I unironically think with this free week we are gonna see 100k+ people back on Marathon and I'm not joking or exaggerating.
it will get a bunch of players on the first day and then die again the day after
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>>739732747Nah
Marathon raped big league
>>739732747I honestly dont care, queues have been fine recently and im not sure more green shields running around is better or worse.
>>739732747come on cuh, i love marathon too, but thats a crazy numba mah nigga. my money is on 40K, 50K if the dumbass peanut plays and doesnt get bullied again.
you for a game you guys hate, you sure do talk about it a lot
>>739732973Are you too dumb to identify a marketing drone anon?
>>739732747>100k+I would be genuinely surprised if the peak goes above 30k. I would also be very surprised if the player count doesn't go right back to 10k after the 7 days are over.
Destinytards having a melty lol
>>739733059Think it's more likely this is one of the mentally ill posters making a thread explicitly to samefag it for 18 hours.
>>739732790This.People will try it out of curiosity, quickly realize that the game is horrible and uninstall.
>>739733059>a marketing dronethis sort of paranoid schizophrenia is the gayest thing on this website.even outside of marathon any positive discussion has you retards screeching "shill! shill!"god forbid someone likes a video game.
>>739732973Talking about things we hate is 99% of what we do here in case you somehow didn't know.
>>739733634I remember when that wasn't the case. And also when there wasn't 7 threads explicitly for hating something up at once.
>>739733573unless they fix the onboarding for new players it absolutely will have 0 retention that week.shitters will try it out and get curbstomped by people that know what they're doing and leave.apparently they are changing the quests/progression stuff so we'll see.
>>739733610>god forbid someone likes a video game.Nice try, but no one likes Marathon.
>>739733610Shhh, these are the kinds of people who get tricked by others a lot, so they're paranoid about getting tricked again
>>739733610Any thread about a non nintendo game is paid Indian shilling
>>739733573Except it isn’t horrible. It reviewed extremely well for a reason. The problem is there isnt any PvE only mode, campaign, shooting range to warm-up or release some tension. Its cortisolmaxxin at all time. Normies are obviously are not gonna like that.
Kurppa Hosk is a shit company. They have zero imagination.
Don't understand why they didn't engineer the game to have a free tier and a paid tierYou can play for free, but you will be at a disadvantage. But if you're really skilled, you can thrive as a free player.If you buy the game, you get a power advantage against free players, and you can get all kinds of cosmetics and shit.Boom, player count issue solved
>>739732939It will be amazing if it even breaks 20k. I really don't think people grasp how forgettable marathon is. I know people here rag on it, but elsewhere nobody talks about it at all.
>>739733829>these are the kinds of people who get tricked by others a lotSaid the guy who got tricked into playing/defending Marathon. The irony.
>>739732747>No Linux supportYeah. X: Doubt.
>>739733920Because they need money, very badly, so they can't just let people play for free.
>>739733890>Its cortisolmaxxin at all time.no, it's just like every other extraction shooter you either dont seeing anyone for 20minutes then getting shot in the back or you dont see another team at all and successfully exfiltrating because the game didn't fill your server for 'some reason'
>>739733829>He could kiss her pussy from there
>>739732747It's inevitably going to boost the player count during a FREE weekend, but it won't last. Just like how old Battlefield and Call of Duty games get a player count boost for a little bit when they go on sale. But just like those, it won't last.Of course, the shills are going to screenshot the FREE weekend player count and spam them after the fact saying, "SEE! SEE! IT'S NOT DEAD!"This plagiarized slop already got the kiss of death from Morgan Park.
>>739733827Botted. No way in hell people are picking it up at 6PM to 11PM EST consistently.
>>739732973Counting the studio's acquisition, that game cost 4 billion dollars that could have been used for countless actual games. If your game cost hundreds of millions or you use all the shill reviewers to give it a 10/10, then we'll shit on it because it's actively harming the creation of good games to instead produce massive amounts of slop. Genuinely, the money would be better used if instead of using 300 millions on some dogshit game, they just gave 1 million each to 300 indie studios.
>>739733890cope fucking harder>>739734013this
It’ll break 100k easily and retain all the new players plus a bunch of Destiny people will hop on over now that it’s dead. It’s over for chuds.
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>>739733610lmao kike got called out and immediately did every jew behavior
I'M HAVING A BLAST
>>739733890>cortisolmaxxinlol, what a great phrase.Marathon's failure is entirely because of the Bungie executives. It wouldn't have taken much work to ask around: "Hey, are there any negative aspects to extraction shooters?"The entire C-Suite of Bungie should have been taken out back and shot as soon as the studio was acquired. So to speak. Not sure why Sony failed to do that but I'm guessing some executives at Sony need the same treatment
>>739734452He’s shillmaxxing and queermaxxing
I would play but no linux support They are not being inclusive
*reverb fart SFX*
>>739734534>same yelling face in all three panels
>>739734013t. has never seen any gameplay and has never played itthis is the only extraction shooter where that doesn't happen, because you can't hide from other people.
>>739732973i like it i just dont have time to play it. been working on my backlog of jrpgs cause i can only play in like an hour bursts. being a dad is hard
>>739734020What is his endgame? The death of the video games?
>>739732747And what about the vault wipe? How do you think players who spent money on the game will feel about losing all of their gear?
