IT'S OFFICIALLY HAPPENING!!!!THEY'RE LITERALLY FIXING E V E R Y T H I N GGET THE FUCK IN HEREhttps://x.com/MarathonTheGame/status/2054596687868596529
I bought this game just to piss off ch/v/ds
>>738802157lmao no one gives a shit about this game anymore, not even enough to dunk on itim sure the cheaters and the 9k peak ccu will be thrilled
A triumphant return to form for Bungie!
>Runners pillage Tau Ceti as UESC ramps up security efforts. Season 2: NIGHTFALL begins June 2 with new Night Marsh zone, Runner shell, weapons, and The Cradle system for shell stats.>Update 1.0.9 guarantees map events and Warden keys, escalates UESC forces with new spawns and threats, and boosts Cryo Archive availability daily from May 21.>Signal Mask buffed for Rook. Key Templates changed to Compromised; hunt Matter Fixatives instead. Deluxe keys now drop from wall safes.Faction XP gains increased through season end. Ranked Cryo available May 24-28 for high-level runners.>Seasonal reset wipes Runner level, ranked, faction progress, credits, inventory, and schemas.>Keep cosmetics, Codex challenges, LUX/SILK, and Rewards Pass progress. Claim all rewards now. Sponsored Kits awarded based on final Runner level.
June 2nd promises another day of embarrassment and mockery for us Marathoners...
I don't think normies are gonna like this...
>>738802157Everything is coming together. Streamers are gonna love this because of the change they made to stop snipers. ARC’s new update sucked and they’re changing to a 6 month update cycle rather than monthly, accepting that they lost to the powerhouse that’s Bungie. Season 2 is going to be MASSIVE. All streamers are going to switch to this game and it’ll steal ARC’s audience. Bravo Bungie. Also reminder that this is going to get multiplayer GOTY this year!
>>738802947>Also reminder that this is going to get multiplayer GOTY this year!The Duskbloods will probably sweep it lmao. No chance this game is considered better.
We keep winningDoomkeks BTFO
>>738802947Doomkeks and chuds keep losing when it comes to this game kek, I might buy it and hop in for S2. If they do a free weekend for the start of S2 I wouldn’t be surprised if it breaks CCU records. The hype is off the charts
>Three people cheered at the announcement.!Lmao
I will wait for the final/complete product and then I will consider buying it
>>738803149It won't be playable after this fall.
one month per season?
>>738803226They're desperate right now.
>>738802945normies HATE resets so yeah they're gonna rage
>Arc Raiders drops this minutes after Marathon's post
>>738802157nobody caresshit gamefucking die already
>>738803473Why are they conceding to Bungie instead of moving in for the kill?
>>738802157lol man this is just sad
>words words wordswheres the gameplay?
Feels like so much fake and gay hype to the point "they fixed everything" as cliche as it is sounds less fake and gay.I warned buds this is fotm, they didn't listen, played for all of two weeks before only one was active and none were shortly after that last guy stopped deflecting. If ARC Raiders turned into fotm there wasn't a chance in hell for a company waving around their name like they made a good game in the past 10 years.From what I can tell of the thread the only investment people have in it is that it upsets the terminally online boogieman in their head.
>>738802945WHat's funny is normies aren't even going to know about this shit until they load up the game after season 2 starts and see some kind of in game message about 'your shit is gone.'That's when a bunch of them are probably going to say fuck it and quit.
>>738802947>>738803121This smells like the same kind of derangement I see from Tahnit or the lolcows on the Marathon steam forums. Total delusional gloating about this flop game for one or more insane personal reasons.
>>738803617Because they probably don't consider Marathon to be a threat at all and know they won't lose players to it anymore than they would lose players to Tarkov. I don't think any of Marathon's patches did anything to Arc's steam numbers, either. Probably not even Marathon's launch.
>>738804384>marashills from twitter and discord come here and post about their flop every other place has already forgotten about themKEKAROOOOOOOOO THE ABSOLUTE STATE
>>738804450The only game Embark game that got affected by Marathon's launch was the Finals lmao
>>738803226What do you mean?
>>738803674On the 2nd of June.
>>738802157BLASTBROSKIES, WE'RE FVARKING BACK
>>738804605No kidding, go to the Steam forums and look around. There's two or three people who have pegged their personality on the game's success and reject any facts or data they dislike while endlessly shilling it. If their accounts didn't have 200+ hours in the game, I'd think they were just really committed shitposters.
>>738802157Ill check it out. Im kinda hoping Dark Marsh is fucking spooky. I need to see some lesser spht roaming about, and eventually some of the other alien races too.
>>738802157Cool.
>>738804316Normies don't have anything, it's for them bungie added mode where everyone uses some shitty free kit.
>>738805240They posted a screenshot from it. This seems to be a view at the Complex from the east gate, so I assume its top area will be accessible.
>>738805287All of those say the same thing:>no new UESC types, so enjoy fighting the same handful of robots you've seen so far>>738805414You're thinking of casuals, anon. Casual players who treat Marathon like a TDM game and just play it when they want to PVP for a bit don't have anything and won't lose anything in the reset. But the middle group of players, who aren't casuals but aren't hardcore (the Dads of Marathon types), are probably the largest by volume and might react the most negatively to losing stuff. Imagine putting up with getting raped over and over by the hardcore players because you're making tiny incremental progress on quests only to lose it all and get told get that dick out because it's time for another penis flattening session. Why would you stick around at that point if it's just regrinding the exact same fucking content?
>>738805680>>no new UESC types, so enjoy fighting the same handful of robots you've seen so farActually, it says that there will be a new UESC unit this season, before it ends.
>>738804450You say this but when Peanut goes and plays S2 and experiences the system that Bungie just put in to protect streamers from getting sniped and the sublime gameplay, he’ll be extremely happy, and his 150k+ viewers who are dissatisfied with ARC are primed to jump to the new game. I’m expecting an easy 2-4 million bump in sales with a 50% off sale too. And with Embark essentially giving up the crown to Bungie, it seems already set in stone. Marathon is here to stay, as the new King of Extraction Shooters.
>>738805827And prediction for peak CCU - I think it’ll start at around 70k, but as the streamers come in and play more, should jump to 200-400k.
>>738805756>new unitIf it's something actually new and interesting, like a walking tank, sure. If it's another bipedal robot with green shields instead of blue, they can piss off.>>738805827Bait used to be believable.
>>738805980>>738805827we are so back
Still not on Linux.
It's still just an extraction shooter though
>>738805827this but unironically, big arc audience will jump at the chance to get into a new game. bungie needs to be very careful with this season and they can magically turn this into a success
If its an extraction shooter then why cant I extract any fun from it?
To be honest, I find some of ARC’s numbers suspicious. They claim to have sold over 15 million copies, but the Steam CCU is barely 100k, something Marathon reached close to on day 1 with only 1 million sales. Is everyone just playing that game on console? Or is there fraud involved?
>>738806514Because Sony already extracted $40 from your wallet.
>>738802157>no PvE mode>still pandering to streamers instead of casual solo players>resetstill dead
>>738806568Arc's peak was close to half a million, you retard and was well over 100k CCU for months after that, indicating growth. Marathon couldn't even hit 150k when it was free, let alone 100k when it was paid.
