>/v/ and chuds claim it will be doa and shit>Two months later is still here with an active and stable player base>Is one of the best rated games of the year and a serious GOTY contender sweeper>Months of Steamcharts posting to pretend the game is dead>Turns out it sold 2.2M copies on its first day and most of the players are on consoleHas /v/ ever been more wrong about a game?
Any vidya with existentilism and nihilism like Marathon?I am referring to games where players are neither protagonists nor grand heroes, and where they never assume the role of the chosen one.Specifically, I'm talking about games where a player's influence is negligible, extending no further than interactions with other players.In such scenarios, you are an imperceptibly small component within a vast system of immensely powerful entities. These entities manipulate events and consistently diminish your importance, treating you merely as a tool.The game itself refuses to acknowledge player actions beyond offering meager rewards, designed solely to motivate progression through a system of incentives and deterrents.Nevertheless, we are compelled to play the hand we are dealt, striving to find purpose even in the absence of a meaningful cause.This is pretty much the total opposite of what Titanfall 1 tried, which was another concept I actually liked. Titanfall 1 just slapped a bunch of intro/outro cutscenes and talking NPCs into a regular multiplayer match, trying to make it seem like Attrition had some kind of ongoing story where you mattered.Marathon enhances immersion by establishing a setting characterized by fierce battles between rogue mercenaries engaged in largely insignificant tasks for modest compensation. It is particularly noteworthy that two opposing teams might both be employed by Space Nestlé, yet still engage in combat. Even the contractors themselves appear indifferent to the potential failure of an assignment, viewing death as merely a minor inconvenience and success as some small step forward of their much grander plans.The only similar game I can think of is Mechwarrior Mercenaries, but it has nowhere near the same narrative focus as the world is a much grander setting centered on more than mercs, so it doesn't carry the same narrative impact
Stable 7k players, baby!Sony must be very proud of Bungie's acquisition.
how do they do it?how do they stay online?
this game burns out everyone and bungo just keeps nerfing the equalisersit will never have a worthwile player count if they continue like this. Funnily enough the arc faggot devs are doing the same shit
>>738252360I just noticed that the 3 beams of Pinwheel are shaped like upside down crosses (or swords)Panopticon also has the Golgata. UESC seems a lot inspired by the United Nations in Evangelion.
>>738252452Every update for Marathon was met with positive feedbackArc Raiders updates are overall hated and Riven Tide is fucking barren
>>738252205>>738252360hello saar
>>738252426lolOP BTFO
Ironic shilling is up there with most obnoxious shitposting trends, I've got to say.
>>738252426>it's realHoly shit. Then again with the upcoming wipe there's zero reasons to play it.
>>738252205you lost pajeet you retarded turd
>>738252205im playing it right now and its taking 10-15 minutes to find a match.i think its pretty much dead. i cant refund it anymore, got more than 2 hours played : (
>>738252205>made up numbers>stable declining playerbase>marketing uglyslopBuy an ad
>>738253084i cant believe it somehow looks WORSE than destiny 2, a game released over 10 years ago. what the fuck is bungie doing?
>>738253073>im playing it right now No you are not, nigger
>>738252426Chuddie, people are out protesting ICE
>>738252452I will admit I pretty much dropped it because I absolutely suck fucking ass at it and can't keep up, but I feel bitch made for doing it because the game is actually good. I'm not going to blame the game for my shitty performance but it eventually became obvious that I was just always going to fail so I couldn't stick with it even though I wanted to. Being hard is part if the games appealing but also what seems to be killing it. Making it easier will just dilute what makes it cool, but leaving it as is will probably chase most people away like me who can't compete. Odd conundrum.
>>738252205oh it's opposite day? nobody told me. ok let me do oneyou're not a faggot
>>738253073>im playing it right nowdamn lucky you to be able to play it during mantainance
>>738253117There is no art direction in this game because the person responsible for it didn't work on this game.
>>738252360There's nothing like Marathon broMaybe the Duskbloods later
>>738253704Watchable slop
>>738253442There's nothing "hard" about itIt's about learning through failure
gunplay looks boring as shitironically the only fun clips I've ever seen of this game is with claymore mines
>>738252360The art direction of this game is so goated
>>738253704>slow movement>laser accurate weaponsNo wonders this game is dead.
>>738254149>>slow movementLol
>>738253442Did you get to Cryo?
I actually enjoy it and its a shame to see it die
Your not really missing much considering its made by bungie
>>738254471Retard
What happened moments ago? I've not seen sharp drops like that. It ain't maintenance cuz there's still 700 players.
>>738254604>It ain't maintenance Yes it is>>738252550Cryo is so fucking cool (it's cold)
>>738254604It’s maintenance. That’s all the people keeping the game open while it’s in maint. Or bots.
>>738252205Cryo raped the fuck out of meI tried 6 runs and never managed to exfil once
>>738254471Game might hit below 10k peaks next week.
>>738252205>Turns out it sold 2.2M copies on its first daySource? No official numbers from Bungie, I don't believe guesses from bloggers.>most of the players are on consoleConfirmed by Bungie devs that 70-80% of the pop is on PC. Sorry, your youtuber guessing about this is wrong again
>>738254054>Look at you. Violent little things... with ambition to challenge the stars. You've traveled oh so far, to trespass where you are not welcome.>And here, now. Your next step offers possibilities undreamt...The Marathon... its secrets... are they worth your everything?>I have seen what haunts that skeleton ship. I would like you to greet them... To throw your bodies at their altar, as sacrifice to the endless horrors your ambitions invite.>The Marathon... is waiting. And It Grows Impatient.>Please... do not disappoint.https://youtu.be/FArw34idXkk?si=7miu2a9S6Pyq1bvM
skinwalkers pretending to be actual people
>>738254851>Confirmed by Bungie devs that 70-80% of the pop is on PC.Butthurt Destishit Paul Tranni is not "Bungie devs"
>>738255051You are not getting Destishit 3, Paul
>>738254206first fps u played kid?
>>738255064Bungie devs confirming information to an accredited journalist is better than trying to make sales estimates based off steam stats. The facts don't care about your feelings tranjeet, ywnbaw
>>738253889To elaborate, I'm playing on ps5 because my pc is too dated to run this and I can't really buy a new one just yet. I am utterly terrible with controllers at fps games and its crippling me to the point where I just can't do it anymore. If there were keyboard and mouse support on ps5 I would be back on almost instantly but as it is im just too slow. Its really not the games fault, I'm just shit without a mouse and no amount of failure is going to teach me anything to fix that.>>738254447I tried it a few times, but never made it our with anything. My PVP skills are just not up to spec so I've mostly done the other maps but at this point anywhere I go is just a repeating cycle of getting hunted down by purple shield death squads even on perimeter. It became undeniable that I just lack the capacity to compete with the other players at this.
What content creators are you guys subbed to?
>>738252205>/v/ and chuds claim it will be doa and shit>it is doa and shitDecisive chud victory, as always.
>>738252205>stableIt keeps hitting lower and lower daily player counts almost every day.
>>738254471>its a shame to see it dieNo it isn't. It deserved to die at conception, and Bungie need to burn for making it.
>>738255957The downward line has a stable trajectory.
>>738252205The game is struggling to bounce back after the maintenance, it is hyper over...
>>738252426the absolute state of i cant even my sides are losing it’s over kek roflmao
>/v/ and chuds claim it will be doa and shitIt is >Two months later is still here with an active and stable player baseStable is losing 86% of your players in 2 months >Is one of the best rated games of the year and a serious GOTY contender sweeperNot even in the top 5 rated games of the year and we're 4 months in >Turns out it sold 2.2M copies on its first day and most of the players are on consoleNope, sold around 1.2m copies in a month and most players are on PC
imagine being a destiny 2 fan.instead of bungie spending more money on the game they 250m to make marathon just for it to flop, now 2months later sitting at 13k peak concurrent lmao
>>738256540but the gunplay is good..
>the 2.2m players they were talking about includes the free server slam LOL
s-slow and steady wins the race... *cough*
>>738252452>games have trouble drawing in new players that stick around>keep changing the game to make the new player experience significantly worseThey never learn
>>738252205This game has roughly the same player count as fuckin' Hunt: Showdown, and nobody even talks about that shit. Neither would you, if it wasn't trannycoded to your faggot sensibilities.
>>738252426It's almost impressive that it's still manging to lose a chunk of it's playerbase week after week.
>>738253704this is the single worst implementation of sliding on the market kek how do you fuck it up this bad?
>>738256673maybe 2 months ago lmaohunt is now doubling marathon's peaks
The 2.2M number is players and is counting the free server slam, not sales. Marathon maybe sold 1M copies at most.
>>738252205>Has /v/ ever been more wrong about a game?I think cyberpunk was a worse example of /v/ being retarded children desu but marathon has been targeted by people who've never played it
This is sick. It's like going to the hospital every single day solely to watch someone agonizingly die of cancer for the last couple of months of their life. Do you feel proud of yourselves?
>>738256614Gunplay is exactly the same as destiny*
>>738254728>Cryo raped the fuck out of me>I tried 6 runs and never managed to exfil onceI loved playing this but I exil maybe 1 time out of 20 once I got up to level 20. I wish I was better at this game but it was fun. it will bounce back next season
>>738252205Buddy if your game is deader than Hunt Showdown it it not alive by any stretch of the imagination>4k playersoh my god HAHAHAHAHA
F O U R B I L L I O N D O L L A R S
>>738256614>but the gunplay is good..
>>738257419technically 250mil and most of that is on pipeline & engine improvementsbungie scammed sony with marathon
>>738256614
they actually made the map events drop prestige salvagenow if only they would up the chance of them appearing....
