>Bungie killed Destiny for Marathon>Bungie is a studio with 800 devs in Seattle>They already made Sony lose almost $800M>All their eggs are in a game that will hit sub 10k soonSooooooo, when can we expect the layoffs?
I don't understand why Bungie didn't release a Marathon 1 remake first. Did they really think anyone still cares about a 30 year old IP?
>billion dollar company can't even support 2 games at a timeHow did Sony let themselves get scammed this hard?
>>739322450they're making a new game and chuds aren't invited to play
looks like is finally stabilizing at a 10k (lol) player count, congratulations to all blast havers (lmao)
>>739322450Hopefully the whole studio will be shutdown eventually. Been praying for their downfall for the better part of a decade.
chartwatcherbrosi'm checking outthis shit isnt entertaining anymore
Making Destiny 3 probably would have been a better choice.
>>739324824>sources tell me Marathon is stable. Please G-d.~4.2 B USD well spent.
>>739325025wise move, some went down with the ship
>>739322450fuck off. everybody stop fucking making marathon threads until it goes F2P. till then, i dont give a shit!!!
>>739324715Sony is all-in on leftist faggotry
>>739322450it's not normal to hate this game this much. you suck as a person if you delight in hating things. when you stop playing a game just move on
>>739322868That would make people want a Single Player campaign instead of Extraction slop
post yfw you didn't buy maraflop
i have 0 sympathy for you destiny niggers, serves you right for doing all those retarded marathon hate threads
i blasted on myself and after a while it turned into a gelatin like substance
>>739325025Marathon is a failure but it isn't really an interesting one. The sheer amount of money involved is the only notable thing but everyone was expecting Concord part 3 and Marathon isn't that at all. It really isn't part of any culture wars, the devs aren't chimping out, the outside community isn't discussing it at large.It's just a really straight forward case of a poorly thought product failing to sell and now it's going to slowly wind down for the next year while the devs struggle to save it. It's the same service game failure you see all year round except this time it cost a lot more money to produce.
>>739322868Probably for the same reason they thought they could get away with stripping Destiny 2 players of all their gear and making the the bulk of the game not worth playing a for a 2nd time. They're retarded.
>>739326004
>>739326010You seem to be under the incorrect assumption that Marathon hate threads are made by CURRENT Destiny players instead of jilted ex-Destiny players. Current Destiny players will continue to eat up whatever shit Bungie serves them, which includes Marathon.
More people are playing Destiny 2 than Marathon...
>>739322450>how bungie dying is actually a good thing
>>739327812More people play Roblox than Expedition 33. Does that make Roblox better you fucking faggot?
>>739322450watching depressed tassi videos made it all worth while.
I don't get how you can talk about this daily
>>739327986BUNGIE IS TRYING TO SALVAGE A FUCKING BOAT THAT HAD A TON OF HOLES THE MOMENT IT LEFT HARBORWHEN THEY ALREADY HAD A GOD DAMN YACHT THAT WORKED FOR A DECADE THAT THEY'RE NOW WILLINGLY RUNNING INTO ROCKS
>>739322450If you played Destiny 1 at launch and see the state of it now, you'd also want this "studio" to go under. They are actual scam artists, and their level of laziness is hard to put into words.
>>739327986>we have one game that used to be successful and one that has never been successful>clearly we need to kill the former
>>739327986Roblox is more platform for games than A game, so this is a false equivalence. I still answer yes because I don't care what you typed anyway.
>yeah I thought destiny 1 didn't fulfill its potential>yeah I thought destiny 2 was worse in every way and only got worse over time>yeah I also think bungie no longer has any of the talent that once let them make good games>and yeah, sony's influence on them could only ever have been negative>but I'm still mad that they're not making destiny 3 and will be complaining about it every day until the end of timedestiny fans in 2026 make no sense
Destiny lost the battle but it was a Pyrrhic victory. Bungie and maraflop are dead.
>>739327986SAAAAAAAR
>>739325314Practically everyone else has turned back on the madness. Even Microslop. Seems the rot is too deep. Snoy's gonna get Sega'd by the end of this decade.
>>739322450Before year's end. Most likely near September.
>destiny dead>marathon dyingso how is bungie making any money now?
now we know why destiny wasn't mentioned in the earnings call...
>>739330492Wtf chat is this real?
>>739325126>1.85x that of Minecraft.That's funny. I wonder what the plan is to make this profitable. Surely someone at Sony knows how to make games. Motivation (fun) was solved in 1985.
>>739328352Does Destiny 2 have homing bullets?
