Joe zieglers future edition>Guidehttps://www.bungie.net/en/Guide/Destiny2>Year of Prophecyhttps://www.destinythegame.com/en/YearOfProphecy>Destiny Risinghttps://www.playdestinyrising.com/>NewsTWID (3/12): https://www.bungie.net/7/en/News/Article/twid_03_12_2026Update 9.5.5.5: https://www.bungie.net/7/en/News/Article/destiny_update_9_5_5_5Destiny 2: Renegades launch trailer: https://youtu.be/LlFeBxSBZUo?si=wdhbLP6B6fJkwJaL[Embed]Destiny 3?:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JELLSqLduAc[Embed]>ResourcesDIM: https://app.destinyitemmanager.com/Armor Picker: https://d2armorpicker.com/API: https://www.light.gg/Stats: https://destinytracker.com/Braytech: https://braytech.org/PressKits: https://press.bungie.com/Destiny-2Checkpoint Bots: https://d2checkpoint.com/Popularity Report: https://popularity.report/>TTK, Buffs/Debuffs, DPS, etc...https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WaxvbLx7UoSZaBqdFr1u32F2uWVLo-CJunJB4nlGUE4/Previous:>>559944861
>embed Low effort thread creation is just representing marathons development btw for those who weren't aware
Okay, let's be honest here. Why did Marathon flops?
Annyeonghaseyo, my name is Datto-bae.
>>560164024No contentNothing new for extraction shootersDesigned for the "modern audience" that does not existBad game
Are we ready to admit that EoF and Renegades are the worst Destiny expansions of all time and killed the game?
>>560164024>flopsBecause bungie decided to make a game catered for nobody
>>560163232yepits a tournament for streamers only, winner gets a jacket
>>560164279>we readyIt has already been agreed in this threatThe modern audience will never accept it though because STAR WARS was le COOL
>>560164360>My favorite Marathon streamer gets a jacket while I get to watch
Another woke slop flop just dropped
https://flopathon.vercel.app/?game=3065800
kino
>>560164721The line going down is a good thing, Chud.
In an hour or so it shoul be peak timeWonder if it'll increase
I'm having a blast!
>>560165606The average Marathon player is 54 years old
>me with my Truth
Patrick wonBungie lost
>>560166549who the fuck is patrick?
>>560166750A king
>>560164024i personally countered bungie's manufactured word of mouth attempts
Imagine if instead of marathon it was called mara-thong. Heh, and you're a random awoken who has to save a half-naked mara who's only allowed to wear a thong while imprisoned by oriks-2 heh.
>Marathon currently rank #73 on Xbox Keeeeeek
>>560166549Irrefutable and factual
>>560167492All of the players are in Stadia
>>560167492just wait until next yearyou'll be eating your words
>>560167132I wanted to buy the game but the astroturfing just made me feel pure disgust for it, and I discovered during the slam that I wouldn't enjoy the game.
>Bungie took Flopathon downkek
>>560168884Or the guy got hit by too many visits and his bandwidth ran out.You want to host these sites on a VPS or local server.
What if they announce the game is now on maintenance mode and will not be receiving updates anymore, just to funnel all manpower and money from any retards still buying Destiny and eververse skins into Marathon? What happens then?
>>560169816They won't announce that, people are still buying eververse shit and they need all the money they can get.
>>560169816Thats precisely what they are doing, they will just not say it so as to not kill the cash flow, now they will only make Ass and Irony level updates but will delay and keep communications to a minimum until they discover some way for Marathon to attract the casuals and for it to really start generating money.I don't think Sony will kill Marathon because they spent way too much money acquiring Bungie and developing the game, they will get their money out of it one way or another
>>560169816
>>560169816what would they gain from saying that when everyone knows its already happening
>>560170325This is how I talk to women irl
GIGA TRUTH NUKE
>>560170903@Grok can you summarize this shit? It's too long>The long post argues that Marathon isn't truly "floundering" due to some coordinated hate campaign or external backlash (like claims it's "woke" or looks like Roblox), but rather because Bungie repeated many of the same problematic patterns from Destiny 2—heavy monetization, limited accessible content (e.g., only three maps at launch, trio-focused design with poor solo balance), lack of variety, repetitive gameplay, and underwhelming onboarding—which led to low initial turnout (only ~88k peak players on Steam at launch, far below the free Server Slam's 143k) and player disinterest rather than a post-launch drop-off.>In short, the low player counts stem from people simply not showing up in the first place due to Bungie's track record and the game's structural/design issues, not because it cratered after a strong start.
