>Sony reports Marathon made around $50-75 million in revenue on a budget of $300+ million (development + advertising/marketing)>Bungie is a complete mess financially right now; it's likely going to be in the red for the next couple of years, so they're taking losses on the assets that they paid $3.6 billion for; appears to be $800 million written off.
>>738435503I thought Maratroons have been awfully silent lately. Guess I know why now
>>738435503Profit went up by nearly 14% still.
OH NO NO NO AHAHAHAHAHAHWhere is that one fucking shill rat who kept saying the budget wasn't high? I want to laugh at him
>bungie will unironically be shut down within a few yearsthank god
>>738435571for sony as a whole company, sure, but it's a bad look for their gaming division
>>738436121>First it was DOA>then a week>then a month>then a year>now apparently its a centuryjust stop lmao
The anti marathon hate campaign did this!
>>738436258the game was doa nigga, it will be a doa f2p game within the next 3 months. the actual company will be held onto until someone with a brain steps in and kills it
>>738435503Blast havers status?
Does it really matter how much money you lose when your players are having a blast?
i'm tired of winning by simply existing
>>738436330who is paying for this?
>>738435503its good we finally have proof because there was no indicators before.man I cant wait to make 10,000 threads about this were we all jerk each other off as maybe 2% of the people in the thread actually play marathon while the rest of us just slurp each others cocks over finance reports for companies who games we dont playwinning bigly.
>>738436949Marathon flopped dude
>>738436949It’s okay xister… it’s time to let it go… we must be better saars
why aren't stockholders having a melty over the obviously terrible Bungie investment?
I'm so fucking happy. Total Bungie rape.
>>738436597Nobody, there was a pro Marathon paid shill campaign and this is a parody of that screenshot. I don't think either are real, the Maratroons just do it for free.
>>738435503This is what they fucking get for ruining Destiny 2.
ban charts threads
Sony is not going to kill their Golden Goose.Just stop it.
>>738437702do you know what a golden goose issony's golden goose is fortnite, which they do not own
>>738435503Hermen Hulst getting the boot for this?
>>738437161ah. thank you.
>>738437702>Sony is not going to kill their Golden Goose.....they already did
>>738437702>sony won't kill naughty dogyea no shit nigga
>>738435503how could Sony justify keeping Bungie on, at this point?also lol at the people claiming the budget couldn't possibly be that high.
>>738437702Want to bet, this is Hermen Hulst's Golden Goose, and Sony's come to roost it. Hope, Hulst is ready to take responsibility and bite the bullet.
>>738436330>right-wing ideologies>pro-Israellmao
>>738438304>>right-wing ideologies>>pro-Israel>lmaoshe's kinda right though
>>738436527It's taken a while but it's really just nice to see the companies getting eaten alive by the parasites they willing chose to host.
>>738438304If we pretend they entire republican party doesn't exist then sure
test
>>738435571I wasn’t aware it started and ended development this year
>>738435503>All of Playstation got mogged by a virtual solitaire game with jiggling keys and like three different interior decorator autism simulators made by Nintendo
>>738435503I don’t give a shit about marathon but why is /v/ so obsessed with its failure. I don’t even know if there’s a politics angle because it’s an extraction shooter with robots
>>738437702They already killed Japan Studio years ago
>>738438634Nobody would have given a fuck without the prior Concord/Highguard flop. It's the Tortanic all over again
>>738438082Is there a single person that gives a shit about the bald dyke space game. I’m not even talking about here but in general. I’ve never even seen a fan account for it and everything has autistic fans now
>>738438634studio hubris + cultlike fanbase makes it attract people who want to laugh at its failure
>>738437161The paid shill thing is real. But it's more like r/ than GCJ.
ok
>>738438712i will never forgive them for killing patapon. Even ratatan looks good on paper, it doesnt vibe with my nostalgia and the characters i grew up with
>>738438634
>>738438634Sony's live service folly needs to go down in flames as hard as possible, for the good of the industry.
>falling for the Bungle scamHAHAHAHHAHAHAH
Do cinematics count as advertising/marketing?
>>738438634>Sony spent an absurd amount of money dick waving with Microsoft for a really bad deal which could have been invested into literally anything else.>Is supposedly the direct cause of all the random live service deaths that Sony foolishly went after simply because they were competition or just poorly advising them.I don't care about this at all since live service as a model is mostly cancer but it's still something they did and a lot of company time and money was spent on this. So many dev studios had their games die before even being announced.>Made a sequel to a singleplayer game and had no singleplayer in it at all.>Destiny players vehemently despise them for how poorly they've handled Destiny as a whole.>In general have bad design philosophies like "Do the bare minimum, charge the maximum" that they openly voice.>The art theft because one of their artists was lazy.It's a whole host of things. I personally believed Marathon would underperform which I was proven right on. Destiny players were already leaving in droves, there's no singleplayer, the genre was niche, it doesn't look great, it's PVP only, and it's way too sweaty. It being a success would have taken a miracle.
>>738438061rest in power Concord
>>738439253Legends tell of an ancient Concord called Brink.
>>738438634Marathon/Bungie/Sony somehow managed to anger very large groups of people in the recent years:>Bungie fans hate it because they think it killed Destiny>Sony fans hate it because they think the live service push denied them NEW cinematic single player games>Haters looking for a flop hate it of course>Asset theft didn't make people like it either
>>738435571Sony is a pretty huge company
>>738435503What's with videogame companies and going bankrupt? I think there is a bubble here that bursted but nobody noticed
I hope bungie lives for one more game because I am genuinely curious as to what it'll be like after they spent the last 6 years slowly but surely purging the staff.Marathon at least had some legacy work by people not there anymore, anything new now is going to be by the newbies and yesmen that were left behind.
>>738438304anon...
Were Bungie really making a Marathon game from the start? I feel like it was its own thing and then Mandaloregaming's Marathon videos renewed interest in the series and so they just slapped the label on it.
>>738440941I sincerely doubt an eceleb's videos had that much influence, anon
>>738440941Yes bro they watched a 30 minute YouTube video and decided to spend a few hundred million on a game
>>738440941Not this fucking take again
>>738440941It was probably like how Doom 4 was technically in development for 9 years. Lots of spitballing and systems demos but nothing cohesive and a couple of project restarts along the way before they finally settled on something that became the finished product.
Never forget that Sony spent 3.6 BILLION for Bungie because they thought live service was the future so they wanted someone good at it to manage their 10+ live service games.For comparison Disney spent 4 billion for star wars.
>>738440232The push to premium pricing for games and consoles came at an incredibly poorly timed moment with the COVID econom, and it only became a harder ask for customers to buy into the new prices with the tariffs raping the economy even further. But these companies are dug into their business plans and refuse to budge; Nintendo are the only ones showing any signs of trying to adjust to the market with upcoming games being below the new standard pricing and even then you know those bitches are also going right back to $70-80 again when they've got a new mainline Zelda/Mario to show off.
>>738441045H-haha yeah... *looks at Knack 2*
>>738436949I'm glad that some anons are finally going to stop posting about how Marathon is a hit and that we'll be having Marathon for a long time. It was obvious that the game was, at best, just average and it had no impact, but for some reason a group of people were insistent on defending it.