>>739732747>Marathon free weekMarathon has been free and open source for decades.https://store.steampowered.com/app/2398450/Classic_Marathon/
>>73973313230K sounds about right. anything more than that is just delusional
>>739732747Why are you stealing a tweet verbatim?
>>739732747It's a rotting fucking corpse, move on faggots.
>>739735314You can hide, but only if your enemy isn't a Recon, and they didn't activate a TAD in the area you are in. And only if you are completely still.
>>739732890>i don't care if the game i'm enjoying stops getting support and dies because it has no playersWhat is this mentality
>>739732747does it require a playstation account to play
>>739736124If you are on Steam, no.
>>739732973Gravedancing is fun
>>739732747What are you talking about? Marathon is already freehttps://store.steampowered.com/app/2398450
>If Bungie manages to keep Marathon on life support, it spites election tourists>If Sony pulls the plug, this will further make the case in favor of SKGsHeads I win, Tails you lose.
Bungie... You know you want to... just make the shells sexier... What's a little more Glitch butt, there's nothing anti-woke about that, right... Think about the skin sales... You're not too proud, are you? Just look at Warframe...
>>739738987I already find the glitch design extremely erotic
>>739739124yes but she could be even more blatantly sexyand they could fix her dead eyes in the playermodel
I hope the free version on steam gives me the ability to review the game gonna have a lot of fun with that they keep bringing up the positive user reviews kek
>destiny faggots are STILL making marathon threads months in>have to make the OP ironic because they got banned so many timesDestiny players are some of the biggest faggots online. They shit talked their own game to death for 7 years and now they want some other game to die.
>>739732747They're so desperate for this to be a thing. They can't even sound genuine, it's all "having a blast" and whatnot.
>>739732747lmao
Why did destinyfags kill their own game by trying to sabotage marathon?
>>739739793Because they’re genuine fucking idiots. All they want to do is double jump around patrol zones and shoot aliens. Try to make combat interesting? Slammed. Give the levels more exploration? Dumb. Give them more movement options? Gay. If you gave Destiny players a flyable ship, they’d complain for years about how the loading screen was better. It’s genuinely one of the stupidest fan bases I’ve ever been a part of. When we were all trying to hype up Edge of Fate, they were trashing it like no tomorrow. Now look.
https://x.com/glorpinity/status/2059687092545065336?s=46>op can’t even make interesting bait
>>739732747at least they are smart enough to do the free weekend on reset, so any idiots who might fall for it don't get insta-raped.jokes on them, the 1000 players left will tryhard-stomp any newcomers day 1, and by Sunday it'll be a ghost town again.Can't wait for the resetera posts begging veterans to be nice to newbies and give them free guns and shit instead of kill them.
>>739732747"i am shill""i am shill""i am shill""i am shill""i am shill" -the post
>>739733610>who would shill in a place like this?>t.shill
>>739740424Idiot, there are new-player maps which veterans can't join.
>>739740567Only for a maybe 10 games, after that you get matched according to your level.And since everyone gets wiped, all will be chilling in the sub lv30 pool.Rape fiesta.It will be fun watching the charts, i better get some snacks ready.
>>739740160This is all wrong, Destiny players have asked Bungie to make cool stuff for years, all they've done is remove combat and movement options, remove the exploration missions, and make all characters gay and widow the established straight characters.Every time new weapons were added, people loved them. When they added the hoverboard players were happy. It's just that those were little crumbs in a sea of shit.
>>739740507it must be easy to pretend everyone that disagrees with you MUST be paid to do so, theres no other explanation.
>>739732747Lmao maybe if they did the free week when the PVE content dropped. Aren't they dropping it while the game is still pure PVP?
>"Marathon will be fine for a few years, it has unlimited Destiny 2 money" - me>Destiny 2 sunset announced>with no plans for Destiny 3MARATHON HAS YET TO EVEN REMOTELY TURN A PROFITIT'S 20% OF THE WAY TO MERELY BREAK EVENWHAT THE FUCK ARE SONY AND BUNGIE DOINGHOW DO OUT OUT-RETARD MICROSOFT AND 343I STUDIOS?
>>739741510>im not a shill>t.shill
>>739741629Yes!
>>739741990>free weekend of being sheep for the wolvesGenius, this will make people want to buy the game.
>>739733059He is a marketing drone.
>>739741784They're being careful to not over-deliver! Over-delivery would set them up for failure!:^)
>>739733920pay 2 win game what a great idea moron
>>739741404No, you guys were never happy and I can understand bungie if they are fed up with the destiny community. Ungrateful pricks
>>739742950This. Just accept the rape
Guys, help me expand the classification. I'm sure there's stuff I'm missing.Post-Concordian Games:>Marathon>HighguardConcordian Games:>Concord>The Division: Heartland>Paragon: The OverprimePost-Pandemic Proto-Concordian Games:>BattleCore Arena>XDefiant>Hyper Scape>Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League>Hyenas>ShatterlinePost-Overwatch Pre-Pandemic Pre-Proto-Concordian Games:>Anthem>Battleborn>LawBreakers>Paladins>Paragon>Gigantic>DisintegrationPre-Overwatch Ancestral Concordian Substrate:>Dirty Bomb>Brink>Loadout>Evolve
>>739732871Marathon died so marathon (s) 2 could die
>>739742950You weren't there. You wouldn't get it.