>>738258002>Prestige Precision Optic Mod now distinguishes between UESC and enemy Runners. interesting
>>738256832>to be clear, this is not salesof course it is, the game is not on pass or anythingThis nigger really is just seething nonstop that destishit was killed lmao
>>738252205grats. hope that works out for you!
>>738256614That's not enough.
NEW PATCHTHEY SAVED THE GAME
>>738257056Destiny 2 has the only good gunplay ever made. It's literally the only good fps in existence.
>>738252426WHOOP WHOOP WHOOP WHOOP PULL UP! PULL UP! PULL UP!>B-B-BUT IT'S MAINTEN--!Even during "those" periods, it's losing players at a good clip (200 players). It's MaraOVER.
>>738256614WOAH BUNGIE GUNPLAY
>>738258070You ignoring that it is counting the free play weekend?
>>738258070If the 2.2m includes the Server Slam then no, retard, it's not 'all sales' because the Server Slam was free to play.
>>738258141https://www.bungie.net/7/en/News/Article/marathon_update_1063LOL
>>738258070>players>of course it's sales
>>738258065I've used that thing twice and it always showed "warning" on the paneldidn't really understand what was it even trying to tell or was I using it right
>>738258070You are utterly mindraped by this game failing
>>738258246>grenade spam nerf>Cryo spawn rushing nerfI'm sure these changes will result in sweats taking 0.5 seconds longer to rape people. The game is confirmed saved.
>>738255064>>738255159It amuses the hell out of me that Tassi who used to be considered well informed about Bungie and Schreier who also confirmed it from his side, are suddenly not trustworthy now that they revealed info that is bad for Bungie and Sony. Not any of the past bullshit the two of them caused, just this issue.
>>738258070Huh xister? Are you forgetting the server slam?
>no content updates until next monthfucking rip
>>738258430Game will be at like 5-8k players by the time the wipe happens.
>>738258246Why didnt they launch this in early access
>>738258190To bad NUbungie ruined it and now d2 is inferior to D1
>>738258070>the game didn't even recover the office rent money spent during developmentLMAO
>of course it is, the game is not on pass or anything>This nigger really is just seething nonstop that destishit was killed lmao
>>738252205> Has /v/ ever been more wrong about a game?Happens daily.
>>738258413It's just the usual cult/shill mentality of 'we're your best friend and biggest supporter up until your opinion differs from ours, then you're public enemy No 1.'
>>738258065that thing was basically useless because there were always "hostiles" around
>>738258569Tassi has put out an article admitting he is negative and much "anto" Marathon, explaining that he hates Marathon for what Bungie did to DestinyHe has never, ever been positive with Marathon
>>738258430I mean, could be worse: https://www.ubisoft.com/en-us/game/the-division/resurgence/news-updates/5LqRsprrdgtEnUmStmBi0d/pc-early-access-game-roadmap>Literally releases on mobile>everyone bitches about that because touch controls suck shit and PC players want KBM>Relent and allow a PC version>Everyone rejoices>"Oh, BTW, no story content until the end of the year. LMAO #gitfuked"
>>738258230there was no free play weekend
>>738258663He has though? He has stated that he likes the game and plays it.
>>738258569quit lying, Tassi openly hates Marathon and wants it to fail, admittedy for his "selfish" reasons
Imagine hiring the valorant director for this LMAO
>>738258716Thursday to Monday isn’t a free play weekend?
>>738258716I'm thinking he means the beta.
>>738258738>He has stated that he likes the game and plays it.No he doesn't, he might have tried to claim that previously, maybe, but that's intellectual dishonesty. >>738258780
>>738258780Lmaooo holy fuck those marathon troons in the comments are embarrassing. They actually take it as a personal attack when someone criticizes their slop
>>738258861there was no beta, there was a server slam and that's not included in the amount of players because it was a completely different application
>>738258484Because they'd have 0 players before launch at the rate this is going.
>>738258663>He has never, ever been positive on Marathon>https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2026/03/03/marathon-hits-no-2-on-steam-revenue-list-after-server-slam/>"Marathon managed to surge on Steam's revenue charts during its Server Slam, and now afterward as well, making for a promising launch."Doesn't it get exhausting being a whore for a flop game?
>>738252205Fuck the marketing "campaigns" (they can only hire one pajeet) are sad
>>738258927saying that a game shouldn't exist because you want another game and put out open attacks and death articles based on unconfirmed sources is not criticism, it's begging to get sued, which Bungie should do
>>738257690nice. this is the first interesting webm I've seen of the game.
>>738258582This isn't one guy in his basement. This is Sony spending four billion dollars to acquire the studio that made Destiny, and Halo. 5k players is not a success.
>>738258663Are you fucking retarded? He was a huge Marathon shill before he played it, his career depends a lot on Bungie and he's admitted that.
>>738258582GCJ and resetera troons coming to /v/ and making absurd, disingenuous claims they can later point at and say 'see, /v/ was wrong' isn't /v/ being wrong./v/ said Concord would flop, and was right. (Ironically, /v/ was only wrong about the magnitude of the flop.)/v/ said Highguard would flop, and was right./v/ said Marathon would flop, and was right./v/ said Pragmata would succeed, and was right./v/ said Crimson Desert would succeed, and was right.And so on. Spotting flop games isn't easy unless you're out of touch or an idiot.
>>738258430The game is barely going to be pulling 8k to 7k players weekly by then, Bungo done goofed.
>>738259120see>>738258870
>>738252205im a blast haver but they really need to change something but im not sure what it is but the people are bungie are paid to figure that out so im sure they will figure it out
>>738259179>isn't hardFuck, I should drink more coffee before posting.
>>738258995>B-bungie please sue this guy HE'S BEING A MEANIEYou are so mindbroken holy fuck, also it's so fucking funny you say unconfirmed sources when his sources verbatim are BUNGIE THEMSELVES
woke liberal journalists are correct when they validate my narrative
>>738258070bro, their wording was "attracted players", that's corporate speech for including everything because the actual sales sucked, just remember asscreed shadow's PR.
>>738259203I read every Bungie article he puts out, you're lying. He shilled hard for it. The problem is the game is bad, and he tells like it is.
>>738252205>stable player baseYou guys said the same at the 40k peakAnd the 30kAnd the 20k...
>>738258070trvth nvke, look at all the seething lol
>>738259223His sources and connections in Bungie only count when he is sucking their cock.
>>738252961Cant they just...not whipe people's progress?What kind of retarded shit is this even
>>738259348>Xir actually replied to himself LMAO
I immediately assumed OP was baiting since every greentext is a blatant lie, but the posts in this thread are so utterly delusional I think he's being serious
>>738259297>you're lyingno u>>738259120>a mediocre destishit player that sucks bad at PVE was hyped for the next bungie game until he realized shitters get the rope in marathonyeah no shit retard, nobody ever claimed Tassi hated Marathon by default. Tassi hates Marathon because it's an elitist game he as gaming journalists sucks too much to have fun at, and the fact that Marathon existance puts Destiny as franchise in geopardy is what drives these hitpieces
>>738252205>active and stable player base>stableIt's been shockingly on a consistent downward trajectory since launch and seems to have accelerated in recent days. WoW the game is losing 20% of its active population and has less players than Destiny 2 right now.I'm really looking forward to see Sony's quarterly report and seeing just how bad the damage is and what they'll do with Bungie going forward.
>>738258190Imagine being this much of a Desticuck.
>Hitpieces are when you are truthful about a games bad performance KEK
>>738258190Bungietroons are a riot
Saars you are being mean to the Marathon like Paul Tassi, kindly stop it and be nice to it or we will sue you. Thank you!
>>738259423The wipe is necessary, otherwise the sweats will get stronger and stronger to the point of being unbeatable. The bitter irony is the sweats will still be the apex predators in the game and will regain their strength way faster than normal players gain strength, so the reset just makes it less rapey for a week or two until the sweats are back on top.>>738259684It's like how 'hate speech' is 'anything I don't like and don't want to hear.' One of the early refrains from the shills was about the 'coordinated hate campaign against Marathon,' which was a combination of normalfags saying 'Hey uh, I don't think this game is for me' and anons saying 'Marathon is going to flop for a half dozen reasons, let's watch and laugh'
Rape Bungie.Total video game developer death.Marathon is dead, soon Bungie shall be as well.
>>738257419>Microsoft spend 4 billion on Bethesda+Zenimax wich also came with ID software, granting them access to some of the most recognizable IPs in gaming >Sony spend 4 billy on Destiny (wich was already dying at this point) and fucking Marathon Did seriously no one at Sony see how hard they got scammed here?
>>738259285we went from>It's 1 millionto>ok it's 2 millions but includes the server slambecause Tassi manufactured a cope about itThere's no corporate speech, that's the data analysts stating that, they have no reason to lie. Ampere is a firm with respectable pedigree, there's no reason they would include betas and have never done that
>>738259664Sony has been remarkably silent about this which is the tell, they're going to say something about 'market fluctuations' and move on while letting marathon limp on. Announcing another Concord so soon is internally deeply unpopular.
>>738259828Starfield, Redfall, nu-Arkane, more Skyrim portsWhat a steal
>>738259828>31kwhy did you post a chart from 1 month ago?
>>738259179>the psychotic grift that causes the outcome is right about the outcome it causedwow amazing
>>738259867>Ampere is a firm with respectable pedigreeSaar, you're being too obvious. Please do better with your shilling.
>>738259924>Sony has been remarkably silent about this which is the tellSony never announces the sales of third party studio games in multiplatform releases until the quarterly reports. They haven't done that for Helldivers 2 which is why everybody cited it as big success using the sales data given by Alinea Analytics and Ampere, that were both correct estimates,Now this data from analyst firms doesn't suit your narrative so you decide to ignore it because you are a sperg
>>738259867>data analyststhey have the same data available to us, the public. they are analyzing steam charts and the CCU. they are full of shit.
