna talk about slop? Lets talk that open world normienip you cocksuckers seem to love so much. Didnt they have to nerf bosses for your bitch asses, even recently adding an easy mode in the process? How are you PvE dogshit even stimulated by these singleplayer games? Fuck tio salamanca ding ding looking ahh
>>738081716>Bringing up Crimson Desert out of LITERALLY nowhere Actually mindbroken
>>738080539Well, Marathon definitely underperformed, severally. Flopped, one might even say. But at least to me, "failure" implies finality. As long as the game doesn't get shut down, it technically hasn't failed yet.
>>738077586Bungie, it actually makes me happy that you might spend $100+ million in post launch support for a game no one wants to play.I want you to do this to yourself, it's funny for me and everyone else.
>>738077668aside from Halo 3, thats not exactly a high bar
>>738081787No no no, that anon used the word slop, LETS FUCKING TALK ABOUT REAL SLOP, since you mfers love that shit so much. Dont be coming in here slinging buzzwords around you are not prepared to have fired back, ya bitch ass hoe
>>738077668>t.has never played any old bungie games
>>738077586she's cute though
As fun as doomposting is, playin is also pretty fun. Just wiped 2 teams in cryo and got like 10+ gold items out of it. Thanks for reading my blog.
>>738080539>THIS GAME WILL SHUT DOWN BUNGIE>TWO MORE WEEKS UNTIL THE LAYOFFS HAPPEN>JUST WAIT ONE MORE MONTH THEN IT'LL FLOP>TWO MORE MONTHS FOR SUREYou are here >WHY ARE PEOPLE SO DESPERATE TO PROVE IT DIDNT FAIL?
I'm praying with all my soul that Sony decides to invest even MORE money into this dumpster fire.Shit would be so cash
>>738082604>spend 3.4B on bungie>all dozen of the gaas games that you hired them to oversee get cancelled or completely flop>spend hundreds of millions on marathon>it barely breaks 1m copies sold, daily active users now under 20k>recent reports that over half of bungies 800 person studio are working on maintaining marathon>bungie is one of the most well paid studios on the west coast, sony is burning millions a month just on salary for people to maintain a dead gameyou are heresony has an earnings report coming up that will be the first since maraflop released
MISRIAH GANG
>>738077586
>>738082604So true xister! The live service multiplayer game losing 85% of its players and going on sale multiple times already means it's a success!
>>738083125Economic terrorist spotted
>>738083016This is literally just Destiny again.
>>738083016Watchable
>>738083016>people get rekt by the best burst damage option in the game (goo gun)>bungie nerfs the goo gun>people get rekt by the next best burst damage option in the game (knives)>bungie nerfs knives>people get rekt by the next best burst damage option in the game (WSTR)>bungie nerfs the WSTR>people get rekt by the next best burst damage option in the game (grenades)>bungie nerfs grenadesyou're next in line
>>738084097all those things had to be nerfed because they were broken
>>738077586>next few yearsWho the fuck is asking for gaas slop in 2026? Everyone is pessimistic about the hobby due to like 15 years passing and nothing much showing for it.
>>738080331The story is really fucking good though. Both in itself and a sequel to 2 (nobody cares about Infinity)
>>738084097the fuck is goo gun
>>738077879kek
>>738077586We've heard this before and besides, its not Bungie's decision
>>738084719Compiler semen launcher https://tauceti.gg/db/weapons/biotoxic-disinjector
>>738077586Just who the fuck plays a grindy looty shooty for the fucking story????
>>738084853Me.I am done playing because I finished the priority contracts and most codex entries.I'll reinstall next season for the next story contracts.
>>738077586As long as sony keeps footing the bill the game stays!
they catered to /r/Marathon and ended up like this
>>738085191actually 90% of marathon's playerbase is on consolesarc is 100% pc
>>738085249
>>738084853its unironically great
>>738083016Wow this looks so boring.
>>738085320>alinea analyticscope seethe shill
>>738085336What's great about it?
>>738085320>majority of players on PC>11k playing currently on a weekendGRIM
>>738077586this is what you get when your business is ran by a fat dumb ass black bitch who doesn't even know their own gender.
>>738085441That's not Ziegler.
>>738077586>Bungie doesn't see Marathon going anywhereFunny, neither does anyone else lmao
>>738085320>55m gross revenue>game cost was at least 200>15k players who already have made their big purchase by paying for the game so revenue from them shouldn't be highBeing unrealistically generous with this game. If they make $10 from every player every month AFTER expenses to keep the game running, they stop bleeding players and make some one off revenues here and there with expansions. They won't break even the dev costs in at least 70 years. I can think of a couple of better capital allocations than maintaining this game. What is Sony thinking by not killing outright.
>>738077586Didn't Highguard devs say the same shit a month before shutdown? Didn't Concord too a week before getting axed by Sony?
>>738077586sounds good to me keep wasting bungie money supporting a dead game
>>738085358Why is a shillbot calling other people shills
>>738078565I really hope they pull the plug on destiny so we stop hearing about this whiny ass bitch community. In hindsight, Destiny players deserved every bit of suffering Bungie inflicted to them. When Bungie stopped caring about Halo, Halo players just moved on with their life, they did not cry and doom post on every single forum and commentary section for years. Destiny players are mentally ill retards and I hope Bungie keep spitting at them
>>738085378the gameplay
>>738077586kekdoesn't matterit's going to die
>>738086270>Thinking bungie gunplay is goodI hope at least they pay you well shill
>>738086384whats so bad about it
>>738086431Nothing, he is just following the hate trend like a sub zero IQ retard
>>738085652Wow imagine if the game was good enough that they'd be playing it instead of on the steam forums.
>>738081716>no true slopsman
great im sure those dozens of players will love it as they burn money keeping servers alive and paying staff to work on the game LOLsurely sony will keep payrolling them
>>738085652this cant possibly be a recent post it had the lowest peaks and lows its ever had like on wednesday
>>738086270What's good about the gameplay?
>>738086270Refer to >>738083569
>>738077586yeahhow does sony feel about this?
>>738086187>When Bungie stopped caring about Halo, Halo players just moved on with their life, they did not cry and doom post on every single forum and commentary section for years. Destiny players are mentally ill retards and I hope Bungie keep spitting at themWhile I agree Destiny is a garbage game this is a retarded comparison since new Halo games were still being made so fans had something to look forward to despite how ass they were
>>738086187Destiny surpassed Halo
>>738087272Wow it surpassed a dead franchise, amazing
that's what they said about high guard
>>738081634Yeah, the first time I noticed that was with DmC: Devil May Cry. Journos were coming out of the woodwork to defend it like the gates of fucking Helm's Deep when fans were shitting on it, and no one could understand why. That was before Gamergate too, and might have been a big part of what helped cause it. But the pro-West, anti-East bias has been obvious for over a decade now. Shit, knowing that pattern made me avoid playing Expedition 33 for a while, because I assumed journos were only glazing it because it wasn't one of those "icky" Japanese RPGs. I mean, I was probably right about that, but it still ended up being a good game.
