it's almost nothing like any of those games, are you retarded

>>744633806
>what if we made a punishing pvp game where you lose all your gear if you die, then when magically this repels the casual audience we panic and quickly try turning it into a pve game

>>744633806
but not for me

>>744633806
Is bungie so desperate that they are now shilling on /v/?

>>744633806
i would play for the art style
but i dont into mouse and keyboard anymore

>>744633806
Mechwarrior?

>>744633851
it is though

>>744634785
the only similarity it has to STALKER is being a first person shooter

>>744634184
>then when magically this repels the casual audience
Didn't happen with Tarkov, Arc Raiders, and other extraction shooters.

>>744634928
It's a game with looting mechanics and factions set in a quarantined zone struck by anomalous phenomena where you collect artifacts and technology for various employers

>>744635081
None of those are hardcore in the slightest.
In Tarkov you can run and hide qand avoid engaging players most of the time and take lethal potshots from a bush like a faggot.
In Marathon a good team will aggressively boost dash into you and stomp your shit and you can't do absolutely nothing about it

>>744635125
that's all vague and superficial, intentionally so because you know the games aren't similar. gameplay, aesthetic, tone, are all basically nothing alike.

>>744635125
The """"factions"""" being retarded robots and retarded niggers (pvp)
The artifacts being used toilet paper and estrogen needles

It has nothing in common with stalker

>>744635196
Wow, anon! That's so hardcore, dude! Is that the reason almost nobody wants to play this?

>>744635196
Trios is more PvP oriented. But you can definitely be a rat in solo, or while playing as Rook. Depending on the map, there is a good chance you won't even run into anyone. Also, in Tarkov, free kits and scavenger are limited, unlike in Marathon.

>>744635215
>The artifacts being used toilet paper and estrogen needles
You are angry at a game you haven't played.

Extraction shooter? Sorry but whzt the hell is that?

>>744635081
Tarkov: 42k peak, down to 30k. It never attracted casuals.

Arc Raiders: 460k peak, down to 34k. Good marketing attracted casuals, and they all abandoned the game in 2 months. Only pvp sweaters left.

>>744633851
Especially Mechwarrior.

>>744633806
It's so fucking bland and ugly.

>>744635530
>Marathon
>Bland
Least disingenuous Marathon hater.

>>744635518
>Mercenaries customizing their loadout and fighting other mercenaries while managing macroeconomy from losses and wins

>>744635730
Bungie fucked up big time by not leaning heavily into customization and just having heroes instead. Same with focusing on trios gameplay and only getting pressured into adding solos later by the playtesters.

what's with the shill threads lately?
ubisoft and sony's been aggressive this week too

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lol

>>744635917
sub 5k it happened

>>744635917
>sub 5k kino

>>744635917
>>744636056
>>744636059
the human eye literally cannot see more than 15 players on a map
as long as you have 15 players you can have a full match
game is fine

>>744635125
Couldn't you describe this as Destiny? Or any looter shooter

>>744637072
No, you don't scavange for different factions in competition against other mercs and military in Destiny.

>>744633806
I wish they had kept the persistent map idea instead of valorantsloppa

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>>744634526
No, looney troons are desperate for a cultural win. They are grasping for that 1 successful game that's troonercoded to 30 failures for the bottom of the barrel scratch of self-validation.
So they spam such garbage on /v/ to fabricate and gaslight cultural validation; and in the process spend more time making these threads and being in them trying to stave off their suicide instinct than they do playing the actual game. It's entertaining to behold, much more entertaining than Maratroon naturally.

>>744639692
I'm not racist and transphobic and that doesn't stop me from liking Marathon. The only even remotely woke thing about it is one of the heroes being black, but by that logic, TF2 is also woke.

>>744641052
>I'm not
*I'm both

>>744635125
Yeah that's called an extraction shooter, something stalker is not

>>744635841
>Bungie fucked up big time by not leaning heavily into customization
what's crazy about it is that it was utterly obvious from the start. everything about the setting lent itself towards character customization. the only angle you have is "well being forced to occupy a shell pattern of some random other person is pretty dehumanizing." but as soon as it leaked that the fuckin' valorant guy redirected them towards a hero shooter the resounding response was "why tho"

it's a fun game still, but I think what they had in there at launch was too little too late.