>>739325703I don't think it's exhilarating necessarily, but trying to get into a market that already has plenty of games is a huge red flag, and so is thinking it still has a chance without some serious design and advertising savvy. Having fun with the flop at least lets developer readers know that a demographic exists that's trying to appeal to a smarter Bungie and Sony.What even is their next move? Just make an MMO at this point, and if necessary, one every year or two until you have a top 20 by playtime.
>>739325314How so?
>>739322450They said they’re starting work on new games, I don’t think they’re gonna do much more with Marathon than what they’ve announced Sony is gonna eat shit and wait it out until their next big game I think rather than pulling the plug. It will probably be Destiny 3 if Sony is pressuring them to turn a profit
>>739324993Is there any talent from Halo? But you have to realize that Reach wasn't that good and had homing bullets. I don't know about later games, but people should've been able to see a problem with Bungie's design principles. The next few years are especially important.
>>739327986Yes, Roblox is in fact better than Astroturf 33.
>>739324824>stabilizingNope still about 30% loss week to week. One more month until EOS
>>739322868Same reason why Arc Raiders didn't release a singleplayer campaign first. Why would anyone care about a new IP, am I right?
>>739325314Which is why Marathon doesn't have any political messaging?
>>739326004i got it for $26 on gmg and it was entertaining for about 10hrs before it became a shitty, grueling, no fun sweatfest, i'll check it out come season 2 and will probably bounce of in less than 10hrs
>>739322450>another thread mocking Bungie deleted once it gets over 450 postsI'm convinced that they're just trying to prevent these threads from getting archived.
>>739322450Probably next month. Season 2 of Marathon and Destiny 2's ending are both in June. After that, they're done most likely.
lmfaothis should be obvious enough but i guess if you're a Marathon fan you might have some issues trying to not be retarded
>>739339562>destiny is a failure>when it has more players right now than the latest and hot IP from Bungie>when Marathon flopped so badly that they had to cancel all the planned expansions for Destiny 2are these retards delusional? this is not a good sign for marathon at all. its just reckless gambling that if they go all in on the new IP they can maybe salvage it but its not a sign of faith in the game than it is a lack of critical thinking.
>>739332587Sony life support
>Bungie cost Sony more than Disney buying StarWarsWhat were they thinking?
>*cough*....*cough*.... We... Won.....>*BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP*
>>739322450I wonder who will buy the Destiny IP once Bungie collapses or is shut down by Sony soon. I have a feeling Blizzard might take a shot at it. Realistically I don't think Bungie survives until 2027.
>>739339861>oh fuck Microsoft has Bethesda we're so screwedyes, really
>>739339962what the actual fuck has happened to Sony over all? it seems they have been continuously shitting the bed for a while now. is it just the ESG money that started killing them?
>>739339960I think Sony will keep it and will nothing with it for years to come
>>739332587i'm going to guess they have infinite money anyway
>>739340254ESG made it worse, but the rot began with moving Playstation's HQ to California, especially when Jim Ryan became CEO.
>>739334031An MMO is possibly the worst genre you could invest into right now.
>new character is another George DroidThey really want this game dead, huh?
>>739340254>pander to westeners>suddenly your games are ugly, have no gameplay worth a shitthe problem is the western market, or at least, the social media version of it that makes people think the market is full of black women and gays
>>739340338great timing for Sony to have a Horizon MMO in the works
>>739339861Well they ignored the fact that both microsoft AND activision had audited bungie and written them off as a basket case studio with toxic finances and delusional management and said "JUST fuck our live service up xirs"
>>739340514it floors me that fucking ACTIVISION had to put their judaism on a leach
>>739340323oh shit. i was completely unaware that was the HQ. it happened around 2016... which seems to line up around the time Sony started doing stupid shit.fuck. i miss old sony so bad. i really want a new jumping flash. killzone. wipeout. bloodborne (just a PC port, nothing else). but yeah. i know those days are gone and never coming back. seems it's just going to be this GAAS bullshit and Movie Film Game for PlayStation™ until the company rots away completely
>>739340254In the 00s, Japanese publishers bought into the idea that they had to make Call of Duty -> Japanese publishers got closer relationship with western devs who were trying to make gaming """grow up""" and started outsourcing stuff to them -> Sony moved to California -> Sony became just another Hollywood company that's occupied by pretentious retards who are embarrassed by their customers because some stupid mean girl whores call them losers (I don't know how you can be a bigger loser than having everything that Hollywood has and still not being able to turn a profit)This didn't happen overnight.
>>739341056it's like watching a 10-year gay retarded train wreck
>>739340823the new jap CEO does seem to be trying to course correct, but far too gradually and likely far too late (also, constantly raising prices on shit constantly isn't going to help either).