>>738805827>the system that Bungie just put in to protect streamersthis is pathetici hate streamers
>>738802157Blast having xisters?
>>738802157>IT'S OFFICIALLY HAPPENING!!!!>>THEY'RE LITERALLY FIXING E V E R Y T H I N G>>GET THE FUCK IN HERE>>https://x.com/MarathonTheGame/status/2054596687868596529
>>738802945>seasons>resets>a bunch of random bullshit "features" that you grind for are also just taken from youthis game sounds awful.
>they are underdelivering with season 2Yup its over
>>738807116>unironic frogpostingcringe
>>738802254WHAT THE FUCK IT DID NOTHINGANON WHY DIDNT YOU SAVE THE GAME
>>738802945I cannot wait to see the already low numbers plummet
>Enter thread to laugh at shit game>learn ARC is moving to significant upgrades every now and then instead of monthly gimmick updatesPleasant surprise
>>738802254IM GONNA RAPE YOU
>troongie managed to scam sony out of a few million dollars for this update despite flopping and shartingTop keeek
>>738802945wait what
>>738802157>11,497 24-hour peak
>>738807937anon, season 2 and 3 are already complete and they are part of the game original budget, bungie is working on season 4 as we speak as per paul tassi bungie sources, this game will be supported for years.
>>738802945They will learn. Wipes are the best part of extraction shooters.Not joking even a little.
>>738808038it will go back to 50-60K after the wipe cause that is the cycle for every es in the history of es, you people are pathetic
>>738802157Investorcore slop.
>>738808093>this game will be supported for years.Who's gonna tell xher?
>>738802157So their big post wipe update is a couple of quality of life changes and ranked mode? They had months, what happened?
>>738808148>just wait for the wipe bump!Nigger, the wipe will shed the majority of the remaining players on the casual level.You're a delusional retard clinging to a failed video game.
>>738808093>it's part of the original game budgetI've seen you shills try using this bizarre cope, but it makes no sense because it implies Bungie isn't paying its 400 or more developers each month. The $250m was basically the cost of salaries for 2021 to 2026 when the game came out. It's two months since release, which means Bungie has spent another $6-8m on salaries and will do so for however long they have 400 people working on the game.>this game will be supported for yearsJust like Highguard and Artifact and Concord, right? They all said the same things.>>738808148>you people are patheticSays the guy sucking corporate dick for free to prop up this failed game. It's ok to admit you like a bad/dead game. That's so much more respectable than pretending a bad game isn't bad.>>738808247Small indie studio, please understand.
>>738808316i dying to see what cope you people will use once season 2 hits and the ccu soar
>>738802157>it's literally nothing but a reset and a bunch of boosts to try and convince people to restart their grind lmao this only works when you have a healthy playerbase, all this is going to do I piss off and drive away even more of the low skill players.
>>738808384sony is a 122 billion dollar company, they literally don't care to eat a few salary losses if it means keep the ip
>>738802945>w-we have to do this otherwise sweats will dominate the game>the sweats will be back in yellows within a few days while everyone else spends weeks/months trying to catch back up
>>738806828Those things they've added are actually very common for multiplayer games.
>>738808657>Sony is a $122b company, they don't careThat's bullshit, because they closed two studios in the last few months and their profit margin is really narrow and carried only by the gaming division and then only by MTX and store fees. Sony isn't a Microsoft that can have billion dollar rounding errors. >it means they keep the IPThey keep the IP because they bought the studio behind it and own the fucking IP. If you're talking about copyright fees, that's nothing. A few thousand a year, maybe.
>>738808715yes, like every other es ever in the history of the genre
>>738802945I thought they said factions level wouldn't reset? what the fuck!
>>738808657>sony is a 122 billion dollar companyMarket cap is bullshit money.They spent 3.9-4.1B USD of real money on buying Bungie and making this piece of shit.Stop talking about things you're clueless about.
>>738808783Uhhh except the most popular one ever, Arc Raiders, also even in other ones they usually do resets every 6+ months, not every 3 months
>>738802254Great marketing strategy. Make people buy your product who don't even like or use it to spite people who don't care. Lol. Enjoy holding their bags.
>>738808754the marathon ip shows promisse, you can scream and deny it, but it sold more than 2 million already with season 1 alone, 10k concurrent on late season is quite good for a brand new entry in the genre. if they drop marathon destiny will go with it and they won't lose two potential money makers just to save on a few millions in salaries. sony will eat the losses and let the game find its footing while they figure a deal for a new destiny entry
>>738806514Have you tried playing Rook?
>>738802802We're going down in an earlier round!
>>738802802holy fuck
>>738808984not even tarkov does wipes anymore bungie is retarded
>>738802157So does this mean all the upgrades you unlock such as vault space are reset? What's the fucking point?
>>738809381Ugh... fun?
WHY ARE YOU QUESTIONING BUNGIE AND THEIR DECISIONS YOU UNGREATFUL LITTLE SHIT?BE A GOOD GOY AND SLOP IT UP
>>738809381stop being entitled chudnow go be prey and content for streamers to (possibly) get your stuff back again
>>738809014>Marathon shows promiseFailing to break 90k CCU on your lead platform and then losing 15-20% of your players each week says otherwise>2m salesPatently untrue. 1.5m is the current estimate based on observable data and what Tassi heard from his Bungie insiders. The recent 2.2m figure comes from those retards at Alinea Analytics and also includes the people who played the game for free during the Server Slam. >10k concurrent late season is quite good for a brand new entry in the genreArc is doing 10x Marathon's numbers and was a new entry in the genre. Find a different cope.>Sony will eat the losses and let the game find its footingSony has been eating about $8-11m in losses on Bungie each month just to pay the salaries of 800 devs. Making a new Destiny would take three years at a total minimum and probably cost $250. Both games are not overcoming their operating costs, not even close.Of the two, only Destiny has long term value because it can attract a wider audience (casuals) with PVE. Marathon is a Highguard situation where the core audience is already narrow out of the gate and can't sustain a game where you have AAA level burn rates.
>>738803473>ONLY 2 updates a year>live servicelmao
>>738802157Hey check out this.
>>738809872More alive than maraflop kek
>>738802945>fuck you and your progressAnd this is why I hate extraction shooters. Would rather play a single player game and enjoy my time before uninstalling it then constantly run into the same wall with shit like this.
>>738809848the game is safely past 2 million, approaching 3 by the number of reviwes on steam. the game will be profitable by season 3.
>>738802802Kekaroo
oh yeah im freaking blasting
>>738807120No stupid it's epic and hardcore
>>738802802wanna see a magic trick? watch it go right back to 50-60K post wipe
>>738808846i wonder what will be your new cope in three months when season 3 releases
Siva won
>>738802684100 comments later...