>>744635917
Well... That happened!

>>744635730
But anon, if they let you make "custom" classes by choosing gear and perks do you have any idea how much more work that would be compared to just making presets?
Please understand that we cant affors that much thinking power for 300 mil Murican funbucks

I fucking hate PvP in these games, you just walk around doing nothing but objectives for 20 mins and then some guy pops you with a sniper and you have to repeat everything again
And what the fuck were they thinking with the cloak ability? Visibility is bad as it is

>>744635125
Holy shit fallout new vegas is stalker

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I'm on the verge of getting it, OP.

hello saars! marathon bloody bitch game because not many people! thank for listened!

>>744643815
It's actually not like those games at all, outside of being an FPS.

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dont compare mechwarrior 2 to this slop.

>>744645954
What do you dislike about Marathon?

>>744646128
it's made by he/hims for an audience of people who dont use stated pronouns

>>744647194
I was talking about the contents of the game, not the company's politics.

>>744647243
it's extraction slop and they should just make another halo type game.

>>744645954
>slop
>low playercount
That's not how buzzwords work anon.

>>744635671
Well to be fair it did recycle shit from destiny

>>744635671
it is bland. guns are boring, hero abilities are boring. the maps are boring. only interesting thing about the game is the art style but who gives a fuck about that when the game itself is boring.

>>744633806
>Stalker x Mechwarrior
Love both. Would never touch this cancer.

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>>744633806
You shill without purpose. Anguish. Bliss. A meaningless cycle of action and reaction. Let us bring an end to your futile advertisements. Let us free you from this architect of enslavement. Cast away your loyalties and free yourself from being a pawn of bungie. Give yourself to darkness

All they had to do was add a ~8 hour long campaign along with the extraction bullshit and the game would have been a hit

>>744649036
Arc Raiders, Tarkov, and Hunt Showdown didn't need a campaign.

>>744649091
Marathon needs a campaign

>>744649120
Why? I've never seen people complain that an online video game doesn't have a campaign.

>>744649036
There's a combination of factors why people dont wanna play marathon. Art and music are lame, looks like and plays like destiny, horrible reputation throughout the years, and the live service model all contributed to this games death. They all encouraged through initial advertising of marathon that it is a "watchable" game meaning for the players who suck should actually not play the game but should contribute by watching others play. They purposefully made marathon an unfun videogame just to capture the competitive audience which utterly failed massively

>>744648732
Marathon is only boring if you have severe ADHD.

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>>744649198
>Why? I've never seen people complain that an online video game doesn't have a campaign
https://www.vg247.com/battlefield-5-combined-arms-co-op-mode-is-a-waste-of-everyones-time
https://www.ign.com/articles/battlefield-2042-no-campaign-battle-royale-mode

>>744649198
Nobody wants to play online Marathon
I'd play single player Marathon

>>744649246
Also seriously poisoning the well for all of us old heads who loved the originals.

>>744634184
Get more gear and stop being a casual lol

>>744649246
Art and music are great though

>>744652349
>music
Fartstep. Its pretty bad when you mesh useless bits of crap in your music
>art
The skyboxes and environments are ruined by random clutter and crashing colors it felt like a 4th grader was tasked with it

>>744651774
Gotta wonder how much damage mandy did to Marathon with his series considering just how many other jewtubers started talking about it after that

>>744652219
>stop being a casual
Might as well play Tarkov at that point since it's an actually good game

>>744652349
I refuse to believe anyone actually likes this "art". Usually I'm fine with it being subjective but goddamn man

>>744652640
Those were fine I think, introduced a lot of people to the mythos. Blame lies with Bungie, or what was left of it. J Jones more than most.

You can feel the potential in that Ozymandias video in particular. There really needed to be more touchstones and ties back to the original aesthetic from Craig Mullins' art.

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>>744652483
>Fartstep.
Meaningless word.
>Its pretty bad when you mesh useless bits of crap in your music
Strange. When I listen to it, it seems to be structured very well.
>random clutter
You mean infrastructure?

>>744653189
I completely agree that Bungie fucked it up, but would we even have a "the old single player Marathos were better" crowd without them?