>>73934119225 year long trainwreck that's only been able to continue for so long thanks to a series of unfortunate circumstances (the 00s being the height of graphics hype and needing the retards' money, ESG, the rise of China as a new market giving them record profits before China got their own big devs, etc.)
>>739322868>single player gameBungie will NEVER make one of those again as long as Jason Jones is there.He views them as old dinosaur shit. The rule future of games is player driven online world shit.He's one of those fuckheads.
>>739339962Not even, it was Pete Parson's greenlighting a bunch of projects that were never going to end up releasing to raise the price of Bungie and pushing Sony to buy them. Biggest kike in all of gaming, not even Kotick could've pulled something like that off. Hell, there's a reason Kotick was fine with Bungie going independent after just 4 years of owning them.
>>739339861Sony, under Hulst, has also tried to push Aloy and Horizon as the next big thing, and they greenlit, what was it? 9 live service titles that they then whittled down to 4 or 5 after Concord shit the bed. The executives and shareholders are just genuinely retarded, as executives and shareholders tend to be.
>when can we expect the layoffs?HOW DID OP PREDICT THIS
>>739322450Yeah, there will be layoffs, but on the Destiny side, you stupid nigger. I understand you clowns have a hate boner for Marathon, but keep in mind, Marathon wasn’t even around for those $800M in loses. Thats all D2’s doing, and its the reason why the game is getting shutdown. Use your fucking brains. Marathon is actually doing incredible well for a game that launched a little while ago.
>>739343948>um ACKtually its not his bungie its that bungie lol
>>739326232The greater context of Bungie at large is what makes it interesting or creates any storyline here. There's a lot of draws here, whether your chosen vexation is Bungie's content vaulting, degradation of writing quality, low quantity/quality content pipeline, Fortnite-ification of the brand peaking with Star Wars collab sloppa, the abandonment of Destiny (which depsite all previous grievances, has enough going for it to keep people coming back for more), their puppeting of the Marathon IP into an entirely unrecognizable homunculus of a game, or their globohomo politics which have infested Bungie to their core. I loved Destiny and the joy and friends it has given me, and I mourn the final nail in the coffin today the same way you mourn a sick dog getting put down. I don't hate Marathon for any harm it could or did do to Destiny, I just hate Bungie for all the reasons above, and Marathon is the collateral.
>>739333275looks real to me
>>739326232>everyone was expecting Concord part 3>it's going to slowly wind down for the next year while the devs struggle to save it. >It's the same service game failure you see all year round except this time it cost a lot more money to produce....that sounds exactly like a part 3.it's not going to be exactly like Concord since it's the 3rd in the trilogy, duh.
>haha it's fine, they just need to can Marathon and use Destiny 2 cashflow to make Destiny 3>they HAVEN'T started on Destiny 3>Marathon is still running and costing them money>they were making a Destiny live service game that got cancelled>they are firing people who made destiny 2OWARI FUCKING DA
>>739343948>Marathon is actually doing incredible well for a game that launched a little while agoDoesn't it it need to sell 6 million to break even on it's budget and it sold 1.2 million?
>>739343451And Hulst heads guerilla games, aka huge conflict of interest, which is why you see a lot of resources going into his own studio, whereas Japan Studio gets taken to the back of the barn.The HQ move to Cali and giving that much power to the gaijins was a mistake.
>>739344547>billions
>>739326232nah bro, this flop is what finally killing live service garbage. Concord cost 1 tenth what marathon did, let that sink in, marathon is a 4 billion dollar plus failure when everything is added up, its glorious.
>>739332587its job is not to make money anymore. Its job os giving sony japan cover to ourge all the western cancerits glorious
>>739343451it was 12 live servicesmy guess is theyre just not gutting hinters gatheribg to have an excuse to fire hulst
>>739322868Bungie is notoriously retarded.
>>739340823me too, jim ryan was cancer>>739340462its more reddit, elon buying x and the cancer fucking off to blue sky is glorious even the most sheltered boomer knows how cancer the activists are, everyone is firing them en masse, square is downsizing their western operations, hope sony follows, sbi type fucks are radioactive and its glorious to see it.
>>739343948>Marathon is actually doing incredible well for a game that launched a little while ago.
These niggas still blaming a guy who hasn't been there for years lmao
LOL
>>739346890maratroons really are the most pathetic fanbase in gaming kek
>>739322868Bungie is genuinely one of the dumbest devs out there right now. Maybe only beaten by Ubishit.
>>739340323>the rot began with moving Playstation's HQ to CaliforniaYeah. Commiefornia might have all that gamedev talent and stuff but it's not worth the brainrot infesting the place.