>>738089178Wow good thing this loser faggot replied to his own post, otherwise this thread would have been bumped off page 10!
>see a marathon thread and get reminded that the game exists>type "marathon steam charts" into google>"yep, still going down">close the thread and forget all about it until the next oneanybody else?
>>738083016Never saw it in-game, but I really look forward to using it someday. I don't like the double barrel and the charge shotguns.
>>738077717It's cryoarchive day. Wait until Monday to get your high
>>738089539its a good thing youre a schizophrenic tranny otherwise the failings of the corporation you base your identity on would have led you to backflip into a noose years ago
>>738084849
>>738089178I think E33 was the rare journalist misfire where they saw it as a woke game starring strong woman but didn't realize it was standard JRPG affair with the woman and men being equal, no annoying lesbian character who is better than everyone else and without flaws and when they saw Chuds loving it they changed course and pushed the AI narrative and turned on the game
>>738084580>Everyone is pessimistic about the hobby
>>738085652The only creature lower than a Steam forums user is one that cares about the opinions of Steam forums users.
>>738086187>When Bungie stopped caring about Halo, Halo players just moved on with their life, they did not cry and doom post on every single forum and commentary section for years.Well, Halo is now getting handled by another studio and getting new games. Destiniggers, the pain is fresh.
>>738089931To be honest, the prologue does have a lot of black "frenchies" for what is supposedly around 1800ish france. Wonder if frontloading the game like that was deliberate or not. Guess we will see with their next game
>>738090213Remanent 2 did this same trick. The game starts with you and an annoying black woman who even jokes about white people and you get to a town then she is never relevant ever again and you never have that kind of speech in the game ever again and the game was reviewed well
>>738084853That's an exaggeration. No one plays Marathon for the story. But the story and lore that is there is pretty interesting.
>>738090561did an AI write this, this kinda sucks
man, Destiny 2 isn't making it through the end of the year, is it?Me and all my tired friends who have played D2 since launch just haven't logged in in about 4 months, and aren't even going to get the new expansion IF it ever even releases. There surely aren't even enough r*ddit destinydad whale fags left to keep the corpse of the game viable
>>738090561Is there any forced gay or tranny shit in nu Marathon?
>>738090664I stopped after TFS and never played. Everything I read about the Portal is retarded and I have no idea why the fuck people are still playing it with that system.
>>738090669>gay I don't remember seeing any romance at all mentioned in the entries that I've unlocked. Maybe there are homosexual implications in the ones I haven't seen yet, I won't know until I unlock everything.>tranny Also none, to my knowledge. I suppose you could interpret every runner (aka you, the player) as being transsexual since they keep hoping between male and female bodies, but that a stretch.
>>738090759the only remaining players are the sunkcostniggers who've spent literally many thousands of dollars in eververse
what causes this?smooth slope all the way but recently it goes full tachycardia arrestis it because only burgers are playing this game and the entire playerbase revolves around their timezones?
>>738090976That's how SteamDB works. Every day is like the recent bit, but past data is smoothed out.
>>738090669The shells
not even full 2 months since release, already lost 83% of playerbase. we're here to stay!
>>738091180>Black woman
>ACK!
>>738092270
hard to defend a game that refuses to have customization for characters. "shells" things nobody wanted
>>738092413they're called shells because they're shells of the good character designs bungie used to have
>>738092503its said millions of times before but yeah highguard said this too. and its also funny bungie acting like they have any control over the longevity of their own game, sony will bring down the hammer when they want to and they dont have a choice.
>>738092596carlos!
>care about some shitty game like destiny 1/2>get buttblasted when new game steals the thunder
>>738092820? Marathon has been out for 2 months and already almost has the same players as Destiny 2
>>738092919trust the plan
>>738092820Actually we hate marathon because NUBungie sucks at making games now and they dont put any effort in development anymore
>>738093271was rise of iron good?
>>738093325Yeah we got a good raid, exotics, armor, and alot of good reworks for the general game such as the special ammo rework so PVP isnt cancerous with shotgun spammers, eververse cosmetics could actually be obtained via playing the game instead of purchasing shit with real money, age of triumph reprised the raids with new loot and cosmetics for every raid in the game, for events that can't be played anymore they introduced quartermaster bounties that you can farm for deprecated weapons, and they made nightfalls alot more rewarding with additional bounties that you can complete. They did alot with it and it was a good expansion to end off d1
>>738091370>Black womanCompletely unironically, who?
Tranny company. What happened to the company that made Halo? lmao Did they all leave or get fired and then this company got taken over by leftists?
>>738093803trans derangement syndrome
>>738077586>Bungie doesn't see Marathon going anywhereWell, they got that part right at least.
>>738077586top selling games on steam#85 femboy futa house#225 marathon
>>738094451Marathon lost bigly...
>>738093803Pretty much. A big chunk of why Marathon took so much money to dev was that they fired the project leads twice. One of them for MeToo shit, and being too chudly. They've already settled out of court for some of their political purges, and have released absolutely zero quality content after.>>738093984Way too slow. We way past that shit. We into transhumanist enbies now.
>>738093803There's a reason why Marathon looks like the new Jaguar ad.
>trans derangement syndrome
>>738094656>the more than a year old ragebait that fox news told you to be angry about>don't look even remotely similar Watch more films
>>738090976steamdb only keeps hourly numbers for a week, then it switches to just the daily peaks>>738093803Bungie has always been leftie (excluding Marty).
From an actual factual point of view we know Marathon didn't end up being profitable and Sony's acquisition of Bungie has been a disaster. The question is how long will Sony keep this shit alive to save face vs how soon will the bean counters at Sony start making noise about the massive loss of money.
>the more than a year old ragebait that fox news told you to be angry about>don't look even remotely similar>Watch more films
>>738094942i highly doubt they'll be around a year from now, but Sony does really dumb shit all the time, so there's a small chance they keep Bungie alive for... i have no idea what.
>>738094994Whoops sorry I'm new to the cute, meant to quote >>738094771
>>738094942I'll assume they make the content they promised in the road map and then just keep the servers up for the remaining 200 players.
Warframe won
>>738094771You tried saying "it was more than a year ago!" Which is absolutely correct. To clarify, pic was from destiny 2 about 4 years ago. I contend Bungie has become far less of the company that made Halo 3, and has focused far more on being progressive. You going to challenge that claim?
>>738094802Year 2000 lefty is completely different than employees publically telling people not to buy their game if they disagree politically.
>>738094656Your reminder they put a literal fag writers fanfiction into the game and made these two characters gay
>>738094942Honestly, considering Fairgame$ is in development three years after its catastrophic reveal, terrible internal playtests and the studio head abandoning ship, who fucking knows. Though I'm sure Bungie haemorrhages way more money annually than them.