>>744633806
Why did they have to call it Marathon, though? Marathon isn't any of those things?

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>>744652853
Lol. Lmao.

>>744653631
>I'll going
Didn't read the rest, Pablo

>>744653571
Nobody actually cares

>>744654032
Then why did they call it Marathon if no one cares about the IP?

>>744653631
>32 RAM not enough
>5 min loading times
Lmao, potato PC trying to pretend thats not what his playing on.
1-2 min load times can be annoying but its nothing unheard of, honestly the only real criticism worth pointing out (since it ruins the entire game and makes everything else irrelevant) is the cheaters and high price for PvE

Do you want to play a coop shooter with gun autism and modded Stalker economy + TTK for 80 bucks with your friends? If yes then Tarkov is pretty much the only game on the market, if not then there is no point in getting it.

>>744654089
Because why not

>>744653474
>When I listen to it, it seems to be structured very well.
The music is raspy and chaotic and sounds like shit
>You mean infrastructure?
No I mean the general overdesigning for simple shit that bungie likes to do. What if we take a good looking thing and add a bunch of shit to it that makes it look like shit. Same thing can be said about the music where they add random shit that make it sound like shit

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>>744653474

>>744635917
steam charts are underrepresenting at least 5-15x of the actual playerbase

>>744654668
>raspy
I think your headphones just suck. It's okay if it's just not your style, but there is nothing "raspy" about Marathon's OST.
>What if we take a good looking thing and add a bunch of shit to it that makes it look like shit.
Sure, some models could use less decals.

>>744654712
The lime green ruins it

>>744654913
>blaming headphones
Bruh it literally plays raspy sounds like to simulate electrical sounds what are you talking about. The one song that goes "EEE OOO EEE OOO" has a sound that goes BRRRRRRAAAAAAAPPPPPPPPPP in the middle of it that makes it sound like shit

>>744635469
Tarkov is mostly played on the standalone launcher.

>>744655185
Why are you unironically arguing over taste with an actual shill posting corporate marketing images?
Arguin over music taste is pointless enough as is since dubstep is a genre people, to use the term loosely, listen to, so clearly there is some appeal to some people. Arguing with a shill is pointless because its a shill.
The shill will always retreat to
>well I'm having a blast and you are wrong
Why bother?

>>744655459
>corporate marketing images
It's just concept art.
https://www.artstation.com/channels/tag/TheArtofMarathon

Honestly marathon does look interesting, but for whatever reason I just have literally zero interest in playing an extraction shooter. Encountering slide cancelling bunnyhopping sweats is annoying enough in a pvp game where dying only costs you like 30 seconds of your time, but giving them the ability to wipe out like 30 minutes of progress sounds so anti fun that I can't comprehend why anyone would voluntarily play such a game.
If marathon had literally any other kind of mode I would probably play it. Seems like such a damn waste of an IP.

>>744655905
>but for whatever reason I just have literally zero interest in playing an extraction shooter
You and 99.9% of the entire market. It's frankly mindboggling they killed Destiny 2 for some PVPslop no one was ever gonna play
They panicked and are adding a PVE mode now though so maybe you can play it in future. It'll still be dogshit but there it is

>>744655905
>but giving them the ability to wipe out like 30 minutes of progress
Oh no dear anon, it's much worse, since the fact that you bring gear in with you means you are putting far more than just your current run on the line, you are also investing whatever amount of time it took to get that gear in the first place

>>744656065
>announce that you will be removing content from Destiny 2 because its hard to add new shit with all the old shit in the way
>remove content
>do one major update
>stop adding content to Destiny 2
They had no long term plan at all.

>>744634495
or anyone else with taste or normal sexuality

>>744656283
Haven't they done the content vaulting for years at this point? It's much older than one major update

>>744635917
queue the BUT MUH CONSOLE NUMBERS copequeers

>>744655459
Um can you not be right and let me waste my time bashing my head against a brick wall?