>>738810092>safely past 2mWhy? Because you feel that way? Even the most generous owner estimate on Steam is 1.38m. If you use the existing figure where the split is 70% Steam/PC, 30% consoles, that's still under 2m units sold (by about 30k units).>the game will be profitable by season 3This crazy cope again. For that to be possible, Marathon would have to make at least $70m a month (each month in Season 3, so 3mo = $210m) to add to its existing $55m revenue to overcome the low end estimation of $250m total dev budget. But that doesn't account for>percentage lost to platform fees like Steam's 30% cut>other dev costs like marketing, outsourcing>the $10-15m in accrued staff salaries to this pointAnd to make $70m in a month, that means the game would have to sell something like 2m units if we assume the $55m in current revenue came from 1.5m units, which would put us in the realm of 8-9m units sold total, which was the originally estimated break even number.How many ways can I say 'you're a fucking idiot if you think this will actually happen'?
>>738802157High Guard returns???
>>738802945This is the first I've heard of this in any game. What's the point?
I wonder what's going to happen when Bungie inevitably cant bring in any players, and Sony aren't willing to fund a Forsaken tier expansion to overhaul the game.
>>738810804The idea is 'if you don't do a gear reset, the sweats/top end players will get too strong the point of being unkillable, so you have to reset the power curve.What this will probably mean in practice is 'everyone is even for a week, but the sweats still kick your ass because they out play you despite having the same gear, and then the sweats get better gear and rape you for the rest of the season until the next reset.'
>>738805827>>738805980This 100% has to be someone trolling so a screencap can be passed around for entertainment once the patch actually drops.
>>738802157they didn't fix shitit's over
>>738809912I'm riding spinnaz I'm riding spinnaz
>>738808038>weinsteinngl I miss him, /v/ros
>>738802157Settle down tranny
>>738811573
>>738802157blast status?
>>738811458he did make a lot of great movies
>>738802157the irony of this game is that /v/irgins claim its woke (i still havent seen any of that posted after months) while playing apex/overwatch etc. games that actually have trans and gay characters in them. maybe they should really add faggots in it so that people here buy it.
W-when is it stabilizing?
WE WON SISTERS
WE WON!!!........the losing game....
>>738810092Bungie is never making their money back on this game.
>>738807920While this is probably for the best, I do find it funny that people here used to compare its frequent updates to Marathon's every 3 months, only for it to go to every 6 months.
>>738802157>Who is this Paul Tassi guy who only covers Bungie stuff?>Nice, he seems reliable. I'll keep listening.>Okay. Hmhmm. Fair. I guess.>What's so special about this person?>Wow they just keep saying "Paul Tassi said this, Paul Tassi said that".>Oh.>Oh... it's bacause he's gay.>I see.
So where was the comeback?
>>738812938When devs clock into their McDonalds shift
>>738808107Yeah which is why the most popular extraction shooters make it optional.
>>738813926It's either in season 2 or nowhere. No idea what guy is talking about.
>>738813950
>>738802157I'm waiting to see if they'll even try with Marathon. Lick my fucking feet. Put tasteful fanservice on all the characters and make outpost and cryo archive real maps instead of repetitive single flavor cum brigades.
>>738812607>retards who haven’t played the game tell you its woke>it actually isn’tWow, who would have thought…
>>738812938June 2nd, did you even read the OP?
>>738814641you gotta lay off the porn man...
>>738814892I don't think the point is that the game is excessively woke. It's not like Concord was in that regard. It is arguable that there are elements of woke such as the human forms conforming to the usual woke paradigm of adding in blacks where they are unneeded and having very little that is appealing for a normal white male to enjoy seeing. Then the game portrays the idea that a conscience can transfer between different shells interchangeably, which is at odds with the real world. This argument is stronger or weaker depending on if you believe that fiction affects the real world perceptions that people hold (I do. I'm coming to realize that Star Trek was tremendously detrimental to humanity for the ways that it changed the mindsets of people).The explicitly woke accusations are more picrel. That is: a product is made by embarrassingly woke wokies and therefore the product is woke. Which I think is a valid enough perspective to hold.
>>738802157This is inherently violent (internalized aggressive behavior, privileged positional decision taking - devs are paid incredibly well in general - and victim financial abuse) towards the Dads of Marathon, which with the current numbers I can safely presume they are the majority of the playerbase. If they lose the dad gamers crowd, more colloquially known as "whales" or "top 3 reasons why gaming is in ICU", it's ogre. Or maybe it is already ogre because it never even began. Whichever reason, it all ends with it is what it is.
>>738802802
Uhhh Marathoners… where’s our passion???
Friendly reminder.
>spam threads about the game to the point the useless jannies finally start deleting steam chart threads>continue spamming about it every time a tweet is posted about it>chartfags are actually just tsundere for these shit games they post about daily
>>738816502>Jamie, pull up the stats on Xbox's last financial year
yea verily i am a proud and true acquirer of a blaste
>>738802802>it KEEPS going downLmao, long time since I don't see a marathon thread, I honestly thought it would stabilize around 20-18k players, but I guess the playerbase has started to cannibalize itself. It's a death-spiral, no salvation.
>>738816427>*BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP*
>>738802157Holy shit!They are going to do an art style overhaul as well?!
>>738802157season 2 aka dead cat bounce
>>738802802Everyone I know that's playing this game are dads who are having a blast. Unironically and exclusively.
>>738817438The shills have given me personal assurances that not only will the Season 2 launch send the player count above 100k, it will then settle into a renewed daily peak of at least 50k.I've got my gaming chair already cocked, locked, and ready to blast off.
The foundation is solid, the bones are there, the lightning bottled; this recipe has all the ingredients for success. Season 2 is gonna be a blast.
>just a night map????
>>738802157These bots look so fucking DUMB lmfaooooooo
>>738802802Slavshit has had better player retention than that lmao
>>738818193Sony said Concord would be supported for 10 years.
>>738818193Nice reddit meme
>>738819240>unforced reddit mention
>>738819338But the meme you downloaded unironically originated from reddit thoughbeit
>>738819591>reddit reddit reddit!!!
>>738819626>maratroon shill>redditor>eslCute
>>738819626Xir are you ok?
>>738802157>They're fixing everythingHow?>They're going to delete everyones accounts and force them on a full resetlol???
>>738802157No new map?
>>738819796I'm a x'em not a xir, how dare you assume my number>>738819794reddit
>>738819918Same map but night. 1 new enemy. 1 new runner. 3 new guns.
>>738802945Idk man I’ll probably pick the game back up again during the reset. It’s a fresh start to not be immediately ganked by max levels again.
>>738810229A week after the pump, what happens?Be honest.
>>738820262This
>>738810427so fucking ugly
I won't even feel bad when the bungie layoffs happen again. They're a worse company now than EA ever was.
>>738821254Let's not go into hyperboles now. Bungie is a very shit company but they have plenty others far worse, including EA even though they haven't been in the news much lately.
>>738821487What has EA done to fuck over the consumer in the last ten years? Bungie did everything old EA ever was accused of, and more.
>>738815240retard I want bungie to betray their woke values and show they're trying even as much as they used to with halobut they won't fix the game or demonstrate they care about success so I won't give them money
>>738815240>tasteful and attractive designs??? go watch porn chudenjoy the EoS trannoid
>>738809872>>738803473It's actually insane how bad Arc messed up on this.What's the point of doing expeds if there's not going to be content? they were murdering marathon in update cadence, but this will kill the game for realI don't blame them so much bc Redditors were constantly bitching even if the content they added has been insanely good, and that must be annoying, but this is pants on head and makes it look like the game is going into maintenance mode. I'm gonna stop playing arc after this exped if this is how it's going to be, bc why would I play for 6 months with NO new content? I have plenty of fun just playing, but that's going to run thin and already has somewhat, but I played bc I had hope it'd keep being steady and is worth investing time into, but then they say this... they need to quickly apologize and pivot to 2 or 3 months updater sched instead.