>>738092820>steals the thunderlmao
>>738095393I have not played warframe. Are the designers actually serious with the weird sex shit or is that all just projection from coomers in the audience.
>>738077586>Bungie doesn't see Marathon going anywhereI'm sure they don't. Especially given that they were dumb enough to make Marathon. What about Sony?
>>738081716If Crimson Desert was made by a western developer, it would have received 10/10 reviews
>>738095557Of course i'm not saying they haven't gone off the deep end, but there hasn't been a takeover, it's still the same people as back then. Jason Jones looks like a troon nowadays
>>738077668>has literally never played any bungie game ever
>>738094509This is ugly>>738094656This is cute
>>738083016>WallhacksLMAO and people say this is hardcore?
>>738095612>>738094942Wildcard: Sony's contract only lets them do more takeovers after certian financial failures from bungie and we don't know exactly what that is. Wildcard: Fairgames. Fairgames is an indicator that they have ZERO faith in marathon because theyr'e releasing a free to play extraction shooter as direct competition so close. But, no trolling. I have no fucking clue what Bungie SHOULD be doing. If you're sony, are you going to trust them with the quarter to half billion it takes to make a new game? Make them into a support studio for Horizon Hunters? I don't think you could constrain them to a normal AAA budget right now and actually have them make, well, fucking anything. Supposedly it's all hands on deck, do or die for marathon. What they produce with the season reset will be telling what their best effort is. I don't think they've got it. I don't think they even know what they need to do.
>>738096107Yep. Autoaim too, which is a weapons stat that is visible and you can get mods for. The hardcore part is the gear ante. It's optimized to make sweats with max time investment, but not necessarily skill feel great, than anything actually hardcorew.
>>738077586Usually they say that so the current ( drying) userbase give them money before they pull the plug.
>Developer That Has No Say In Marathon's Death Says Marathon Is Going To Be Just Fine
>>738095630Im not sure if your referring to the protoframe relationship cutscenes or the coomer frames people like
>>738089931>I think E33 was the rare journalist misfireI think you my might be right, because I avoided this game thinking it was the wokest slop ever and when I eventually decided to play this year, I thought it was, until half, when it flipped the entire scrip and end up being incredibly based.
>>738095630It's just a normal game that is grindy bc it's f2p and tries to be a little visually interesting
>Here's your custom Marathon controller bro
>>738090669Not in the conventional sense. You aren't going to have some cyber taash lecture you on proper pronoun use. The devs themselves say it has superb LGBT and POC representation. The team has both a Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity Director, AND a Diversity, Inclusion, and Learning Lead,. so two teams on that shit. >>738090938>Also none, to my knowledge. I suppose you could interpret every runner (aka you, the player) as being transsexual since they keep hoping between male and female bodies, but that a stretch. The shells apparently also experience dysphoria. The expensive promo they had that oscar winning dude make touches on that point. They've really taken it to transhumanism past any concepts of gender. And of course worked very hard to make the shells designs repulsive to rule 34 artists.Also consider what it normallly takes for the trannies to call something "trans encoded". Several shells definitely meet that test.It's not a block for my gameplay, other anons will bail out on design alone..
>>738077586>story>i'm sure it ends with a credit card number
>>738077586you're literally only incentivized to put out this PR material if the game is in fact dying and your words extend the trailing revenuesif the game were healthy they would be celebrating or silently developing increasingly exploitative cash shop options>>738096350honestly them sandbagging to get sony to drop their deal might be the only angle from which i could see a bright future for the game but its conspiratorial schizo shit so nah
>>738096852>honestly them sandbagging to get sony to drop their deal might be the only angle from which i could see a bright future for the game but its conspiratorial schizo shit so nahI don't see that as possible. Sony owns them wholesale. The deal is that they get independence ONLY if they produce. Their shot at a bright future is if they can Final Fantasy Online, or Cyberpunk or No Mans sky it. Just adding shells and maps won't keep it alive.
>FPS slop>magnum opus
>>738095612oh wow... i didn't even realize Fairgame$ has no release date yet after it already got delayed to 2026... wouldn't be surprised if Sony pulls the plug on it after how hard Marathon collapses, but that could be Concord 4
>>738096714>anon in charge of reading comprehension
>>738097060I had thought it was sure to die when Jade Raymond, yes that one, bailed out. But they're still in it, and openly called it a team based extraction shooter that's free to play.
>>738097279the trailer looked like complete zoomer brainrot with purple smoke bullshit for Bisexual Lighting™ aesthetics, but i might actually give it a try if its free and not like 120GB
>>738096714>>738097078Dammit anon. No more skooma OR skub for you. This is what the controler looks like. That one former squenix idiot said that marathon needed more budget.
>>738077586Funny, I too see Marathon going absolutely nowhere.
>>738097474wow that looks even shittier than what i imagined
>>738097578CMON GUYS IT'S GOING TO THE MOON!
>>738097353The first thing I noticed was the kill the rich theme. . I am expecting complete utter garbage, but will still give it a try. If nothing else, than to shit on it more accurately. Hell, if the format allows it, we could have a Pools' closed. moment with bazzy outfits.
>>738097585Why, it turns out that the visual design that was intended to look like cheap 3d printing, looks cheap as fuck.
>>738097474There's no way that's real
>>738077586>multiplayer slop>the storylol
>>738097936I don’t know why the >it’s intentionally ugly and cheap and offputting artstyle keeps being marketed as some big positive for the game. it’s the main reason I see people not buy the game. fair enough if they use that artstyle because it makes asset generation easier, but to market this as some revolutionary shit is just scumbag behavior
The wipe will save this game.BELIEVE IN THE WIPE!
>>738098639i am so fucking hyped to see the charts after the wipe!!
>>738097474$84... And people were complaining about Steam shit.
>>738098639>>738098690The biggest wipe is going to come from Bungie triggering Sony's enrage timer.
zooms be like >omg the LORE bro the colors MUH ART WOW>playtime: 32 minutesLOL
>>738098639It's not going to wipe the stink away.
>>738094994>let's take actionable steps to help prop up the entertainment company that provided us subpar entertainmentonly gamers are this deranged
>>738083016LMAO looks at this HUD barf. Is this a total conversion of Battleborne?!
>>738083016Fingerless gloves meter status?
>>738098639>>738098690A lot of extraction shooters gain players after their wipe. But how many of them will stay after the first sweats start picking up purples and maybe even biotoxic disenjectors the first or second weekend?
>>738077586To be fair to it they do seem to be trying to fix it so if it does go for long enough they may manage.
>>738098262Because they spent a huge amount of money on a huge number of trannies to gas each other up to say it's good. Same reason why they spent so goddam much on Concord's designs, even calling in WETA to polish that shit. And I liked the beta and earlier designs anyways.
>>738077620No you idiot, Marathon is reverse chipping players. Steamcucks wouldn't understand.