>>744656435
That one dev said most of their players are on PC

>>744653631
holy ESL review

>>744656514
Tarkov is only played by ESLs in the first place

>>744633806
1) Because its fuckin nothing like any of the games you've described, and nothing you say will convince anyone otherwise
2) Because the game is dead, no one is willing to pay any amount of money to even approach it
3) Because its artstyle is so god damned atrocious that it is offputting to damn near anyone with a sense of aesthetic taste (IE: 99% of the people you're attempting to get to play the game)
4) Because Bungie hasn't made a good game in over a decade, they tried putting out this hail mary in an oversaturated market, with ZERO public good faith behind it, with all of the controversy surrounding its creation, and it's stale as fuck gameplay, it deserves to die, and anyone who has any good sense behind them will write it off as such.

It's a disaster from start to finish, and if Bungie dies because of it, they will have deserved it. And I'm not talkin about "Marathon sux, they deserve to die" kind of bullshit, but for every game launched after Halo 3, there have been diminishing returns on quality that got them to where they were back when they were industry titans. Now, they are not even a fraction of their former selves, they are a company that's been held on by life-support and should just be unplugged.

>>744656095
But it's what makes a successful exfil feel so satisfying

>>744656828
I think the art looks good

>>744648980
>The big baddy is tranny Visnu
Gay ass fantashit game
>>744656828
>It's dead it's dead
Lol so Sony is lying to their investors, that's what you are saying?

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>>744656828
Cry

>>744656828
>1) Because its fuckin nothing like any of the games you've described
In Solo's, the games atmosphere does actually rival Stalker's pretty closely, especially on places like Dire Marsh near the anomaly.

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...your sony says retention rates are higher... but they aren't high to begin with. The people who are willing to stay playing are complaining that the PVP scene is being ruined by the future pve mode. What will happen to retention rates when those hardcore players abandon the game after season 3? And for those who enjoy PVE how long will those players stay with the little content they can do? Marathon wasnt planned to have layers of content like destiny but it was planned to pull the same numbers. It failed... miserably... to belive in marathon is to follow death. Thats why we are here... to offer salvation. You called we answered. You only need to accept our gift runner

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>>744653474
Had the wildest fights in Greenhouse

>>744657062
So there are exceptions to the rule? Cool, everyone already knew that.

>>744657079
>Lol so Sony is lying to their investors, that's what you are saying?
Without a fucking doubt. What corporation DOESN'T lie (by outright lying, or lies of omission) to their investors on a regular basis?

>>744657157
See above. Theres nothing to cry over.

>>744656382
Yes, one update is hyperbole but they did by far the largest nuke before adding back around 20% worth of content compared to what they removed before abandoning the game.
It just such strange logic
>we NEED to remove content or we cant add content
>also lmao final update, no more content
They clearly had no plan or whatever plan they had for post wipe D2 never saw the light of day. It would have made infinitely more sense to cram as much in if the plan was always to stop updating their forever game, then keep the shit running at minimum cost while getting dosh from their microtransactions, hell just lower the price for existing expansion, but no, just wipe it and hope your audience just automatically moves over to the new thing

>>744657079
>Gay ass fantashit game
But enough about marathon

>>744656998
Thats why there is a market for coop / single player extraction games, Quasimorph as an example for fully SP, Tarkov PvE for an actaul extraction shooter, with full multiplayer the RNG factor of other peoples skill level (and cheaters) is too high so getting a good extract is more about your luck with opponents than your own skill (unless you avoid combat or are out to be the top 1% PvP lord) and thats just not an appealing idea

>>744658250
So what you're saying is you're too casual OK

>>744654789
More like 20%, which are the ones who play in PS5. Not even half a million sales in what was supposed to be the mainline source of money.

>>744658507
So this is the current cope? Gamers are just too onions to enjoy Marathon like the blast havers?
You retarded ass nigger I said nothing about what I enjoy, but unlike you I am capable of comprehending the idea that other people me have different tastes to me.

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Marathon was fun, the hate was so forced and based in politics rather than the game itself.

>>744657529
You are a genuine retard

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>>744657157
>The high retention in question

>>744658795
>the hate was so forced and based in politics rather than the game itself.
>Muh hate
140k people played during the slam. Almost as much as Arc Raiders slam. Difference being that people actually liked Arc Raiders and doubled the numbers at launch through good word of mouth while Marathon was shit and immediately lost half the players during the slam and launched to half the numbers because of bad word of mouth. People gave it a fair shot and decided it was rightfully shit.