>>739322868They technically did (via the community port, on Steam). It's just the reboot is very loosely related to the single-player Marathon that it wouldn't really matter, especially to single-player shooter players that find out the new one is a PvPvE extraction shooter.
>>739325025>>739326232I disagree. The level of ego and hubris and some of the personal social medias of the more outspoken retards here, the ones who spent millions of fucking dollars on improving afros that they didn't actually use, and donated millions of dollars to try to stop hate by donating to charities in an attempt to shut down 4chan is still plenty entertaining to me. I'm having a blast.
>>739333527The plan was that Sony was weak at live services, and that Bungie would guide them to a fortnite or two.
>>739340254Ryan and Hulst wanted dominion, so that meant suppressing the Japanese side of the company in favor of Hollywood and ESG. It's why they folded studio japan even though it was making money, regularly releasing, and getting attention.
>>739343420Back in the day, I thought Kotick was an evil asshole. Now I understand that he was laser focused on the money at all times. and at least understood that he needed us to give him fucking money for the shit they were making, and these egomaniacs are way, way worse..
>>739343948>. Marathon is actually doing incredible well for a gameBiggest financial failure of the year. Probably bigger than the number 2, 3 and 4 combined, unless Wolverine or GTA really outperform there..
>>739322868Bungie still thought they could coast off of being the studio that created Halo. But after over a decade of Destiny, that reputation is as long gone as the people who worked on those games. "The studio that made Destiny" is a less appealing title. But now they have "the studio that made Marathon" instead. What should be a crown jewel is just a final nail.
>>739346559You would think SOME of them would understand that they needed to move on to D3 or not Halo at some point.
>the final shape gives them a perfect off ramp for d2 to shift into d3 development>they shit the bed instead
>>739347695shit. i used to have hope Sony could unfuck themselves somehow, until the 10th anniversary for bloodborne came and went without any mention from sony at all.now i hope Sony goes bankrupt for all that.
>>739348020Didn't Rise of Iron not really need to be a thing either?
>>739348164They are rich enough that they can eventually literally buy their way into unfucking themselves, but it would be like a sega class turnaround.
>>739343420Funnily enough, Bethesda did the same thing. They announced so much shit in at E3 2018 before the Microsoft deal happened. Starfield. ES6. FO76. A ton of mobile slop games. New Wolfenstein, Rage and Doom games. Creation club monetization. Basically gave out their plans for the next decade and made it clear that they were going all in on live service shit with Fallout and mobile games. They went from a 2.5 billion valuation in 2016, to 7.5b from Microsoft in 2021, tripling their valuation in just a few years, mostly due to E3 2018 and the hype they created. Although credit to Bethesda, they actually delivered on everything they promised unlike Bungie. What they delivered might not have been great, but they got it out eventually. Microsoft definitely overpaid for them though, not as much as Sony overpaid for Bungie, but they fell for Todd's lies.
>>739340390We literally know what it looks like.
>>739348770I just hate how all these shit designs don't even say what does each character supposed to do, just random horseshits put up together
>>739346440
Stop it.
>>739348852dont forget the random symbols slapped all over every single surface in the entire game
>>739348852Bungie used to have peak design. I don't know what happened
>>739349247He is right, though. Destiny 2 was concluded with The Final Shape. Everything after was just Bungie trying to suck the last few shekels from its corpse.
>>739349342No, he's not 'right' because there were confirmed expansions coming for D2 that have now been cancelled
>>739349342>Destiny 2 was concluded with The Final ShapeThe voices in your head aren't real. I'm not even a D2 player and I know they said The Final Shape was the conclusion to the light v darkness stuff, and they'd be setting up the next storylines after that.
>>739349816Oh. I'm not a Destiny player either, so when I saw the Star Wars expansion, I assumed that the game was in the "anything goes, nothing is canon" territory.
>>739349342>>739349816They really should have ended D2 after final shape and then started D3 developmentThe fact that they have admitted they haven't started D3 development is insane, they really had no plan other than to keep bloating up D2 with more shit until the spaghetti code exploded
Marathon isn't even that woke.
>>739348770Looks like Recon, what the hell is this supposed to be?
>>739349991It's not woke at all.
>check what's left in Snoy projects>Break In, forma fairgame$>Neil bald lesbian
destinyfags review bombing marathon just means its going to die faster and thats a good thing!
>>739349991made by trannies for trannies
>>739350000Sentinel, some sort of a defensive shell. That's the same helmet you find in Cryo archive, and the same vest that _gantry wears.
>>739350035Sony gaming division isn't surviving until PS6
>>739350000>>739350084
Nu-Marathon attracts the most annoying artfag fuckheads around. I'm not sure why.