>>738094994Don't forget the followup:>/edit Thanks Reddit community, you never cease to disappoint in your toxicity. God I swear, Bungie has some truly pathetic customers/players. So many of you are actively hostile towards the game and Bungie that I truly don't understand why you're on this sub or bought the game. Carry on with your pathetic lives
i found some leaked marketing material!(that i made)do you guys think this will bring more blast havers to the game?
Good for them. The Finals and Hunt are still around.
>>738099407>Battlebornehas more and better rule 34, particularly if you're not into trannies.
>>738099698the game was discounted to $26 on Newegg recently, after a 20% discount on Steam, and there has been no significant uptick in player count. i'll admit i don't know much about extraction shooters other than i'm not a fan of the gameplay, but i really doubt a wipe is going to help this one.
>>738085320DOA. RIP Bungie.
>>738100501 The implication is that either nobody is fucking buying it, or even worse, that people are bailing out at so much of a higher rate that the number of people buying it does nothing. . It's a strong sign that F2P isn't going to save this game at the very least. Much like concord, even during the free tests people were bailing out. Close to zero viral or network gains.
>>738089595To be honest I didn't even know they released it. Thought it was more delay and they just released a few days for more testing. The I see they did release it and the 80K peak is quickly down to barely alive aside from sweats who will stay till even they get bored. All of that in a month. I wonder if PvP is a dying francise anyway for new games, those into them simply play CSgo or Valorant or whatever. And again yet another extraction shooter, people have already played a ton of these including Arc Raiders, why would anyone really waste their time on yet another one that offers nothing new?
>>738100995PVP is definitely fierce competition, but a hilarious thing is that competing extraction shooters like grey zone, and hunt and the like are gaining players and above marathon's levles, like they check out marathon and say, lets try a version of that that isn't complete fucking ass.>why would anyone really waste their time on yet another one that offers nothing new?that is a GREAT question, that maybe they should have asked before sinking a AAAA budget into this shit.
TBMM will save Marathon
>>738101295kek
This is exactly the same thing they said about Destiny 1, before moving over to 2 while dumping everyone's gear. Eventually deleting DLC because the engine couldn't handle it(?)You're free to disregard any statement made by Bungie, really.
this gives me an ideaan anti saar mechanism
>>738077586Blastsisters we hecking won
>>738077586If Stop Killing Games wins this gets canned before the law takes effect.
>>738101907I think the fact that they made this statement at all is terrible news for fans of the game. I also beleive them when they said they were putting all hands on this game, and not putting them on destiny, but we'll just have to see if that actually accomplishes anything.
>>738102401This is a pure pvp game. How viable is it to even run it locaally on your own servers?
>>738094942Destiny 2 is still profitable; It's Bungie that's killing the cash cow just to work on Marathon, a game that exists to boost their ego. Release just 1 high quality Destiny 2 expac with things players want, and they see hundreds of millions in profit.
>>738101554>the devs want to be gapedHot, I'll gape the fuck out Bungie's hole.
>>738103135I think they fired lost or mettoed everyone capable of doing that sometime around the Final Shape.
>>738101295yeah thats about what I'd expect from the average marathon player
>>738077586Yeah I don't really see it going anywhere either.
>>738102467probably better content than what most marathon players deal with right now with the amount of ultra geared players and cheaters rushing and stomping them on normal players on spawnat least offline you get to sneak around the AI and then beat the cryo boss and move on
>>738102401>>738102467"I hope your initiative gets everything that you asked for, but nothing you wanted."Pirate Software still catching Ws months later
>>738082185Marathon sure is a bunch of slop, I'll tell you that for free
>>738090561>Strauss!
>>738084696So this takes place in the original timeline?
Projected max concurrent player count for all platforms.Marathon: 24357Destiny 2: 55587
>>738082185Okay but he didn't say anything about playing Crimson Desert.
>>738105878What's your logic here? The status quo means marathon gets deleted someday no matter what. Even putting aside simping for the worst excesses of Ubisoft, EA and Bungie, how do you see any kind of W for that waste of a raid slot?
>>738077586To paraphrase an old saying: the best laid plans of mice and Bungie. Let's see what Sony has to say in a few months time.
>>738077586Blast havers stay winning.Crimson trannies on suicide squad.
>>738084696I don't see how the story works without going through infinity, but I havent seen a single thing for me to give a fuck about the story in the first place.>>738106548I don't think so, but it's not like they are using the continuity in any meaningful gameplay way. Just some flavor text inbetween rape sessions.
I simply hope bungie, and marathon by extension, dies
>>738077586It can't even crack 20k concurrent these days
>>738080475well longer than that, anyway.
>>738084696no it's not, it's complete shit
blast havers even with the sales the numbers keep dropping...
>>738081716you know shill bro, sometimes i think you might have serious problems in the mental department...
Blasting and jamming
>>738077586>The devs want players to be able to shape the storyPlayers?
>>738077586story?
>Like the art style>Like the gunplay>Like the maps>Like the lore entries>Like the gameplayI've paid more for less. They could shut it down at the end of the season and I'd still have gotten my money's worth of fun out of the game.
no solo cryo. fuck those cunts, hope they go under.
>>738077586That is so "live service game with more devs than players".
>>738114329>just LFG in a 3rd party tranny app to have the designed gameplay experience budyeah nah
>>738115331Are you retarded?
>>738114329>600 hours in 2 months
ouch
>>738114329you really played this slopper 10h~ a day since it launched?
>>738077586this is giving that concord and highguard vibe "of we're here to stay! don't leave, we've got a huge roadmap planned!! please spend please please we need money please."
>>738116813one day even the strait of hormuz will have more traffic
Strauss certainly thought highly of himself.
>>738077586Highguard 1 year roadmap CONFIRMEDmarathon multi-year plan CONFIRMEDGaaSbros we're eating GOOD
>>738098639in solidarity with Bungie i am no longer wiping until the big wipe day!
>>738117903>UESC planned the whole thing for centuries>MIDA tooGame’s lore is wild. It’s like Deus Ex tier conspiracies.
>>738090561I play for the story. I still haven’t found a single copy of that “Twins” gold codex entry from Outpost.
>>738099859Calling it bullshit here.Not to mention the price cuts to the game because more people ain't buying it.Face it. The game is dying.
>>738120979>actual reddit spacing What the fuuuu lad shit is actually real what is that sentence spacingggg /v/ look at this
>>738077668I played halo reach and it was just okay so I believe you.
>>738121032>Calling this reddit spacing.You need to try harder.
>>738077620Anecdotal, but I played with 2 new players yesterday. 1 from PS and 1 from Xbox.
>>738121084>Reddit spaces againBro where’s your new line between the green text you just get hereLurk before you post faggot.
>>738121247Again, you need to try harder.
>>738121297Shut up faggot. Go make another Marathon thread.
