What does Sony see in them???
every executive thinks Destiny 2 is the perfect model of videogames and they will gamble every single time on the possibility of getting their own Destiny/Fortnite even with a miniscule success chance because they have nothing to lose
>>748128125Are you saying you know more than the executives of that company? Trust the plan.
>>748128125I think they expected this when they made an extraction shooter and the previous alphas failed. They are just hoping for an "engoodening" like Hunt Showdown
They're under contract and CANNOT legally pull the plug until a certain point. That's it.Obviously they would cut and run if they could. They're shedding load literally everywhere else desperately.
>Won't give up on this shitty extraction shooter but instantly gave up on Kojima's MGS spiritual successor
>>748128125One of the 2000 people who play Marathon is the Sony CEO.
>>748128125>engaged core userswhy is every single part of life infested with this jewish corpo speak
>>748128125It's just a raping ritual.
>>748128125That game would be a lot better if it wasn't an extraction shooter, didn't have puke like colors everywhere, and retarded looking characters and weapons.It should really be a 4v4 mecha team battle game.
>>748128265If they expected Marathon to crash and burn they would have never killed Destiny 2.
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F2P update will be the engoodening moment
>>748128483You're stupid if you think Destiny got "killed" in favour of Marathon. Destiny 2 was already a bloated mess by the time of EOS.
>>748128551NTA they literally cancelled their next 2 expansions
>>748128453That's the main reason why I'm sure the revival will fail. Marathon is an inherently ugly game and four, maybe six months if they've been working on this update since S2 started, isn't enough time to change that.
>>748128773There weren't 2 more expansions, there was nothing happening.
>>748128354>burn through billions in a hole due to retarded calidevs being unable to make a good game Or>burn through billions in a hole due to celebrity jetsetting misadventures across a decade+
>>748128125Sony lost the plot. This is the most lost and tone deaf they have ever been. Not even during the PS3 days it was this bad. They don't know wtf they are doing and are gonna kill PS.
>>748128773lol
>>748128807Sony will double down, not fix their shit.
>>748128125Sunk cost fallancy
>>748128125Since they already did that impairment write-off, they can consider any revenue as profit. Just more fake money economy tricks.
fixed asset depreciation
>>748128817There was nothing happening because everybody got either moved onto other projects or later laid off and the rest were just as incompetent, but it was planned. 2-3 years ahead that is, with not much actual work done on them.
>>748128452Did any of you do that?
>>748129148Planned in the same sense Luigi was in Mario 64, there was nothing happening.
>>748129017This. It's obvious at this point. lol
>>748128872Considering how hard the game was marketed as a PvP-first experience with some PvE elements, and how much its tiny community championed that niche despite it obviously not working out, this switch is not what I'd call doubling down.Useless and retarded? Yeah, sure, but I wouldn't call it doubling down
>>748128254>Are you saying you know more than the executives of that company?I'd 100% know better enough to say "absolutely not" to Concord, let alone wasting 8 years and $400 million on it. I don't need retrospect to know what a bad idea it all was.
>>748128551They literally came out after TFS and said D2 was basically over and any content would be smaller in scale and slower coming because they were focusing all their efforts on Marathon. Bungie 100% killed D2 for Marathon you dumb fucking nigger.
>>748128125>failing to hit 3000 players for 8 days in a row nowThink we'll see a sub-2k peak this week? Or not until next week?
>>748128125Based Twittermaxxing 4chanpiller
>>748129605Wasn't the wipe and new battlepass planned for this week? I know they cancelled the big update, but those should still be coming
>>748129710Does it matter? Without any significant content only the hardcore will care and those are the only people still playing anyways.
>>748128125I think they just want to keep Bungie around until investors are distracted by the GTA6 money rain.
>>748128314Ya im betting the end of the year in Polymarket. Sony owes me money for not doing EoS when game is currently under 2000 players.
>>748130084I have a similar theory, GTA6 is going to buy them so much goddamn leeway/extra time on their recent fuckups.
Based. Marachads rule the whole world.
>>748128125It sees a very, very expensive project that flopped, but might still at least recoup losses. And a PR nightmare in a time full of them if they give up on it and close Bungie. Especially for shareholders.Basically its a perfect storm of investor confidence waning and a project they promised up and down would be the next Fortnite but failed. They absolutely cannot be seen as not having confidence in it either.At the same time, there have been a few "engoodened" games, so they probably think they can rescue this one if they put in the money (not talent or passion, just raw dollars).I honestly don't see how Marathon could possibly be made good. Its too far down the competitive PvP extraction shooter pipeline to be fixed into a genre thats actually fun and good.