>Remove single player>content that was already done>300 staff members are assigned to Marathon>Game launches with just 3 maps>mediocre maps at that and an additional 1 later>Maps are not even big>No other game modes or anything to do>$30 plus MTX>MOAR people are assigned to Marathon more than destiny>Bungie cannibalizes Destiny further more to the point it kills it and fires the entire dev team>Playstation has now negative gamesLive reaction: :|I don't understand why you need 500 positions for one game and yet somehow the game is content starved worse than games made 26 years ago with only 15 guys.What do these people even do all day?>Maintain the serversThat can be done with at most 80 guys being generous and Marathon doesn't have that kind of pull anyways.Maps can be made with like 5 guys and with a man power of 100 devs they should be churning out content every month.Seem like they have 300 people going bebobebobebo with their finger on their lips all day.I wonder if now there is anyone from the Halo days anyways.Even 343i did not screw up this bad.
>>739349991>>739350071>Shows up>It's shitty to have around>Makes everything worse>Kills itselfThat is very troon like.
>>739324715For one, they moved their gaming division from Japan over to California.
>>739349816The Light vs The Darkness was the entire plot of Destiny. Edge of Fate trying to pivot to a "new" story line about the faggot ass Nine was both stupid and passionless and the fanbase knew it which is why nobody came back.
>>739350213Speaking of 343i I wonder what they did all day too. So much of Infinite was outsourced and they had like, 800 employees at the time.
>>739350270
>>739325126I'd say the actual cost is more than that, considering they put Bungie in charge of all of those other GaaS games being made, and then had to watch from their cuck chair as Bungie proceeded to kill off every single one of them to make room for Marathon. We didn't even factor in the numerous studios that got shuttered or heavily laid off to help offset the purchase.
>>739332587Only Bungie's CEO is making money. He somehow tricked Sony into being his personal tugboat just because Microcock managed to buy Bethesda and Activision.
>>739343451>Name your game as the most generic brand product ever and people still think of cars when they hear of Horizon in any game related contextGuerrilla did not deserve this.
>>739340390>i can't loot'n'shootBrave and stunning....
>>739350360So wait, Bungie was given authority to kill of other non-Bungie games from other studios?What games did they kill?
>>739350145What is that printer pattern test looking nigga? Was the 3D printer running out of Cyan?
>>739350146seriously I don't know what these faggots see in this mess of an artstyle
>>739350452>gee Microsoft sama, how come you get to buy two useless niggers>don't worry Sony chan, I will sell you my used cumragAnd the rest, is history.
>>739350335>bungie vs 343i>dumb retard vs retarded dumboHow the fuck did these guys once upon a time make good game?
Ranked is filled with cheaters. I think season 2 will have 15000 players peak, fast drop back to 10k.
>>739350532The main one was that Last of Us Online which was apparently almost finished.
>>739350707343 never made a good game, Bungie fired all their good people in the lead up to Destiny 1 launch, elders like Staten and Marty and othersFrom that point on it was Bungie in name only
>>739350783>Bungie in name onlyBino....
>only know about making Halo>can't make Halo>That will be 3.6 Billions Washington Dollars sir
Why wasn't Bungie's live service expertise able to save hits like Concord and future hits like Fairgame$, are they incompetent?
>>739351407Pete's plan was never to save them, but to kill them,
>>739351487>3.6 billion burgers to kill your own devsTruly a master plan for the ages.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-21/bungie-plans-layoffs-after-ending-destiny-2-developmentIT'S JOEVERSNOY: WAITO PIGGU LOST 765 MILLION? LAY THEM ALL OFF
>>739352496But Playstation is an American brand now...
apology for poor englishwhen were you when bungle diesi was sat at home drinking brain fluid when fred ring'bungle is die"'no'and you?????????????
Can't stop playing. You losers need to stop being such incels.
>>739354224The only reason I closed it is because I'm going to get some food then I'll be back and play for like another 5 hours straight :))))
extraction shooters are all trash except for hunt showdown. the concept is inherently susceptible to cheaters due to instant death and persistent inventory which requires massive grind. hunt showdown didn't have this problem because the PvE shit is only there to supplement the PvP. ironically, the PvE content in hunt is more varied and interesting than marathon which is 100% humanoid robots that you shoot in the head.
>>739354791in hunt, the time in-between PvP is tense because death can come at any moment and the various sound traps in the map can be heard from extremely far away. in basically every other game, it's just fucking boring and all you're doing is running from A to B while avoiding wide open spaces as much as possible.