>>739742734Yeah nobody would ever pay to win
>>739732747Marathon... Oh yea that was a thing
>>739736065The mentality of a person who enjoys playing video games rather than the mentality of a corporate shareholder who only cares about profit numbers.
People sure do seethe hard about this game
>>739744092I was there since destiny 1 beta
>>739744780Why
>>739744690Thats a nice sentiment and all but your live service games relies on some player retention to even enjoy the game play loop of doing the same shit. Unless you mean to say you don't care that it dies because you had your fun and would be okay if it died then that begs the question why even defend it
>>739744491More like nobody who’s not willing to pay to win would ever play a pay to win game so your sabotaging your own player base volume, something Marathon already can’t afford to do.
BROKEN
I don't know how anyone could be so fucking stupid that they think a free weekend would preform well. We've HAD MULTIPLE free access periods to Marathon and they all preformed like shit. The game hasn't changed meaningfully since then. If this was after the pve mode update, maybe they would have a decent amount of new interest, but its not and its right after people have hated bungie as a studio the hardest they've ever hated them before.
>>739744816>that it diesNever gonna happen
>>739744830But if you're a skilled player, imagine how much you could make paid players seethe when you kill themI'm guessing you're not in that cohort.
>>739732973Two more weeks and it will die
>>739732747Not gonna sugarcoat it.Destiny 1 on steam right now or fuck off.
>>739744816>Unless you mean to say you don't care that it dies because you had your fun and would be okay if it diedYes that’s what a healthy relationship with video games looks like.>begs the question why even defend itAlso begs the question why people who have no intention of ever playing it would spend hours talking about it on /v/. Don't try and do the “if it doesn’t matter why do you care” routine because we both clearly care equally about this game considering we’re both in this thread right now talking about it when we could be doing literally anything else.
>>739744856You just witnessed destiny 2 die? I guess they could pimp it out if it gets to bad. Some ads and a few gamble boxes eh
>>739732973Talking about how shit it is or how I won't play it, yes. Word of mouth is powerful. When shitrathon shut down, you will remember this post.
>>739744868>I'm guessing you're not in that cohort.Neither is the vast majority of people who play video games so again not a great move for boosting player base
>>739744868Of course I'm not. That's why I don't play this game and that's why only 10k people are doing so
>>739732973Have to agree. I mean, it's hilarious watching Bungie squirm trying to save a failed game while killing the game that most fans wanted, but yeah, ritual posting is kinda annoying
>>739744929>Also begs the question why people who have no intention of ever playing it would spend hours talking about itThey enjoy shitting on things. Same way you like playing the same gameplay loop they like shitting on games on loop
>>739744968I think many players are mature enough to play at a disadvantage, for free, without raging out when they get killed by a paid player
>>739744987War thunder manages to have a paid tier and a free tier and does just fine
>>739745041Most people are going to choose not to play this particular stupid game.
>>739745041Have you met the average video game player? “Mature” is probably the last adjective I’d ever pick to describe them
>>739745037I highly doubt I have nearly as many hours on Marathon as the amount of hours your average engagement baiter spends shitposting about the game on /v/. They’ll likely still be going long after I stop playing the game too.
>>739745056I'm not gonna get into how laughable War Thunder balance is but the difference here is that all tanks are balanced via their battle rating. So they usually introduce premium vehicles that break their BR, then uptier them once everyone buyfied them. The equivalent would be if your OP premium gear in Marathon can only go up against equivalently powerful f2p gear which goes against what anon was sayingMaybe World of Tanks with its premium ammo is a more apt comparison but I haven't played it
>>739732747why have the devs stopped using gender pronouns for their videos?
>>739732747They had two whole games where they destroyed all of the halo splitscreen memberberries that were left and shown that there is nothing more miserable than playing a bunghole game in pvp
>>739732747>I unironically think with this free week we are gonna see 100k+ people back on MarathonMaybe even as high as 271k
>>739745214lmaoHow quickly morals get pushed aside once the money stops coming in
>>739745214lolthey're seething about it on Gamingunjerk
>>739733610No one types up an OP like this thread unless they're baiting or paid
>>739745214Why even add the pronouns? How often do you address a specific dev by name or pronoun
>>739732747>"I CAN'T GET UPDATES!"
>>739745383So you can say "oh is he the one who made the nigger robot?" on twitter without triggering him
>>739745383The more important question is >why remove
the worst thing about marathon is that i was hoping for it to be good. i think i played for 30 minutes during that free weekend. it was so fucking bad. and it looked even worse. obviously none of the og people from bungie who actually liked games work there anymore. sad stuff.
>>739733920>why isn't there a free tier for a game with 4 mapsWoah anon it truly is a mystery maybe you should play the game and find out
>>739734028that 4 billion went into the following Destiny 2 expansions, cancelled projects and Marathon you retard as well as the former CEO's pocket
>>739745321of course it's bait thats clear as day, I refuse to believe retards think someone would be paid to type out an OP like that.you dont think paid marketers would have a bit of a better handle on the people they're advertising to? you wouldn't even notice the real shills on here.calling everything shilling is futile
What happens when Destiny 2 and Sony money dry up?