>>738121032what you are doing is reddit spacing you dumb fucking nigger, lurk more
>>738123241You sure know a lot about reddit for someone who "hates" it. ;^)
>>738080445>Didn't mention having a blast0/10
>>738081716>Somehow, Crimson Desert is relevant to this discussion
>we want players to shape the storyIsn't that literally the first thing they cancelled when they rebooted the game mid development?LITERALLYTHEFIRSTTHINGTHEYCUT
ARC Raiders really killed Marathon's chances at being successful.
>>738094994>steam takes a big cut so buying it on the PS5 helpssony takes the same damn cut lmao
I guess bungie shouldn't have cut corners during development but *le sigh* bungie is a POS development team that only knows how to recycle and steal so they had to delay the game
>>738089931> E33 was the rare journalist misfireYou could feel all that game journo buyer remorse when they decided to amplify that all-white dev team “controversy”.
>>738097649
>>738124159What kind of schizo image is that
>>738077586>implying that's up to BungieWhy would they threaten their own jobs?
>>738124159I can't tell if this was made by a jeet, by someone inserting typos to pretend to be a jeet, or by AI. Those three things are indistinguishable now.
>>738090336It might be a censorship thing, it is quite common in European media depending on the platform, genre and country. Front or back load just enough woke things to get through unoffical censorship lines and you are golden. A lot stories have the strong woman chapter, a half arsed all human are equals message tagged on or saying on the very last page that the following characters were gay when they clearly weren't.
>7k in game
I've seen desperate media shilling for a game before, plenty of times, but this one seems a lot worse than usual
>>738125249Sony does have a lot of money riding on this one.
>>738077586They always say this shit just before die.
people and journos that are praising shooting as some divine 'bungie magic' must be playing their first shooter ever, fucking apex has tighter shooting, nevermind that, last 3 cod's had it even better, i bet they're just orgasming from bullet magnetism giving them perception of having a skill to aim
>>738081716>buckbroken by korean "slop"KEKAAAAROOOOOOOOO
>>738097474Even the Concord controller looked better.
>>738123375To be fair, anti-Marathon posters started it first. They are the sole reason I'm aware of Crimson Desert.
Faith slowly wasting away...
>>738124228>>738125079People were posting an AI infographic of Marathon's failure, so someone seems to have made an AI infographic of Marathon's success as a response.
Marathon is just the next Destiny. 2 years of support dumped for Next Thing.
>>738126479Thats assuming marathon makes enough money and that doesnt seem to be the case
>>738126479can Sony keep funding bungie for two years with nothing but marathon revenue? seems like a massive loss
>>738077586>Bungie doesn't see Marathon going anywhereThat's one way of putting it.
So now that we know bungie can't make videogames anymore what are some shooters you guys are going to retreat back to? For multiplayer I've been playing titanfall 2 and for single-player I've been playing ultrakill again on a new sava
>>738077586>Bungie doesn't see Marathon going anywhereMe neither :)
Shillmyname
>>738127823 I mainly just play Blood and Thief 2 fan maps
>>738127823I'll continue playing Marathon while it's online. If it dies, I'll return to Deadlock.
>2 months later still hasn't flopped>day old threads get remade whenever one gets bumped off the catalog These are literally general threads for butthurt destiny players huh
>>738129774More like threads to market and shill marathon for
>>738129926That butthurt Destiny players generously help to bump.
>the storyHuh? Isn't it just an extraction shooter?
>>738129926these threads are mostly made by jeets shilling their AIslop "gaming" facebook pages
>>738129975How does it feel that rise of iron won and marathon lost btw?
>Thread still uplooks like /v/ loves Marathon
>>738130139I wouldn't know, I don't know what Rise of Iron is.
>>738130254Figures
>16k peak on a weekendKEEEEEEEEEEEEEEKit's over for this tranny flopslop
>>738124159>>738124228>Why it will succeed: Better games are launchingeven these fags know the game sucks, and just hope it will get better in the meantime.
>>738123542sony owns bungie thoughbeit
>>738132568You are retarded
>>738125859>>738125859damni might just start collecting hardware from flopsas long as it actually works
>>738077586Highguard has a 1 year roadmap.Concord had many seasons planned.
>>738077586It doesnt matter, it's too late. Should have made a single player game.
>>738132990lol these "fake it until you make it" strategies are hilarious when they can't afford faking it for even a year
>>738101248>that is a GREAT question, that maybe they should have asked before sinking a AAAA budget into this shit.There's zero hints of what budget Marathon has. The only one who spoke about budget was Paul Tassi giving a bunch of numbers from 200 to 250m, but Tassi has made a video two days ago on how much he hates Marathon because it's not Destiny and because it killed Destiny and how he is seething because Bungie recently said they are now investing all in Marathon rather than D2His sales estimate was also off compared to Ampere and any other aggregate and when asked about it he just shrugged.
>>738077586>Over the next few years.Yea right, even if this shit is true nobody fucking cares. We saw how they handled this shit with Destiny, people paid for a campaign they could never fucking play again.They literally turned Destiny into a wiki first series with this shit. Dripfeed minimal campaign entries and then nuke the previous entries forever.Good to know there will be no reason to ever invest any time or money into this shit since you'll just have to read the plot on the internet anyway or you'll never know what the fuck is going on.Anyone who pays for this shit expecting a story is a moron.
>>738116813That's the Saturday night peak? Grim.
That is not what they say and that actually makes it worse.>we know where we wanna take MarathonSimply means they have a concept. It's not a commitment. If it was a commitment to years of content - that would be re-assuring for buyers cause Sony now can't just shut down the game without a legal nightmare or massive refunds.But them only saying that "they know where to take it" makes it damage control - positive messaging without any substance. They can shut down the game tomorrow and if someone points to that interview they can just go "hey we never promised anything"
>>738133250Anon, that's cope. I like Marathon and I still play it, but come on, now. It's obvious that the game was really expensive to develop, just from the dev time and the size and location of Bungie. It's also obvious from the quality of the assets (textures, models, music, SFX) and the cinematics, both inside and outside of the game. There are also a lot of voice actors involved (Ben Starr as Durandal, and I also recognized Victor and Vyper's VAs from Deadlock).
>>738133528>It's obvious that the game was really expensive to develop,Nah>just from the dev time and the size and location of Bungie.No it had a normal dev time>It's also obvious from the quality of the assets (textures, models, music, SFX) and the cinematics, both inside and outside of the game. There are also a lot of voice actors involved (Ben Starr as Durandal, and I also recognized Victor and Vyper's VAs from Deadlock).None of those things turn a multiplayer game in proprietary engine into a hundred million venture the size of GTAVCould as well say Hades II and Expedition 33 costes 200M because they have Ben Star and hand drawn animations/cutscenes
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.
>>738133527I mean other games like flopguard and concord had roadmaps and commitments for upcoming seasons and they still just shut them down without even making any excuses about it
>>738133250You're such a disingenuous shill piece of shit holy
Oh okay, they're gonna force this down everyone's throats like Horizon, huh?>>738133726Thanks for your contribution.
>>738133738If Marathon was flopping then why did they move every resource from destiny 2 to it?