>>739350213>mediocre maps at that and an additional 1 laterIf Marathon's maps are mediocre, then what the fuck is a good map?>Maps are not even bigYeah, that's an issue.>What do these people even do all day?Next seasons content.
>>739350726No one gives a shit about ranked. I don't know why it exists in the first place.
I don't even know what game this is.
DESTINY DIED PEOPLE LIED OHHHHHH N ONONONO MAMMA MIA
Marathon is a good game. Just unfinished. Fuck you Ziegler, you expended your creative potential with Rook.
So are we still getting PvE content now that they're laying off people?
>>739355813They laid off some of the Destiny team and sent the rest to the Marathon mines. Destiny 3 is cancelled.
>kill the game that makes money to try to salvage the game that's not making money and may never make money??????????????????????????
>>739355852So they're not laying off the marathon team? Why the fuck are they doubling down?
>>739355962they promised shareholders it would be a hit, so to kill it so soon would upset themshareholders don't care about destiny because it is old and can't become fortniteBungie is forced to die in a game of pretend, essentially
>>739355813ALL games should be pushing their PvE content hard right now. Every single online game has its numbers down from Call of Duty to extraction shooters to mobas to fighting games.
>>739355905>It's a bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see if it pays off for them.
>>739356124But didn't Sony also announce the loses due to marathon and equate the Bungie purchase to 700 million lose? Investors should know marathon is a dying bet
>>739356258God you armchair experts are such a retarded bunch. You exist only to make me laugh>>739354274I'm back! here comes another 5 hours of Cryo
>>739356258seriously how do investors not see these charts and just think "WHAT THE FUCK"
>>739356258>Investors should know marathon is a dying betThey don't because they are retarded rich people and Sony is trying to fool them.Sony purchases Bungie for 3.6 billion, then said "actually it's worth less 250mil less, or bad" and then last week they went "actually it's worth 450mil less, our bad"Tell me if you seriously think the Bungie you are looking at right now is worth 2.9 billion usd or if Sony is just dripfeeding their shareholders the fact that they MASSIVELY fucked up
>>739322450Good, Marathon is the better game
>>739356379trvke
>>739356131we had a solid decade of online PvP focus in gaming, that time has passed. people are too busy competing in this fucked up world we live in now to bother with competing in something trivial like a video game anymore
>>739326004No, I don't care either way.
>>739322450marathon lost to Project Nortubel
>>739322450after june according to sony
>>739322868The only way ti redeen themselves now woukd be a modern yet non pozzed POD remake.
>>739356531
>>739356531>>739356582Ok anything that isn't 2 years old news?
>>739356679try 8 hours
>>739356707>Layingoff destiny teamGood actually, Destishitters lostCapeshit lostMarakino won
>>739356371>>739356374Investors truly are the smoothest brain around
>>739348725>Microsoft definitely overpaid for them though, not as much as Sony overpaid for Bungie, but they fell for Todd's lies.Marathon is a good game unlike anything Bethesda has ever made
>>739354274Don't forget to dilate anon!
>>739356865I have an 8 inch cock lmao loser
>>739356736The only people who are winning here are people who want the world to realize that the entire western AAA industry (both the devs and the people doing the greenlighting) is out to lunch and shouldn't be listened to on anything.
>buy studio for 3.8 billion dollars>lose another 800 million dollars sony must regret buying bungie so much
>>739356258No. Bungie lost 765M of market value due to games underperforming, especially Destiny 2 which ran its course and pissed off his shitbaseThat said Marathon will now outpace Arc in updates and has Bungie's undivided attention, we will see how many come back for Season 2 and if it can actually growHonestly, Destiny 2 itself was a mistake, it was the actual massive flop because of how bloated and messy its development was and how many new hires Bungie was forced to recruit to mantain it.The original mistake is ever making a Destiny 2
>>739356847I agree, but that doesn't change the fact that Sony massively overpaid for Bungie, and Marathon has failed to make a profit so far. Even if Marathon did well (which I still believe might happen in the future), Sony still paid too much.
That's all well and good but how the fuck does this 20 year old game still have support and a fan base and no other franchise can replicate it except fortnite?
>>739357020>The original mistake is ever making a Destiny 2This has multiple layers of truth.>we need to make Destiny 2 because the original game is a janky codebase and hard to expand on >build 2 on top of 1They should give Destiny 3 to a different studio and start from scratch.
>>739357097Chinks and slavs can run it on their cockroach infested laptopsAlso you get what you pay for, 99 cents worth of game in this case
>>739334104Have you seen their exclusives from the last 5 years??