>>739747181Who cares? All the suits who made the decisions that directly caused this mess will have still made off with their money and gone on to repeat the same process with another game studio. The game industry right now is just stock market gambling, the whole “video game” thing that gets accidentally made in the process is just a nice little byproduct that nobody actually really cares about.
>>739732790This. I say this as someone who played Marathon for the entirety of S1. It's easy to forget once you learn how the game works and progress further in, but the first impression of this game for 99% of people isn't just bad, it's awful. The beginner experience is horrible, both gameplay (because low stats/low ammo/bad items heals/etc), and the worst thing of all - the godawful UI. during server slam I played for like an hour and got so disgusted with the game I quit right then and there. Only thing that brought me back was having a brother who really liked it and played further and bought the game. I watched him playing and actually got drawn back in.I genuinely like Marathon now, but I still remember my first impression when I played the free weekend.>wtf is this?>this is ugly>this is confusing>why the fuck do I have no ammo to even finish a single match>what the fuck are all these random items? What am I supposed to be picking up?>Holy fuck why are there so many words in the UI, feels like I'm reading a neon colored encyclopedia everytime I do anything>why is there no markers to tell which objects can be interacted with and which are just background/scenery?>why can't I sprint more than like 5 seconds?>oops I'm dead again. That fucking sucked>this game is ass and it'd given me a headache. I'm uninstalling this crap.It's a horrible onboarding process and the first several hours are just painful suffering.There's nothing different about the game now vs when they did the first free weekend, so I don't think there's any reason to expect a different result. Probably it will be a complete repeat, with even less numbers because why would people who already hated it the first time re-download it a second time?
>>739745246It's better if it's super high as it costs them more in data hosting because no one will buy the game
>>739745494The people who actually did work at bungie and made it fun is no other than the Activision teams such as vicarios visions and high moon studios. They had a vision not only to profit but make a universe where a bunch of people can explore and buildcraft as they wantedI will always think that bungie didnt make destiny and Activision was truly the ones who made it
>>739745214would anybody ever confuse fatso on the right with a woman?
>>739745248time to prepare for a great recession if all the cheap money that funded one woke disaster after another finally dried up
shorting Marathon™ stocks right now
>>739749418>Clear uptickClassic biz. Buy high, sell at all time low and panic buy again at new high
>>739749418NONONONONONO FCKIN STOP WHY IS IT GOING DOWN I PUT MY LIFE SAVINGS ON THIS
It's really blasting!
>>739749629fucking lel
>>739749561inb4 listed off market
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>>739749418A stable player base of under 6000 people. Not great, not terrible
I am so goddamn tired of hearing about this trash.
>>739749847>last week it was stable 10k is finelol lmao
>>739749418IT ALL COMES TUMBLING DOWN TUMBLING DOWN TUMBLING DOWN
>>739738902>Only election tourists have a problem MarathonThe coin lands on it's side and you are stricken with paraplegia.
>>739732747sure, you're probably right, every game that does a free weekend will see a spike in players.and then it'll drop after they realize it's another generic extraction shooter, who's only gimmick is that it was made by "DOOOD THE HALO GUYS!"
>>739745214they're still the lefty fags they were before, but now they're feeling the rightful shunning of such retarded performative nonsense.
>>739732973>ugh just like dont ever pay attention to bad things, just like let them fester and infect other stuff!>just like ignore the fact that bad thing exists so it can be allowed to continue!
>>739749719Isn't free a weekend the same as airdropping tokens? The value hasn't changed and the extra volume is fake.
>>739750779Yes. It'll pump up a little and then dips hard.
>>739732747No linux support means it's a flop simple as
>>739734020It's so nice knowing that games journalism is an industry on life support and the plug is getting pulled within the next few yearsA world without those faggots is going to be a beautiful thing.
>>739732747It'll get to like 65k day of then go back to where it is now in half the time. It'll just be a speed run of S1. S3 is where they think about F2P
>>739744959Why is Microsoft like this
How is Sony allowing Bungie to keep fucking up like this when other studios have been liquidated the moment they fucked up once?
>>739747683Onboarding is bad. But, playing solo in general was fucking pointless in season 1. Crew Fill players are brain dead and afraid of all PvP despite buying a fucking PvP game. As a solo, you can only do a good Outpost run and that's about it. Forget doing Cyro or a Cyro Vault. I was the 4th wheel to a dedicated squad so I was lucky enough to do Compiler. But, your average solo player only has dreams of being a loot pinata for another squad. As opposed to Destiny where a solo player can run dungeons, grandmaster nightfalls, public events, lost sectors, or campaigns all alone. Bungie chose the wrong game to kill.
I had a decent 20 hours with it but in the end it just left me wanting a basic team deathmatch/CTF game in smaller maps. I liked how the shooting felt so I may come back to check out whatever pve focused thing they are doing next season
>>739749418Hey now they finally found their core player base of 3k-12k players with a small team like Bungie at the helm they can continue to support it for years
>>739732747100000-1
>>739751179Because Sony paid over 3 billion dollars for the Titanic after it hit the iceberg.As a gamer, watching this shit is tragic. As a businessman, you have to commend the Bungie execs for fleecing the fuck out of Sony by boosting their evaluation into a fine golden parachute.