>$300+ million AHAHAHAHAHA HOLY SHIT I KNEW WE WERE LOWBALLING BY USING 200M THINGS ARE EVEN WORSE THAN WE THOUGHT
>>738441210I guess Sony didn't like what bungie had to say since non of their attempts since followed any thread from D2.Which begs the question why spend all that cash if you're not gonna listen to what you paid for?
>>738440941Apparently it got cancelled and all the assets went into Destiny’s Lightfall expansion.
>>738441210You do know 4 billion is nothing for these companies right? It’s akin to a weeks grocery shopping.
>>738439565
>>738438634I'll never forgive Sony for the VITA
>>738440941It was probably a similar story to NuPrey, in that the suits wouldn't greenlight a new IP so they had to drag out the barrel of shit they already owned and reuse the name.
>>738438634>why is /v/ so obsessed with its failure. I don’t even know if there’s a politics angle because it’s an extraction shooter with robotsBooty blasted Destinyfags. Marathon stands on its own merits but they're unwilling to cede the point.
>>738438634because fuck b*ngie
>>738438734Normalfags will buy it because they saw an ad for it on a bus
>>738443518>brown bald nig protagyeah sure
>>738435503How did that even happen.How did no one look at the initial design concepts and go>You are not getting $300 million for this, this has no mass market appeal?It might look unique and it's cool that they are trying something new I guess, but on the other hand a lot of people will see that "unique" as "ugly" so you really shouldn't pump a suicidal amount of money into it.
>>738443727the visual design probably wasn't solidified so early, anonthey got $300 million by going, "hey give us money to make another live service shooter, we made destiny"
>>738443518marathon is splattered all over the place and even completely taking up the front page of the ps store most days and look what happenedinterstellars budget is probably on the same ridiculous level as marathon too
>>738436330>anti marathon hate campaignYou mean normal people
>>738443727Sony got tricked by Bungie during acquisition and everything since was just a sunk cost fallacy
>>738442842No its a shitload for those companies you unaware commie turd
>>738440941They were working on an original IP in 2019 called Matter. That was cancelled in late 2021 and was revived as Marathon just for brand recognition.
chartwatcher bros...we eatin good tonite
>>738443727No one knows what will succeed or fail. They just release games and hope it sales.
>>738444775that makes sense. nobody could have possibly predicted that Concord would shit the bed as bad as it did
>>738435503>Continuous Operations Operating Income>or FCT for shortI hate business language so much it's Unreal and Unity at the same time.
The game is great though.
>spend 3.6 billion dollars on this>act surprised when it doesn't turn profitable
>>738438634They revived an old IP as a bootleg fortnite clone and lost millions over it. Shit's just funny.
Digital Extremes send their regards
Bungie directly was involved with Concord lol, they gave consulting and some devs helped. They also told Naughty Dog that TLOU Factions would fail and scared them away. Then, they convinced Sony that $300M on their new game was going to be worth it.Sony is absolutely seething at them. The $3.6B was a panic purchase but they had coped that with their live service push, Bungie would be instrumental for consulting. Instead, everything they touch has turned to shit. Whoever negotiated that deal for Bungie ran off like an absolute chad thief. $800M written off already and it’s not really going to improve anytime soon.
>>738435503Based, fuck sony
>>738445949the opposite of a midas touch, anything the troons at bungie touch turns to a turd kek
It’s a really good game, just needs to steal Bungies raid design team and add more story into the game. There’s no point in keeping Destiny 2 going. Pack it up.
>>738435503>it wasnt a 500 million dollar lossI want an apology. I kept saying 500 million dollar loss and the nigger shills doubted me. kneel.
>>738445949>They also told Naughty Dog that TLOU Factions would fail and scared them awayThis one is a rare bungie correct call.Factions 1 was niche and not a huge draw despite being pretty good. 2's multi would never have been the money printer Sony wanted and ironically Bungie would go on to do the same fuck up of trying to make a mass market appeal niche game that they spared Naughty Dog from.
They can still salvage it by making it into a real Marathon game
>>738446109Broken clock, twice a day, etc.Frankly I'm more of the opinion that bungie is actually sabotaging other devs they are consulting for to monopolize the position of THE live service developer at sony.
>>738445868Well /v/, what company should Sony have bought for 3.6bil? lol
>>738445708That's right. Just like no one knew Fortnite would be a huge hit.
Still waiting for the Bungie layoff announcement
>>738446084have you tried reading this actual picture? it's trillions of yen you must convert the value for dollars
>>738435503these gaming companies are operating illegally, they are backed by investment firms and are contractually obligated BY LAW TO SEEK A PROFIT, they have turned these entertainment companies into churches, they are making sermons they are not making a product intended to sell, they are preaching their gospels to the masses to "own the chuds" its from the top down social democrats its completely taken over the western entertainment sphere and ITS ILLEGAL TO OPERATE THIS WAY THEY ARE INTENTIONALLY NOT SEEKING A PROFIT. so when does the law step in and deal with this? because quarter over quarter you have hollywood, AND the gaming industry losing billions, and nothing gets done about how they are operating illegally? very strange if you ask me, how are the investors not complaining about the fact that their dollars are being used to fund activist pet projects and NOT TRYING TO GET A RETURN ON THEIR INVESTMENTS? THIS IS BLATANTLY ILLEGAL.
>>738446369>completely unprompted culture war tard meltyPlease explain what "gospel" Marathon is trying to spread exactly.
>>738437702>Sony is not going to kill their Golden Goose.their golden goose is fortnite and hoyoverse games
>>738446420social justice activism.
>>738435503So Sony lost more than a billion on live service games and they're still doubling down with Horizon Hunters Gathering and Fairgames?
>>738446481can you elaborate on that? preferably with some in-game examples
>>738446481Elaborate. What does that mean to you?
>nearly a billion dollars in lost value>blaming it on bungie aloneClassic corpo shit. Sony itself should be holding themselves accountable for ever allow that much mismanagement to ever happen in their 4 (four) billion dollar investment.How retarded do you have to be?
>>738446369That's just some old Jewish bullshit no no one cares anymore unc
Why didn't gamers support this?
>>738446506you know as well as i, the game was made for one reason and one reason only, to be used as a propaganda piece on 4chan, thats it, the game was NOT made to sell copies, it was made to push activist causes, the numbers don't lie the games and everything like it to come out lately of the AAA are losing billions of dollars the same protagonists, the same story with activist undertones and symbology, the same grifting political takes, its not even something thats controversial everyone talks about it online how the gaming industry has been fully taken over by activism, bungie has investors they are legally and contractually obligated to serve and they are not, they are acting in the interests of social democrats and thats it.
>>738446584Gamers aren't BETTER MENBut why didn't BETTER MEN buy it either?
MARTY WON
>>738435503We got too cocky sisters....
>>738446584Naughty Dog released a video a while ago and they censored all the gay flags lol.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT_EIOxtOVY
>>738446621Genuinely seek mental help. Your brain is mush.
