>3.6B for the initial purchase>1B for staff retention (most of the top heads left anyways)>A 700M initial loss from Marathon>Having to lay a ton of the Destiny 2 team
>>739442494>destiny 3 isn't even in developmentthey really are betting everything on marathon
>>739442494>>739442674Insanity that Destiny 3 was not the foremost plan from the get go by Sony, it's the only hope they had of making their money back
>>739442494>The most expensive dev in the most expensive part of the most expensive country in the world to make games in as said country is entering its second great depression as its political leadership is stripping the nation for parts and preparing to peace out to russia>This company is going to be held up by the 10k people playing Marathon.
>>739442763What the fuck...
>>739442763Most sane blue/pol/
This is what they get for dodging the payments they promised to the bungie vets when they acquired them. Fuck Sony for behaving like microsoft jews
>>739444084>we deserve money for shitting on the floorsaar do the needful
>>739444084I thought Pete just embezzled all that employee retention money and bought more cars
>>739444250If you promise payments you should make those paymentsWhat happened to personal responsibility you rightoid fuck
>>739442494wow, so interesting
maragods won
>>739444496you won the award of getting to have EOS less than a year after the game you killed
>>739444347We're talking about the coporate world here, nothing is binding unless it's on paper.
>>739442674more like "we absolutely need marathon to succeed or sony is liquidating us"people with bright hopes for the future aren't making plans for like only a few months out max
>>739445094Shutting down Destiny 2 and shifting all resources to Marathon was a Sony call, they're the ones desperate for it to succeed so they don't look like compete retards for their purchase
>>739442763>preparing to peace out to russiaif we were smart we would've done that a long time ago
>>739445276I don't get how they could have hinged anything on marathon when the product is so uninvested-in.>Barebones content on release with zero real crowd testing done on designs>Endgame loop makes the entire game easy as piss and stagnates gameplay with ridiculous number advantages>Absolutely zero done about the RMT hackers raping their playerbase repeatedly day in and day out>Completely garbage value proposition to players the moment it's compared to Arc or TarkovHow did they see none of this coming?
>>739444347Promises mean jack shit in the corporate world. Either you get it in writing or prepare to be backstabbed.
Marathon is the gift that keeps on giving.
This purchase was a retarded waste of money. MS got 100x the value from their studio purchases, Bungie has no IPs except Destiny which they just killed.
>>739449367Bethesda has yet to deliver shit in terms of actual value to MS and CoD has shit the bed and declined hard since their purchase
>>739442494>Making our money back? No, you don't understand. We paid to watch a famous studio wither and die.
>>739442494And after all this much money wasted in something that was decadent since day 1, sony won't learn a single thing about this and will continue trying to chase them SaaS golden goose that'll never come.At this point their best bet would be to make the damn games f2p and give some kind of bonus to the people who paid 40 bucks for the game, if they don't do this bare minimum the company can just be closed for good already.
>>739442763>peace out to russiaYou mean Israel
>>739444496best possible outcome for us. destinty will no doubt have its new game eventually, but till then all hands on deck for a marathon
>>739444551sony wants more marathon and they see the potential on the marathon model, destiny 2 was unsustainable largely due to its aging engine, bungie did not vault early content bc they wanted it but bc they would to virtually redo it as the engine got updated. destiny 2 was never meant to last more than three years and all that is documented
>>739442674>>739442758>>739445094>>739445276they should just turn marathon into destiny
>>739442674In it for the long haul.Its a Marathon™ not a sprint.
>>739450642marathon would be a better destiny for the simple fact that the engine it runs on allows for hot fixes and fast updates, destiny 2 was built on a foundation that was never meant to last this long
>>739442763MAKING EXCLUSIVES LOCALIZED ENTIRELY FOR THE PS5
>>739442763marathon sustained 50k daily peaks for over a month, people will be back for season 2, why would you never play again a game you paid $40 after it gets new content
>>739442674The lighting is in the bottle for season 2You'll be blasting off in a few days
>>739450943>Thinking everybody comes backDemake 2 had a FREE DLC (with the games best content btw) and most people didn't go back to play it.
>>739450943>why would you never play again a game you paid $40 after it gets new contentDudeIf I buy a game and it isn't fun, I'm not trying it again no matter how many patches or updates it getsYou can't patch an unfun game to make it fun
>>739442494Maratroon needs a fucking PVE mode and it's non-negotiable. Crap-traction shooter is the shittest subgenre to ever exist in FPS but the setting is genuinely interesting and there is a ton of potential with mysteries to uncover, rogue AI, ayylmaos, ghosts and viruses etc.If they're able to bring Destiny-type of content to Marathon it would the most logically apparent thing to do for them.
>>739445276It was always gonna be a bad deal in 2022. If Sony had swooped in and snatched Bungie up in 07-08, they probably could have gotten a fine Halo clone out of it. Hell, could have even been an actual sequel to Marathon. 2022 Bungie is just a name with no talent behind it.
>>739451260people don't stop playing marathon bc it is unfun they stop bc the game reaches a stage of saturation where only the best players are left by the end of the season, that is why the wip, that is the cycle for every extraction shooter and you clearly never touched any. marathon will be back at 50-60k after the wipe.
>>739451134this is an extraction shooter with seasonal cycles not some retarded indie game, next week all of playstation marketing muscle will start to pull and remind people with the game that season 2 is coming and they will have a bunch of new content on top of a fresh start after the wipe
>>739451427You are a delusional person living in a fantasy world.Marathon's users plummeted as people realized the game is simply fucking awful to play or look at. They're not coming back.
>>739451620you will look so retarded in a couple of days i can't wait
>>739451427This game needs a near-complete overhaul to entice that many players lol. Not to mention that all their rebalancing has sucked absolute dick.
>>739451620they didn't plummeted, it sustained 50K peaks for over a month, over 30K for the second month, that is just the nature of the beast for es
>>739451730it already had that many players, you total retard
>>739450456Yes i'm sure Bungie will be able to make Destiny 3 In a reasonable timeframe after killing most of the old talent and also maintaining Marathon.I can't see anything going wrong!
>>739451839And it never will again. That is simply a fact.
>>739451839cope
they should make a pid game next>Travel into the forbidden pyramid with your team>extract magical relics as you venture deeper into the pyramid while you face off against other teams trying to do the samemake everything into an extraction shooter
>>739451927A studio of Bungie's size should absolutely be able to handle two games at the same time. At least if the staff is not entirely diversity hires.
>>739452000>A studio of Bungie's size should absolutely be able to handle two games at the same timeAnd yet they had to move so many people to Marathon it actively and significantly delayed the updates to Destiny 2, killing the game
>>739450752You sound like a software engineer and you know better than anybody that's not their call, but the client's. If Sony doesn't want Destiny 3, then they can't do that. But you're right.
>>739451927if sony greenlit d3 they will simply hire more people
>>739452235>just hire moreThat's how you get CDPR and Cyberpunk's swivel door nightmare development that takes over 5 years.But who am I kidding, regardless of method Bungie would take 5+ years to drop a new game now anyway
>>739452235Sony isn't going to greenlight shit. Sony is going to kill the company and this is the first step towards fixing their 5 billion+ mistake.
>>739442494>when your studio is getting shut down and the janitor is trying to pitch game ideas to keep his jobThe industry Sony has built
>>739451267One little problem, Destiny looks COOL and Marathon looks GAY. The difference is like Skyrim vs Avowed. Nobody gives a shit about the lore of Avowed just because of how gay it looks