>>739357097Tf2tards are demented, they make playing TF2 their entire identity and are very loud about it, they take extreme pride in TF2 being old and that they still play it regardless.Meanwhile Dota 2 is only 3 years newer, by the same company, has 50x the number of players, not a shambling corpse, has an actual pro scene, and nobody cares as much.
>>739357124They should drop Destiny forever because Destiny already did way too much damage and expended any ideas and actual novelty.Series are not meant to go on foreverThey should rip every bit of asset they can reuse and insert it into the Marathon pipeline, then develop and support Marathon for a decade, after which Marathon should also die and they should work on something else entirely
>>739357213cuz mobas are for gayniggers
>>739356938Sony greenlit a full year of Marathon content, so I clearly won
>>739357640is that even enough time to beat the game?
>>739357676What is that supposed to mean?
[Tragic News]Aztecross had more people watching his meltdown shitting on bungie than marathon had in peak players for the last month
>>739357743>Destishitter twitch pedophile If you wanted me to take some streamer opinion seriously at least mention Halo pros like Lucid
>>739356907sorry I meant mm
>>739358191classic prank, got em
>>739357737it means GAAS is shit.live service is shit.there's no win or lose condition. it's not a fucking game. it's just joyslop you can mash buttons to
>>739358330Wow, it's not every day I get to see a man in delirious rage spout nonsense.
>>739358428it's every day i see retards like you continuing to help devs ruin vidya
>>739357263>They should rip every bit of asset they can reuse and insert it into the Marathon pipelineThat's probably their plan and they've already mentioned wanting to turn it into a 'social survival experience' (ie Arc Raiders and Destiny.) They'll just turn Marathon into Destiny 3 in everything but name by porting everything that's salvageable into it which should be easy enough considering that Marathon is basically just reskinned D2 already.Let's see if their gambit of catering to PvEfags pays off or if they'll just piss off their small but dedicated player base and Marathon dies for real (and if Sony doesn't pull the plug before that.) Worse live service games have bounced back from terrible launches and downfalls (Fallout 76, Overwatch and Apex Legends) and gamers seem oddly forgiving in that regard all things considered.
>>739328352they all have stockholm syndrome. people act like this is a universe with anything to love in it but it's been pretty shit the whole way through. good moments are marred by surrounding context, whether that is shitty nonsense in other parts of the grander narrative or the way bungie had clearly set up a sunk-cost FOMO machine with a shocking lack of creativity
>>739322868They quite possibly retooled an existing game into being "Marathon" after Mandalore's videos about the OG games went viral. They approached HIM for lore advice after those videos ffs.
>>739359580Wait is that true i thought it was him joking
>>739359580lmfaothat's as good as sony rereleasing Morbius thinking it was a cool internet meme so it should be successful
>>739322450>>Sooooooo, when can we expect the layoffs?Jason Shekelstein already confirmed they are coming soon.They'll likely leave a small team to bugfix the new D2 content, and finish releasing promised maratroon content, before being shut down for good. D3 got cancelled and there's no plans for other games.
>>739359580>>739359773>They quite possibly retooled an existing game into being "Marathon" after Mandalore's videosNonsense. A Marathon 4/reboot/sequel has been in the works at Bungie for a decade, it was the pet project of Chris Barrett but he got fired which made development directionless since. Nobody cares about a random eceleb.
>>739359580I would be delighted to read the source for this.
>>739350084this thing is the only reason I still look at marathon threads and give anything resembling a fuck about the game
>>739322450>killed Destiny for MarathonDestiny was already dead.
>>739362214>PicWhat's that? Doesn't look like Sentinel in that screenshot.
>>739354224make sure you have a blast™
>>739357020Man, these characters are disgusting.
>>739322450I have 300 hours in marathon and its a top tier pvp game. every marathon hater is a massive shitter who cant play anything that requires actual skill. After bungie adds pve baby mode a lot of them will start playing and pretend like they always liked the game.
>>739357020sounds like the should have started making destiny 3 like 4 years ago when the cattle were still interested in destiny
>>739363161I predict even less players next week
>>739333683yeah on some guns
>>739363161Did they actually add anything new?I did everything there was to do in the game in about 125 hours mostly with a free kit (everywhere outside Cryo) because the player base is mostly incompetent shitters who are terrible at FPS.
Hate to say you deserve this, but you've been complete fucking faggots the past several months.