>>738446624they were busy drawing sonic punching ice agents and dancing the fascism away
>>738446680layoffs are coming soon, you should probably get put in jail or sued by the investors but layoffs will do fine.
>>738446258I think Sony gave an offer to Squeenix later they told them to fuck off and that's how they ended up with Bungie.
>>738436949This but 100% unironically
>>738437702Bungie is more like a suicidal pigeon
>>738446649He's literally Hitlert. MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+
>>738435503HyenaGame$ will save them its the next billion dollar franchise
>>738446714The fuck do you mean coming soon? Bungie has been bleeding personnel for years now and has had 3 official downsizes since being acquired.It's already happening.
Can someone check up on this guy and make sure he's okay?
>>738446421And Roblox
>>738446778Forgot to attach my image
>>738446808good, i won't be satisfied until all the pastors at bungie and the like are fired.
every executive involved since the move to Cali needs to be fired
>>738435503western AAA industry is over
>>738435658He is on to defend some other piece of shit on reddit, he doesnt care. They are prostitutes
>>738446582>it's the jooooos Classic /pol/ tier understanding of the world
>>738446850why aren't the AAA developers profit seeking, they know exactly the kind of games that will sell to the general public and are INTENTIONALLY making games no one wants for activist causes, they hire trans and bipoc, they push propaganda aligned with social democrats regardless of its popularity and ability to translate into sales, they have investment overhead who expect a return, they are forgoing this obligation to make a sermon that preaches to the public, they are not trying to make money its illegal to operate this way they deserve to fail.
>>738435503paid billions for Bungie, all the main talent already left. Now is just a shell of a studio. Sony fucked up bigly by not buying Eidos instead. They had so many IPs, like Deus Ex, that were highly compatible with Playstation.
>>738439994>schizo namefag opinion
>>738446923Not all the main talent.bugs me that no one seems to mention that it was only after bungie had "moved on" the old art team that had been there since Myth that the whole art plagiarism thing happened.Must have been a coincidence that shonky stuff happened after they gave their old gold the boot.
>>738443269>Marathon stands on its own meritsIt's 80% reused assets from destiny and 20% stolen you delusional ape
>>738446673surprised I didn't hear more about this
>>738446673
How the fuck does a game with one game mode and 3 maps cost 300+ mil to make?UT2004 launched with 10 modes and over 100 maps 20 fucking years ago.Just what the fuck is going on?
>>738447095Not stolen anymore since they had to give a fat fucking paycheck to the artist and they got in the credits lol.probably the only winner out of all this, money for years old art, a surge of relevance and public support, and a corporate job to put on your portfolio. Not bad for doing literally nothing.
>>738438634Destinytards on one hand, and /v/iggers on the other circlejerking about every non Nintendo game being bad.
>>738447238embezzlement, illegal operations in general they aren't trying to turn a profit they are squeezing investment money laundering it for activist causes and just pushing out some garbage no one wants after a decade.
My issue with hating on marathon is that is puts me in league with destiny players and that's pretty disgusting.
>>73844723810 year dev cycle paying commifornian salaries
>>738447368Worse: Bellevue WA salaries.
>>738446923Bungie also went full retard and fired their most talented to save costs.>who do we fire>Ranjit the programmer from India>Karen the HR manager from California>OR THE GENIUS RESPONSIBLE FOR HALO AND DESTINY'S MUSIC
Official marathon account seething hard
>>738447618totally not a social democrat activist, but i was wrong bungie is totally trying to turn a profit bro if i was an investor of bungie i'd sue, your money is being stolen and laundered.
>>738447618did they delete all of their posts? it says it is empty
>>738447618>we're not gotten to>everything is finewhy acknowledge the chart watchers, you gain nothing from it
>>738446109Factions 2 would have been more successful than their new game is going to be
Don't worry, they'll sell more pins to make up for the lose
maradads and bungiebros, here is how we can still have a blast
Why didn't Hyenas pack, Highguard's Wardens and Concord's freegunners play this game? Will they at least play Fairgame$?
What's the consensus from the latwinks community?
>>738447842Because those games have nothing in common>>738447691Do you know what social democracy means?
>>738446810
>>738447618>Officialme when I lie
> If circumstances change going forward, we plan to manage the impact on profitability by flexibly adjusting, among other things, unit sales and promotional plans in our studio business. Earnings from Bungie's title portfolio did not reach our expectations. So we downwardly revised our business plan and impaired the full amount of the fixed assets related to Bungie, except for goodwill. >Player receptions to Marathon is strong, with the game receiving a Metacritic score of 82, and more than 90% of the player reviews on steam being positive. Engagement metrics, such as retention, also remain at a high level. Going forward, we aim to improve the performance of the game by working to retain highly engaged core users through the introduction of additional content. Further improvements in the gameplay experience and expansion of the user base.From the earnings call. Marathon is here to stay.
>>738447905>all they are trying to do is get money by abusing X's engagement algorithm with hate.where's my money
>>738447893bungie has people whose job it is to know whats going to sell to the general public, so why aren't they making games that are marketable to the wider market, and furthermore why are the investors ok with their money being used for activist pet projects and not to make a product with the intention to turn a profit and a return for their investment overhead? i want answers to this question on behalf of those investors? is their money just being stolen, and what is the legal justification for operating a business in the united states this way when they are contractually obligated to profit seek? i mean if you have questions for me, i have plenty for you.
>>738436330>dat picJesus Christ that is pathetic
>>738447940do they think the investors are stupid? retention is extremely bad, and the numbers they claim are false and propped up by paid reviews.
>>738447940>Engagement metrics, such as retention, also remain at a high levelthis is outright fraud
>>738447940Even if the game did super duper shit it's still be supported for at least another 8 month since bungie has not exactly been keeping it a secret that the first year of "content" has already been paid for.After that though? who knows.
>>738438634Because /v/ are closted Destiny players who are angry that Destiny never got to live up to it's potential because of criminal mismanagement by Bungie exces. Marathon is their way of giving Bungie the finger.
>>738447996Learn to use paragraph breaks.>marketable to the wider marketIn better days you should be crucified for saying this here. Motherfuckers are so obsessed with corporate earnings that they get upset companies aren't making generic mobile gacha garbage. God forbid you make a game that isn't for the lowest common denominator.
>>738447940they can get sued for lying about the retention, everyone can see the metrics
>>738447940>Going forward, we aim to improve the performance of the game by working to retain highly engaged core users through the introduction of additional content. Further improvements in the gameplay experience and expansion of the user base.More maps on the Marathon ship, more story contracts (Arachne has fucking none) and character customisation. Make it happen immediately. And more raid bosses, add some pfhor, some bigger UESC robots, more mutated animals.
>>738448096not an answer, bungie is a company that is beholden to their investors and are LEGALLY OBLIGATED to serve those investors who are expecting a marketable product to get a decent return obviously bungie knew beforehand this wasn't going to do well, so my question stands, what is the legal justification for bungie operating their business with activist projects at the forefront of their business?
>>738441708You realize that knack sold millions of copies, right? Knack 2 didn't get made because of fucking dunky, it got made because sony thought it would sell. In a few years you're going to start seeing youtube videos pop up from zoomers talking about how knack is an "underrated gem" because it was their first video game ever, like what happens with fucking sonic games.