>>739735957everyone is running recon with 20 energy amps in backpack. That's the meta, some are even running 2 recons so you basically have 24/7 radar uptime.
>>739751934> Queue Cyro with the boys > Triple Recon > Gold shields > 6 rows of grenades> Drrvsh or Bully go brrr> Chug Energy Amps all day> Camp DNA sequencers all runI love the current meta. S2 looks great. I think rolling R6's Jaeger, Pulse, and Melusi into one shell will lead to no unforeseen consequences.
>>739752846bro your golden missy?
>Play the game for free for a week>See 90% of the content>Don't buy it and never play again
>>739745214Devs turned into bigots, oh noes
>>739732747>The same weekend as new league and free weekend for PoE 2What the fuck are they thinking?
>>739751179Because Marathon never dipped before 10k max daily CCU during season 1 and seasons 2 and 3 had all of its content ready or close to ready before the launch. Might as well give it a chance.
>>739754060I don't think you can accuse anyone on the bungle campus of thinking beyond 'How do we line our pockets with as much of SIE's cash as possible before we get dissolved?'
>>739751934Not everyone. I was trying to use my first key in solo, and there was a Triage doing intercept near my hiding spot.https://files.catbox.moe/v6uzkx.mp4>>739754060Not much they could have done here. Season 2 was going to come out in early June even before the launch. What are they supposed to do? Delay content? Release early? Non-viable options.
>>739732747You can still play this shit? Lmao even darktide has more active players nowadays.
>>739754934Destiny 2 which they closed down for the sake of this shit has more people.
Source of OP
I will play it when it's PvE only
https://www.bungie.net/7/en/News/Article/dev_insights_return_of_the_directorIT'S UP
>>739732747100k isn't much for a free weekend
>>739732747>I unironically think with this free week we are gonna see 100k+ people back on Marathon and I'm not joking or exaggerating.
>>739755848yeah, Highguard had 97k players
>>739755848I'd bet that it doesn't exceed 60k. They've spent the potential interest from uninvested people with previous free weekend and the game has generally been seen as a failure since then. I'm happy for the people who feel optimism about 100k though.
>>739754060Things are so bad that Marathon is doing a free *week* and not just the weekend. And it's obvious they were put in a weird spot because none of the new 'we have some PVE content' is going to be there during this first week because it isn't done yet.Bungie's getting it from both sides>the best time to do a f2p promotion is when the season starts because everyone's gear is reset and the sweats can't rape the casuals as badly as they would otherwise>but the new PVE content they announced that people want isn't going to be ready, because Bungie only started working on it a week ago>and other games doing promotions or patches is just unlucky, because Bungie locked into their seasonal schedule at launch and can't change it
The biggest surprise for me is finding out that Destiny, of all series, has a huge fanbase. Until Marathon released I'd never even heard of someone playing Destiny.
>>739732747>we are gonna see 100k+ people back on Marathon
>>739757298Destiny was absolutely massive back in Destiny 1 and at certain points during Destiny 2.
>>739732747Should have done it last week when all the Destiny Dads had a 3/4 day weekend because of Memorial day. Bungie can't do one fucking thing right.
>>739757298D2 was in the top 10 most played games on steam for like 9 years straight. During covid they were pulling in like 300k people a day and Steam wasn't even the primary platform.
I just realized Destiny 2 has double the players on steam. Now that's just sad for Marathon
>>739757671>sweats at their strongest with superior gear>let's invite a bunch of people in to try the game to convince them it's goodIt would be the worst thing Bungie could do, since it'd be open season on the casual player's asses.
>>739757882Plan the reset earlier. Not very hard to work these things out.
>>739757875I still hold out a glimmer of hope that, following the failure of the marathon, they’ll get back to updating Destiny 2 and put everything back in its place. But that’s unlikely to happen, because they’ve already fired everyone and it turns out that all the old data has been lost.>Never again will go raid leviathan with brosThis makes me depressed
can i play this piece of shit on steam deck / linux yet
>>739755754I find it hilarious their best update since Witch Queen is their final release.
>>739758095You need a shower.
>>739758165>hilariousIt's sad. It literally means that d2 still had a chance if it wasn't shut down.
I have some doubts it can even crack 100k. I mean they already did the free weekend thing and people IMMEDIATELY bounced off it, like one day later half of the players stopped coming. Dont see why they would come back for>DIRE MARSH BUT NIGHT AND WITH A ZOMBIE
>>739758005I think they communicated the season plan when the game launched. The other thing you don't want to do is start the new season when most of your employees are going to take time off for the long weekend. It's the same reason you wouldn't want to release a patch (or even a game) right before Christmas. If the shit breaks, nobody is there to fix it.
>>739758328And don't forget the cheaters. This isn't like the first free to play test where nobody had played the game before. Marathon cheats are out there and available, and letting in anyone without that $40 pay wall is going to be inviting cheaters to come in and shit all over the game.
>>739732747Marathon already had a free weekend during open beta.The free week is going to pan out the same way. Not nearly enough players show up.And the players that do show up will quit playing in under an hour just like the open beta.The steamcharts during open beta were crazy just like highguard marathon is so shit it's not even worth to sit through and hour of it for free.