>>738823636>both Marathon and Arc Raiders die at the same timeoh...no...
>>738823636Did you read the pic, anon? It clearly says>regular live updatesAll they're doing is being deliberate about when big content arrives and making those releases happen less often. It's the same net amount of content, but in fewer releases. I don't see what the problem is since it's a similar model to Destiny (when they were doing regular updates) alternating between big content patches and paid DLC releases.
>>738823772The bigger issue is that the big updates are gonna be shit. Imagine if all the big monthly updates so far were one big update, it'd still be pretty fucking ass.
>>738823772Yeah but what the fuck does a regular content update constitute?????? An event track and some cosmetics?If they're not adding new map conditions or Arc frequently between then, then there's no reason to keep playing. They need to answer this ASAP so I don't doomer the fuck out because if these "regular updates" DO actually contain some level of new gameplay content, then I might be able to roll with it, but I need stuff like hurricane or new arc to show up, and the're making it seem like that isn't coming till fucking OCTOBER.
>>738823963Also this, if it flops it'll flop harder. It needs to really have a lot that will change the overall game for it to be worth holding so long, there NEEDS to be new content in 'regular updates' between then. We don't know if that's the case, it seems it won't be atm.
>>738802157so, what if i just.....Dont buy it?
>>738824150uhh...you can't do that anon...
>>738802802>lower peak than fucking highguard>"BUT THAT WAS LE FRE-ACKCOPE MARATHRANNY
>>738823963>>738823973I don't understand this fear of 'fewer, larger updates means the content is somehow less good.' It's the same content, just on a different time scale. It's not a reduction in the volume of content from anything I've read.I don't play Arc, so I don't have a bias here, and nothing I saw in this change of update plans made me think 'They're fucked for sure.' Compared to what I see Marathon doing with its 'experiments' and other kneejerk changes where I think 'This is what Highguard was doing before it shut down.' Relax, Arcbros. Your game is going to be fine.
>>738802945Und you vill be happy.
>>738824191elaborate, anonwhy i cant not buy something?
>>738802157this is the sendoff season, you know it's going to be LVDO
>>738824420>I don't understand this fear of 'fewer, larger updates means the content is somehow less good.' It's the same content, just on a different time scale. It's not a reduction in the volume of content from anything I've read.No I understand that. I am not the original poster who thinks they're not going to release any updates from now until October. I am saying that the issue of the quality of updates still remain. So far, the stuff that has been added has not really been hitting.
>>738824659The issue you're describing isn't about update cadence, though. If Embark is doing shitty updates, those updates would be shitty whether you're getting 10 a year or 2 a year.If anything, fewer updates will mean they have to be better than not because there's going to be a lot more expectations for them. I feel like it would be harder for Embark to slack off if there's only a few of these big updates a year.
https://files.catbox.moe/ilmhk0.mp4Marasissies..
>>738802802TPBP.>Earlier this month 99 in CAU monthly>Now 140 and dropping dailySeason 2 isn't going to get a massive bump back, IMO. I'll be shocked if it rockets back up given Cyro didn't do shit.
>>738816908It only jumps up by like 2-4K players on Thursday and Friday and then immediately craters on Saturday-Sunday and drops even lower on Monday (Tuesday is "maintenance" if you are a Maratroon that is COPEing with the drop to 600 and lowering during that period). It's never been stable. It's been a slow bleed.>>738819150MicroSlop said MSFS2020 would be supported for 10 year and then re-released it with campaign mode as MSFS2024.I would not believe platform owners lies.
>>738802802>>738810229Lets be real, the player count will go back up to MAYBE 20k for season 2. It's hilarious how badly this game is doing.Press S to spit on Bungie's grave.
>>738802802>>738802802Sony did this.
>>738802254quick! buy another copy! buy 2! please tell your friends to play!
>>738802945I can understand resetting the ranks and levels so you can see if people are still sinking the same amount of time into the game after the previous season, but taking away literally everything in that people have built up over the past several months (except stuff paid for with real money)? Even Sisyphus would balk at that.
>>738808715>>w-we have to do this otherwise sweats will dominate the gamethe real reason is to keep the sweats engaged with the game
>>738803121>Doomkeks and chuds keep losing when it comes to this game kek,I might buy it and hop inSo you don't even own the game, much less play it.
>>738808715There's someone on Leddit begging Bungle to make a free weekend when S2 starts because "everyone will be on even footing!" as if people are interested in playing this, going by the Server Slam weekends losing players by like day 2/3.
>>738803617>>738803473Marathon has nothing to do with it, Arc Raiders was already hemorrhaging players long before Marathon even came out. That's what happens when a game relies purely on FOMO and streamer engagement to pull in numbers.Funny enough, Arc Raiders dropped the hardest on March 5, 2026. That's the day Pokopia released on Switch 2.
>>738826092that's literally how extraction shooters work though? And you don't lose everything, there are clear parameters to what you lose and get to keep
>>738813926That guy got paid money to shill the game you idiot
>>738826569But the marathon fans told me they aren't shills but just fans of the game
>>738826443>that's literally how extraction shooters work though?no that was how tarkov worked while in alpha because of slav janky codethey dont do that anymore because its a retarded idea and anyone coping about >muh equal playing fieldis a retard
>>738819132That's an unfair comparison to make, HOMMOE can be enjoyed in single player because it features a full-length story mode and hundreds of playable challenge scenarios. And it's a good, faithful return to the series' hallmark gameplay. Marathon has no such equivalent features.
>>738825804>Marathon took less than two weeks to fall below TF2Can't even claim they're bots because Gabe took care of them last year and the graph fluctuates normally anyways.
>>738826443>that's literally how extraction shooters work though?Arc and Tarkov don't do this. Fortnite especially doesn't take any of your items away even if the majority of them are only available for a limited time.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO STOP POINTING OUT ALL OF THE FLAWS OF MARATHON NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO BLOODY BITCH BASTARDS
>>738826890there are no flaws, its the players fault for not liking it
>>738826991So much this xisterThe players aren't ready for the hard-core niche return to form lightning bottle features this game offers and got #filtered
>>738821487>>738815658Bungie donated millions of dollars in an attempt to get this place shut down. Popper's paradox applies.
>>738802157buy an ad
>>738803473>Not a single update for Arc has been exciting>Now they're only doing 2 per year LMAO swedecucks shit the bed again
>>738823636fyi i think they messed up with the artstyle being too polished because it's going to takes a year to make a new one using their photogrammetry stuff, they ran into the same brick wall with Battlefield 1 and V, the maps are too expensive.
is arc raiders fun completely solo?
>>738830991yes
Train station status?
>>738832648Empty trains arriving behind schedule. Which is better than overdelivery according to bungie.
>>738802945>get killed >lose all your gear>don't get killed>also lose your gear This really says something about society.