>>738435503Ya money well spent
>>738447940>highly engaged core users Blast havers saved the game lmao
>>738448157>activist projectsThis doesn't mean anything. Were they trying to pump and dump the silkworm industry?
>>738445868No one actually cares about that anon. Sure people shitpost and whine about it, but people also know it's disingenuous and for the form. It's noise that has long since started dying down all over.
>>738447940Why does this make /v/ seethe? I’m having fun with the game and this tells me that GTA VI and Mihoyo will continue to fund my game even though it made no money. That’s awesome
>>738442621They did listen, it's just the feedback was "cancel naughty dog's game, invest as much as you can into concord". Turns out Bungie doesn't actually know what they're talking about, they're just coasting on their reputation.
>>738446673Ghehehe really? That's funny
>>738448230it is illegal to operate in the way hollywood and video games have been operating i don't know how all of this has been maintained this long but its clear, the entertainment industry of the west is a church not a business, and when you have investors its not legal to operate like this, so my question is when do the lawsuits happen, someone is responsible for the loss of profits and the hollowing out of the western entertainment industry and people who are gainfully employed in that industry knew full well the stuff they were making people hated, and yet it still got made? thats an interesting thing i'd love answers to.
>>738435503>Look at our numbers!>No, stop looking at our numbers!>AIIIIIIEEEEE NO NOT THOSE NUMBERS!How many Concords will it last before they shut it down?
>>738442621I'd like to remind you that Bungies acquisition was two weeks after Microsoft acquired Activision. Yes, Sony made a knee jerk reaction buying out bungie because they got spooked by Microsoft.
>>738448316oy vey, cool it with the antisemitism
>>738446825Marty's views are dumb and stupid, but that doesn't make his music any less godly. He maybe a retarded politician, but he's one of the best gaming composers ever.
>>738438634>but why is /v/ so obsessed with its failure.all they had to do was include pretty robots
>>738447940>good retention >highly engaged core>90% steamThey aren’t technically lying since this was made based off of the state of the game on Mar 31. Obviously since then retention has been a massive problem and Steam score has dipped. They have tried putting it on sale once already and it didn’t seem to do much. I wonder how long of a leash they’ll give to Bungie with this game - if it were up to me, I’d be gearing them up to fully focus on D3 and leave a skeleton crew on Marathon. That’s not what they’re doing though.
>>738440941>Were Bungie really making a Marathon game from the start?Yes. Bungie has been spitballing a Marathon reboot for a decade now. It was also Tarkovish but closer to DayZ with way bigger maps. It was the pet project of Chris Barrett for years of preproduction but he got fired and Bungie brought Ziegler as the new lead which is why he injected Valorant DNA, with classes and match timers.And as a sequel-reboot-expansion on the world, if you actually played it and did the quests and hunted for logs, it is very good at it. It's not just derivative memberberries and adds enough new interesting actors and detail to the setting.>muh ecelebyou hopefully don't believe this.
>>738447869>Latin/a/e/o/x
>>738448316Cool rant but we're talking about Marathon here.
>>738448557the chickens are going to come home to roost, eventually an actual investor will see someone like me make this arugment, and think to himself "wait a minute, he's right" and thats when this entire house of cards is going to end in legal trouble, you know as well as i, that hollywood and the games industry are operating illegally in the united states and its been overlooked for god knows what reason, but money is getting tight these days and people aren't going to overlook this illegal activity forever.
>>738436330>right wind>pro-isreal>pro-AInigger wat
>>738447940Your excellent player retention, sire.
>>738447238(((Progress)))Same reason, we can't land on the fucking Moon anymore, 60 years later.
>>738448690>Steam But NPD/Circana reported something else, and so did Sony. They cannot lie to investors. In any case, they have confirmed that the game is here to stay. So I’m thinking you’re wrong.
>>738446673Fucking lmao
>>738448689All of those are right wing, yes
>>738448753>They cannot lie to investors.They don't have to tell everything either you know.
>>738447238Wow are questioning (((modern))) game design and development strategies?
>>738438634Its the same shit about TORtanic. Anons wants to see another big fail like Concord.
>>738448631I know you're too retarded to grasp it but consider for a moment, that it is not a good idea to try to make artistic expression illegal for the crime of not being profitable. You are actively clamoring for the industry to become lowest common denominator slop with nothing of value. Please die.
i guess it had to be a bomb to have a blast
>>738448905>to become
>>738448905all you have to do is make games i'll like with big boobs and hot women, do your job or lose your job i don't care which but im going to win in the end weather you like it or not, so do your job or move out of the way for someone who is willing to make a product people will buy, the investors will be on my side with this mark my words.
>>738438634its just funny to see the most obvious flop actually flop and make everyone involved look stupid
>>738448001That someone actually wasted time making a fake image like that? Yeah, I suppose it is
>>738448905> implying live service slop is being pushed hard for reasons of artistic expressionDishonest faggot. Post nose.
Why do retards say things like "corposlop needs to be safe so they make their money" and then a big corpo just fucking up and released a stupidly expensive game into a genre that died before the game's development even started?
>>738437702nigga, sony bought bungie from the farmer next door and that clucker went into the pantry and ate $800 worth of foodthat shit aint laying no golden eggs
>>738447940Lying to investors is illegal
>nu/v/ would shit talk Okami, Psychonauts and System Shock because they lost moneyGenuinely just go back to your gacha and Nintendo revenue threads.
>>738449147But the pile of shit is huge! There must be a golden egg in there somewhere, right?
>>738449197We like bad games failing, companies like bungie deserve to die. You trying to reframe it like /v/ is some shareholder board that hates low profits is wild
>>738449310That seems to be the disconnect, because it isn't a bad game. But you wouldn't know, nobody here played it.
>>738449368I was also interested in destiny 2 but their practices completely turned me off from it.
>>738435503when will they learn? are they just gonna keep releasing these flop live service games until there are no studios left?
>>738449368>bungle gunplay>extraction slop>marathon lore skinsuitIt's BAD.
>>738448905disingenuous, his argument wasn't that they're not profitable, but they aren't even trying to be profitableyou should shut the fuck up if you can't make arguments with strawmanning
what is it with people treating these live service shooter slop games that are designed to nickle and dime retards and get them hooked to shitty monetization practices, like high art? it happened with highguard and now it's happening with marathon.
>>738442970I found my vita recently. Didn't even take it out and try to boot it, it's been so long I forgot what was wrong with it.
>>738449482>bungle gunplayIt's passable, same as Destiny. Aim assist up the ass though.>extraction slopI like Tarkov.>marathon lore skinsuitRead the terminals and logs you pleb. The worldbuilding holds up the game like Atlas the sky.
>Errrrrm chudigga, why are you celebrating one of the most Hebrew companies ever dying?Uhhhh be cause that's objectively a good thing? Shitty companies not being rewarded for jewmaxxing will make the industry better
>>738448316The lawsuits don't happen because the investors, who have all the imaginary money to spend frivolously, are deliberately investing in activism and propaganda. Losing some millions here and there means nothing. At least half of all people genuinely believe all the propaganda about pride parades and such. That's a 50% return on investment.