>>738133726how many weeks until it makes back the 4 billion dollars it cost?>it will likely go free to playlike highguard? KEK
>>738133819>why did they move every resource from flop to floplast ditch effort, shutdown imminent
>>7381338652 more weeks
>>738133738Yeah and Concord and HIghguard did refund players
>>738133819Why wouldn't they? Destiny 2 is old news and this is supposed to be their big new game. Either Marathon works or they have two dead live service games on their hands.
I just don't care about multiplayer only games.
>>738133909>Why wouldn't they?They wouldn't have done it if Marathon hadn't sold 2.2M copies in a month
>>738133819If marathon isn't flopping why has it gone on sale multiple times two months after release?
>>738133954Proof?
>>738133893or 1 if player numbers keep crashing at this rate
The fact that it's one person responsible for 90% of the marathon shilling here is so funny, yet so sad
How many more failures will it take for Sony to learn that they simply can't control the narrative on whether their games are succeeding?
>>738133978Because Bungie always puts games and expansions on a 20% sale a month after release
>>738133954>Marathon (2026) has sold an estimated 1.2 million copies across all platforms, with nearly 70% of sales on Steam. The launch has been considered underwhelming by industry analysts given high development costs and a reported $250m-$300m+ budget. Despite strong, dedicated player engagement for those who did purchase it, the game saw a quick drop in active player base shortly after launch.
>>738134143Sources cited: the crackpipe
>>738134136No they fucking don't lmao
>>738134143>>738134185
>>738134143>>738134201Don't contradict me when I'm making things up.
>Guys, the game sold 2m copies, I know because...uh..some random website said it. Oh and please ignore that Bungie hasn't announced sales 2 months after release, they did do a discord announcement though!
>>738132729yes, and? intercompany record keeping was overhauled over two decades ago, and the devs still don't get that cut of revenue.
>>738134201Yes they do. They did it for every Destiny game and expansion
>>738134236>analyst estimates
>>738132950mad collectors items from the culture wars
>>738133201>lol these "fake it until you make it" strategies are hilarious when they can't afford faking it for even a yearfirst post nails it
>>738134236>All of those are reporting Paul Tassi>Paul Tassi pulled those numbers put of the ass>Then Ampere and Circana both showed at least 1.2M players are on Steam and half of those are on consolesBungie should unironically sue Tassi.
>>738085320>3rd party analyticsI love how you niggers STILL perpetuate this garbage, same with the budget.The numbers are fucking grim and insanely terrible, you duck dicks.
>>738134338And yet you're shilling 'analyst estimates' from literal whos you dumb fuck LOL. >Paul Tassi is wrong even though he has confirmed direct communications with Bungie themselves, and he's never been wrong about Bungie You need to stop coping
>>738091180die antword mentioned
>>738134338I like how the posts talking about sales numbers only gets scrutinized when people aren't praising the game.
>>738133250>100k+ annual Bungie developer salary>6 years in development>Notoriously poorly managed studio>Oscar winning animator producing an 8 minute short trailer>Band and singer creating music for an entirely different 8 minute short trailer>Multiple different smaller animated trailers produced>VA cast is something worth marketing for the game so they definitely ain't fucking cheap>Studio based in bellevue Washington which costs a lot to be based inBut nah, they must've made this game for the price of a happy meal. That Paul Chuddie must be lying! You're a retard. You can do some basic maths and easily come to $200+ million.
>>738134450>Ampere Who? >Circana They never showed numbers you retard, just it's placement on a chart. Why do you keep lying?
>>738134504>Paul Tassi is pulling random numbers that are contradicted by Circana and retail+digital sales reports (1.2M is the number of US PC only players, so it can't be that only those bought the game) and has a malicious agenda against Marathon itselfFTFY
400K DISCORD MEMBERSWHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THAT CHUDS?
I've never seen someone so mindbroken over a game failing before. This dude is actually spending all day, every day by himself attempting to change the narrative
Pretty sure all the number faking is because they think the internet is completely leftist controlled and they can create any narrative unchallenged.Steam numbers block their paths continuously, but they still try and "fake it till you make it" lol. I'm guessing they're this unhinged because the chuds have been winning too much and they don't want them to win this one. Their rationale is if this doesn't shut down then the Concordian timeline is fake.
>>738134567>>100k+ annual Bungie developer salary Wrong>>6 years in development Wrong>>Notoriously poorly managed studio Yeah that was Destiny >>Oscar winning animator producing an 8 minute short trailer >>Band and singer creating music for an entirely different 8 minute short trailer >>Multiple different smaller animated trailers produced Normal marketing>>VA cast is something worth marketing for the game so they definitely ain't fucking cheap Those "VA actors" literally work for any fucking indie game you clown >>Studio based in bellevue Washington which costs a lot to be based in Nah
>>738134626You brought up circana again despite its charts not providing numbers and showing Marathon isn't even in the top 10 of the year KEK
RIP Bungie
>>738134702Oh, so you are just going to lie. You can check their own website for their annual salaries you retarded shill. It was in development for 6 years and went through development hell just like Destiny where it got rebooted or massively reworked just look at the original vidoc if that didn't clue you in.>Yeah that was DestinyMost if not all the Marathon developers were Destiny developers.>Normal marketingCope. I guess talking about 400k discord users is normal marketing instead of how many people bought your game lol!>Those "VA actors" literally work for any fucking indie game you clown"indie games" like Warframe, Final Fantasy or Quantum Break? kek.
>>738077668>Halo game they madeNone of the current homos that work at bungie now did not work on halo
>>738077586>Bungie doesn't see Marathon going anythereThere's two interpretations to that statement.
>>738077586>Want to tell a story>make a GAAS game in a genre where nobody gives a shit about story and because its GAAS your game will be shut down before you tell itJust make a fucking single player game you absolute retards. Halo was a cultural juggernaut because people gave a shit about the campaign, capcom is able to shit out resident evil games and movies because people are invested in the universe through the single player games. Absolutely nobody gave a shit about destiny and nobody will remember marathon 5 minutes after it shuts down forever.if you have no single player narrative your IP is worthless.
>>738135315But the board sees that single player games arent infinite money printers like fortnite so clearly they arent worth making
Rape bungie.
RAPE BUNGIE
Saturday's peak, Sunday morning.
Why did the shill stop responding when I showed the circana charts
>>738134824fake
>>738135450This is why they are retarded. Well loved IP are as close to infinite money printers as you get, they never die even when the creators shit the bed. IP where people are emotionally invested just lie dormant till someone talented enough comes to revive it, at which point it becomes a money printer for as long as you don't fuck it up.Fortnite lasted a decade, when it dies it'll stay dead for eternity, overwatch is a dead ip and will remain that way forever, same with valorant, apex legends and every other popular gaas game with no story. Its been 25 years and infinite shitty games yet people still remember halo, in another 15 years somebody will revive it and it'll be printing money again.