>>738802157The industry isn't truly healing until every Sony executive who had more faith in Concord, Marathon, and Fairgame$ than Helldivers and Stellar Blade is radioactive in the industry. Some random person off the street could have told you that your average gamer would hate these designs, which means that either these executives have worse instincts than a random person off the street or that their #1 priority isn't entertaining the customer.>We were under immense pressure!>Every single person around me, including the consultants, was telling me that this is popular!The reason why the big guys are paid the big bucks is because they're supposed to be wise to the industry and the customers and they're supposed to take the slings and arrows that sometimes come with doing the right thing for the company. If you gave the thumbs up to Concord, you are not qualified to call yourself an expert at the videogame business. You're an overpaid and overtitled fraud.
>>738834771BTW, it's not that an executive needs to have perfect judgement every single time. You see the product before the public does and you have to predict how they'll respond. Nobody is a perfect fit for that job. I get it.But Firewalk with those idiots who were running the show and those characters designs were like the tutorial problem where the right answer is obvious and you're just being taught the process. Same shit with Marathon and Fairgame$.
>>738817560Well, I think it's fair to expect most of the people who bought the game to at least check out season 2. How many will actually stay is a different matter.
>>738802945does that mean the reward pass is not fomo?
>>738824290Highguard was free.
>>738802802800 million dollars...
>>738802945>Game update>Lose all progressAnd soon playercount follow suit
>>738808107at this point i'm convinced extraction shooter fans just hate themselves and just take it out on each other
>>738836454the fanbase does seem to have masochistic tendency
>>738803473>2 updates a yeardude just announce end of service and give refunds atp, it's less embarrassing.
>>738809912this image is more entertaining than the entirety of nu-marathon
>>738812938Any day nowhttps://youtu.be/bfWD1voJS_w?si=MTiaWEfibmjuThI4
>>738836521Why the fuck would they shut down a game that still gets like 150k-200k concurrent peak players? Clearly their fanbase doesn't seem to care about the lack of updates.
>>738808107>They will learn.lmaomore like they will leave, do you think people are forced to play this trash or that they don't have anything better to do?
>>738802157We saved it Snoybros...
>>738836640>The c-ch-chuds, at le-e-ast we owned the-AAAAAAAAACK
>>738835915>log in for my weekly 30 min session>wtf all of my stuff and progress is gone>fuck this>uninstallwow the wipe will truly save marathon and own the chuds
>>738836719they actually made physical copies for concord? but not for marathon?
>>738836652>150-200k ccukek what a gay retard you are
the reset means you can have a blast getting all that stuff again
>>738836848well yeah they learned their lesson from concord
>>738836138read the end of the post
>>738836891arc had an even split of sales between steam and consoleswhatever the CCU is on steam you can assume is triple that for total so yes 150-200 is a good estimate
genuinely sad that bungie has come to this. god I wish they were less retarded. halo was so fun.
>>738836891>Based on industry analytics from early January 2026, ARC Raiders had sold over 12 million copies across all platforms, with PlayStation 5 (PS5) accounting for approximately 25.5% of those sales, or roughly 3.06 million copies.>As of January 2026, Arc Raiders has sold over 12 million copies across all platforms, with industry estimates indicating that the Xbox Series X/S version accounts for approximately 21% of that total, or roughly 2.52 million copies.And since they get 100k concurrent on Steam, surely that must then mean that they get 150k-200k concurrent in total with all 3 platforms combined. So what's the issue?
>>738802157>Arc Raiders unironically died before MarathonKek honestly wasn’t on my bingo card. Congrats Marathoners
>>738837078>>Arc Raiders unironically died before MarathonAre you a schizo?
>>738837152funny how arc's lows are 3-4x marathon's peaks
>>738837152>arc raiders 24 hour peak is higher than marathon's all time peakOOF
>-756 million dollarsGotta try and get that money back somehow. Pay up marasisters, we gotta own the chuds!
Concord 3 new shill talking points released. They trying to push a narrative to speak the results they want into existence. Who gives a shit about arc raiders updates or long term support for this concord 3? Charts will be posted and we will watch the inevitable happen, as was foretold from the beginning. Marathon is absolutely Concordian. The calculated talking points signal the desperation of the shills and bungie. Post another chart please. those numbers never get old.
3.6 billy
>>738837349K
>>738837349Just admit it.... it's JOEVER
>>738837632wait time must be getting longer than 10 mins
>>738802157>BRO THE GAME IS LE ENGOODENED!>BUY IT NOW!Nah, make it good on release, I don't pay money for the 'chance' of a good game, I pay money for good games.Better luck next time!
>>738808107>They will learn. Wipes are the best part of extraction shooters.It's the best part, which is why the most popular extraction shooter on the market has a mode people willingly pay for which disables wipesLmao.
>>738802945>Let's kill our new game with sunsetting as wellWhy are they like this?
>>738836781If you played 30 minutes a week, then there wasn't anything to lose, anyway.
>>738802945>Be new player>Join a week or two before reset, doesn't even know resets are a thing because you're busy playing the game>Lose a lot, win a few times>Start to get the hang of the game, get better gear>Hey this actually isn't so bad?>All progress reset after a week of playing>WTF is this bullshit?>Read up that no matter how well you play, you get reset anyways every month>Drop game
>>738837671That's not true. If you played the game, you'd know.
>>738838090*Every 3 months
>>738819338what about all the fuckingredditspacingin this thread?
>>738838205Oh every 3 months, because that's so much better.
>>738838385I do think that the existence of resets should be conveyed better. I know about them because I pay attention to the news, but can't imagine what the gameplay experience is like for the average dudebro who doesn't perceive the existence of the codex and the mailbox.
>>738802157you cant fix this, its so fundamentally shit it will never be successful
>>738838530I think resets shouldn't be a thing, as you're not respecting player's time put into the game. Doom 1 didn't take 3 IRL months per episode to grind up gear and skills, only to take them in the next episode. If you want to do resets, it should be in a singleplayer game, and take back a few hours of progress at most. Also be opt-in.
>>738838602They are making the progression faster, so I'm okay with it.
>>738838675>PVPfags can start curbstomping even quickerLovely.
>>738802802Came into the thread for this. Every day it is up costs Sony more money
>>738802802Wonder if it'll go lower than EA's SKATE at some point. At least Skate doesn't need other players to play, and was made on a budget of Cheesy Poofs given how fucking slow they are to add anything. Despite having a quarter of the players as Marathon, it's likely making more profits in comparison.
The fact that there are still faggots clinging to this almost sunken ship is embarrassing. You have decades of good games at your disposal, and you instead use your precious time to play THIS game of all things? Marathonfags are legitimately braindead.
Buy an ad for your dying game.
>>738838963I just like this game, that's all there is to it. It's not like there is anything like it on the market, either. Arc is boring, with the only thing going for it being better PvE and solo. Tarkov is a milsim. Hunt Showdown has an unappealing aesthetic. Maybe that sci-fi extraction shooter from the Tarkov devs will be interesting, but it's not out.
>>738838963It's the psychological quirk of admitting you were wrong (in this case, you backed a game that ended up flopping) is so harmful that people would rather pretend forever that the game didn't flop ('I'm not wrong! I didn't make a bad choice!') than accept reality.