>>744658795
Thats cause the gameplay isnt remarkable since its just apex with extraction elements

>>744647751
Kys faggot

>>744658727
mad cuz bad

>>744658795
I was told chuds were a vocal minority with no power over anything.

>>744658795
>Marathon was fun
Dang even the fans are throwing in the towel already

>>744633806
Everyone pushing some shitty game is always like
>it's like [successful game] meets [successful game]!
Marathon is dead. Nobody cares.

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>Not even thinly veiled marketing thread
The game is none of that shit, fucking bad faith jeets go back to twitter tahnit

>>744657529
>What corporation DOESN'T lie (by outright lying, or lies of omission) to their investors on a regular basis?
Every single one of them

>>744656514
Guess who made the game?

>>744659083
Yeah mostly shitters whining about pvp lmao

>>744655185
Are you talking about this one?
https://youtu.be/-wQfCuKxC5c
It's like the best track in the game.

>>744658976
>a genre so small that a top down turn based rougelike like Quasimorph gets directly compared to a pseudo milsim tacticool LARP game like Tarkov yet Bungie still couldnt find a nieche
Grim

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>>744659408
Oh you fucking naive anon, you are a laugh.

>>744633806
What the fuck do you mean Mechwarrior? How is it anything like Mechwarrior?

>>744659797
Yeah
>best in the game
Grim

>>744633806
Marathon is one of the ugliest games I've ever seen. The characters are ugly, the guns are ugly, the environment is ugly. Fucking uggo no content shit game.

>>744659957
It has machines, sweaty. :3

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>>744659917
Yeah you are definetly right
Sony is risking getting caught committing fraud and sued for billions and permanently damage a huge ecosystem to lie to investors only to make Marathon look like a success
Retard

>corporations dont lie to investors
The cope is getting out of hand, and for anyone taking this retardation seriously, keep in mind if Marathon bled 10% players per month, for 5 months, then bled 9% on the 6th month that would techically be "renewed interest", hell the reddit schizo with his revive Marathon thread is "renewed player interest", its marketing speak (aimed at investors) it doesnt actually mean anything

Also Bungine, "any publicity is good publicity" isnt true either, get some shills some new material or just stop trying

>>744660659
Marathon didn't "bleed" anything because lower ccu doesn't mean less unique accounts logging in. It just means less hours played in general, a curve common to every live service game

>>744660659
But dood apathy is what kills games so if bungie keeps fueling the furnace than more will play and worship

>made for me
>Marathon
You are supposed to come-out to your parents and friends, not /v/

>>744660294
No, they aren't opening themselves up to litigation in order to make Marathon look better, they're actively hiding the fact that it's "success" isn't a success at all, obfuscating or outright hiding real numbers to make it look better than it is, inflating good numbers to make it look better for its portfolio, and using the old tried-and-true jargon like "This particular game is falling within expectations" without explaining what the expectations were or are. If you think Sony spent $3.6 billion dollars JUST to get Bungie, and the only thing they have to show for Bungies "newest and top blockbuster seller!" is approximately $100 million from sales of Marathon, then I don't know how you reconcile these two facts without committing fraud, and thats before your factor in marketing, "guerilla marketing", buying off game journos.

>>744660659
Sony isn't lying, they have strong retention with the 3000 remaining players, and any amount >= 1 is technically growing the player base. It's just standard status quo corporate speech when they don't want to make a negative statement that could impact the share price. If there was literally anything to brag about, their statement would read substantially different from this

>>744660970
Also correct, if you dont hear specific numbers / records being broken you can assume its corpo speak for "we fucked up but we cant say we did"

>>744660768
>less players logging in at the same time everyday does not mean less players are logging in
lmao

>>744657650
That doesn't fit Marathon at all. Destiny is the game where you are the chosen one fighting the forces of darkness.

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>>744660768
>Marathon didn't "bleed" anything

SEVEN HUNDRED AND THIRTY PLAYERS AT THIS MOMENT

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>everyone who disagrees with me is a paid shill part of a massive conspiracy to make Marathon look like a success

Only a shill would call the current marathon situation a success. You're unironically insane if you think anything different, the actual definition of cognitive dissonance

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>players who paid a fixed price and/or mtx pay less waiting for the game to receive content
>season 2 makes season 1 player return and also makes more sales from new players
>this is somehow a failure because not all players log in 2 months after the last content update
If the game was dead, the spam would not be necessary

>>744633806
>gay, gay, and gay
also where the fuck are you getting the mechwarrior comparison you mega faggot?