>>738259924Sony's next financial call is this Friday at 3am east coast time. I'm expecting them to get questions about Marathon.>https://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/IR/library/presen/er/>>738260016There is no grift. This is some boogeyman retards use to explain away why something they like has failed rather than admit the something was flawed/substandard and that they have bad taste/are dumb for not realizing it would fail.Marathon would have failed even if /v/ and Twitter never existed.
>>738259867Xister I don’t think this shilling was approved in our discord server…
>>738260221>they have the same data available to us,no, they actually use retail and digital sales reports for selected markets and project it
>>738260201Marathon isn't a third party game, you idiot. Bungie is a first party Sony studio. This is what Sony paid $3.7 billion for.
>>738260226>There is no grift
>>738259956One port of Skyrim already has a higher return of investment than all of Marathon :^)
The fact that the only milestone Bungie ever shared about the game was the amount of people on their discord channel is very telling of how things are going for them.
The real gameplay of marathon is yelling at people on whether or not it’s going to be concord the third without ever playing it. The “game” is just setdressing for this
>>738260287>Marathon isn't a third party gameyes it is, it's a Bungie game published by Bungie
>>738252426BLAST HAVERS WE NEED TO LEAVE OUR GAME RUNNING.
>>738256142Kek
>>738260309Slop for the masses is always in high demand
>>738260298>anon discovers that content creators jump onto what's popular/scandalous at the time because it's better for their analyticsYou can replace Marathon in this context with any flop game that was making headlines, and that cope pic would be the exact same. This is what's called 'trend chasing' and has been a thing since the dawn of commercial media.
It may make it to the end of summer
>>738260265>and project itlmao
>>738259867SAARRR
>>738260340And who owns Bungie? Use your brain, anon. You can do it!Arrowhead is a good counterpoint, because Sony only had a publishing agreement with them, but they never bought the studio. Arrowhead is third party, Bungie is first party.
>>738260309>this slop casual fake RPG for retards written by Emil is so successful, checkmateYou act like people would give a fuck, like we have stakes in Sony or MS.Bethesda disgusts me and so do Toddrones
>>738252205
>>738260430Chartfags in an earlier thread projected it will go beneath 10k by next weekend, maybe a bit earlier.The season 2 start might get a small bump, but it could also piss off the casuals and Dads of Marathon into jumping ship.
>>738256979>Do you feel proud of yourselves?Absolutely, we get to watch the results of 3.7 billion dollars being burned on a pyre out of hatred and gayness, when a fraction of that money could have been used for dozens of excellent games. We experience great schadenfreude from our enemies hurting themselves.
>>738260489>And who owns Bungie?it doesn't matter who owns BungieMarathon is a third party game by definition
Like it or not this is going to be multiplayer GOTY while your Crimsonslop stopped getting discussed after a week and will not get a single award because critics disliked it (for good reason)
>>738260576And which game studio is gonna be having mass layoffs?
>>738259179I genuinely completely forgot about Pragmata even existing
You must accept Marathon's fate... its fate to fall and die and to be the inciting incident that will begin Sony's rape of Bungie. It is over, cease your senseless struggle against the inevitable and prevent yourself from continuing down this path of humiliation little marasissies. There is still time to do so, but that time is grows ever more little... Bungie's grave has already been dug, all we are waiting for now is for Sony to push their rotting carcass into the grave.
>>738260576Not in a year when this is coming out
Why is this one guy so desperate to defend marathon?
>>738260572I think you need a remedial english course, anon.Bungie is 100% owned by Sony. Sony pays the devs, Sony owns what they produce, Sony owns the building they work in and the chairs they sit on. Bungie is not independent. You might as well try to claim that Sony Pictures is third party to Sony Corporate.
>>738260652>Paul Tranni already trying to do damage controllole
>>738260750I suppose the irony of you doing damage control for Marathon is lost on you, eh?
>>738260717>retarded third worlder telling anyone to take english classesthat's fucking hilarious if a bit sad
>>738260717Marathon is a third party game developed and published by Bungie, with the concept phase starting before Bungie was even acquired and developed uniquelyy and independently by Bungie with Bungie having full creative control on it.This is why it is a good game and not slop for the masses like yourself btw
>>738252205stable player base he says kekeke
>>738260415>Slop for the masses is always in high demandThat is literally why Bungie got big anon
>>738260961nah that's what happens when publishers like MS get their grubby hands on itMarathon was not influenced by Sony and that's why it is a fairly inaccessible game with a base that defends and loves the game and why so many shitters get FOMO from having tried it or quitting it
>>738260868>>738260942>Bungie is listed as the publisher, which means they're third party!The moment Sony bought and paid for Bungie in 2022 means that Marathon is Sony's property in the same way all of Bungie's computers are. This is what the $3.7 billion bought. And since then, Sony has paid Bungie salaries to finish development on the game.Unless you retards are trying to claim that Sony doesn't own Bungie, I have no idea why this is so confusing to you.
>>738260942>this turd only tastes good to elites like myself, you mustn't be very intelligent if you don't enjoy it begone peasant and leave me be. >game dies 6months later>GODDAMN CHUDS!!!!!!
chad warden proven right again
>>738260961Marathon is nothing like Gaylo (Thank God)>>738261067you lost the argument
>>738260576You never played the game lol
>>738261078>Here's how Marathon was too smart for the average gamer..I can already see the cope articles written now. Hell, I bet retards like Travis and Morgan Park already have these articles written and ready to be published, like how news stations always have '(current president) died!' materials and chyrons ready to go.
>>738261135>if I pretend I don't understand how corporate ownership works, I winIf this is the quality of a Marathon fan, no wonder the game flopped.
>it's still technically alive /v/ BTFOyou guys are fucking pathetic holy shit
>>738261209>>if I pretend I don't understand how corporate ownership works, I winyou don't need to greentext your thoughts, they are not thought bubblesJust because Sony owns Bungie, it doesn't mean Marathon is Sony's game because that's precisely not how corporate ownership worksSony would have to own the rights to the IP and publish the game for that to be the case
>>738261162Crimson Desert? Why would I play a bad game filled with AI generated garbage that got bad reviews from every critic I respect?
>>738260576CD made it's money back and more, Marathon did not and never will make it's budget back
>>738261453Because you tell people that never played marathon the same thing
>>738261335>just because Sony owns Bungie, it doesn't mean Marathon is Sony's gameAnon, that is EXACTLY how corporate ownership works. Sony bought 100% of Bungie's shares during the acquisition. They own everything about Bungie. This means all of Bungie's IPs, logos, and intellectual property. This is like saying Zenimax doesn't own Fallout, just because Bethesda publishes it. You're totally out of your depth and have no idea what you're talking about.>>738261453>it's a bad game full of AI generated garbage>I only listen to critics I respectThis has to be bait.
>>738261335>>738261335>Just because Sony owns Bungie, it doesn't mean Marathon is Sony's game because that's precisely not how corporate ownership works>Sony would have to own the rights to the IP and publish the game for that to be the caseNTA but you're a retard. Marathon and Destiny has been Sony's IP since the acquisition.
Here's the story so far as we end our second month tracking Marathon's performance. In short, for a change things might stop getting worse soon. Getting into the data a bit more, these metrics indicate that Marathon is experiencing:Sustained and predictable player attritionWeak conversion of returning players into long-term engagementFailure of intervention events to establish a higher baselineAlthough the rate of decline shows some moderation over time, the player base continues to compress into progressively lower activity bands, suggesting the absence of a stable core population at this stage. The data supports the conclusion that Marathon is transitioning from an initial post-launch decline into a prolonged contraction phase, characterised by decreasing peak engagement and weakening retention. Without significant changes to player retention dynamics or the introduction of impactful content, the current trajectory suggests continued erosion of the active player base in the near to medium term.For future milestones, next week is the Sony earnings call. The data projects a CCU peak of just above 10,000 players by this point. June is the vault wipe, all players will have their gear, contract progression and player level reset. June also has a new Runner shell, a new map (Dire Marsh nighttime), a new system (Cradle) and new guns, mods, cores, contracts and enemies. With the game in its current state I'm going to make a bold prediction and say it'll never see a peak above 25,000 CCU again.
>>738261593And I forgot to attach my data, like a moron.
>>738261453>every critic I respect?>I respectHoly kek, looks like we have a ResetEra tourist here
pretty funny how in the trend of all the concord-likes, SEGA of all companies was the only one with the prescience to pull the plug on JOIN THE -ACK
>it's a flop, /v/ was right!>still alive, /v/ was wrong!Come on guys. Let's both agree that if Marathhon survives for a year, /v/ was indeed completely wrong.
Holy fuck I've never seen someone so mindraped before. Why are Bungie cultists like this?
>>738261593The Sony earnings call is this Friday, anon. See >>738260226
>>738261542I don’t care if you played Marathon or not. It has reviewed well with critics and players alike. Player numbers do not equate to quality, as Crimson Desert and various CoD/FIFA type games suggest. Not really sure why people bring up player numbers as a gotcha against the quality of the game.
>>738261685It's unlikely, but it could be our boy Travis day drunk on box wine and cope posting again.
>>738261746>Sony and Nintendo at the same timeMan, /v/ is gonna be unusable
>>738261746Huh, interesting. As early as last month it was set for the 13th. I wonder why they moved it back a week? By then CCU should be around 14,000. Still not great for how much money went into this project.