>>739364170>Did they actually add anything new?There was a season end update, aimed at getting people to spend their loot before it's gone and help players who haven't finished everything speed things along>Dire Marsh now has towers that make an alert when a runner enters its range. You can climb them and use them for sniping>Perimeter and Dire Marsh have a new enemy - the rocket drone, which shoots rockets. It spawns about half-way into a match. It circles the map, but is attracted to active exfil beacons. Has tons of health and drops good loot, including keys.>Perimeter now has UESC ship crashes and like 1 or 2 other events. I haven't really been there since the update, so I'm not sure.>Every map now has at least one event on it every match (should have been like this from the start)>Wardens can now spawn at various PoIs instead of only the map's designated one, and they always drop keys>Key templates are now compromised instead of fragile, so you need to play more actively to convert them instead of playing like a bitch>Bots award more XP (especially wardens), you generally get like 50% more XP for everything>Free Cryo Archive kits now refresh daily>Rook now spawns with a blue shield and blue meds
>>739326232I actually like Marathon and don't even understand the huge hate boner for it. I played the OG halos. I hated bungie for killing Halo whenever I tried Halo 4 or 5 or whichever one was such slop I Uninstaller and never played again. I never played Destiny. I checked Marathon out on a whim and I find it relatively fun and enjoyable. I've been playing it off and on the entirety of s1, at least a few times a month. The thing is, the issues Marathon have are just game design issues. I don't understand why people keep calling it woke or SJW or whatever. The only thing I see is one of the characters looks/sounds vaguely African. The real issue is the balancing problems, and the fact that the game has 0 respect for your time and is designed around wasting as much of your time as possible. It's apparent that Bungie expected everyone to drop all their other games and only play Marathon exclusively and nothing else, and even then you'd still have to be putting in no-life hours to make it to end-game content. I didn't even finish 1 of the 5 questlines. My next biggest issue is lack of enemy variety, and sadly s2 their notes indicate they're only adding one new enemy type (flying drones that shoot rockets). Where are the aliens? Why no humanoid type enemies besides other players?That being said, the actual gameplay is fun. I like the game, and no one complaining about it seems to have any actual knowledge about the content of Marathon so I find the extreme hate kinda weird. I guess Destiny must've really pissed people off.
>>739350213>I don't understand why you need 500 positions for one game and yet somehow the game is content starved worse than games made 26 years ago with only 15 guys.>What do these people even do all day?The easy answer is that they're poorly managed. However have you heard of the "tyranny of the rocket equation?" Basically, a rocket is 96% structure and fuel, and only 4% payload. And if you 2x the fuel (and increase subsequent rocket size) with hope of launching more payload, you can only launch like 25-38% more payload. I see these modern Western companies like this. If they want to add 4 useful people, they seem to feel that they need to add 10 HR department Karens, 4 finance people, 4 managers, 2 more recruiters, 2 kitchen staff, 1 masseuse, and of course 1 person for each of those categories to help oversee the new people. Because, as you say, we know the kind of productivity that companies like Bungie used to be capable of with teams of 10-40 people. If they have 400 and have done *this* little then that means that few of the people there are making a product.
Marathon looks ugly and I dont wanna play ugly gamesSimple as
>>739343948bait used to be believable
>>739324715They couldnt even handle 1 game at a time with 800 devs supporting the service lmfao. Every update they saw server crashes, bugs and queues that boggled the mind. Sony thought it was a bargain but look where they are now. They chose a doa game over one that could be salvaged. The roll out for the last update is what they should have done months ago and it is getting recognition for doing whag players wanted but alas Destiny2 is kill
>>739367571You are a fucking retarded faggot. Insufferable p.o.s.
BLOODY BITCH BASTARD SAAR PLAY THE MARATHONS
>>739367269>don't even understand the huge hate boner for itFormer tortanic fags, currently concord fags
>>739350538_gantry, MIDA liason. His surface is animated.https://youtu.be/WnMV-P-SG_0
>>739367269>and sadly s2 their notes indicate they're only adding one new enemy type (flying drones that shoot rockets)That's what's already in the game for the season end update. There will be more in season 2.
Marathon looks beautiful and I wanna play beautiful gamesSimple as
>>739369604>looks beautifulFrom a technical point of view, it's as mid as mid can get. From a stylistic point of view, it's highly divisive.
>>739356371They think BUY THE DIP!>>739322450Remember when Bungle wanted Destiny to be an eight game epic, like Shamue, only for MicroSlop to say "no, that's retarded. Make more Halo!" they go "FUCK YOU, DADDY! YOU'RE NOT MY REAL DADDY!" go to Activision, who allows them to release Destiny 1, and during 2 break up with Bungle because they floundered on Destiny 2?Only for Bungle fans to go "this is good for ~~buttcoin~~ Bungle" and proceed to see Bungle bungle it up even further?Should've listened to MicroSlop, eh, Jason Jones?
>>739369604>roblox color palette>beautifulleast delusional maratroon