>>738134450are you telling me that 2 months after the initial 1.2mil report the number is bigger?what the fuck
>>738077586Yeah okay, let's see what they say when it looks like SKG is about to produce something
>>738134450>Then Ampere and Circana both showedlmao you call tassi pulling out his ass but at least he has sources inside bungie. ampere and circana literally pull the numbers off public information and what companies provide, they're more of an ass pull than paul.
>>738136607That's for the first month, so it contradicts Tassi>>738137017Tassi has no source actually, otherwise he would have hard numbers
>>738137643are you telling me that 1 month after the initial 1.2mil report the number is bigger?what the fuck
>>738137643>Tassi has no source His source is Bungie employees you disgusting shill, which he said in his article. If this was false they could, and should have said something because every major outlet also used this info as fact. But wait, Bungie didn't say shit
2.2M PLAYERS
>>738138456the players are on consoles, retard
>>738137643>That's for the first month, so it contradicts Tassikek they dont have a source either they made up numbers.
>>738138565Source?
>>738138589bungie gamers have always been on consoleever heard of destiny? ever heard of HALO?you're dumb as fuck
>>738077586Just like Halo Infinite amirite?
>>738138630>continues to post PC ports
>>738138630Not a source. Show me proof that more people are on consoles you sad little shill rat
>>738135315I gave a shit about halo campaign but 99% of my time playing was in multiplayerjust because you suck at the game doesn't mean it should be singleplayer only
>>738085320Umm... where are all the consolefags?
Didn't highguard say literally the same thing, launch a roadmap, then announce closure like 3 days later? That's extremely concerning lmao
>>738138991The only thing stopping companies from outright lying to you are laws, they will always try to find ways around them. Some people are unable to recognize corporate speak as just hollow words
>>738138991>https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/we-are-in-it-for-the-long-haul-bungie-says-marathon-will-be-steadily-improved-for-many-years/>https://www.ign.com/articles/we-know-theres-a-lot-of-eyes-on-us-after-our-game-awards-trailer-as-highguard-goes-live-dev-insists-were-in-this-for-the-long-haul
>>738138991Dude, are you fucking insane? Bungie made Halo 3. Halo 3 had over a MILLION players at peak.
Marathon numbers should drop below Destiny 2 in a couple weeks. It's already below it during low times
>>738139212>Marathon numbers should drop below Destiny 2 in a couple weeksThey are already under destiny2 numbers bro
>>738139139fucking lmaoooooooooooooooooooooooothank you anon I knew I remembered hearing it from them.>>738139119Well yeah but critical thinking or even basic investigative study is not really taught anymore so I'm not too surprised normalfags slurp up whatever they can.>>738139146And I was one of them, every day for like 5 hours a day before and after school (and work after I graduated). But this isn't halo 3. It's not even ODST, shit, it's not even reach. It's like halo 4.
That one shill is so delusional I actually think it's that tahnit faggot
>>738141117This post is antisemitic.
>>738141117Economic terrorists!
>>738139265nah halo 4 is betterhell even infinite is better, this just has 0 content at least infinite was free
When is the earning call? I don't want to miss bloodbath kino.
>>738141117See >>738087272Destiny has a large console audience
>>738091180>>738083569>>738083016what an ugly game
>>738141117I think the Finals is a funny graph.It's literally the "failed" game by the Arc Raiders people and it's doing better.
>>738130091LOL. You're possibly the dumbest poster here. Look at OP's post. That's a direct unarchived link to a press article, and you don't bother to blame journalists, you blame AI using jeets instead of direct marketing spam jeets for the game or publisher? You're an embarrasment.>>738142965May 13. 16:00 JST We will have a thread.
>>738138991a succesful game doesn't need to tell reporters that they're in for the long haul.
>>738077586Oh for sure, devs needing to make broad assertions every single day that their game is super successful and all the haters are just chuds is totally not a sign of a game with a foot already in EOS. I will be back to laugh at you when this flop goes belly up.
The more hilarious point is that even if it were 2 million sales, it's still nowhere near half of break even of it's AAAA budget, and it also means that the attach rate is even worse.>>738137643It does NOT contradict Tassi. Players aren't the same as sales. . Anons might remember AC shadows here. >>738137017They're fine for what they are. You just have to keep in mind exactly what they say and what they don't. >>738135228>Sensible chuckle.
>>738077586I'm guessing Sony is unable to cut them off after sinking four billion presidents to acquire Bungie (with a really shitty, lopsided contract that gives Bungie too much power and autonomy), put them in charge of a dozen and a half live service projects (nearly all of which failed to launch or became Concord), and have shut down several of their other developers in order to offset the previously-mentioned costs related to Bungie (which is still going).Either their shareholders won't allow them to write them off for tax purposes so quickly, or Sony somehow thinks there's still worth to Bungie as a developer.
The average game dev salary in Washington state is $120kBungie has around 850 employees.It has been said recently that the majority, 50%+, of the studio is actively working on Marathon.This means that at least (120,000 / 12) * 425 is the monthly burnrate for the studio purely on pay for employees.$4,250,000 dollars every month. They need to sell at least 100,000 copies of the game, assuming they take 100% of profits, to break even.We know they did not break even on initial dev costs, so each month is just compiling on top.
You should be happy that its staying upits vaporizing more of sony's money that way
>>738144330I want sony to make more games like Gravity Rush, Freedom wars, tearaway, white knight chronicles, mod nation racers, killzone, resistance, infamous
>>738134693It's just throwing up a smoke screen, to try to save the stock price, and the pride of the several billion dollar bungie buy. It's why that one spammer keeps on lying trying to say "YOU GUYS SAID IT WOULD SHUT DOWN IN TWO WEEKS. I WIN".A big amount of the power here is based on the idea that chuds are irrelvant, and you must absolutely ignore them, and keep them out of feedback to your games. It's why you saw such an unhinged response to Stellar Blade, and why you started to see coomer shit come back a little after the the crazies were proven wrong.
Tassi should step down as a jewrnalist
>>738144516So let them suffer until they learn>but they will nevLighting a fire under their asses(using their own money) will either result in their death and the IPs being released to actual devs or will make them learn
>>738144516But anon, each of those games funds a whole 6 months of bungie devleopment! Face it. Studio Japan is dead. Find the people who fled. Give them money.
>>738144609Tassi is one of the few game journos left that are actually reputable
>>738085191>>738085320Obligatory
>>738138630>>738138630all evidence we've seen shows 70% of players are on steambut you are free to post any counter evidence you may like, come on I'll wait.>halo20 year old gameirrelevantextraction shooters are a primary pc demographic
>>738093803>What happened to the company that made Halo?New people took control of the company and fired everybody from the pre-Destiny 2 days to replace them with shit-tier warm bodies. Then after Sony bought them they went ahead and fired everybody again and replaced them with even shittier warm bodies that couldn't program a simple "Hello world!" without having the AI do it for them.
we're running on blastfumes...