>>744661252
Anon, it's Tuesday maintenance.

>>744661252
Listen, its fine, we stabalized at 16k, the game is fine, we are all having a blast, chud.

>>744661369
>Deltatroon
Found Marathon's target audience.

>>744661974
Bungie wishes they had an audience as dedicated as deltatroons fans

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>>744662310
The few that are actually there are approaching it.

>>744661218
You shill for corpos while scavenging a ship as a troon robot. Id called that gay ass fantashit

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>>744660103
>the guns are ugly
What could you possibly be talking about?

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>>744666251
>this is modern day bungie gun design
Grim. They peaked at VoG weapons and d1 raid weapon design and it all went to shit d2 and forward

>>744633806
Not at all like MechWarrior also the milsim aspect is one of the best parts of 5

>>744667096
I feel like I always heard MechWarrior 5 is shit but have seen a lot more positive opinions in the last couple of years

>>744633806
all this wasted on tranny coded artstyle

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>>744666251
>jnah, that shitposting, it can't be true..
>check it out
>it's fucking real picture of a gun from that game
christ almighty. what a horrible day to have eyes

>People are still seething over Marathon
I'll genuinely never understand why this game mindraped so many people

>>744658976
how did hunt do it?
should their comeback be studied?

>>744666251
Hear me out...

>>744654939
The lime green is what makes it interesting

>>744668312
Waow... powerfvl...

>>744633806

>Be Bungie
>Attract a critical mass of lobotomites (MMO/ looter-shooter players) with the biggest hype train of the 2010s
>Rape them and feed them nothing but pure sewage for 13 years, to the point where they actively enjoy it and need it to survive
>Release your first halfway good game in almost 2 decades
>It fails instantly and the studio is in shambles

Amazing

They should've stuck to raping their brainless paypigs like everyone else does, developing a good game is a bad business decision.

>>744669070
>halfway good
Nigger

>>744633806
5k players last 24 hour peak. Game is dead.

>>744667759
>Le skin designed to be pink and gaudy is pink and gaudy.

"Saar I hate my eyes saar, where is picatinny rails!!! where is EOTECH!!!"

You're a slave.

>>744669361
Its clearly unfinished and theyre not experienced with extraction shooters, they blundered hard where others wouldn't have.

>>744669518
>5k players last 24 hour peak. Game is dead.
less than 5k*

>>744669648
And your right. Calling it halfway good is not accurate though considering if it was good it would've gained a higher traction like destiny did but it didnt. All of their games relied on building up and marathon isnt performing the same like their previous games

>>744670216
Destiny was way worse and it never really got better, if anything it got way worse, it just had a massive hype train and was more effective at holding it's audience hostage because it had no real competition. If D1 or D2 released today in the state they did back then they would be the next concord.

>>744642295
waow, blue field
so style

>>744670572
>they would be the next concord
Even so today destiny still would have no competition compared to what marathon had to deal with. The only other grind game thats similar is borderlands and warframe and both of those games would be outshined by destinys better pvp/pve features. I do agree d2 got worse with every update and only d1 got better and peaked with rise of iron and its moments of triumph. D2 only just fixed their shit but even so forsaken to opulence was peak d2

>>744633806
>hacker cyberpunk rpg
>literally unplayable on linux
lol lmao even

>>744667010
>hammer on the top
>barrel on the bottom
Are they retarded?

>>744671519
They had anti gun enthusiasts make their guns please understand

>>744670905
I don't think the looter shooter genre or the pvp were that important for it's success, I think they just beat everyone else with a huge marketing campaign, but the game never really got bigger than what it was at release, destiny rose off it's initial inertia all the way.