Kinda weird to think you won't be able to play Destiny 1 or 2 soon
>>739745214>>739745248
>>739749418SELL SELL SELL
>>739745383It's to act offended when someone innocently mis-pronouns them.Persecution is a hell of a drug.
>>739732747I have blasthaving fatigue
>>739743071needs moar Last Flag, FBC: Firebreak, King of Meat, Destruction Allstars, Time Takers, Crucible, Rift Sweepers and Bleeding Edge
>>739732747You're unironically retarded
>>739733890>it’s not horrible, it just needs a fuckton of changes that completely change the game
>>739745427KEKAROO
>>739745281post ‘em
>>739754060There's actually a fair amount of overlap between arpg players and destiny/marathon players.Bungie are absolutely shooting themselves in the foot by trying to compete with path of exile 2's largest update. But marathon already has a gaping hole in its chest so it's not like it'll make much of a difference.
>>739732747they are already doing a free week? kek
>>739733890>It reviewed extremely well for a reason.Bro, Mixtape got 10/10s left and right Reviews mean nothing
>>739761983mixtape is good
>>739758219literally (as in, literally) just had one
>>739732973sometimes dunking on a game is more enjoyable than playing one
>>739740160>When we were all trying to hype up Edge of Fatejfc anyone still playing after final shape could see the writing on the wall. Only the most raped bungie victims still thought the game had a future.Trying to blame the most invested players who were buying annual expansions, season passes, and eververse content every update that it's THEIR fault for the myriad of bad decisions Bungie and their leadership made is actually fucking braindead.
>>739742950You don't know what the fuck you are talking about.
>>739742950actual reddit opinion
>>739761983Mixtape gave us The Plappening, as far as im concerned, it earned those scores.
totalswedishvictory
>>739758424Marathon's cheater problem is really overblown. A new season 2 player wouldn't even notice the difference between an aimbot cheater and a normal player who got decent at the game in season 1.
>>739767119...because autoaim is out the ass. The real cheats are xray vision.
>>739768504This didn't work when Saints Row tried it. Kurppa Hosk is for bitches.
>>739768504they big are mad?
>>739744950>You just witnessed destiny 2 die>SAVE ME NIGGERMAN MY GAME WONT GET MORE DLC AFTER A LITERAL DECADE OF UPDATES HOW AM I GOING TO LIVE ON LIKE THIS
>>739767119Overblown? Bungie has spoken a few times about how they're taking extra steps to combat cheating. If it wasn't a problem, they wouldn't be calling extra attention to what they're doing to stop it.
>Bungie is spending even more on marketing while making the game free>this will somehow make them money
BRUH HOP ON MARATHON WE GOT UGLY NIGGERBOTS AND HIGHLIGHTER YELLOW GUNS WITH BARCODES ON THEM ITS PEAK
Whatever those silver surfer things were in that one Destiny 2 expansion are like 10 times more hideous to me than Marathon's bots, and I'm baffled their only criticism is the writing.
>>739770263Mr? Ms? Mx Nimbus?
>>739770712Um EXCUSE me chud, but xir identifies as a Feykin.
>>739770763Ah, my apologize. I will barve it up immediately.
>>739771036I still can't believe nobody at Bungie objected to this character and it made it all the way through to release. Just like the cat that everyone hates in FFXIV.
>>739764357… yeah alright fair enough
>>739757298Same, it's a weird game. Apparently it had gajillion of players but I don't know a single person who ever played it, or there's 0 known streamers/content creators. Like even if you don't play cs everyone knows shroud.
>>739732747i can't wait to have a blast trying it
COMEBACK: STUDIEDGAMERS: RETURNINGLIGHTNING: IN A BOTTLEFORM: RETURNED TOVIBE: SHIFTEDHATERS: DISCOMBOBULATEDAND MOST OF ALLBLAST: HAD
>>739771992Most of Destiny's players are on console, IIRC. If you don't travel around console gaming circles, you probably wouldn't hear about it. GTAV is the same way, at least based on that MTX data that came out recently.
>>739772232GTA on pc is almost exclusively 5M because that's the only way to have a working banlist for all the bot abusers
>>739772232>>739772362GTA is weird, because lots of people stream it and play it on PC, particularly modded, but the lions share of the spending is on console.
>>739772850Most of the spending on console makes complete sense because of the proliferation of mods and cheat menus on PC.I'm fully expecting GTAVI to have the most invasive kernel DRM you can possibly imagine when they do the PC port.
>>739732747nahhhhh. shit game.
>>739771992Who the fuck is shroud?
>>739771992I don't know a single person who plays Fortnite. Circles don't always overlap even if they are big circles.
>>739773383Some Destiny streamer. Apparently worried that the progression in season 2 will be too streamlined since he does this for a living and will be rocking all-gold equipment in 1 week instead of 2 weeks.
>>739758328>do you know what will get players playing again? A night map so thermal scopes are even more powerful!
>>739773752They are actually pretty rare after the midseason update.
>>739732747something went terribly wrong in your education then
>>739773595Oh. I thought he was the guy who cheats on CSGO that you sometimes see threads about on here
>>739773989Could be the same guy, I genuinely have no idea. I've never heard of him before Marathon.
>>739773989Same guy. And yes, he cheats. I'm sure he cheats at this game too.