>>738449547Because less retards getting hooked is less money for the shills running damage control for this goyslop
>>738438634Because the sooner the GaaS mentality burns to the ground, the better
>>738438634>"Remeber, the key to a successful GAAS game is to never actually deliver anything good" -Bungie
>>738437702The goose is painted with gold color and it's eating diamonds and crapping shit instead of golden eggs. It's time to cut that fucker into pieces and sell them for scraps.
>>738438634i dont wanna fuck the girls
>>738435503Bungie? More like roping yourself with a bungee cord lmao
>>738449883>The goose is painted with gold colorESL hands typed this post.An English speaking person would say "the goose is painted gold". Hope this helps!
>>738450001If I said "gold" an autistic cocksucker like yourself would assume it's actual gold plating.
>>738447940>Engagement metrics, such as retention, also remain at a high levelThat’s a lie. That is demonstrably untrue.
>>738438634Bungie was the reason TLOU 2 Factiona was canned, a lot of bad decisions Sony has made in recent years can be attributed to them listening to Bungie's advice. People naturally want Bungie to fucking die for this reason.
>>738450091No, because in my example you would have said it was "painted gold".You can't paint something gold, without gold paint. If you cover something in "real" gold, that's called a gold "plating". Hope this helps you learn English faster!
>>738446369Can you cite the law that's being broken?
>We make worlds that inspire friendship More like you make worlds that drive your shareholders to suicide
>>738448753Marathon themselves reported that steam is 70% of marathon players across all platformsIf its going down on steam its going down everywhere else even harder
>>738450194I painted your mom's insides white with my cum. No paint was involved.
>>738450325That's what we call an "analogy" in English.It means something is like another thing, in this case you are comparing cum to paint.
>>738446673Why? Serious question
>>738450386>analogyNo, it was vaginal.
>>738450586:^)
>>738446673KEK
WHO WOULD'VE THOUGHT KILLING YOUR MONEY MAKING GAME WOULD MAKE YOU LOSE MONEY?LAYOFFS!!LAYOFFS!!
bungie is dead this year
>>738435503whoever is making decisions in these companies should get fired ASAP. americans haven't made a single good AAA game in more than 15 years. this is beyond pathetic considering all the talent and resources they got.
>>738450815LMAO
>You will live to piss on both bungie and sony gravesBiggest erection I had in years
>>738450314No they didn’t. That was Paul Tassi. Devs haven’t said anything about the platform split.
>>738435571A lot of their increased profits are carried by this chart. JPY is worth less which means they get more of them without doing anything.
>>738447940>such as retention, also remain at a high level.uhhhh...?
>>738448548The Patriots!?
>>738450984>tassi who has bungie sources and has never lied when citing bungie sources is suddenly lyingok blast haver, face the wall.
>>738437064they managed to convince them that there is a possibililty Marathon might gain traction again and that the low player count was as a result of internet bandwagoning and would be temporary. But it's not looking good and theyre undoubtedly ready to pull the plug. The 3.6 Bil sunk cost fallacy also exists, harder to pull the plug on something youve invested so much in so theyre going to give it a year or so to make sure even though thats gonna deepen the hole.
>>738435503The blast was just so big that it stunned everyone having one. They’ll make the money back, trust the plan.
>>738451384Who? Does he work at bungie? Is he a journo that actually does his job?
>>738451441It always happens with studios and Bungie was laying off people before for destiny 2 flopsMarathon is that magnified by 10x its a studio closing flop
>>738435503I’ll tell you right now: If Bungie gets dissolved by Sony, I’m going to hard SOB for two days straight. And if anybody tells me “it’s not that deep”, fuck off. As a creator, a player, and at times, an influencer, this is so much more than the fate of a game or an IP. It’s more than a studio. It’s a people and a foundation built over decades. It’s livelihoods. And if it cracks, it’s those livelihoods that are fallen. I’m honestly so scared.
>>738451676>its a studio closing flopi dont think we have comparisons or words than put into perspective just how much of a titanic failure the Bungie acquisition is. 4 BILLION DOLLARS went down the fucking drain and theyre continually losing hundreds of millions as they try to keep it afloat for the remaining year in the hopes that theyre going to see a 180. It's pure insanity, and a loss that high is pretty much unprecedented in the history of entertainment.
>>738451819lmao where'd you find this?
>>738451676I'm sure heads will roll at bungie but I have seen that piratenation fag pop up multiple times and i'm wondering why people actually use him as some authority. Does he have inside information?
>>738451819>and at times, and influencerKek
>>738451871her posts are kind of unhinged. Bungie is basically her replacement for a child she never had it seems.
they just admitted milking last userbase until they leave
>>738446757kek
>anon>anon>anonplease to being redeem the marathon game sir. thank you kindly
>>738435503I hate when people compare Sony's decision making process to gambling. Employing several different teams of untalented political hires who hate your primary customer base and lack respect for the industry that they're working in to create some of the most expensive projects in the history of the industry isn't "rolling the dice". That's like saying that driving a motorcycle off a cliff is a "gamble" because there's a tiny chance that you might be fine. They've gone beyond failing at the fundamentals and into the realm of lacking basic common sense.Any Sony executive who had more faith in Marathon and Concord than Helldivers and Stellar Blade needs to be blacklisted from the industry, and I'm not being hyperbolic. That demonstrates that they're either completely clueless about what their priorities should be or they're bad actors. This is a different company, but if you're working on a team shooter, you should be able to explain why the Highguard trailer evoked that reaction and then why players who played it didn't like it. I think that it's a good measuring stick because unlike Concord and Marathon, the problems aren't so obvious that even your mom who doesn't care about videogames could tell that it won't sell (which still makes her more qualified than the executives who unironically thought that Concord was going to be a multi-billion dollar franchise).
>>738438304>Side brain
>>738447940Sony blatantly lying to investors lmao
Its funny how every sony acquisition has either flopped and been shuttered or become soulless like insomniac or sucker punch who only exist to keep shitting out the same game over and over again.
>>738452262Where did you get this from?
>>738450580Video shot during the tranny decade but released in the chud century
Bungie getting ready to buy themselves, again, from sony this timeI wonder to whom they will sell next
>>738447869>Start the tweet by calling them Latin/a/o/e/l/m/a/o>Your actual program doesn't fucking use Latin/a/e/o/Œ/zReally shows how fucking surface level all this shartivism actually is.
Sony should sell Bungie to the saudis or something and clean their hands of this mess.
Bungie somehow continues to dodge everything and fail upwards. how the fuck did they get Sony to support this fail of a game that flopped so hard? Like they shut down bluepoint so easily but won’t do it for Marathon???
>>738452061greetings from kazakhstan
>>738435503Lmao
>>738452262It's weird that they'd say they're working to retain players instead of attracting new ones. Sounds like they're planning on dumping the game once they finish shipping content for the current roadmap.