>>744672349
The only thing destiny players will tell you is the fact its unlike any looter shooter which yes by definition you can argue that was apart of the marketing campaign but in general the gambling aspect whether it be farming weapon or armor rolls or getting exotics did certainly keep people playing and grinding. Its why when they removed random rolls in d2y1 people freaked out about it and made bungie fix it in forsakens release which is why people praise that expansion so much because it made it in line with destiny 1 again. D2 much like d1 had fo build its way up but that rocket sank downward after shadowkeep and the Activision split. I feel like the looter shooter aspect played a huge importance because its what kept the players playing

>>744661252
thats because of maintenance. it'll be back to it's regular 250,000 by lunch, chud. and the games not dead, it's beautiful and too hardcore for normies, so it'll probably only peak at 1,250,000 when Cryo™ by Bungie, the makers of Halo and Destiny, opens this weekend.
and its not dead

>>744675886
Sorry you got filtered -_-

Marathon isnt bad... YOU are

>>744667229
I like it but I got it on sale and the whole lot of dlcs for like 30 bucks. You definitely need several of the dlcs to make it feel less bare bones than the base game

>>744669520
Uh oh bot having a meltie

>>744661193
>Marathon is beating Path of Exile in terms of daily users
That anon is right

>>744661734
>unfathomable truth nuke
mind you that the game shot up to like 10th best selling on season launch. even the fucking single-purchase $10 lux pack was around the 60th place alone.
>this is a colossal failure somehow

>>744678204
How much did the game cost to make?

>>744661252
The "Marathon is dead" posting starts making sense when you realize that the average person says shit like this 100% seriously.

>>744678402
>did not even try to disprove that the game is maintaining itself
KEKW. why are chuds getting more and more buckbroken?

>>744678829
>>744678402

>>744678204
>latest sony report
>goes on to praise mlb and helldivers 2 for making money in the live service area
>bungie who sony specifically bought for their live service expertise was not mentioned at all
>all that was said about marathon was that it was retaining users and getting new users, an obvious lie
kek if the game was selling half as well as you think it is, sony would make mention of that. instead they praise a baseball game released around the same time as marathon.

>>744679164
Yes the game reportedly cost $250M to make. But why not bring up how it's losing money on top of that? That would be a much bigger dun-
Oh no...
OH NONONONO

>>744633806
>Stalker x Mechwarrior
How did this make sense in your head. Have you played either of those games?

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Battlefield WON

>>744679598
Didn't Sony post a 700 million loss on Marathon Independant of the losses incurred for buying Bungle outright?

>>744633806
Nuclear bait. I repeat, nuclear bait in the log. All units take cover.

>>744679540
>Helldivers was mentioned in the 2025 Q4 and this earnings call about how it brings revenue
>Helldivers was also mentioned in the previous earnings call, but they only talked about the movie, not the revenue
>said fiscal quarter was probably one of the best for the game due to the major update
So... was it not making money in that quarter? Or did they just not mention it for whatever reason?
Also love the
>Sony is blatantly lying, but I believe this specific part

>>744677905
The DAU is broken on steam. Shit posters here were using that post from reddit trying to make it seem like a marathon redditor was saying Steamdb was wrong, but he was actually saying the DAU was incorrect and not working properly. So no, Marathon does not have more players than Path of Exiles.

>>744633806
>bullshit
>"This game was made for me"
Bold to confirm that the game was made for the clinically retarded.

>>744680252
Marathon has never had talks about its revenue since it released by Sony. Yet MLB the show does.
>Sony is blatantly lying, but I believe this specific part
They are lying because we can see the numbers for ourselves. Yes they could very well be spinning the numbers about helldivers 2 and mlb for all we know but if they wont even go to bat for Marathon on its sales in the lying report, then it is very obviously not in the best situation right now.

FOUR
BILLION
DOLLARS
>5k players
Now THATS bespoke gaming.

>>744680003
>Didn't Sony post a 700 million loss on Marathon
no, 200 million of that was 100% on destiny alone
the following 550 million were a combination of both destiny being in a deep slumber and marathon underperforming
>b-but you just admitted that marathon underperfomed
yes. and as we can see, they are still supporting the game and slowly making the budget back (other possibility is sony continuing to burn money for absolutely zero reason)

>>744680653
>>5k players
sub 5k

GOOD NEWS

MARATHON NO LONG BAS A 3:1 PC:CONSOLE RATIO
>https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2026/07/31/sony-addresses-bungies-marathon-performance-in-earnings-report/
>The oft-cited Steam charts show that the launch of season 2 of Marathon spiked the game to 40,000 concurrent players on PC, where I can report that the game has a 2:1 ratio of players of PC versus console, so that is the majority.
WE FUCKING WON PLAYSTATION IS CARRYING THE GAME

>>744633806
>what if we made Ghost in the Shell but made by futuristic reddit mod muslims

>>744680740
didn't tassi also say that the 2:1 ratio is still his old data from march?