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>>738839196Then go play it queer. Why do you need to tell people on a anonymous Mongolian basket weaving forum?
>>738839196It’s a bit ironic to talk about “unappealing aesthetic” in a marathon thread
>>738839469Sorry. I guess it was silly of me to try to discuss a video game on /v/.
>be me> Get Marathon free> 50 hours into this shit game. Quests > Quests are so bad they make Destiny look like a masterpiece> Press E on a terminal > Press E on garbage disposal > Grab a thing and exfil> Any of those in that order> Good rewards? > Trash gray and greens. > My vault is purple and gold. Very rewarding...Matchmaking > Friends offline? Crew fill> Unranked Crew fill is filled with the most brain dead rats I've ever seen > Ranked Crew fill is also full of cowardly rats but they own dollar store mics.> "Why buy a PvP game if you're physically afraid to trade virtual bullets?" > Play solo> Purple shields> Everyone rats with a sponsored kit.> Easy kills but no profit. > Most runs I do key rooms now because I know no one will challenge me> I'm winning yet i'm bored. Cyro is decent with a 3 stack of friend. But, I wouldn't recommend this game to fucking anyone. Miserable casual experience. Can't wait to beat Compiler this weekend so I can uninstall this shit off my ssd.I pray everyday Sony finally axes this dogshit studio
I bought it for my daughter. I'll ask her in the morning if she's excited. She still won't play Unreal Tournament with me because "grafix"
>>738839710>> Press E on a terminal >> Press E on garbage disposallel I was complaining about this with Destiny 1. Modern Bungie only knows how to make "press x" simulators. There is no gameplay.
>>738838330Personally I think seething about reddit spacing is the sign of a newfriend. It was a funny meme for a while but like many memes tourists have taken it literally and it has become serious, and retarded. There's no reason you can't have paragraphs in a 4chan post.>inb4 seething
>>738838963>>738839469Wow, you sound genuinely pissed people are playing Marathon. There are decades of good games out there that you can play. Go play them and try not to be a whiny b---h about people playing Marathon.I hate the Marvel Rivalz game, but I try to ignore that shit instead of being a toxic bastard everyday of every week like the toxic people who play that superhero game. Of course they try to shove that superhero shooter in my fucking face and get pissed about it. Which is why I try to avoid it as much as possible until the shitty algorithm stops suggesting it to me.
>>738802157adhd "everything is everywhere! PEW PEW LASER! art design is a failiure. nothing can fix that. your brain is too distracted from all the distractions everywhere to enjoy gameplay.sad that some industry people have no idea about this.
>>738840223you are seething. kek. enjoy your dead game
>>738840035This is accurate. Oldfag here. It's interesting that people make "reddit spacing" accusations unironically because it's an example of how history is extremely easy to rewrite. NuHistory is contagious and just spreads through peoples' brains until they all "know" something that wasn't true.
>>738839907I forgot to mention. > All Quest givers are a looping .mp4 > Actual in-game models? Too hard.> The technology is too advanced > Lip syncing? Too advanced.>Just go on YouTubeShells> No personality > No banter> Assassin is the only one picked in solo play. > I heckin love ratsWeapon balance > Be me> Find Copperhead smg> worth a couple thousand > Must be good> Worst SMG in game> The cheapest guns are overall better guns> Bully smg is like 1/8 it's base value and outclasses it in every way > How does this make any sense? Close down this studio
>>738840272>adhd "everything is everywhere! PEW PEW LASER! art designYou don't even have an argument. You just saw something you don't like and are now ranting about it incoherently.
>>738824959>>738824659>>738824420I am one of the original posters >>738823973and I get what you're saying and agree, the issue is that I think we were getting GOOD ass content monthly, and now we won't... but my main problem isn't that, it's that there's literally no reason to keep doing expedition and trial and quest ratraces if there is nothing new to change up in between october. I'm not going to do multiple expeditions JUST for fun, bc I've already been doing that and time moves on, but the bits of added new content make it exciting and make it feel less tedious for me to keep it up. All its signposting to me is that I should take a big break, which is not a bad thing, but it IS a sad thing, bc I like the game.The other issue is that without regular meaningful content, of which their announcement did not specifically specify what "regular live updates" actually entail beyond just event reward tracks, bug fixes, and shop updates, I feel the sense of persistent world the game has had between updates and new 'rumblings' in Speranza just falls off a cliff. All the literal """Escalation""" roadmap led to was a 6 month gap of nothing happening. Very bad from a pacing immersion perspective too, which I felt the game had going for it. I really hope the release a real roadmap with some idea of what we can actually expect between then and now.
>>738840369>Find Copperhead smg>worth a couple thousandthats my favourite gun behind bully, the BRRRRT is dogshit thoughever.
>>738839710im curios as to what a "good quest" could even be in a game like this, they basically just serve to force people to go to different parts of the map.an actual puzzle or narrative would have people just googling the answers/skipping dialogue so they dont get shot while thinking or whatever.what would actually be good quests? is there a single game with good quests?
>>738839519
Any and all videogame discussion is a marketing scheme if said videogame being discussed is one i dont like
>>738840781the quests are pretty much copy pasted from tarkov
>>738802945what is even the appeal of progress wipes from a player perspective, i get from the company perspective they get to be jews that want you to start from 0 as often as possible so you own nothing but i cant understand why actual human beings are playing games that wipe your progress periodically as part of the gimick
>>738802157>videogame industry has been totally hijacked by hideous LGBT bullshit>now openly hostile towards making anything for normal men>those who would try to reorient the industry towards its natural customers are not allowed to be in charge and face the strong potential for deplatforming (which will be spearheaded by fags) if they try to strike out on their own>totally allowed to discriminate in favor of their own even though the whole justice system would mobilize if straight white men did itReminder that the deal that was made in the 90s was that they just wanted to be left alone and that life would continue as normal except that some people would be having anal sex in the comfort of their own homes and going to gay bars.They've completely broken their end of the bargain and you're a cuck if you still insist on upholding yours. W\e need to destroy the civil rights regime and force gay people back into the closet.
>>738841693Marathon?
>>738842013Yep. These designs are 100% straight out of a drag show, and Bungie is filled with fags.>Sounds like you know from experience.The only people who don't are people who've spent the past 15 years holed up in the woods or playing Civ 4 or something. That's the problem.
>>738802947Full reset. Watch this game die like a dog lol
>June 2ndunfair to make pic related wait until the end of the week, bungie
HOLY SHIT BUNGIE FUCKING DID ITMARATHON IS SAVEDGET FUCKING OWNED CHUDSGAMERS ARE HAVING A BIG OLD BLAST
>arbitrary calendar date approaches>every advancement you spent tens of hours playing for is stolenI will never play an extraction shooter. The core gameplay loop is not fun enough to stand on its own, because its entire identity is "collect stuff" and then you lose that stuff. It's like if you had 700 out of 900 pokemon and then Gamefreak said "hey everyone we're doing a reset this weekend to add 3 new pokemon, you're gonna lose the 700 you have to accommodate this and make it fair for everyone."
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I cant believe they abandoned destiny for shitathon.
>>738844515Most of them don't even do mandatory wipes!