>>560170903How did everyone else respond to him though?
>>560164024flagrant trend-chasingtoo hardcore for the casualstoo casual for the hardcoredivisive aestheticlack of contenthorrible UIweak gameplay revealart theft controversyzero innovationugly character designshero shooter mechanicsunderserved & irritated existing audiencepitiful roadmapstrong competitionridiculously low value MTXridiculously high dev budget <-- the only one that matters
>Every post needs to suck off the game and company before they critique anythingKEK
>>560170903He got banned.
>>560171648>audio updatecontext?
>>560171826They made it so other players could hear you now, reddit is pissed.
>>560171648It's like that with Destiny too. Complete slaves to their slop
>>560171773Why? He was just being honest
>>560170903Good point about the casual side activities, there is nothing else to do in this game.
>>560172004Neofags hate honesty. You need to support the pro-LGBTQAI++ companies and say they they do no wrong, lie if you have to.
>>560171930Isn't that how every game works? Were footsteps silent before?
>>560172172Yes but it was more hardcore when the sound didn't work, somehow.
>>560171648someone needs to make a post saying the audio changes were great and the game used to be bad but this fixed it. they will explode.
So Marathon is going to have a raid map but unlike Destiny where a wipe means return to the checkpoint and start the encounter again, you will be booted back to the main screen, have to set up your gear again and reload into a new instance again on every death? Is that right? Who would watch that?
>>560172297>Who would watch that?Fags that watch this fag
>>560172530Is this ftm or mtf?
>>560170903I hate the fact that this faggot from that faggot central is entirely correct.
>>560164024uncool, unattractive designs
>>560171773he didn't, idk why people keep saying this
wow,marathon is the exact mess I predicted it to be.now...will they be able to pull this off and leave with their stocks or will sony have the last word?
>>560174025Sony is raping them by July
So when can we realistically expect layoffs
Why is Marathon losing thousands of players daily? It's barely been out for a week and it's nothing but shrinkage.
>>560174569Next 2-3 months. Perhaps even next month if Sony is really unhappy. I think they are biding their time for Bungie's Cryo map to drop to sucker in more purchases and then cleaning house.
>>560174665Because it's shit
DoomGODS just can't stop winning it seems
>Marathon is not under most played games, trending games, popular releases, or hot releases anymore.It's over
>>560164721>>560165115BUNGIE KILLED THE WEBSITE HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA
>-3k from yesterday's peakSony is jamming and digging the numbers going down every day
Purest of Cocaine
>>560174117their stocks will vest soon..whoever is left at bungie after this has only themselves to blame because everyone and their mom could see his coming.
>>560175680>not even 100k peakI dont know if it is fair to compare but I remember times when even a bad season in destiny2 had double these numbers on pc.never let bungie cook again
>>560176462Remember when a new D2 season not hitting 100k was a bad sign?
Marathon is better than any garbage expansion D2 released in the last 5 years.
>>560175680THE EUPHORIA, IT IS OTHERWORDLY! SUCH A DELECTABLE RAPE... mmmmmh. We warned them of the end and still, they resisted. Now they will face the inevitable. NOW TO CELEBRATE SUCH JUBILATION WITH A SONG!Some rape for the futureSome wait for the gapeTo say that player countsWill be the lowest of allWe will rape bungieInto their endDOOMGODS surroundingHopesissy and BungieFrom out of the DOOMINGBungie's end will now comeIf we leave /dg/ behindWe'll rape beyond BUNGIEWe'll DOOM togetherSharing hopesissyWatching in wonder as Bungie's end unfoldsRape for the futureIt's cumming soon enoughHow much can we DOOM?Rape for the futureHopesissy belongs to usIf we RAPEIf we RAPERape gapes hardest in the darkWhere nothing's ever seenRaping Bungies gamePissing from my assSome rape for the futureSome wait for the gapeTo say that player countsWill be the lowest of allWe will rape bungieInto their endDOOMGODS surroundingHopesissy and BungieRape gapes hardest in the darkWhere nothing's ever seenRaping Bungies gamePissing from my assRape for the futureRape for the futureRape for the futureOooooooo.....
>>560177582Marathon feels like a seasonal activity that people get bored of quickly and start min/maxing asap.