>>738261747Live service games are dependent on the amount of people that play and whale at it Also stop sucking journo cock like a retard
>>738252205my actual claim during the playtest was something along the lines of>probably do around 100k concurrent at max>will fall off hard pretty quick but keep a middling playerbase because bungie fans are among the most mindraped in existence>will never make back what was put into it>EOS by a year
>>738261747Marathon's critic/player reviews are mostly bullshit for two reasons:>the western journalist clique circled the wagons to defend Bungie, just like they did with Concord>Bungie themselves asked everyone in the official Discord to leave a review for Marathon, which artificially boosted the number of reviewsCompare Marathon's review count to a game like StS2's review count at launch (both launched on the same day) and it's even more obvious.>>738261852West coast anons will be able to see it live, but east coast anons are going to wake up to the million news articles posted if anything fun comes out of the call.>>738261875Yeah, that's what fucked me up too, because I could have sworn it was mid May. And I'm sure Sony's corporate finance guys already have financial models for Marathon and know it flopped bad and won't make any money any time soon.
As someone with no horse in the race, I don't see why people were begging for Marathon to flop so much. It's like maybe one of... ten(?) big extraction shooters in the last decade, the genre clearly isn't doing battle royale or moba numbers. It doesn't have a lot of traditionally attractive characters but it's also definitely not a Concord situation either.It's a seasonal game so they basically make all their money in the first week of a new season like Path of Exile or Teamfight Tactics. If the second season doesn't see a huge return surge of players, then yeah it's probably a flop. It would be retarded to call it a game that was DOA though.
>>738261981>Marathon has half a million DAUTahnit has upgraded from UESC copium to Tau Ceti Giga Copium.
>>738261985>As someone with no horse in the raceYou never played Destiny then, you never got betrayed, tricked and fucked by Bungie.They unironically deserve this.
>>738261985Its ugly and lazily developed
>>738261985There wasn't any begging. It was just another Highguard where /v/ immediately said 'Hey, this looks bad and will flop' and that's been true since the first playtest (where it flopped)
>>738252205>stupid chuds expected destiny fans to have some resemblance of standards, well you got it wrong bet you feel stupid now!
>>738261981>600k DAU when they havent even announced 1 million salesthe copium is off the charts man
There's six gorillion hourly active users and you can't prove otherwise
>>738261973I doubt we'll see anything, shareholders are too clueless to ask pointed questions and the board members giving the presentation will deflect. But we might see some new decisions from Bungie mandated by Sony. The price drop had basically no effect and they can't make content fast enough to draw people back in. I ask this completely sincerely, what could Bungie do to get Marathon's numbers up?
>>738262119How is this not the ideal situation for Destiny players? Destiny 2 was going to become a forever zombie. People hated that Bungie was going to stay developing D2 instead of going on to work on Destiny 3. Now that D2 is actually dead/dying, there is a real incentive to start on a new sequel.
kill yourself FrumpyLumps
>>738252205This OP is such well crafted shitposting bait, I applaud you OP. How else could we enjoy our beloved marathon threads? I love nothing more than to see anti-consumer buisnesses like bungie rot.However, for those who don't know yet, here's some clarifications:>Two months later is still here with an active and stable player base Playerbase has not ceased declining since release, it has at no point been "stable". Last week it wasn't over 20k, and this week it's declined to below 15k hitting daily peaks of 10k and 13k.>Is one of the best rated games of the year and a serious GOTY contender sweeperShame it isn't helping people be interested in the game>Months of Steamcharts posting to pretend the game is dead Playerbase has declined so drastically in its first month the game is having matchmaking issues>Turns out it sold 2.2M copies on its first day and most of the players are on console Blatant misdirection. The game has had 2.2m "players" including the massive amount of f2p players (numbers up to 140k) during the server slamz which did NOT return to play the game when it released for 40$ days later (paid peak was 88k). Already a huge drop off, showing people bounced on the game. Compared to arc which had about the same in its test and hit much higher peaks after. The sales are barely over a million if even, and it's already been confirmed that steam is the most populated single platform for the game, with the most sales. After fees the revenue isnt great.
Destiny 1 won
>>738262454Too bad there's no money for it
>>738262381I don't know, even the Ubisoft calls would have shareholders asking directly about things like ACS performance. I doubt it will be anything beyond 'Yes, it missed financial targets' which isn't going to surprise anyone except the most diehard and insane shills, but who knows.>what could Bungie do to get Marathon's numbers up?They would have to turn it into a Destiny 3-type PVE game you can play solo or in co-op with friends with absolutely no threat of PVP unless you wanted PVP. The problem is, the game would need to be fundamentally rebuilt, which would take a year at a minimum (probably two), which Bungie can't do because they cost Sony $4-5m a month in salaries alone and there's no guarantee a PVE Marathon would even be successful. If I was Sony, I'd put the game in maintenance mode after fulfilling all of the season pass promises I made and write it off as a loss.
>>738262504I visited the Steam forums for Marathon and god damn that guy and a few others are Tahnit level lolcows.
>>738262454you really think sony is gonna give them a cent after this mess?specially for a niche mmo fps game?they are lucky if they don't get disbanded or sent to the gacha coal mines working far from home on a shitty office building instead of their luxury offices
>>738261747It hasn't reviewed well with players when it's lost 80% of it's playerbase in under 2 months.
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.
>im gonna be sad when marathon dies
[Buy a fucking ad snoy]
>>738263104>folksDMG? Is that you?
>>738263208nah i go by tahnit
>>738262934>you really think [company] is gonna give them a cent after this mess?people have been saying this about Bungie for about two decades now and Marathon is far from an insane flop compared to Halo Infinite
>>738263104so a 70k peak and now at ~15k average on steam for a pvp terminally online extraction shooter of this calibur is not dead?wellll they didn't pull the plug completely so it's technically thrivingis this who we have become?
>>738263104Really? I saw people saying game would get dragged out to the six month mark because Sony wouldn’t want another GAAS bomb like Concord being cancelled and refunded in two weeks.
>>738262381>what could Bungie do to get Marathon's numbers up?Realistically? Nothing. Bungie works WAY too slowly and inefficiently -- always focusing on the wrong things and leaving problems be for an unconscionable amount of time. By the time they manage to make meaningful improvements to the game there will be no playerbase left. The game is for all intents and purposes dead.What Sony should do right now is release the S2 update and monitor the game for 2-4 weeks to see if there'll be any meaningful improvement to CCU and MTX purchases; which there won't be. After that, they gut all the employees on the game and put it on maintenance mode until player count drops to the point where there are matchmaking issues in the US. After THAT happens, they officially sunset the game, cannibalize all assets from it and work on a "relaunch" turning it into a proper Destiny/Halo-like.
I don't really think Marathon needs improvements, it just needs new content every season. Path of Exile has mastered this cycle.
>>738261985>bungie has eroded all goodwill from people over a decade>people who disliked the game are waiting to be able to refund it after EOS>third worlders excited for another concord level flop and to prove shills wrongdid i miss anything
>>738252426The worst is they are now nerfing the shit out of it and pissing off all the sweats.
>>738263618>i don't think marathon needs improvements>it just needs improvementsWhat did anon mean by this?
>>738263380>Halo Infinitenot comparablehalo is still a household name that prints money just by name alone and it did profit after microtransactions, unlike marathon which is not even remotely close to breaking evenMarathon is a literally who only really old people remember (not the extraction shooter fans) and Destiny is forever tainted.They have nothing else to play
>>738263721im saying there are no foundational changes that people are currently saying is a "problem" with Marathon (TTK, quest design, whatever), as long as they just add new content in the form of new enemies, new guns, new shells, etc the game will be fine
>>738256627It's not a race, it's a marathon.
>>738258569>tassi is chud codedin what fucking world paul "i love trannies" tassi chud coded?
>>738262253they are counting people that check the steam charts as players
>>738263828>add new content in the form of new enemies, new guns, new shells, etc the game will be fine
>>738264168didnt they put out a roadmap? everyone already knows what they are going to add in season 2
>>738264293And it isn't enough. A palette swap variant of an already existing map is not enough to drive people back to the game. Especially at the numbers Marathon needs to not be considered a catastrophic failure.
>>738264293Yup and its all gonna be underdelivered slopRecycled map, weapons, and shell skins coming your way
>>738261985Isn't it fun to watch a bunch of people immediately flood you with replies begging for it to flop while claiming that's exactly not what they're doing? I guess some games have shill problems, and some games have this.
>>738264480>Marathon is entering its most critical period as it approaches 'matchmaking will start to break' player count lows>there's not even a column for 'May' on the roadmapThis seems really, really bad for them.
>>738264601Bungie has been doing this kinda slop with seasonal content since shadowkeep with nothing for months before the next underwhelming season dropped with nothing to doBungie had a better time with 6 month droughts with higher quality content
>>738264480That isn't even the real roadmap. The real one is far more grim.
>>738263842he said something negative about marathon so basically he has a private shrine to Hitler o algo
>>738264753Sure, but even with a tiny playercount, you can still play Destiny 2 by yourself or with friends in a premade fireteam. Marathon straight up breaks if there aren't enough people playing because matchmaking fails, you get matched with people +100 levels or with 500ms+ pings, and the game just becomes shit.
>>738254054>>738254891Why the fuck is Durandal back on the Marathon? Why is he in this game at all? Shouldn't he be kind of busy manifesting his own destiny on the other side of the galaxy?
>>738254471Why is there so little to the game it seems like a waste of time.
each season needs a seasonal only mechanic
>>738264991It's maybe a subroutine/copy that Durandal left behind? I don't have all the codex entries because Cryo is an RNG sweatbox
>>738264916That is true and I didnt mean to act like I was disagreeing with you btw so mb for that
>>738264991Bungie couldn't come up with anything new so the original trilogy is mostly retconned.