>>739768504>that YTer made more money from Marathon than Bungie or Sonynice hustle
>>739775647>it's sentientAt 64 ronnabytes, it fucking better be.
>>739733610>this sort of paranoid schizophreniaEven after they were caught admitting to it so many times on social media across the years?Get out bitch.
>>739745627>you dont think paid marketers would have a bit of a better handle on the people they're advertising to?You're asking people to believe in rationality when it comes to an industry that's going down the drain due to the dumbest most retarded cartoon-level mistakes in business history?In this decade of this kind of political scene we are experiencing with all the dumb irrational shit that's happening? Are you high off jenkem or are both your parents mental retards and you inherited a damaged brain from them? Appeal to Rationality is the most braindead argument to make in this fucking decade.
>>739732747nah, they pretty much fucked themselves. Honestly, I think this is more or less Sony's fault. Not bungie. Bungie sucks and makes terrible games, but that isn't what is gonna kill this.
>>739749418I got the 100% cheevos in highguard because i thought itd be funny. How long does it take to 100% the marathon cheevos?
>>739778553You get most of them by just playing naturally. The annoying one is getting to season level 100.
>>739732747There's no future for Marathon as long as the anticheat is so useless
>>739772132>Blast?Had>Form?Returned to>Lightning?Bottled>Next big thing?Written all over>Vibes?Shifted>Comeback?Studied
[Sad News]Marathon is no longer in the Steam Top 100 Most Played Games. The industry juggernaut has been beaten out by big budget titles such as:>Factorio>Valheim>Peak>Ark: Survival Evolved>Palworld>Soundpadkek
>>739781523Someone please post the Blade Runner test meme with the Bungie community manager
Shameless shill thread. Nobody gives a fuck about this dead game.
>>739783493>civ 5Jesus
>>739732747anon it's primetime in NA.
>>739785237Not yet chud, everyone is still driving to their homes
>>739785419>driving to their homes>hello fellow humans and english speakers
>>739771036I actually really liked this DLC, apart from the characters. Strand is really fun.
>>739788636Should have been in Witch Queen even if it had to be delayed. Releasing Witch Queen without it and then making a clearly halfassed filler expansion around strand to milk more money was a fucking joke. Lightfall might have done just as much damage to D2's goodwill as sunsetting did.
>>739788879Even strand aside I think the Lightfall campaign and endgame content were pretty good. I honestly think it would have been much better received if it weren’t for those awful characters and everything else that was going on around the game at the time
>>739783493Kek, has Civ 7 managed to salvage itself yet?
>>739747683>There's nothing different about the game now vs when they did the first free weekendPvE difficulty got nerfed and PvE rewards got buffed. Bots now consistently drop ammo and meds as well as weapons. Ammunition and Healing loot boxes are more common on maps. Free kits are now Green gear with shields, Blue shield kits are no longer in limited supply. There are more PvE events than before and the previous PvE events are more likely to happen.Out of game there are now hours and hours worth of tutorials on youtube for anyone stuck or who has questions about how in game systems work, we didn't have that.
>>739789040To back up my point a little, there are some original storyboards for Lightfall available online and they look pretty good. Originally these grotesque characters were supposed to look like action movie heroes and that was the main aesthetic of the DLC
>>739747683>>739789350I forgot they also changed how meds stack in your vault and in your bags. They also increased the stash size.The game is so much easier than when I first started playing back on launch. For some one who 'played the entirety of S1' I'm not sure why you dont remember any of these changes.
>>739732747the current marketing push is worse than release, fuck off no one wants your dead trash
It's kind of funny I just watched the Mandalore videos about the Marathon games and there the lore was quite interesting.
>>739732747if they're very lucky, it will hit 50k for a day
>>739790060Any amount over 25k is going to generate so much shillposting about /v/ losing/chuds losing, just like when the free playtest launched.But at least then, once it craters again, the shitposting will be sublime.
>>739783493god i fucking LOVE factorio, anons please play it
>>739790682t. soulless factory drone that wants to optimizeYEEEEAAAAAAH TIME TO FUCKING OPTIMIZE THE BELTS MUST RUN AND THE MATERIALS MUST MOVE
>>739732973we're on a videogame board, nobody is playing games while they are saying anything
>>739732747I'm happy for marathon because it's going to trick AAA game companies into thinking they buy their way out of a flop via marketing
>>739732973Bwo the game is literally half a Concord's budget, of course we will talk about it.
I won't play until they pay me.
>>739791687Marathon has yet to turn a profit, you will be waiting a while.
I hate extraction shooters.
>>7397905619/10 of all shitposters are anons who think it constitutes humor. The 1/10 that are actual shills legitimately cry themselves to sleep knowing they failed to convince anon to play shit vidya and thus ain't eligible for that extra dime that could be a full meal in India.
>>739790561It will get 25 to 30k AT MOST; people already gave the free open beta a try and didn't stick around. Almost nothing has changed since so I don't see people coming in droves to try it out again.
How long until Reddit will admit the game is awful?
Even if it pulled 300k new concurrent players, all buying the game at 40 dollars a piece, they'd still be fucked. Unimaginably fucked. It wouldn't even make a dent in their losses.I don't know what type of methodology or financial illiteracy you'd need to think Marathon, or Bungie for that matter, will ever generate profit again.But hey, at least it didn't completely die in two weeks, if you want to celebrate that low bar.