>>738802684I'm here to laugh at you.
>>738802947>wipethe season 2 "update" will wipe out the player base when they see that their progress is gone.
>>738838602it should just be a separate mode probably. like ladders in diablo.if you don't mind the reset, you can play them and at the end of it all your shit gets yeeted to the regular mode
>>738802945Why do people willingly subject themselves to a genre that needs constant progress whipes to properly workIt has to be some form of cuckoldry, i just can't prove it yet
Just one more terminal hold on
>>738802157All these years and I still never bothered to look up what the fuck an "extraction shooter" is.
>>738802947Arc is dead so im gonna be playing this when the reset hits
>>738847378>arc dead>10x marathon's numbers at any given moment*** ******* has more maps, more enemies, more guns, more gear, more events, and more planned content on the horizon than marathon and it doesn't even come close.
Steamchart status?
>>738848548chartwatchers didn't get the number under 3k playersthis is a huge maratroon Wbetter like tomorrow my fellow chuds...
lol
>>738825751I don't think anyone knows about Season 2 but /v/
>>738848548The same slowly going down by next month it'll be lower then 10k for peek and around 4k for the low.
>>738849202Very intimate blasting.
When exactly when I see the CLIMAX of Concord 3, bros? I can't hold all this cum...
>>738803473Holy shit Shart Raiders losted bigly.Another win from genius inventor of the extraction shooter genre Niggita Buyanov
>Most popular game-mode in this extraction shooter neither requires nor gives any gearWhy is this an extraction shooter again?
>>738802802Look at it goooo
>>738807120It only sounds awful because you have a job
>>738850213Why should neets be fine with it? Even they're still mortal.
>>738802157So uhhhhhh....Guess it didn't stabilize at 20k after all.....Or 15k.....Maybe 10k?
>>7388504761k is enough for matches chud
THE PLAYERCOUNT NUMBERS NEVER BOTHERED ME ANYWAY
>>738850069> Casual plays a match > Wears no shields or green shields> Meets Chad.> Chad is in purple and legendary loot> Gear diff > Chad auto wins > Casual gets mad and uninstalls. So, sponsored runs exist so they can fight for scraps and do their shitty quests that amount to mp4 talks
>>738802157>desperate beyond the grave damage control before snoy pulls the plug
HIGHGUARDIANSHOLD THE LINE
>>738850610They only need 6 or 12 players to fill lobbies! Marathon is thriving! Retarded faggot take
>>738837152sorry you had to see that anon, Marathon players are balls deep in the Sunk Cost Fallacy right now and are grasping at straws to justify their purchase
>>738802802I've already stocked up on drinks for the EoS news. Hope it takes B*ngie down with it.
>>738839025why buy an ad when retards like you keep signal boosting it for him?
>>738850069>nor gives any gearYou can loot gear in sponsored maps though, what are you talking about? You just won't get anything interesting from the vaults of people you loot
>>738851098BUT DOOD, THE EPIC LOREIT'S A REAL MARATHON GAME
>>738840272even with all the memes about the actual game and extraction shooter genre, the main reason I decided not to get Marathon was the artstyle. It's so jarring and off-putting I couldn't imagine dumping 50-100+ hours staring at that visual eye rape
>>738841097It's the same philosophy as leagues or seasons in games like Diablo or PoE.
>>738851916Meanwhile I've never played a Bungie game or a extraction shooter yet I play it because I think the visual style is great.We should have sex.
ESCAPE WILL MAKE ME GOD
>>738851936No, because even when the league ends in PoE your characters just get kicked into Standard- not completely deleted.
I miss Highguard...at least the threads were more lighthearted. Marathon threads are just depressing...
>>738851992 p-please be gentle, I'm a virgin...
>>738852042the quests and levels just serve as reasons for you to be on different parts of maps, and you lose all your gear running cryo anyway.you keep all the achievement/glossary shit after the wipe too.the only people mad about the wipe are people performatively doing so who dont play the game or new players that dont understand their vault is worthless anyway.
>>738812938s..surely season 2...
>>738813926its not a story the chuds would tell you
>>738814892hey its the how is it woke sis!hows your wokestractions going sis?>>738815658designs are woke af thowoke means ugly, asexual, nonbinary, unappealing, gaudy, gross, queer, etc, the wokies object because they want to normalize this ugly af anesthetic but normal people find it very off-putting
>>738816427>11201 peaklmao i love these threads
>>738819132how come good games numbers go up from launch not down?
>>738805240>I need to see some lesser spht roaming aboutlol
>>738825364aztecuck went back and played the maratroon game lmfaothats what you get for basing your channel. identity and audience on a single cuck game for 10 years lmfao OWNED
>>738852607see the thing is that normies disagree completely, they dont play this garbage to pvp, they play to do the quests, the quest progression being deleted feels bad to them, this rationale you posted is fine from a systems perspective for dealing with like hamsters, but real people detest doing the same shot over and over, its why sysyphus task is symbolizing hell, and why tarkov arc etc removed wipes.
>>738825364its funny how all the destiny people troed blasting and bounced lmfao
>>738802157But /v/ told me this game flopped???
>>738802802TUMBLING DOWNTUMBLING DOWNTUMBLING DOWN
>>738854049/v/ LIED ANONTHIS GAMES THRIVING
>>738854205That's what I thot
>>738853914>its why sysyphus task is symbolizing hellBig true. A wipe is a perfect exit ramp for me. Will burn my vault doing ranked Cyro with the boys then uninstall forever. Trash game.
>>7388028024 billion dollar loss on bungie
If it's at 12k peak and steam is 70% of playerbase that's not even 20k across pc, PlayStation, and Xbox
I'm having a blast
>>73884920210 years of sunk cost vs 3 months of sunk cost.
>>738849202chuds will tell you we are losing when our peak is clearly higher lmfao
>>738852027filtered shitter
>>738803674They clicked the lights of, runna. That's it.
>>738849202your peak is my lowest point, let that sink in
>>738855053Bungie should send an email saying that directly to the player. It would be very good
>>738849428Season 3 when it goes f2p to 20k people
>>738854319I don't believe you even play it because you're supposed to burn your whole vault weekly. If youre just doing it now you're a liar or a shitter.
>>738853442>woke means ugly, asexual, nonbinary, unappealing, gaudy, gross, queer, etc, the wokies object because they want to normalize this ugly af anesthetic but normal people find it very off-puttingI struggle with this because, though I agree that the incentive at Bungie and in most Western studios is postmodern evisceration of the idea of beauty and the lowering of standards, I also grew up wishing that there was more normal stuff in film and movies. For example, Cloverfield was a fun movie but I struggled with it because the entire cast looked like models. It took me out of the immersion of believing that real people were facing that scenario. I'm hungry for normal looking people playing roles (which you used to get in 1960s-1980s films and it worked well) but the way this manifests in our modern media is in the wrong spirit and that is why it always comes off as repulsive: attached picture is how insane Hollywood is that, when a role calls for a normal or ugly person, they'll cast a beautiful person and uglify them, just like how game companies hire beautiful women for face scans and then uglify them. Uglification is a core aspect of wokeness. I'd argue that Marathon's art style is close to good but always avoids being good by doing metaphorical Jackson Pollock diarrhea over the top of their good ideas.