>>738454112>Like they shut down bluepoint so easily but won’t do it for Marathon???Western devs are considered more valuable to modern SonyBluepoint was remastering Japanese jank in their eyes
>>738454836Not really. The first big burst of players on release is the attracting players period. Now it's better to KEEP those who remain since they are the driving marketing/ad force and they do it for (((free))).Any more big influxes of players is down to happy accidents or a positively received content drop driving interest again.That said unless they introduce something to mix it up they won't be retaining very much since at this point anyone who has sunk time into it has probably seen it has to offer so it's down to simple enjoyment of the game and that is a factor you cannot plan for.They will probably still dump it after a year tho lmao
It's over. Like for real
>>738455076Reach really was the swan song
fuck bungie. hope they crash & burn.
>>738455182Truthnuke, but there's also hilarious irony in a character from the ugly rabbits game saying this
>>738445868You laugh but that pin probably made more profits than Marathon.
>>738438304Holy cope. You are a retard.
The funniest part is them trying to say player retention is good because it has botted steam reviews (due to Bungie going in their 400k member discord and telling them to leave reviews), and 'retention is good' when by March 31st, it had already lost half its players, less than a month after release
>>738445868Bottom left is legit a parody website from GTA IV
>>738455063You can't use a toxic hostile playerbase of PVPer to attract new players.
>>738435503It's because it wasn't a console exclusive. PCfags pirated it en masse.
>>738455642cope
>>738436330Just pretend I posted the false flag king drawing.
>>738446664Welcome... To Marathon!
>>738455076>sony says they don't plan on losing any more in FY26New Destiny expansion, Marathon shuts down
Why did Bungie lose?
>>738455815More like layoffs incoming
>>738455889Divine retribution for firing based Marty
......
>>738456018having to compare your new game to an almost decade-old one sure says a ton
>>738456018>this game is doing better than that pile of shit over there that literally everyone hatesbravo sony, throw another billion at them
>>738435503AHAHAHAAHAHAHAHA
Marathon runners rise up!
>>738456018Marathon has around the same number of players on steam as Destiny 2. One is 2 months old and the other is 7 years old. Destiny 2 also currently has a much larger console playerbase
>>738436258>first it was 88k players>then 62k>then 43k>then 24k>now 15kb-blast havers...
>>738456308how many levels of cope are we on right now>Sony grewthey make more than games, I doubt their gaming division grew when they've been consistently putting out huge flops for years now
>>738453945sony fiscall year call had video feedback
>>738435503Bungie was Microsoft's Rare down to the very end.
Welcome back Lawbreakers.
>>738456308>The only direction left is up These reports only include up to March 31st lol
>>738435503Sony deserves it for being so retarded. Imagine all the actual good ips they could have gotten, and games they could have funded, with 4 billion dollars. Instead they wasted it all on simply acquiring a group of has beens who had done nothing but barely support a failing live service game for the past decade.
>>738456018Is he defending Marathon or making fun of it?
>>738437064I genuinely dont know how there arent share holder mass shootings after all these recent shit movie and game flops that have 200m+ budgets.
>>738443518>Normalfags>playing anything thats not cod/ball gamesLmao
What has given the anti-Marathon fags such a hatred for this game? Why do so many want to see the game fail? I don't play the game and have no interest in it, I am just interested in the psychology behind trying to tank a game and/or getting pleasure in seeing the game fail when it has next to no impact on your own circumstances
>>738456556Kek funny if true
>>738435503hahahaha snoys get what they fucking deserve
what a shame man. Literally ALL they had to do was not make it a live service slop extraction shooter. Laugh at me if you want to, the aesthetic is utterly peak. But I have literally no interest in installing a rootkit on my PC just to fight it out with the sweatiest 14 year olds on planet Earth with 40 hours worth of farmed gear on the line.Why are game developers like this?
>>738457202Or make it free if they wanted a live service game to succeed
>>738457093It's funny watching concord slop fail because the developers hate white people and want them all dead.
>>738456416>retention remains at high levelwhat are they smoking
>>738457307This is a report that ends at march 31st when marathon had 30k players, its since lost half of that amount
>>738446491No, Playstation is losing that much on live service games. Sony's music division is still making an entire assload from Fate Grand Order.
>>738457307>>738457584It’s more likely something like>We had 100 players on Xbox>Now we have 80>STRONG RETENTION>Ignore the steam and PS5 numbers chu- eeerrr I mean investor-sama
How much more blood must be shed before GaaSslop is dead once and for all
>>738457758until jewvestors discover a different model that milks more money
>>738448246>Nobody cares>Spent billions to lose millions month after monthI suppose in the way that nobody is buying the game, but if you mean that people will actually buy woke slop it's never happened. The only woke game that didn't totally flop was BG3, and they sold the game for several years, then patched in woke stuff later, which I guess is a way to have your woke game not flop, but it only works once.
>>738449197The new Psychonauts is shit, the new System Shock smeared vasiline over everything, added gay stuff, and removed features. It is bad.
>>738456308Nobody is buying the game or talking about it anymore, which means nobody has friends picking it up and telling them to join.The world at large has decided it's a dead game and a waste of $40 to try and get in, and nothing they add to it can change this fact.The most they can hope for is 10-20k tourists if they go f2p, and even then, due to nobody knowing anyone who plays, people won't even have a reason to download it.That said, I hope Snoy keeps pouring millions into this waste of space for another year.
>>738457959jesus I had seen nothing about this game, those designs are atrocious enough they'd fit in any of the modern western multiplayer games.
>>738442970based.
>Exclusives sold 5.8M out 93 millionsHow come Playstation owners don't buy any games?
Sony should close Bungie down.
>>738458194They buy fifa, madden, nba, and cod.
>>738457909thats a player character, who is a godlike of the weird fungal god. you can turn all the mutations off or just have it be a tasteful amount. or you go full clown with it like in a souls game.
>>738457959The far left one is the only one that passes the old style. The rest of them are too bland.
>>738458194they never really did. basically the PS4/5 were this >>738458320CoD is now microsofts so Sony was trying to figure out a competitor, its why they bought bungie. and single player games dont keep the lights on, SAAARO or whatever is their only major release until Wolverine which probably wont make it till late december, it will sell really well on name alone but they dont have anything lined up for next year and are hoping to be the console of choice for GTA VI and again make money by not making a single game
>>738458709Yep, GTA 6 is going to bail them out so hard. Its going to be by far the biggest platform of the game for the first year or two at least.
>>738438634>why is /v/ so obsessed with its failureBECAUSE IT TOOK ONE OF MY FAVORITE GAMES GROWING UP AND SHAT ALL OVER IT, WHAT THE FLYING FUCK DO YOU THINK?
>>738459138is this the marathon subreddit? holy shit
>>738449482>>marathon lore skinsuitIt's actually the most faithful aspect of the game.
>>738437702 Give it up, The Golden Goose has already died from AIDS.
>>738438634>Why are oldschool star wars fans not loving Disney?!
>>738438304 But everybody likes Israel, didn't you know?
>>738451018man the japanese still haven't been able to recover from the plaza accord sad to see
>>738438634 Cute Uma nigga.
>>738447331Yup, most western aaa stuff is just some form of money shenanigans where ceo's extract everything of value. The entire western economy is based on non profitability and revenue maxing. Clown world.