>>739792703Game is barely 2 months old and lost 90% of it's players. End of content in 1 year. End of Service in 2.
>>739732790happened with the server slam and with launch. stating the obvious, but the game has massive retention issues with normal players. curious to see what the pve mode is gonna be like, no reason to even bother with a free week until that drops since the only new people will be people familiar with the game from hearing how much it died playing out of morbid curiosity
>>739745568>It's okay because, okay well they embezzled the money and didn't responsibly use it for development so it doesn't countSounds like it should count twice as much
>>739792065There are no paid shills but fake shilling is fucking excellent bait>>739792703Legit question and too lazy to bait but why is waiting for companies to fail so popular now? I'm not saying it's right or wrong but bungie, the fuckin dragon age dev, etc. Didn't get why people wanted the james bond game to fail either. Just don't get what the appeal is or why it's funny. Have I become too autistic for the moroccan grain harvesting forum?
>>739790561>sublimeNigga this isnt Concord or even Highguard. 12K stabilization is boring and pretty standard for all extraction shooters, especially near the end of the season. double-y so for new ones. There’s also the console numbers to consider, which if the 50/50 leaks are correct, add another 11-12K to the pool. How is any of this existing to you? I feel like both chuds and trannies lost with this one
HAPPENING
>>739793438>There are no paid shillsAh, the standard shill response.
Marathon is a mediocre release with a poor business strategy that cost too much money and will probably shut down in a year or two.But that's all it is. It's not the new Concord or anything close to that exciting. It's just another average failed service title release and we're giving it way too much attention fighting over it.
>>739793531Nice Kafka trap.
>>739793484>50/50 leaksThe leak was 70/30. 70% PC. So the playercount is like 20k overall, which is very not kosher when you spend 3.6 bil on a studio and 200 mil developing and more on top for ads.
Why should I play this over Arc Raiders?
>>739793956You shouldn't lmao
>>739732747But I don't care about woke PvP extraction shooters
>>739793956you shouldn't play arc raiders either
>>739793531Brainless troon
Vandal cute!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>739793484>50/50spotted the bungo shill, nearly all players are on PC and marathon on xbox is basically dead. It's closer to 70/30 to 80/20, the game is basically a non factor on consoles.
>>739794524Looks like a troon in-game
Just when all seems lost, hope rises from despair, like the phoenix from the ashes.
Ops pic is amusing to but I do genuinely believe Marathon is in a NMS situation where all it needs is a well received "en-goodening" style video for public opinion to do a total 180.I don't think that's a fair thing either, more just the court of public opinion is easily swayed and not very bright.
>kiddos: put to bed>wifey: scrolling booktok>sportsball team: made the playoffs>r/interestingasfuck: caught up on>crisp hoppy IPA: cracked open with resealable lid so I don't go over my daily carb budget>ambient light: reducing eye strain>orthopedic mousepad: in position>focus mode: muting Discord notificationsGentlefox, it's time to h*ckin' GAME!
>>739795694>gentlefox
>>739794367Not helping your case, Mohinder.
>>739795694Destinyfags want nothing to do with Marathon. They're more likely to move to Warframe if anything.
>>739797739I can hardly wait for them to infest warframe discussions and start demanding the very same things that crashed their game
>>739732747lmao, no
>>739797942Nah they'll drop warframe before it gets to that, it's not like destiny.
>>739764357>The Plappeningdo I even want to know?
>>739797942>demanding the very same things that crashed their gameBungie never once listened to the demand of players lol it was their own decisions that crashed the gameAre you afraid Destiny players will ask for sunsetting?
>>739735314wrong, i actually had fun until i opened Outpost then it got fucking terrible. the last night i played 3 games solo, got teamed up with the same 2 other people 30 levels higher than me and we exfilled once only because we didn't see another soul. one game i remember stabbing someone in the face at least 4 times and they didnt die, at that point i was fucking done, stupid fucking game
Night Marsh gameplay.https://youtu.be/eekM540CMc4
>>739793438>why is waiting for companies to fail so popular now?because these companies have been antagonistic to the average consumer for over a decade and are actively bragging about how they're making everything gay and lame while their journalist stooges defend them at every turn
>>739798879Just father-daughter incest shitposting.
>>739795694>>739795473lol this one guy is mad as a cut snake for some reason
>>739803276Yuck, why don't they remove all that fucking fog and just have it look clean
>>739804336>Why does the map called Dire MARSH fog?
>>739804487What if it wasn't a marsh, though? What if they chose a setting that wasn't known for being a slimy, foggy shithole?
>>739804661Well why not? I like fog. I don't understand /v/'s sudden neurosis about fog.
>>739803276>its literally dire marsh but night>this is the big draw for S2KEEEEKAROOOOOO
Ever notice that "big mad" is a phrase used by massive faggots
>>739732747Buy an ad, Morgan Park
>>739804487why does perimeter have fog too? and outpost?
>>739805743It's called weather. It rains sometimes, too.
>>739803276Solo is gonna be fun here.
>>739802795It's hard for me to imagine not running into another team in Outpost. I'm guessing that another team wiped out the other 2 and went to Pinwheel, and you stayed outside.