>>738852027what's the matter, didn't get to exfil? oh poor lil guy
>>738802157So? They're going to add a fleshed out single player campaign and fun multiplayer modes like CTF and Team Deathmatch? Cool!
>>738855413I watched a video about this other day, character actors used to look like normal people but movies are so expensive now they have to guarantee returns with beautiful people.They could have made Project Hail Mary with anyone but Gosling sold more tickets. (He also did great but point still stands)
>>738802157>Gather round Marathoners for the big pre wipe pre patch announcement
>>738855631Every time I kill a geared up team doing a key room/cryo vault I wonder if I'm the straw breaking that particular camel's back and dropping the players numbers further.
>>738802802>>738802157Why does everybody hate this game again? I haven't paid any attention
>>738856364irrational Bungie hate
>>738856364its just chuds, steiner will bring a surge with season 2
I dont care what happens to marathonI simply want total bungie death
>>738856821based
RAPE BUNGIE
MOLEST BUNGIE
>>738856198>Be me>Run Solo @ 2am>Legendary shields becuz why not>Suppressed Bully>A green shield shoots at me>Kekw>Deleted>he cries as I finish him>"Why the fuck are yo-!?">Player named CaydeThat has been one of the shining moments for me. I know I sent that man back to Star Wars Destiny.
>>738855874I think it's more complex than this. Hollywood used to control who you perceived was a star regardless how they looked. Take Julia Roberts for example. I don't think she really is that attractive at all and she wasn't that great an actor but in the 90's and 00's she was considered Hollywood royalty because Hollywood and late night TV shows and shows like Entertainment Tonight and the foreign equivalents gaslit you into thinking this and surprise when the internet blew up, and they lost control to tell us how to think and retarded actors showed us they are actually terrible retards with retarded opinions, that shit ended quick.I also don't understand where you are getting the idea that people are using beautiful people now like what you are seeing in Odyssey has been the standard for 15 years now where you are being gaslit into thinking Zendaya or Lupita Nyong'o is attractive. Look how angry Sydney Sweeney is making people for just being an attractive woman in subpar movies and shows like they tried to cancel her multiple times. Project Hail Mary IMO was the exception and not the rule.
>>738855053>>738855631The shills tolerate abuse left and right, but the moment a player takes actual steps to harm the game economically, watch them start screeching.
>>738856364>>738856508>hateThere is no hate. This is a basic concept called Schadenfreude where it's fun to laugh at someone fucking up and paying the price for their own fuckup. Think of it like laughing at a retard who buys a bottle of soda, shakes it up, opens the lid, then gets sprayed in the face. Except this bottle of soda cost a quarter of a billion dollars.
>>738859770I was wondering when the schadenfreude poster would show up.
>>738859842ehhh im pretty sure theres several, i was about to post about schenfraude too...it really isn't about hate, i just find modern audience types eating shit very funny
>>738859842But that's all it is, retardbro. The only people who have ever tried to push the 'criticism is hate' bullshit about anything (Marathon, movies, shows, web series, whatever) are disingenuous little weasels (possibly you) who don't like having a thing they like being met with anything less than a positive reception.Even back in the reveal threads for nuMarathon, anons correctly predicted 'it's going to flop', 'it's normalfag repellent,' 'why would Bungie bet their asses on niche game' and so on. And guess what, those predictions were all correct.
>>738859770nah pretty sure that's hate unc
>>738861212i didn't fight in the great gamer wars of 2014 so some little shit could call me an unc, that's mr chud to you
>>738861212lol madstay on reddit
>>738861212By this logic, engaging in the following now qualifies as hate:>watching the Three Stooges and laughing when one of them gets hurt by another>watching any episode of Seinfeld or It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia>watching any silly pet video on TikTok where a dog accidentally jumps on his owner's crotch with too much force or weight>laughing at bad movies>chuckling while reading a 'Biggest Office Bombs' article>and so onIn other words, you're a low IQ/EQ brainlet and possibly brown/ESL because this concept (Schadenfreude) seems to be beyond you.
>>738862640educate yourself lil gup
>everyone seemingly hates this game >try to be contrarian and buy it >it’s as bad as they said >can’t refund it nowFuck, why couldn’t it have been kino
>>738862640That's the most disingenuous post I have ever seen. Anyone with enough brain power to learn to read will be able to tell you that the rhetoric around people chart watching Marathon is nothing like the innocent appreciation for slapstick humor.
>>738862793>grok, I'm getting blown out in this argument>help me try to argue back>even the AI can only get to 'you can argue it is hate, I guess' and even has to put a qualifier at the endThis is why your generation is completely doomed, lil bro.As are you, for having no capacity for creative or critical thought.
>>738802157>THEY'RE LITERALLY FIXING E V E R Y T H I N GI thought you were having a "blast".
>>738862868What exactly did you dislike about Marathon? Genuine question, I want to hear your opinion.
>>738862869>open Marathon chart>see it hit a new low of sub 4k CCU>chuckle>close chart>watch old slapstick physical comedy bit>character tries to get one over on another character>ends up hurting himself>chuckle>turn off clipOh my god, I can't believe how much hatred I felt during both of those situations!
>>738862964the popular opinion is to hate it now, which makes me not want to play anymore
>>738863032deriving joy and satisfaction from a negative is the literal definition of hate
>>738862868>try to own chuds>get owned by chuds doing nothingmany such cases
>>738856364>take doom clone few people played>make it an extraction shooter >make it look like tumblr>stands out in the worst possible way>has to compete against other extraction shooters for no other reason it what kids are playing nowIt's funny to hate it.
these anons sincerely trying to stop others from schadenfreuding on maraflop's catastrophic failures... they cannot really seriously be going for this angle:>laughing when your mortal enemies fail is hateful bro!!!it's too pathetic to even believe to be real
>>738863126That's the literal definition of schadenfreude, you illiterate jeetoid.
>>738863126That definition is nonsense. Look up the word in any dictionary, particularly those written before 2015, and you'll find the same general definition:>to feel intense dislike or negativity toward>find something very unpleasantThe word itself stems from grief/anger around loss. Laughing at some retard stepping on a rake like Sideshow Bob doesn't mean I hate him, it means I thought the circumstance was funny.The same part of the brain that processes love also processes hate, it's simply a very strong emotion.Deriving amusement (joy is too strong a word) from a negative has nothing to do with hate unless you're a braindead retard who gets co-opted into the cult of 'if you criticize anything, you're a bad person.' Shove this toxic positivity mindset up your ass, you buffoon.
>>738826092it takes like a week to get full purple gear at a casual pace. The only grind in Marathon is the gold salvage needed for the final reputation upgrades but its such a loot pinata game that it's pretty detrimental to the balance since it immediately became streamers and NEETS dumping on everyone else due to gear discrepancy from the very start. Season 2 will be even worse because everyone knows they need to farm Outpost nonstop until Cryo opens and then farm Cryo. Rinse repeat, there wont be a buld up "figuring it out" period where no one is really sure how things work.
pvp lostpve won
>>738863386I'm not trying to stop anything. I just don't buy the idea that this isn't hate, or at least strong distaste.