>>738144325Assuming 2.2 million copies that's $90million in profit, again assuming they get 100% of the profits ignoring the Steam cut.The estimated dev cost is $200-250 mil.Bungie has not made half of what they put in, every month only makes it worse.Destiny 2 is in a similar boat but we know that Steam charts aren't great for Destiny 2 as a lot more people play on console. Destiny 2 is also much stronger with monetization.
12k peak, 2k low this coming wednesdayunder 10k peak and whatever bungie can bot for lows the week after that.
>>738145815>lmao i love flexing on shitters>NOOOOO WHY IS EVERYONE STOMPING ME
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>>738144741I guess but his track record hasn't been amazing. Among actual journalists he's a small fry and is now one of the small army of politically correct faces responsible for insisting this wasn't a failure since 2025. Anybody who tries to defend marathon by citing it's gameplay gunplay content scope features all the tangible shit is flat out lying because those are the primary reasons people aren't attaching to it.To use these sorts of peoples words against them: If marathon was unique, if it played like nothing else, if the gameplay was addicting, if the content was well designed, there wouldn't be any major problems. As it stands the game has to be reworked and that was what players said last year it's what internal testers said even earlier. Bungie seem happy to let this game die, push the responsibility on a stooge (ziegler), and play office politics for what they really wanted now.
>>738117903>the big shocker surprise expansion is just The Flood 0.5 and 1-3 "story" missions that get you more cryptic bullshit but in video form
>>738145815>>738147660I am having a blast reading these.
>>738147949I mean you could say that for the marathon franchise as a whole
>>738148047part of me wonders if they dropped the imsim singleplayer campaign because they realized they were just making SS2 with more intrusive audio logsafter shucking and jiving for two decades making halo and destiny for corporate suits, you'd think they'd try really hard not to just make the same thing again, but i guess business incentives being what they are why take the risk or somethingsuper lame but as the money dries up and the invisible economy hot potato drops we'll get more uninspired games that waste decent artists, i'm sure
>>738148491Eh I've noticed there's some imsim-esque remnants of that stage of Marathon development with virus packs, TADs, and the Outpost base museum. It's kinda weird since it'd make an actually pretty fun heist like game but they'd have to make the UESC not a joke for one
>ask chatgpt about player numbers and longevity without specifically mentioning marathon>get negative outlook>ask the same exact questions naming marathon>get positive outlooksus noticed
>>738081716You're right but also Marathon is almost as bad. CD is unoriginal Ubisoft level Open World trash but Marathon is a just another Extraction Shooter, with a terrible art style, made for noone.
>>738148864It's probably pulling info off reddit
>>738148864Use Grok. As far as I've determined it's the only one that doesn't have weird feminist psychopaths in the "ethics and morality and equitability" divisions.
>>738145815Being pitted against nothing but other tryhards is like an ironic hell for tryhards. What most tryhards want is dominance.
>>738149092>Verified Elon slaveNo thanx bruh
>>738077586It's not Bungle's call to make
>>738148864>>738149092>using AIsyou absolute retardsat least with human propagandists you have the chance that they gain a conscience and shoot themselves on air
wait. is that the thing that separates humans from AI? suicide?
>>738150170Well lack of mortido to be specific
>>738149997As far as I can tell it's the one that doesn't have overt propaganda. It always gives me answers that seem unbiased. The others are compromised by ideology. For a few examples look up Jen Gennai's talks about racial equity (she's high up in Google's AI ethics) and look at Amanda Askell's (who is high up with Claude) old social media posts.
>>738130090>the story>Huh? Isn't it just an extraction shooter?There is actually a story involving the missing colony, Durandal and the various factions involved. Only a bit of it has been revealed so far.
>>738148864 Can we get a side by side like the other anon gave us?
>>738144534and yet the chuds cant stop winning
>>738145815lmaooo
>>738150114>>using AIs>you absolute retardsAt least have a basic understanding of AI before talking shit. There are several different types, and whatever the AI is spitting out is 100% dependent on what it was trained. So if a fucktard trains it, it'll also be a fucktard model.
>>738130090the "story" is random logs here and there anon, best experienced via lore channels than by playing it. its not like a campaign or anything, think dark souls style lore, but bad
>>738144534>It's why that one spammer keeps on lying trying to say "YOU GUYS SAID IT WOULD SHUT DOWN IN TWO WEEKS. I WIN".that shill should dig his heels in and keep fighting the good fight. Entertaining.
>>738152698You cannot make even a AAA game profitable without chud dollars. No exceptions. And this game is AAAA.
>>738155734Wasn't Baldur's Gate super successful
>>738156081Chuds bought that game. You think the people here gooning to frog waifu vs red muscle mommy were the Modern Audience? And not to mention the genocidal hate crimes of a dark urge or drow waifu run?
>>738155734from what ive been seeing you can barely make indie games suceed without chud dollars lmao
>>738091180seriously, wtf is that art design? It's terrible
>>738147660>>738145815KEKYPOW
>>738125859The marathon controller makes the Concord controller look like Nasapunk Kino
>>738077586That's funny because I'm pretty sure the imagined Dragons dudes who made that The Last Flag game just confirmed the next update will be the LAST one; Relegated to maintenence mode, after they were responding in articles that they planned to keep supporting it.They always say this until they suddenly don't and it's dead or on maintenence. Bungie is just yapping.
How many of our maraxisters are gonna play gummy bears?
>>738159768Not even a bungie game anymore.Sony took it away from them and gave it to a different team.
>>738158048The supply overwhelmingly outstrips demand. >>738159768i have heard nothing of it. My expectations are in the floor, but I'll give it a look.
>>738127823Jumping between arc raiders and deadlock for me
>>738161595>i have heard nothing of it. My expectations are in the floor, but I'll give it a look.It is a "MOBA with smash bros elements"Pic related is the only art shown from the game.
>>738077586Good. It's fun.
>14k peak on a sundaymarasisters....are we witnessing the beginning of the death spiral?
Am I the only one only coming to /v/ right now just to read these marathon threads?It's delicious
>>738162364>MOBAOh so it has zero chance, amazing. Sony really did a good job buying Bungie for their expertise.
>>738162364>MOBAWhy the fuck would you ever try to complete with League of Wuhan and Defense of the Slavs 2? Let alone Smite, and all the other hero shooters that the game tries to muscle into by comparison, AND Deadlock. It's like either Sony or Bungie are actually fucking retarded. What happened to single player games? Outside of skinner box projects like Overwatch and Marvel Rivals, Fortnite, and League, most of the highest revenue and fame earners of the recent days have been single player rpgs or action games. It must be leaded gasoline or something
>>738099283>derangedStart a campaign on reddit where you try to convince Marathon players to let new players kill you to keep them engaged>It's only for a couple months bros just die every game don't shoot back
NEXT GAME NEXT GAMEI hope Fairgames isn't cancelled.
>>738077586>siphoning from sony for freebased, based, based.
>>738163210nah me too