>>738436949ThisWe are just like those investors who never play a game. We are just having fun watching the stock goes up and down.
Game/company loses money:Did the CEO make money? Yes, working as intended.
Shillmygame status? Is xhe still blasting or did xhe kill ximself?
PlayStation would make more money and be more profitable if they just ceased all game production. Isn’t that sad?
>>738440941Low level insider here believe me or not it will probably be revealed partly from someone in due time.Bungie tried to hire him on as a full time project consultant after PLAGIARISM WILL MAKE ME GOD incident but he refused since it would mean leaving his job as an executive at the hooded horse publisher and bungie was offering shit pay and hours in comparison This is also why he hasn't made a video on it compared to when he's made videos for new games in series entries he's done before because he's an autist who probably considers getting an offer conflict of interest. I heard doomerism about this falling through since some employees had ONLY been exposed to the game through those videos since they didn't bother to play alephone and only a handful tried it after the steam release.
>>738456556This can't be real
>>738458443That's the mayor, one of the first NPCs you encounter, an invincible essential NPC like basically every other minority in the game. >>738458456That's your corporate mandated lesbian girlboss that has a scene where the old characters go "WOW THAT'S LEADERSHIP" (no I'm not kidding) she has multiple PHDs in mathematics, psychology, and medicine. She is also the new leader of the Psychonauts.
>beep*cough* nyeh-at least…>beepwe owned…>beepthe chuds…>BEEPBEEPBEEPBEEPBEEPBEEPBEEPBEEPGURUGH-ACK-BLEGH>BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP
>>738460371Damn that sucks to be pyschonauts.
>>738457758Until someone adds up the numbers and notices that even WITH the one "fortnite sensation" Gaas they desperately try to clone happening, they will still not regain all of that sunk money.Judging from what we hear about Timmies bank account, that means we will still be here a while. Every zoomzoom and fail-enial buying a skin is extending the torture a tiny bit.
>>738436330Sad that even believable things are astroturfedAmerica is just too far ahead which gives rise to these things being done by third worlders hoping for an income
>>738437702so far its more like a duck. not even a golden duck.
>>738438634Because Snoy is pozzed as hell and has irreparably damaged Japanese games. Bungie is also pozzed but it has essentially no influence over Japanese games. If Bungie wasn't owned by Snoy, I wouldn't care beyond the initial "woke company flopping, nice" reaction and move on.
>>738435503>>Sony reports Marathon made around $50-75 million in revenue on a budget of $300+ million (development + advertising/marketing)>>Bungie is a complete mess financially right now; it's likely going to be in the red for the next couple of years, so they're taking losses on the assets that they paid $3.6 billion for; appears to be $800 million written offAs a reminder that's only the money they've spent on themThat doesn't include the money Bungie caused them to lose because of their interference in the live service initiative which caused countless cancellations and the promoting of concord
>>738440105Ahh, BrinkThe game that made me realize that preordering was retarded.
>>738448146CCU doesn't say what number of players quit and what number of players just play less often for shorter periods
>>738449368I played a few hours during the free weekend and it was easily one of the least enjoyable games I've played in years. Because of the way the maps were laid out and the guaranteed pvp, it was basically just apex with a giant, shitty grind to pick up random junk stapled on.
>>738456416That's good news. Provided you just care about Marathon instead of Bungie as a whole.
>>738457307It probably means there is no plummet. Just look at the player count graph. Barring the weekend bumps, it's mathematically perfect. Not optimal, but smooth and stable.
>>738451876He's the faggot that constantly brags about having worked at Blizzard for 7 years, apparently he still has a few connections in gaming dev circles, so I guess he could have some insider info, but I would take everything he says with a pinch of salt; his narcissism is notorious
>>738435503So let's say the revenue was $65m and budget $300m, it peaked at 88k and settled at ~15k. On-top of that we include rough estimates from the cost of marketing, taxes, post-launch development, platform fees, etc.. that means the game needed around ~700k peak players and ~120k concurrent players to even break even. That's fucking insane and completely unsustainable
>>738458194nobody ever bought sony systems for first party exclusives.they only did it for third party exclusives in the PS1 and 2 era.
>I'm having a blast-ack!
With Sony we can at least be reassured that the "Embarrassing Clownshow of the Industry" title is passed on to a worthy successor now that Ubisoft retired to china
>>738446810>"i can't wait to see the numbers!">"DON'T LOOK AT THE NUMBERS!"this will never not be hilarious
>>738444601But nobody knows what Marathon is, the name Marathon isn't compelling to the average consumer.
>>7384386341: people are sick of slop2: people are sick of slop enthusiasts shilling garbage everywhere.
>>738452061virtue signalling is one hell of a drug
>>738463525its ugly as shit too and looks like AI designed a tron clone or some shit. like something youd expect from some free game.
>>738456018what? Destiny 2 has more retention over 6 years than Marathon's 2 months
>>738464167That's because people were sticking it out to see the end of the story. Story is finished now so everyone is leaving.
He gave up...
>>738456308I've seen shitcoin rugpull victims less in denial than this.
>>738464368Does marathon have a story? I've never seen it mentioned. It might help marathon if they add some story content
>>738464595yeah, you can read some text-only logs that some tranny wrote for an extraction shooter loldont show, just tell
>>738435503Genuinely hope that Bungie goes under.
>>738438634>why is /v/ so obsessed with its failureBecause Bungie enshittified their own games, alienated their community, and created the toxic and predatory GAAS trend to begin with. Then they raided their IP vault to defecate all over a memory of a different time and a different studio. And that's not discussing the absolute shitshow of their management and their former CEO jumping ship with a golden parachute after tricking Sony.They bought every bit of hatred they get with their actions, this is just their old fanbase coming home to roost over what they did to Destiny.
>>738438634For me, it’s:>Bungie acting like smug cunts to their playerbase as far back as Halo>deleting paid destiny content>frequently lying about any given thing>art theft>fellating themselves over political causes (e.g. trans at Bungie)>management more concerned with its car collection than employees >firing Marty>turning Destiny into a streamer bait game>marathon fans/shills acting generally obnoxious as hell the past 2 monthsI think that about covers it.
>>738464468i like the intro and the warframe style faction cinematics so they could remake it into a singleplayer story that can actually make use of those world class VA that they hired but the entire game needs to be redone, the art needs to be redone, models, the world as a whole needs to look different, UESC should be your employers so if sony wants to blow another 560 million on that, it could be a decent enough game but there is no way they will ever make their money back
>>738446810snoy cultists are mentally challenged lmao
>>738464468Just reduce the upgrade grind and add more content.
>>738441045You'd be surprised.
>>738459642Did Bungie have Grok write this slop? Kek.
>>738464885Funny that you mention that.
>>738464823>Add more content It's taking them months to add one map, and some new gunsWhich also cost Sony millions It's not that easy
>>738464946It didn't take them 3 months. Content for seasons 2 and 3 was probably ready or close to ready by the game's release date.
>>738464595The problem is that there are maybe a thousand people globally that care about the Marathon story, including the people that created it, and most of tthem will be more annoyed by the retcons. The only reason most people even knew what Marathon was is because of a few people sperging out about the reused elements for Halo.