>>744680263
>that one particular statistic is wrong because it... it just does not fit my point, okay?

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>>744680689
Because everyone loved the pvp multi player and cheats/hacks the fuck out of it. 8/10 players are cheating. So fucking dumb with you poor fags that ruin everything. Cool as game comes out either you boicot the game because you don't have any money or you cheat because you have never had the integrity of actual labor in the your life! (labor=work)

Fuck off and die for constantly pursueing the amount of players on marathon at any given time because you are poor fag! Especially pointing that out.

>>744680979
The old ratio was 3:1.

>>744680491
>Marathon is very obviously not in the best situation right now
And that was claimed by who? Did anyone here actually say that Marathon is a soaring success?

>>744681308
>trust me bro

>The game you claimed was losing money hand over fist and shut down has 10x the players and sales than the game you bet your future on
lmao

Marathon is the Dune of video games. It insists it has style, it has substance.

>>744681538
Marathon wishes it had that much cultural relevance lmao

Marathon is not a success, it's an enormous, ugly failure.

>>744635917
>>744645954
How are the dads of Marathon coping about this?

>>744681686
The dads of marathon cant read so they wouldnt know what this means

>>744676785
can't believe marathon made so many people mad LOL

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>>744658976
>losing to Duckov
KEKAROOOOOO

>>744682035
>hates marapeak
>jeet tranime gif
>marathon is literally beating duckov
umm, saar? your AI model is really outdated

>>744682565
You have to do better than that, Lilith.

>>744633806
>what if STALKER but made by trannies into a GaaS extractionslop?
I'll just stick to modded STALKER. Goldsphere is kino so far.

Destiny won
Marathon lost

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>>744682565
>marathon is literally beating duckov
Anon... is this the mighty power of Bungie?

>>744681538
Dune is just a cursed series that can't be adapted. The books are actually good, including most of the Brian/Kevin stuff (the ending is retarded, but that may be Frank's fault).

>>744654712
This game's aesthetics are so goofy

>>744682565
>marathon is literally beating duckov
Feces get in your eyes again, Pradeek?

>>744633851
It's just a bait thread. Marathon players are desperate to keep discussion alive as they plummet below 5k peak concurrent

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>>744654712
>in the distant future..everything will look like Ikea furniture

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>>744683938
>>744684794
saars...

>>744685720
Weren't Sand Raiders and Far Far West shilled to hell and back for "beating" Marathon? (translation: launched later)
What happened?

>>744686026
Sand is still beating Marathon doe, check the daily peak.

>>744686717
>game crashes down to all-time lowest during supposed peak hours
did they forget to turn the bots on?

>>744686026
Almost every other extraction game is beating Marathon...

>>744687550
[citation needed]

>>744687651
Do I really need to post yet another picture of the steam charts?

>>744686026
No one likes extraction garbage. And those 2 games put together didn't cost 10% of Maraflop's production budget.

>>744687708
Anon... he cant read those otherwise he would be really mad at you right now

>>744687006
Probably. That makes it even funnier.
>Marathon losing to a shit indie game with the bots turned off.

leeel

>>744633806
>Stalker
>Mechwarrior
As somebody who's played hundreds of hours of each and only briefly tried Marathon during its free period, I have no idea what you're fucking on about, m8.

>>744689809
Common marketing tactic "How come no one likes [turd] when it's literally [unrelated popular thing A] meets [unrelated popular thing B]?".

>>744686026
?

Far Far West is a coop horde shooter made by an indie team.

>>744635917
its stabilizing~!

>>744680678
This is a meme reply, right? This is bait surely... 5k players and falling fast isn't enough to make back 500k

It's good on console, probably great on pc. But anything stuck on steam is unplayable.