>>738265067Seasonal artifact is otw babe
>>738264991didnt the marathon AND the tau ceti base get nuked from orbit? that is how marathon 2 starts
>>738261710Marathon is already having issues with matchmaking i will most likely be at 10k or below next week.The game has been a financial disaster for bungie and it seems making up for it through whaling their core player base is also no longer a posibility. This game is concord 3 by every metric
>>738265138To be fair, Infinity leaves the door open for 'literally anything you fucking want' in terms of canon, don't even need to explain it, just poof different timeline.>>738265187The colonists/Marathon staff clearly got fuckin destroyed one way or another between pfhor reinvasion and capture of a shitload of them, a thinking and malicious contagion that also corrupted AI, and whatever the assholes worshipping the s'pht did to themselves. I don't really remember if Marathon 2 was explicit in what the pfhor did to the colony other than just 'came back with more than a scouting party'
>>738261710I don't know, Anthem lasted for what, 7 years before they pulled the plug? When it was very obviously dead 6 months after release.
>>738252205>Two months later is still here with an active and stable player baseWow I didn't know active and stable were synonyms for tiny and shrinking.
>>738265138That's what I figured when I first head the premise of the game. The corporate interest angle for the marathon's existence is fucking insane and the focus on Dark Souls style lore dripping over telling a coherent narrative tells me they just read the lore theories on bungie.org and ran with it.>>738265187Yes actually. You could chalk that up to the unreliable narrator spinning the events for their own purposes, but the epilogue at the end doesn't have such a conceit and states plainly the surface of Tau Ceti was "nuked down to bedrock". Honestly shameful they called this crap Marathon to begin with when it seems so unlikely anyone who worked on this new game even played the old ones, much less had any enthusiasm for the property beyond name recognition as "that one game Bungie made before Halo and Destiny.">>738265614Infinity leaves the door open for the events of Marathon 2, and it's the only game in the trilogy that has that level of retroactive subjectivity. At the point a multiverse plot is an excuse to disregard canon, I think it's better to just not pretend you're making a sequel.
>>738265946Anthem also sold over 5m copies
>>738266214the marathon fandom wiki says that the tau ceti base was completely destroyed, 20 years it was rebuilt and thriving due to 9 other robots similar to the player character in the original 3 games that easily repelled the initial assault, then 20 years later there was a biological attack that completely killed everyone, 20 years later the same thing happened, then 20 years later runners camewhy do they keep coming back to the same base if everyone that shows up fucking dies?marathon 2 also says in the end that the humans that durandal uses in the intro are the only survivors of the tau ceti "incident"
>>738266678>due to 9 other robotsthey're not robots dumbfuck
>>738266214>Infinity leaves the door open for the events of Marathon 2, and it's the only game in the trilogy that has that level of retroactive subjectivityHow exactly does opening the 'shitloads of timelines named infinity' can of worms not justify (and explicitly suggest) infinite alternative timelines? I don't remember it specifying there being only one branch point and everything before that was constant. You seem, I dunno, kind of invested in new thing bad?
>>738266678The cyborgs were presumably destroyed too, according to phorified Tycho
>>738266678>marathon 2 also sayswhy do dumb people always use these similar retarded non-turn of phrases?its like you're mathmatically prefected the absoulte dumbest most non-sensical way of stating that possible
>>738266828>prefected
>>738266770>You seem, I dunno, kind of invested in new thing bad?Yes, because new thing sucks, and I'm frankly tired of 30 years of the conversation being focused around one game that chose to do something unusual and subversive at the expense of certainty in the other two .
fuck Tarkovfuck Dark and Darkerfuck Forever Winterfuck Hyenasfuck Maraudersfuck Cycle: Frontierfuck Disney Extraction Shooterfuck Arena Breakoutfuck The Cube, Save Usfuck The Cube (the other one)fuck 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.
dead games
>>738267434>both higher than Marathon Oh no no no no
>>738267147That's fair, but that's more of a dig at Infinity than the new thing. The 'do whatever the fuck you want' can of worms is was probably more apt as a narrative tie-in to proto-forge than a stepping off point to new stories, as it recontextualizes and to an extent devalues what came before it by framing it as merely one path through of infinite to an absolute end.I was going to ask>Can you blame them for going through the open door Infinity left?and the answer for you is clearly yes in your case, but I see the appeal of returning to a rich sandbox of a setting. Not to mention the probable reality that this game just wouldn't have been greenlit in the first place without attaching a long gone IP to it because execs are terrified of risk and somehow an IP only like 200 people actually remember is going to move copies - I do think this could have stood as its own thing and been more of a spiritual successor to Marathon's setting than a direct one
>>738262919He's Bungie's strongest (and most delusional) soldier.
>>738267393extraction shooters get the worst of both worlds in terms of butthurt gamers. It's a pvp game so shitters get extremely mad. It's also a pve game so any friction where you can't kill easily just demolish a mob gets dadgamers extremely mad too.Only games like Arc Raiders where there is functionally no pvp and the mobs are extremely easy get traction but we see what happens when you keep catering to these people, the game dies. The Helldivers 2 devs learned early that you need to nerf players just enough where they get mad but they don't permanently quit the game and you can sustain a 5 digit playerbase.
>>738264862i don't see this on there
>>738267750I see appeal in returning to a setting like Marathon as well, but along different lines. The UESC and Spht fight back against the Phor; what does that look like? What are the Nar up to? Have there been any extrasolar colonization efforts attempted after the Marathon? What's going on with Mars? There is so little concrete information provided by the games on the background stuff that you could, as a writer, latch on to any one mention of some thing happening somewhere and just run with it. or just make up some new thing that wasn't mentioned before, but is still consistent with what's presented earlier. The Marathon and the Tau Ceti colony served their function for the narrative, and if this game truly had to use the name "Marathon," to justify funding its existence, I feel there are so many things that could be explored without retreading the same ground or begging the question of internal consistency with earlier fiction.
>>738267393>Tarkov is the 11th most popular game on PCI don't believe you
Why does sony only know how to make slop?
>>738268448unironically would get me to buy Marathon and play it
>>738252205dead by the end of the year
>>738268843>Spartathlon>The much longer run made by Pheidippides to seek aid from the Spartans to seek help against the Persians in the Battle of MarathonYeah there's definitely wells to dive into, but in my headcanon narrative of how the game got made, extraction and mystery probably came before or alongside it being Marathon instead of something new, and that heavily narrows possibilities within the lore. Like at the very least, nuMarathon is very much about the New Cascadia colony rather than the ship so it's not just hitting the same exact place.I'd also that to an extent going somewhere completely foreign like another extrasolar colonization effort would detract and beg the question of 'why marathon' even more than it already is, either you draw parallels with a similar story to justify the name (derivative), or do something novel and ignore the pfhor entirely, asking why the hell you're even here - throughline of course being the jjaro or maybe the s'pht'kr but both those things are the nebulous kind of thing that people would claim you'd ruin by bringing to the forefront.Alas, those are just things that could have been, the only way we're gonna get shit like that is if nuMarathon magically succeeds. I like the game, but it's never going to be Halo, or even Destiny.
>>738252205>WHY WON'T YOU DIE!?
How big will the meltdowns be when they pull the plug? Or will Maratroons try to quietly sweep this under the rug and pretend they didn't spend months defending a corporation that sees them as nothing more than living wallets?
>>738272641The real question is what would be the bigger meltdown, EoS or Sony taking control and adding a separate PvE mode with nothing more changed than removing player to player damage?
>>738256627oof size
>>738272985Fake and AI generated screenshot. Never experienced this while playing the game. Your obsession with this game and its playerbase is insane.
>>738261124>d-don't leave meFunny how Tarkov is still strong to this day. Maybe exaction shooters should be left to the non-casuals?
>>738273073cope
>>738272641They'll immediately start blaming straight white men and claiming it was a great game that was never given a fair shot.
>>738272641Won’t happen. Bungie is an OG company and Sony won’t dare to do anything. The game is extremely loved critically and Sony would get raked over the coals for killing it. Microsoft runs MCC and other multiplayer games and eats all the cost. So will Sony. Keep coping though.
>>7382734795₹ has been deposited into your account.
>>738273073Pretty sure it's a SEA screenshot where the population really is low enough for that to happen.>>738273264It is a great game with some critical flaws. Even fixing those flaws, it's still just for an absurdly small subset of players, a niche of a niche. Maybe that'll change, it probably won't. When it dies I'll be sad, but such is the way of things. I hope while it lives they can improve it so I can continue to enjoy it.
It looks like Marathon will have sub-10k peaks by next week. Will Bungie do anything to stop the bleeding?
>>738261985>>738262454They already had a loyal fanbase that stuck with them thick and thin. All they wanted was Destiny 3, but Bungie abandoning the only people who played their fucking games and failing to expand their market for an audience that does not exist outside of Tarkov and Arc Raiders is just pure schadenfreude. I hope they go under.
>>738252205PvPvE will never be a good or popular game type. Pick a lane. Nobody wants to get killed while they're distracted. Nobody (but faggots) wants to kill someone that isn't paying attention or shooting back. This is the case in every PvPvE game and they all go through the same boom/bust cycle when they release and subsequently lose all of their players and pivot to release a half-assed PVE version of the experience that pleases no one.
You know id be ok with marathon if it wasnt just copy paste d2 but with a different seasonal gamemode with fart music and shitty art
>>738274168At this point would you (Destiny players in general) be happy even with Destiny 3? Like behind closed doors, that could already be in progress. I don't think D2 is exactly salvageable at this point, and I doubt Sony would be willing to just say 'nope fuck this' and close shop, even if they acknowledge that throwing good money after bad isn't generally a winning strategy.It seems like the Destiny community has absolutely decided that the only reason D2 is in the state it is now is because of Marathon and Bungie consciously decided to destroy Destiny in favor of Marathon rather than just being incompetent and bungling it in an effort to reinvigorate it after TFS.
