Bungie deserves this success. They pumped their hearts out to create a game for everyone to enjoy. This is the future of multiplayer gaming.
Proof
Being a diehard bungie fan must make one schizophrenic
>>743238345That seems like a lot,Sony clearly doesn't need my money.
>>743238345Maratroon really does keep winning
>>743238345i legitimately liked marathon, cleared compiler, really love the pvpbut seeing it struggle to hit 10k players then go down to 2k - 3k i have to throw in the towel holy shit
>>743238332I can't endure /v/'s modern posting style...
>>743238332this has to be the saddest most blatant shilling campaign i've ever seen on /v/
I'm so fucking happy Marathon is succeeding. I can't wait to hear about the next game update and future roadmaps.
>>743239127Yeah even when it was struggling to maintain 20 I knew it was over, I'm actually baffled that it dropped this low so quickly. I quit two weeks into season two though so I shouldn't be surprised. I genuinely don't know what Sony is going to do here, I guess the options are try and reboot it or just shut it down and have them start a new project or just sell them.
How do you go from making the iconic Halo franchise to making failure after failure?
>>743239585Pacific Northwest white women
The rest of the gaming industry should look at Marathon and Bungie and take notes. THIS is how it's done. BloodSweatTearsNever say die!
>>743239551>I quit two weeks into season twoso did everyone i played withmost of them quit because the game was too stressful for them but i can't relatei don't know what game to play now that has the same gameplay feel as this dead thing
>>743238345We fucking WON, Maraxisters!
theres gotta be more than 2k trans playing vidya, why arent they supporting their flagship game?
>>743238332>a game for everyone to enjoyAnon, if you are friends with everyone, you are friends with no one.
>>743239895For me it was the time commitment required, I'm just not willing to drop that much time into a multiplayer game these days. I actually think the game is really neat and would be a lot more enjoyable if it had a better player count (making the average player worse and queuing quickly would both help this game tremendously for normies). Obviously none of that matters now
lmao
I'm Sony, you're Bungie. I give you infinite money to save Marathon. What do? Rules: can't stuff it up your ass.
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>>743238345>>743240308>>743240615At what point do they pull the plug? Since I dont think transitioning to F2P can even save this trainwreck, the free week did nothing. People just dont want to play this.
>>743240535>Rules: can't stuff it up your ass.That's a lot of leeway to work with.
>>743239127Those 2/3k are bots, the game has literally never been below that even when it was completely shut down due to maintenance many times. Any daily peak you see, you must remove 2k players to get the real number.
I remove the forced extraction timer. I make the game a nonstop huge open world experience like gray zone with multiple maps and fill them with unique POI
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>>743242541This plus character customization. Shut the game down and reboot it. There's just way too little content right now and the cramped maps mean that it's just a TDM with extra steps. If Sony could even get a billie back for bungie they'd love to sell them I bet but they're stuck holding the bag now because nobody want this over the hill studio.
>>743239295>[UPLIFTING NEWS]>Marathon is doing goodAnon, this is the most obvious mock-shilling ever.
>>743240535>Rules: can't stuff it up your ass.Fuck.Alright, how about I fire everyone at the company, hire some OG marathon autists, throw out the shitty tarkov clone design, and make a remake of the first 3 marathon games in full 3D that plays similar to Halo CE with no 2 weapon limit, with a style inspired by 90s anime and character designs faithful to the originals, and marathon 2 gets a proper OST this time.Also, I take whatever money's left, hire a bunch of whores, and have them wear body paint like H2 cortana while I stuff the remaining funds up THEIR asses.
>>743238345The game is legit dead everywhere but the US and even then it doesn't seem to be doing well there.
>>743242157>at what point do they pull the plugIMO, it's been a reputational damage question and not a money question for Sony since the end of Season 1. It seems clear the game is never ever going to make any profit, but yanking it just after killing Destiny would be admitting Bungie was a mistake to buy, which would be too embarrassing at a corporate level.The more interesting question I think is how much longer Sony Japan is going to get Sony California waste their money. Marathon, killing D2, GoW Laundry, Fairgame$, Concord, and the rest, it's just flop after flop after flop. And now with pissing the universe off with the killing physical media?
>>743238345>the deadest multiplayer game i play is 10x as alive as blastathon what in the fuck
How long until it becomes F2P? Place your bets
Arena Breakout Infinte or Delta Force, which extraction slop should I try first?
>>743244783That would also make bungie pretty much worthless. The longer play of trying to stabilize bungies value is probably the smartest which means in the short term this game stays alive for a year like they've alluded to even at an obvious loss. Everyone knows they overpaid but at this point after layoffs and this terrible launch they'd be cutting the entirety of the 3.5 billion up to a loss which they just can't do.
>>743245107Sony has already taken about $1b in impairment losses against Bungie, so even if they tricked someone into buying them tomorrow, they'd still be in the red about $1b + tip on the deal.A studio's only value is its IP, proprietary tech, and staff. For Bungie, that IP is Destiny and Marathon, both of which are now dead, the proprietary tech is the Destiny 2 engine that is now dead because of the next point, and the staff, which Sony has reduced by 75%.It's like they bought a house then just went around with a sledgehammer and blowtorch to fuck it up as much as possible. Nobody's going to buy that shit now.
>>743244859Didn't they literally offer like a week and a half of free2play? Saw a lot of definitely not bot reddit accounts talking about how much of a blast they had and bought the full game because of it.
>>743238345Lmao
>>743240535Fire everyone, start up a patreon focused solely on making hyper detailed blendr animations of Vandal and Thief getting deep dicked.We'll make a bungillion dollars.
>>743244859How is that going to help? The free week (lol, not free "weekend", it was a whole week) did nothing. The money is not the issue. People just dont want this game or this genre. And its hilarious they banked their future on something like this.
>>743244857The Finals has actual PvE with progression now lol
>>743244859According to people that actually tried the game, the ingame shop has nothing you'd want to buy. That makes f2p unmonetizable
>>743249637Just follow WoT route and start selling golden bullets that do +50 damage
>>743238332I'm convinced more people watch Chartathon than playing it
>>743238345more like prOOF lmao
pol are the least interesting people on the planet.
>>743242157It's at least lasting the rest of the year, come Hell or high water, no matter how nonexistent the playerbase gets, just because they don't want the humiliation of another quickly-killed service game after their own historical embarrassment with Concord and then Wildlight/Geoff Keighley's embarrassment with Highguard earlier this very year (Sony's indirectly roped into that one to a degree too since they issued automatic refunds for PS5 owners who bought into it).
>>743249637Did you know steam's top sellers list is by microtransaction-inclusive revenue? Hence F2P titles being on the list. Well, Marathon is currently ranked #501. With Destiny 2 Renegades at ~450, that means in the past 24 hours Marathon as a whole was outdone by one DLC for a dead game.
>>743238345!#%$ YOU, IT'S STABLE.
i'm blasting
>>743244859I don't think F2P would help this game along any, even the free week had people uninstall after a day.
I found the good song from the OST:https://youtu.be/UyKXnmnDxF4?si=xYW87pdgz67xyofpKnowing he can do that, it's too bad he's allergic to rhythm, beats, and melody. And it's too bad that he knows what chiptunes are. Dude vandalizes most of his work by making it intentionally off-putting.
>>743244859>F2PFree to What?
>>743242248Since when do chart watchers don't even look at the charts and instead just make shit up to fit their narrative?
Raped gameRaped companyRaped fanbase
>>743253576Most of the OST is really good. It's pretty small, though. Many tracks are cut down versions of others.
>>743253694good morning sir