>>738450864Unfortunately, the people making these decisions are also the people who decide who to fire.
>>738465029Then why wait so long to release when the player base is cratering
>>738465436Cardinal sin of over delivery. They only want a player base that will bend over, spread its collective ass and say thank you sir when Bungie shits out a single enemy variant and map every 3 seasons
>>738435503
>>738446673Turns out censorship is stupid even when they're censoring something we don't like.
>>738438634Gee I wonder
>>738450580Winnie Poo doesn't like the faggets
>>738435571Dumb point, because the profit would have been a lot higher if they hadn't bought Bungie.
It's over.
>>738438634Imagine writing a serious reply to this dishonest post.
>>738441076If they had spent a few hundred million on teaching you how to read you'd still be retard who didn't understand this post.
>>738448735We never landed on the moon.
>>738442842I think you don't know anything.
>>738448019Investors are the dumbest motherfuckers on earth and I'm glad corporative con men are draining them of their money.
>>738443727If you're so smart, then why aren't you investing in a bunch of stuff that has mass market appeal and take over the industry? You just need to double $500 11 times to get your first million.
>>738437702>Sony is not going to kill their Golden Goose.Sony's golden goose are Ball & Gun Americans.
>hahaha it's still online chuds This isn't the "epic own" you think it isI hope it stays online for years as it's costing Sony hundred of millions to support for 0 return lol
>>738447804>all that shitWouldn't it be easier to just say "no white men"?
>>738435503>Marathon flopped hard>PS5 sales dropped 46% compared to last year salesfeels good to see that Sony will die in your lifetime.
sony are anti blast havers
>>738467590This will never get old. Cowardly fucking companies, only virtue signaling when it’s safe.
>>738449197Nah, bad games by shit devs deserve to fail
>>738435503Anyone else find it weird that Sony's investment report ended with "Ugh... Chuds -ACK!"?
>>738447257>it wasn't stolen because they got caught in the endreally?
>>738446810>I can't wait to see the Steam numbers for Marathon, it's gonna make the Chuds absolutely cr- NO WAIT NOT LIKE THAT!Crying with laughter
>>738468028What is your first language?
>>738447841>actually companies love losses because it lets them dodge taxes!kekpeople really don't understand how tax write offs for losses work and why they are still losses
T-they're in it for the long haul!
>>738468274>Not stolen anymore since they had to give a fat fucking paycheck to the artist and they got in the credits lol.>Not stolen anymore>it wasn't stolen because they got caught
>>738467251being able to tell if something has no mass market appeal and if something will have mass market success are two different things.just because you can tell that some furry vore H-game is not going to sell a million copies doesn't mean you could have predicted Fortnite's success
>>7384355034 billion loss on bungie after buying them out btw lmfao
>>738438447are we now pretending that the party of jeet mass importing is right wing now?
>>738468958Fake news. It's only like a 700m impairment at the moment.
>>738447546They're lower than Cali ones because WA has no state income tax unless you make $1m
>>738448146"Retention is at a high level" is hard to objectively disprove.
>>738447940I saw it pointed out that the period in question was only through the end of March (which is when Sony's financial year ends, which is what was in this report), so she was talking about ONLY the three weeks from March 5th to the end of the month.But even then, it's definitely weasely because the metrics were showing a clear downward trend since launch.
>>738435503Just shut it down.
>>738468383>the highly engaged fans
>>738469147Actually based. Fuck state income tax.
>>738448753Circana reported the general stats that Tassi confirmed with his insiders at Bungie about the 1.2m sales, but Circana had the platform splits wrong.And Sony wasn't lying to investors, but they were being very cagey in their wording and not clarifying that, for Marathon, they were only talking about the period of March 5th to March 31st, and not in April.
>>738469139>Sony acquired Bungie in 2022 for $3.6 billion. The deal was aimed at bringing the creator of Destiny and Halo into the PlayStation family, with the final deal value cited as approximately $3.7 billion in some filings.thats according to multiple news sources now add this loss its 4 billion
>>738469486STABLEFOUND ITS AUDIENCE ITS PACE
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>>738469545>they were only talking about the period of March 5th to March 31stthats crazy because they still lost half of their players during that period. they must have referred to the first two weeks or something. because how is losing half your players good retention?
>>738469586people didn't actually think that Bungie is supposed to generate $4 billion dollars in profit, right?
Is buying Bungie a bigger financial loss than concord?
>>738469625Omae wa mou shindeiru
>>738469696Yes, Concord was a 400M$ blunder
>>738469676Sony did apparently
>>73846948680% drop in engagement in under 2 months is normal, chuds
>>738469696Concord plus their studio cost $400m Bungie cost $3.6b
>>738455076>there is no risk of imminent shutdownI cannot wait for the shills to start using this as the latest '/v/ lost' cope for Marathon.
>>738469909It's the same arguments that gachafags of a dying gacha game say right before said game shuts down.
>>738468593It's not stolen because the stolen art is no longer in the game. Clearly, Marathon's art style still carries inspiration from that artist and Designer's Republic, but if that's stealing, then Antireal is also a thief.
>>738435571Fun fact: Sony makes things other than video games!
>>738469909It's what redditors are doing >>738469625They're so delusional it hurts
>>738468383>>738469486Stuff like this really does make me wonder. Do they think the investors are retarded and can be subdued by twisting the truth and opportunistically choosing the best angle possible? Everyone can just google the playercount and face hard, undeniable and factual numbers that beat any claims any spokesperson makes.
>>738469876Bungie is going to make back all that money with Destiny 3
>>738457093>hatred>trying to tank a game>how does this affect you personally?You're clearly a tourist/gcj faggot, but I'll indulge you all the same.This is a concept called 'Schadenfreude' that basically means 'laughing at the misfortune of others.' This does not mean you cause the misfortune someone is experiencing, but you're just laughing at it. Think of it like seeing a guy sneeze while holding a milkshake and the arm movement accidentally causing it to splash on his face. You didn't make that happen, but you might still chuckle at it.That's what's happening here. /v/ has always loved laughing at flops, particularly when they're the result of intense hubris or stupidity. Now kindly fuck off back to Tiktok or whatever normalfag trash heap you crawled out from.
>>738469909But if Marathon isn't imminently shutting down, then what's argument? Yes, Sony massively overpaid for Bungie, and Marathon didn't perform as well as it needed to. What now?
>>738460069Bungie's old CEO cashed out a year ago. He's polishing his classic car collection in retirement.
>>738440160>asset theftelaborate.
>>738439253that image is pure cancer, I really miss when /v/ knew how to make a meme
>>738451018>japanese government once again intervened the yen>already started to go downJUST
>>738470283You can't feel schadenfreude towards someone/something you like or feel neutral about. I think that it has a lot in common with hate.
>>738469909Why would you spend $4 billion buying a company only to shut it down?
>>738470403The closed alpha test used art made by an artist called Antireal as textures without his authorization. Bungie had to pay him an undisclosed sum and replace the textures.
>>738435570They're just blast having, y..you'll see. Steiner will be here soon.