>>738273479Lmaooo the cope is hilarious
>>738273479lmfao
>>738274297I don't personally have a problem with that format. I only got filtered by this game because it seems like every other player annihilates me without even having to try. I can aee why a lot of people dropped it, but the game isn't terrible just because its hard. It just might not retain enough players because its hard. Extremely challenging games have limited appeal. Despite giving up on it I actually really liked it. It just kicked my ass so hard I couldn't keep up. It was unfortunately a skill issue for me. I imagine a lot of other people left for the same reason.
Bungie must die
>>738267393You say that as if Warframe is dead.Although it probably should be dead, its nothing but a dopamine injector now. Theres no actual game anymore.
>>738275250Im blasting in warframe though
>>738261059>Marathon was not influenced by Sony and that's why it is a fairly inaccessible game with a base that defends and loves the game and why so many shitters get FOMO from having tried it or quitting itYeah dude, Sony totally spent 250 million dollars on this just to appeal to a niche amount of sweats and have it be the least popular game of its genre.You guys genuinely sound deranged
>>738275594And thats all you do. You press a button and everything dies and you do that for 3000 hours.
>>738275802I dont do that because it kills the fun so I use weapons and frames that dont clear entire rooms instantly
>>738275964Oh ok so you do the same thing but take 4 times longer to do it.
>>738276081Yup and its fun unlike maraflop
Marathon will be up for a long time and you dumbfucks will keep crying and obsessing over it. Seek help. I wonder how you’ll cope when it gets the multiplayer GOTY award.
>>738258070>of course it isIf it was, it would say as much.
>>738276276>maraflop>any rewardsHere's your only reward your getting bungshill
What exactly are those Bungie employees doing with all those billions of dollars? hookers and blow?
>>738276276that must be why you're a huge fan and playing it right now, not wasting time on this board defending a game with a rapidly decreasing player count
>>738276276>Multiplayer GOTY>In a year where Marvel Tokon is coming out>In a year where Forza Horizon 6 is coming out>In a year where Splatoon is coming out>In a year where From’s extraction shooter is coming outKek marashills are in for a rude awakening
>>738252426AHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAAHH
When marathon loses GOTY what are the marashills gonna do?
The next games Sony has in their upcoming live service portfolio are Fairgame$ and Horizon Hunters Gathering. They will 100% keep Marathon up because they’re aware these 2 are going to bomb extremely hard. Running servers on a loss is nothing new. Check what MS has been doing or literally any other old game which still has servers up despite extremely few players playing. The infra costs are really not that much. Maybe the team working on it will be 50 devs instead of the 400 currently, but face it, Marathon is going nowhere. Cease your useless delusions.
Your right marathon is going nowhere
Everyone who bought Marathon won the GOY of the year award
>>738276620That money went 95% to the really old Bungie staff who had all the stock and the execs. The regular employees probably got a tiny annual bonus and a handshake.
BLOODY BUTCH BASTARD SAAR PLAY THE MARATHONS
>>738276276Tahnit, is that you?>Marathon will be up for a long timeIt will exist only as long as Sony decides to keep wasting money on it.>Marathon gets a multiplayer GOTY awardAt its current pace, it won't have any players left by the fall. In that case, I hope it really does win an award, just because the corrupt/incestuous games journalist clique would look positively ridiculous by giving a multiplayer award to a dead multipalyer game.
>>738276620the upper management and old-timers are set for life and just waiting for vestment of their stocks, everyone else is screwed.
Sony never cared enough to buy destiny 2 any awards for best ongoing mulitplayer or best community support so what makes people think maraflop would win any rewards?
>>738276836Fairgame$ doesn't even have a release date. I wouldn't be surprised if that shit gets canned before release.If Horizon Hunters Gathering is f2p, i could see that actually having success. if it's paid, it will maybe do a little better than Lego Horizon Adventures since life sims tend to attract retards.
>>738252205you were calling the player base stable when it was twice the size it is now
>>738276276Pokopia will win the multiplayer game of the year award, sorry.
>>738277428I'm amazed it hasnt been canceled yet. The fact that they announced it would be a free to play team extraction shooter so close to Marathon's launch and that they were doing playtests is a sign of no confidence in Marathon.
>>738276836>>738276276>Cease your useless delusions.Never gonna give you up. Never gonna let you down.>>738276620Former CEO of Bungie? Bought loads of antique cars, as in millions. His purchases are visible on the internet.
>>738277886So long as Hulst is in charge, that Horizon game is going to come out because Sony loves pushing that IP for whatever insane reason.Fairgame$ probably has a 50/50 chance of being cancelled at this point. I feel like one or two more playtests where 'it's not fun' is the result will finally wear out Sony's patience.
>>738273264They're ALREADY doing that.
can't wait to see what Marathon will have cooked up for pride month
>>738280090they dont need to do anything they already have the gayest characters in existence
>>738280192Hold up. That's a pretty strong statement. I'm not even sure if they are the gayest at Sony. But I can't imagine them skipping it.
>>738280326>June is pride month>Marathon's first reset is in Junehaving your character's progress get ack'd right at the start of pride month is very on brand for Bungie since they love that tranny stuff lmao
>>738267393>tarkov>comically underbaked scam by some fat Russian that can't even bring himself to play his own game>riddled with cheating, bugs, performance issues, god awful design decisions, and a community that would die to win a "I'M THE BEST GAMER BECAUSE I SUFFERED THE MOST IN [shit game made to suck]" e-peen competition>the entire industry wants this audienceYou are watching the "half-life effect" play out in real time.
>>738273479>Sony would get raked over the coals for killing it.By who?The 50 people still hoping destiny 2 gets good next update?
>>738281469All of that and it still started pulling more numbers than Marathon, even with most of the Tarkov players not even using Steam.Marathon is THAT level of fucked.
Why did it flop
>>738272641And what will you do when it never gets pulled? Will you continue to cry and seethe every day?
>>738281746>super niche genre (hardcore PVP extraction)>offputting art style>is basically just Destiny 2 PVP gunplay, so it doesn't bring anything new to the table>bad word of mouth from the plagiarism scandal and general disappointment that it wasn't Destiny 3It's mostly just the gameplay. Extraction PVP could only ever be a niche game type, so why Bungie bet the farm on Marathon is confusing.
>>738281589>that many people either got it on steam for the first time or re-bought it on steam since you can't port your account and have to pay $60 for the privilege of updating through steam>for some people that payed upwards of $200 ($300 if you bought EoD and had to drop $100 to upgrade to get the private server mode despite being DLC that should be included with the game because the devs said it's not DLC)>all for a broken game that's not finished, with story progression playing out like a string of WoW daily quests, and an upcoming "1.0 release" in november (they're going to put it on life support and move on to their next grift like the fun pimps want to with 7dtd)>there's still literal tens of thousands that fell for it and continue to eat the shit off their plate to this dayIt's like star citizen for /k/ types.What happens when the industry finds out about SC and how easy it is to string rich idiots along for decades with nothing to show for it?
>>738282102NTA, but I'll keep laughing because the game will fall below 5k and eventually just die. It will definitely hit a point of 'it's just sad and pathetic now, why haven't they shut it down?' after too long, though.
>>738282235>NTA but I'll keep crying and making the same threads every day with the same postsCould have just said that and saved us all the time
>>738254471As someone who played the trilogy, I hope it dies faster.
>>738252426Impressive
>>738254471>>738252426>>738252687>every week at the same time, servers go down for maintenance >every week at the same time, shazamtroons make these same posts claiming the game is finally dead this time Why do they do it?
dead
The pro-marathon campaign is completely inorganic, and this >>738282496 retarded faggot's just proved it.
>>738282496one of the posts you're quoting is asking how the 600+ stayed online during the maintenance, not saying its dead. are you merely pretending to be retarded?
>>738261124Add a dating sim so I can romance Vandal and Thief and MAYBE I'll buy it on sale for 5 dollars.
>>738282619This you?https://files.catbox.moe/qr5s4y.mp4
>>738282839You wish.
>>738282839never seen such autism in my life and i was there for the blue archive bathing suit censorship
>>738282619It's literally one person doing it lmao. He is spending all day, every day since the game released desperately shilling and damage controlling this flop
>>738282839Why are they actually like this though? What makes them engage such effort into a game they don't like?
I was interested, but gameplay videos don't seem interesting.Too downgraded. Not enough to see or do. Probably has voice chat.Not ambitious enough. Bungie sucks, always has. Renamed Glitch to Vandal. Nigger character.Fixable, but needs a big overhaul. Hopefully it's a success story. Synthetic is very relevant.
>>738283023wow you sure have a lot of hyper specific confident opinions for things you have no practical experience with you must be dumb as fuck fr bucko
>>738282303k, cool. You promise to keep malding about people laughing at this flop, too?
>>738283338>Are you going to keep crying over this game?>YEAH ARE YOU GONNA CRY ABOUT ME CRYINGFucking hell
>>738283696I'm here pointing and laughing at Marathon flopping, as are the other non shill anons. You trying to paint this as 'y-you're upset!' is silly and comes across as you crying about it.But keep defending the game. I'm sure it'll get back to the amazing heights of 20k CCU eventually.
>>738267434Why do live service games like this make sequels and split their community?
>>738252426at least...we owned...the chuds...BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP
Is this the biggest flop of the year?
>>738284964A flatline- the most stable state!
Just play Far Far West instead.
>>738284964>digging yourself an even deeper financial hole just to save facehilariousI hope it lives on until single digit peaks
>>738252426Grim. Thread should have ended here.
>>738258070Even IF it was. Which it isnt. 2.2 million sales STILL isn't enough to come even close to breaking even. It's like halfway at best.