I would like for the investors to rip Sony a new asshole and have the company move back to Japan.
>>748128125A bucket of sweat should the investors see less in them than they do. Gotta pull a Last Jedi and justify them as hard as possible.
>>748128125Failure and sunk cost, now reanimate the corpse again.
>>748128125They are waiting for the comeback
>>748133240And it needs to be studied when it happens.
>>748128125>What does Sony see in them???A pile of 3 billion dollars on fire.
Which was a bigger financial failure? Concord or Marathon?
>>748128125Dude don't you recognize the name Bungie? They made Halo once that's like hella brand recognition what more could Sony want than a big name? Like how are other studios meant to compete with a name everyone knows and respects?
>>748134665>concord: ~$400million>marathon ~$4billion+ whatever bungies multiplayer expertise cost canceling/greenlighting various forms of unwanted dogshit.
>>7481281253.5 billion dollars worth of sunk cost fallacy
>>748128125sunk cost fallacy
>>748134665Concord is purely negative. Marathon at least earned some money. But Snoy did have to write down Bungie's valuation quite a bit. Ok, I guess Marathon is probably a bigger failure than Concord.
>>748128125>they keep this limping along yet cut off kojimaI'm sure they're in the process of funding another concord too.sony have really lost the plot, what happened
>>748135364video games are a bubble thats about to popliterally who plays video games anymore
>>748128125Marathon is just Concord 2 in the making
>>748129710they don't do seasons anymore, the new big update is on Dec 8th while the "progression refresh" will be on Oct. 6
>>748135496consoles, not video games
>>748128551It was a bloated mess with an engaged userbase of broken bucks, and a far larger one than Marathon has. They were stupid to kill it.
>>748128354Kojima makes dogshit that doesn't recoup the investment. Turns out, in a rare example of cosmic justice, there aren't enough shit eating retards to keep him employed after all.
steam chart status
>>748136145>the second most profitable market for video games is gonna collapse when the only viable alternative are PCs that cost five times as muchI know PCmutts are fucking retarded but God damn, you're really fucking retarded.
>>748135496Hardware prices doesn't just impact the customer base, it impacts publishers who need to upgrade the developers PC so they can make said games.This AI shit is going to kill AAA for good and my dick couldn't be harder.
Works for me as one of 20 people left playing it.
>>748136424PCmutts are all poorfags with toasters weaker and cheaper than modern consoles. Developers will make all games run on those and kill consoles. You lost
>>748128125it's not that sony has confidence in bungie (they laid off a ton of their staff) but they are fucking desperate to make one of their live service gambles not be a complete failure. it's pretty obvious some people high up at sony are deeply involved in that obsession with a live service hit since it's getting pushed so hard and i guess they have enough pull to not have been fired yet despite failure after failure
Peak today of 2600 wow
>>748128125An extremely large failure that must not be admitted
>>748128207I've never heard anyone playing destiny, just that annoying chris raygun on podcasts and sounds lame as shit. I tried it d1 and 2 and was the most generic shooter I've ever played.
>>748136812Destiny is just Halo for a new generation of braindead retards
>>748134665In isolation, Marathon is more expensive, but I feel like Concord is much more damaging to the Sony brand and is more of a symbol of Sony's downfall. You can understand why an executive would panic-buy Bungie and then trust them to run themselves. With Firewalk, they had a whole industry of people that they could have given money to and they chose these crazy, incompetent nobodies who obviously didn't know what they were doing and who's ideas obviously had no market. And the end result is that Concord sold numbers that couldn't sustain anything larger than a tiny doujin studio even though it had infinite money and the full force of Sony's marketing department.
>>748128125>core users
>>748137495It is such a silly thing to tout too. Every game has a small core of dedicated users that will always play.
>>748137495ANON DELETE THIS THINK O FTHE INVESTORS
>>748128125What else are they going to say?, "we're planning on shutting down servers after our next live service game comes out so please stop wasting money on this one and trust us not to shut down the next game a month after release"
>>748128125Several BILLION in sunk investment.
Oh shit sorry bros I left it running on my desktop since launch I think Sony is preparing a $1000 shiny gay robot skin thinking I'll whale for it
they certainly aren't going to admit they're abandoning the game
>>748128125Any live service game is all about longevityIf they can just keep this around and alive, eat the costs, probably it can turn around eventually just due to the core players getting stuck in and maybe more getting invested later once they feel like it’s a stable platform and won’t vanish in a month.
>>748128125I like how you cut off the date so that you could make this thread over and over. This post is from May, Twitter doesn't even look like that anymore.
>>748128453>puke like colorsIf your vomit is any of those colors, you should see a doctor.