>>738285035It's the undisputed leader so far. At 200 plus marketing and ongoing. They've said they aren't dirverting back to Destiny, it's do or die, so that's something like 400 people for millions more. However complicating it is whatver MTX they're making, which so far hasn't shown to be much.They are probably in the hole more than Highguard's entire budget, and it's losing more every month right now. Prince of Persia remake infamously vanished, but that wasn't that high of a budget, compared to this AAAA level shit. If Fairgames releases this year it's a real competition though. Wolverine and Black Panther WW2 are potential bombs. Saaaros is mid AAA, and at worst will just regular flop, not gigaflop.I wouldn't count ubisoft out, as they may have a giant bomb up their sleeves this year, possibly Hexe.We may know more after Sony's investor call.>>738282925You're a lightweight. That isn't even floor tiles level.
>>738285853trvke was kind of laughing that this dinky little shit indie game has almost equivalent pve features but more fun
It might be Sony deep in sunk-cost fallacy, cuz they really can't stand being humiliated again.
>>738289884Not sunk cost. The entire reputation of their live service push is at stake, and a fuck up of this many billions of dollars is big enough for even normie investors to possibly notice. It's also why you see the shills have such a strict definition of "immediate and total shutdown".
>>738289884I like the game but I'm not a retarded shill who thinks that it's somehow succeeding. This shit is a dumpster fire. My only hope for the game surviving for long is that Sony decides burning budget on it will cost them less than the public image damage of putting it on the chopping block. I want them to support it for the next year so I can keep playing since I expect like, a 3 month shutdown otherwise.
>>738289884but they'll keep losing money if they put more of bungie's time on this, isn't that going to be a bigger humiliation?
>>738289884I just don't think we'll hear about traditional layoffs. They'll just move half of Bungie (400 employees) somewhere else in Sony to prevent some of the bad press.
The craziest part about Marathon? It's probably the biggest flop of 2026. It probably flopped harder than Dragon Age: The Veilguard.
>>738290335Not compared to "the chuds were right" as a news story, which the regular gaming press has blocked off for several years.
>>738290536>It probably flopped harder than Dragon Age: The Veilguard.I think it's in the same ballpark. Somewhere near 250 million for combined dev and marketing. About 1.5 million copies sold for it's first quarter BUT at a higher price point. It also doesn't have the ongoing expenses or revenue marathon has.
Someone said that Sony doesn't fully control bungie. Is that true? even though Sony bought the company? How much power does Sony have over the devs?
>>738291052Sony cucked themselves with Bungie because they genuinely thought Bungie were going to handle up on everything. - several games were in the pipeline at BungieThis was probably the most deceitful attempt to make them worth buying- Sony asked for help on live service games because Destiny 2 was at the height of its popularity and successLol.It all just culminated in a tsunami of shit.
>>738252205It's 2.2 milly overall my nigga
>>738291052So, the way the purchase deal works is that Sony owns bungie 100 percent, but allows bungie operational freedom on the condition that they make piles of money, and don't need to beg daddy publisher for money to make new games. Well, their cash cow is dying and their new project is the AAAA flop of the year. The exact terms of this are not public, and there are probably different levels to this. Bungie can't decide to sell itself or anything crazy like that.
>>738291163So you're saying Sony is actually hands off and leaves Bungie to their own devices? Was this their contract? cause I can't understand why they would sign a contract like that.
>>738291376You're thinking of Old Sony.Old Sony would NOT have agreed to any of those terms, but modern Sony is basically ran by Californians (Women, Diversity hires, Jews, and Indian contractors). I would not be surprised if Sony executives thought Bungie were going to be this huge successful studio pumping out countless video games and other media like Blizzard or Riot Games. Who knows what's going on behind closed doors, but I do think there is a lot of copium and mayhem happening at Bungie. And it's funny because Bungie employees are seriously protective of their work ethics and stuff, so they probably see this as a world shattering moment for themselves.
>>738291376Up until they got rid of Activision the general consensus was that Bungie could do no wrong and any problem with their games was the result of publisher meddling. It wasn't until recent years that people have realized Bungie's own retardation was the cause of almost every problem in D2 and now Marathon. Sony likely agreed to it because they are also retarded and believed Bungie was still capable of making good games as long as they didn't interfere.
>>738285035Highguard
>>738292360no see highguard is less of a flop because it died instantly so marathon is more of a flop because it continues to flop week after week and this is /v/ that's how it works
>>738294038Well by shutting it down instantly they did cut their losses and save some money. Meanwhile Bungie seems content to let Marathon bleed them dry.
Marathon will never have more than 20k players again lmao
holy fuckthe demise of this game is acceleratingit's not even gonna reach season 2
>>738252426>zavala died for thisi will never forget bungie, buncha cucks
>>738295439Trust the plan. 6 Marbillion players on Season 2 Day 1.
I really don't care what Bungie has to do to ensure this game survives and thrives.Add PvE. don't care.Raise TTK. don't care.Add safe pocket. don't care.Shower us with salvage. dont care.Add romance options. dont care.Make a restricted f2p map. dont caredo free weekend every weekend. dont care.mix and match shell abilities. dont care.add a city builder mode. don't careinvulnerablity exfil. dont care.[any other good or bad suggestion I've read on the subreddit that will bring in and retain players] dont care.I'll adapt.
>>738261981Even maratroons are clowning on our boy tahnit, damn.
>>738295830dude just snap your fingers and make PvEreal ezdo they really think Bungie can get any of this done if they can't even release any content updates in May while their game is sinking?
>>738295830Will you adapt to them scrapping the game and focusing on Destiny 3?
>>738292360>>738294038Highguard is the other top contender. High AAA, but it's still going to be less than half of Marathon's budget, something closer to 100 million. Highguard made very little in MTX.
One thing I've learned from this is how sad and desperate all destiny players are. It's hard to watch them beg like little cucks.>PLEASE BUY MARATHON THEN BUNGIE WILL MAKE DESTINY 3 PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE
>>738296765Its a shame the destiny community is retarded goy cattle and sucked up all of the bad changes made in destiny 2 instead of shitting on bungie to fix their shitI hate the faggot content creator shills that enabled it aswellWe had so much but it was utterly ruined by the people who play itFuck bungie and fuck the niggers that supported its downfall
>>738274297>PvPvE will never be a good or popular game type.Yep. You'd think after the Dark Zone flopped two times, Developers would learn this but nope.Shit, even the Division mobile port is finally asking "do you want PvE Dark Zone?" in their recent survey.
>>738296104>make a separate queue with all damage done by players to players disabledwow you're right, that will take at least a year and 500 more developers working overtimefuck off
>>738295439>Been constantly losing 2,000 players a day>with Cyro bringing maybe 1,000 back a weekend>Only to then accelerate to 3,000 on Monday and then 2,000 until Thursday-Friday>Repeat this cycle for a month and a halfBrutal. It's not getting past the summer.
>>738297336that type of lazy nothingcontent will attract ZERO playerspve players expects boss fights, cutscenes, voice acting, quests, unique loot. Bungie can't port Destiny
>>738295439so they're going to announce cutback on development once it's consistently having sub 10k highs, right?
>>738297449wrongPvE players just want to kill the existing PvE enemies and loot without getting harassed by you psychopath scumthat's all, just give us a separate PvE mode with nothing else changed and PvE players will stop complaining
>>738297545sounds retardedmaybe bungie will do it after all
>>738252205dead is a kind of stable I guess, you're right
Flatlining will make me stable
>>738297449At this point they're trying not to lose the players they have.
The Bungie acquisition took place after Microsoft did the Bethesda deal and it is worth comparing what Bethesda has put out-- Fallout 76, a live service game, and Starfield, a new IP.Despite Fallout 76 being from a deeply established IP, and the follow-up to FO4 which sold over 24 million copies, Fallout 76's initial sales were awful, it was a critical flop, and the concurrent player count was low for years. Nevertheless, Bethesda continued to invest in it, built up the expanded universe/IP through the Fallout TV series, which in turn, led to massive sales and player count increases for Fallout 76.At the same time, rather than release a sequel to the Elder Scrolls or another mainline Fallout game, Bethesda released Starfield, one of the most forgettable and unremarkable IP's in modern history. The game itself was uninspiring and sales were lackluster.By comparison, Marathon started out with much higher sales and player counts than Fallout 76, received way better critical reviews, and as a new IP it is both visually and thematically distinct from everything else in the market. Marathon has already translated well to the video medium, as seen in the cinematic short and the music video. Already, Marathon is outperforming FO76 early, and a lot of the value add has not been tapped yet, but there is every reason to expect that the plan is to expand the franchise by going for a Netflix or similar partnership on a Marathon series-- see slides 27-33 of Games and Network Slide deck under investor relations.Like Bethesda, Bungie can make a Destiny 3 cash play at any time, but Marathon is about building a sustainable new revenue source, they are going to be fine as more people try it and get over their autism.
>>7382998153.6 billion
>>738282496>>738252205SnOY shills are desperate
>>738299815>expand the franchise by going for a Netflix or similar partnership on a Marathon seriesnigga FO76 is just fallout but multiplayer, easily accessible and fun to play. marathon is a sweaty extraction shooter.
new all time low in about 4-5h boys
>>738299815>expanded universe/IP through the Fallout TV seriesbecause the universe is interesting. falllout lore videos hit more views than most tv shows.
>>738300567>top of steamdb searchkek. at least that's one list it's topping. there are probably more people looking at marathon's charts than playing it
how bad is the aim assist on controller
>>738301025supposedly it's pretty bad, to the point people are equating it to cheating
It’s probably the scariest game I’ve ever played. The codex entries about the shared nightmares is aptly named.
I worry about season 2. I think the game will still revolve around Cryo and outpost while Marsh will just be turned into this night time map with a Hunt Showdown boss. It’s fair enough. Games like Fortnite get like three new small POIs and some guns every three months, but Marathon will get judged harsher for its content.
>>738301981fortnite has chun-li with party hips tho
>>738252205That's cool and all but look how badly Destiny 2 is doing right now. It has a third of Curse of Osirus era where Bungie claimed the numbers were so bad they were at risk of shutting down. Marathon is barely pulling more than this, but based on the inference that PC sold around 70% of total sales. So at best they have a combined player count at around Curse of Osirus. Wow amazing so good.
I am bewildered by the fact that they abandoned Destiny for this game. I sincerely cannot even comprehend the retardation that took over Bungie to pull support from the series that kept their studio running to trying to secretly fiend their way into supporting a lower effort cash-cow.Say what you want about Destiny, but they had to put in way more effort, time, and resources into making those dungeons and raids than they ever did crapping out Marathon. It's embarrassing, and the fact that they doubled down on this game is psychotic.
>>738302961They didn't abandon Destiny for this game. Destiny itself became completely unsustainable on its own merit and then they needed to find anything to replace it, Marathon's problems are a whole other story but Destiny had already become a money sink that had no ability to get new players and was collapsing under its own code and assets.
>>738303104Dude. Are you stupid? Holy fuck its like the meme of the guy putting the stick between his bicycle wheel and crashing. Do you fucking retards understand why destiny 2 couldnt garner new players? It was because they kept removing shit, they kept pushing FOMO, and for reasons I cannot understand they consistently failed the social aspects of the game. Did you want to partake in cool content you couldnt matchmake? Sorry we have a literal retard lead designer femcel working on the player social features and shes made it her mission in life to create the most anti social environment in a mmo fps game.They are literally driving new players away, but they dont care. Bungie did this to themselves, and they are absolutely at fault for not onboarding new players because it was as easy as making Beyond Light free and doing away with fomo based gear. This is not in any way anyones fault but their own for greeding out and acting oblivious
>>738255159long haul bros
>>738303449kek, i remember watching TI when they announced artifact and the crowd's reaction was mutedvalvefags are really eager to sweep shartyfart under the rug these days
>>738252360Battlefield 1942
I still don't get why the studio made a game like this. Leaving the artstyle aside, why didn't they go the Halo route? A single player campaign, a multiplayer mode and a tool to make your own map literally never falls out of fashion. Just have extraction as a multiplayer mode among many.
[Tragic News]The "Dads of Marathon™" discord server got gaped by the hacker known as snarky snappy.
>>738252426Sunk costs fallacy.
>>738252205>so active>so stable
Bungie is gonna have to do something big very soon
>>738259179Some random fags, who might not even play videogames, turn out to be better at predicting game sales than multibillion corporationsHow could this possibly be?
i know most of it here is ironic but it's embarrassing that a company as dogshit as bungie has so many fans that will defend them to the end, they legitimately haven't made anything good in almost 2 decades
>>738303549because then the streamers who they made the game for wouldn't have easy prey to make them look good for chat as no-one would play extractionthink of the poor streamers
The problem is that Bungie needs to do something NOW in Season 2.Because Season 3 and 4 if they even reach that far is running directly into GTA6.So if they don't save the game next mo th then it's pretty much over.
>>738303610all those 30 people bannedmarathon really needed them... the peak will never recover
>>738302961I think Destiny became technically unsustainable. The game cracked under the weight of live service schedule, technical debt and whatnot. I remember reading once what it took to set up spawn points in a map for Destiny 2 once and it was like listening to a flight control manual. I want Destiny and Marathon to merge together, but everyone gets upset at that notion. I think Destiny has a children’s story with awful dialogue -and Marathon too simple of a game loop (albeit addictive).
>>738304317They made Halo and Destiny and Marathon
>>738264991>Why the fuck is Durandal back on the Marathon?he isn't>>738265187No they didn't, the wreckage was still there and was restored by the UESC when they sweeped inTau Cetiu also had a fierce colonial resistance as of Marathon 2 and the colonial forces restored the colony of New Cascadia where they held together for however long they could until the Anomaly, the Contagion and the new wave of rampancy among supposedly fault-less AIs
>>738264991?? hes still here giving me slayer tasks
>>738264991The narrative idea is the entirety of NuMarathon is taking place inside the mind of Durandal as an exercise to figure out the Anomaly and Phor at a point just before the original Marathon game.There are certain factions that understand they are in Durandals simulation, that’s why none of the Tau Ceti planetside stuff matches up with the original.
>>738305103Ok schizo>>738264991>Why the fuck is Durandal back on the Marathon?Who told you that?>Why is he in this game at all?In a setting where matter itself is transfered by teleportation, Durandal could be anywhere
HOLD THE 4K PLAYERCOUNT LINE SISTERSLEAVE THE GAME OPENMAKE NEW STEAM ACCOUNTS AND BUY THE GAMERUN IT IN A SANDBOXWE HAVE TO FIGHT THE CHUACK
>>738252961Has that not happened yet? I want to see the play count after that happensAny casual player is going to bounce off hard
>>738304708i saw through the bullshit of 'live service', at least Bungie style, within the first year of destiny 1.played the fuck out of it on release, got gud gear, some nice exotics, etc.take a break for a few months, come back, and all my gear is worthless and i'm pretty much starting over again.. why the fuck did i even play in the first place?
Might dip below 3k today. Grim.
>>738253458I hate online games but having routine maintenance on servers that allows you to check frauds on here is hilarious.
>>738282496why does a 2026 AAA game need a maintenance every week?
>>738252426>>738256627remember that 20k was where it supposedly "stabilized"?
>>738289636people forget Highguard was only in development for like 4 yearsMarathon has been floating around before even the Sony acquisition, development is headed in one of the most expensive cities on earth. 10k players
>>738295830this is the stellar art direction everyone is jacking off?that looks like fucking shit
>>738252426while this is pretty funny I'm assuming the servers went down for a patch or some shit, there's no other explaination
We did it somethingawful!
Zamn!They're doing 2 maintenance patches in a row???
>>7383067923.6 billion
>>738253364Hahaha, blaming ICE for that dumpster fire. New low for you
>>738307484>people will real political convictions go out to act>chud just stays indoors watching chartspathetic
These threads are really all just samefags the entire way down, huh
>>738307626People with real political convictions who act don't play and seethe over video games, fuckface.
>>738307864.....why are you describing the right then? They're the ones that cry the most over video games, probably because they don't have real convictions like you said
Anyone find the modern Bungie shill to be a modern variation of a cargo cultist? They never experienced original Bungie, but they see all the classic memes and spirit of those times and are desperate to try rebuilding those experiences, with embarrassing results. You are not Marathon, you are not Halo, you are not Bungie. You are a disgrace.
>People with real political convictions who act don't play and seethe over video games, fuckface.
>>738307964>>738308012This doesn't count
>>738264991>Why the fuck is Durandal back on the Marathon? Why is he in this game at all?Not even Bungie knows.There was an article recently talking about they have proudly not written the rest of the story yet, so they can adapt to feedback.So when the game dies, rest assured that you're not missing out on anything. They have nothing.
why did they give up on Destiny again?
>>738308138>There was an article recently talking about they have proudly not written the rest of the story yet, so they can adapt to feedback.Why the fuck would you announce this openly. I think this is probably how a lot of companies do it internally, but it kind of shows how the game is made and they're just adopting whatever shizo theories the audience have
>>738282496>30kAt this point it would take a miracle for Marathon to reach these numbers again
>>738308268Apologies for the IGN link, but:https://www.ign.com/articles/bungie-confirms-it-has-marathon-story-plans-for-the-next-few-years-but-nothing-is-completely-locked-in-yet>"We know where we want to take the story over the next few years," Nardin said, "but I don't want to say it’s completely 'locked in' because it's important to us that our players be able to help shape it."So in other words, they have nothing.
>>738308138They said they’ve written the story for the next three years.
>>738308407No, they didn't.>"We know where we want to take the story over the next few years," Nardin said, "but I don't want to say it’s completely 'locked in' because it's important to us that our players be able to help shape it."They said they "know where they want to take the story", but it's not actually written yet. They have nothing.
>>738252205damn, that's crazy. i'm still not going to buy it or play it. have fun jerking off to cartoons or whatever.
>destiny 2 launch >had worse numbers compared to d1 at the time>marathon launch>has worse numbers than d2 at the timeWhy does bungie keep making the same mistakes instead of actually releasing good games?
>>738308494They have it. Trust Bungie. Get ready to apologize.
Can we get just ONE new FPS, where>We shoot aliens>They gave a crap when making the guns>don't have to play with other humans, unless you want toWarframe is nice, but I really want a first person shooter, where instead of being some magic god, I have my gun and alien scum.
>>738264862>no new maps until fucking AugustThey are so cooked, holy shit.
>>738308671Destiny sucked, halo sucked Bungie was never good in the first place
>>738308728>but I really want a first person shooter, where instead of being some magic god, I have my gun and alien scum.Unrealistic expectations in this gay industry
>>738308736let them cook
I'm still having a blast over here, chuds. Trust the plan, it's Bungie.
>>738308802the power is getting cut off in their office soon though
>>738308760YeahGuess the Activision teams were the only people actually capable of doing shit
>>738308790And even if it was done, we would need to check all the gay diversity checkboxes from the supporting characters, and shift action from the alien killing to the love triangle between Support Male A and Support Male B
WTF bros we're below 15k peak and 5k currently. How do we salvage this?
Jam status?
>>738308736>Xhe thinks there will be a new map in AugustKek
>>738308790Guns are bad and aliens are good, Chud.
>>738310353Nooooo you dont get itIts a previous map but in night time so its new chud
See you Blast Havers™ next thread!
>>738310406No, child. We will not be in the next thread, as we will be having a blast instead. Enjoy prison.
>>738300631Every time there is some cosmic flop like this, I just put it in my bookmarks to check from time to time. It's hilarious to have undeniable data on one side, and the seething shilling on the other.
>>738310547God that's pathetic lol