WELCOMETO HIGHGUARD 2
>>560177891This is beautiful
>couldn't even reach 60k today
Is it truly over for Bungie? Haven't played D2 since Lightfall came out but I want the elevens to destroy Bungie for how they botched a game with this much potential
>>560179414>Is it truly over for Bungie?fraid so
>>560179792Hmmm, maybe betting everything on streamers and hardcore no-lifers with super chairs was not a smart business idea, huh Bungie? You literally made the same mistake with Destiny 2 since Lightfall, some come could argue even sooner, and look where it ended up.Look how good Carebear ARC is doing compared to your slop.
>>560179792BAN THIS STUPID FUCKING CHUD
Your game is dead
im tired of all of this...
Don't forget this is all happening because of the incompetence at bungieThe raping will continue until there's nothing left
I'm studying the comeback
Y'all
I really wanna space out and grind some chill strikes without it feeling like a complete waste of time rn
>>560184636Enter into a war with the cabal on mars
>7 butthurt(Redditards) replies from people that don't get the point of >>>Seasonal Content<<<
Marathon is NOT a flopBungie are JAMMIN on the next updateShadow and Order WILL save the game with over 100k player on steam alone
>>560185059Disposable seasons were their biggest mistake, now that I think about. It basically poisoned the whole foundation of Destiny, and they pretty much were throwing away content and money away after 1 year.And why would anybody put any effort in this slop, if it goes away in 1 year anyway?Meanwhile, every core playlist and traditional activities were left to wallow in misery and subjected to slow and painful death.
>want to watch old twitch clips for nostalgia>90% of them are fucking whereisxur
>>560185704Luke's "You had to be there" plan was just awful all around. The end result was millions wasted on temporary content, and tons of money and manhours going into working on CG cutscenes with voice acting and mo-cap that would be removed from the game anyways, all to create the illusion of an "ever evolving world". All that time and resources could have easily gone into anything else like more strikes, more PvP and Gambit maps, fucking anything else. I guess it made the Destiny streamers a pretty penny while it lasted and it's a miracle that they decided not to nuke the new dungeons that came with the seasons, but in the end it made for a game that is now impossible for regular people to get into. I guess its also a miracle that they didn't fucking nuke the new raids like they did Crown of Sorrow or Scourge of the Past. But that's another thing that could have made D2 better, if all the time spent on seasons was invested into permanent content like that. >>560184839entered a war with the asspissers on /dg/
It's kinda crazy how much content they throw out though actually
>>560188846>he wasn't there
He never sleeps, the doomGOD. He is dooming, dooming. He says that he will never die.
>>560191259It's sad they ended up removing more content than they were adding
>feels like marathon has been out for a month already>its only been a week since release Fuck. We're really just still getting started with the downfall of bungie
>>560170903What causes someone to drop money on a game and then never play it after 1 login
>>560200921Maybe he got a refund. I recall getting one on xbox for Lightfall pretty easily, and that was after having beaten the whole campaign
I wonder what the dev team is doing right now
>>560201484Sleeping.
>>560201484Working on Marathon
>>560201484Jamming
>>560201573LMAO
I played a couple strikesgame's fun still but damn, it's sad that bungie essentially killed destiny for something that's already dying
>>560202651>Still the exact same review percentage I wonder if Bungie bots this or the mindraped shills do it all themselves
The destiny comeback must be studied!
WORTH. EVERY. PENNY. status?
I'M HAVING A BLAST!
>>560203029Steam sweeps it up and delists negative reviews. They delisted my review.
The only path forward for bungie is to DROWN... in the RAPE
>>560202651i remember making fun of the destiny numbers when they got this low
>>560164024What do you mean "let's be honest" like it's some kind of secret. It flopped for the same reason people spent years saying it would flop because of.First of all the genre is incredibly niche and there's not much room for competition with established names. ARC Raiders isn't proof of the genre, it's an oddity, most of its players are not an extraction shooter players to begin with, but people who came in from out of the genre because Arc Raiders effectively advertised to casuals and disinterested parties. Secondly, Bungie lacks the intellectual maturity and integrity required to survive in a niche Genre. When you go for a genre where it's basically same people playing every game in the field, the developers are part of the community and their behavior and attitude is reflected. With Bungie, that behavior and attitude is toxic pedantry, gaslighting, scamming, lying, manipulating, treating the players as disposable data points to push their heinous bullshit to the limit and then pull back. You can do that in a generic shooter field where new players are seemingly limitless as proven by D2 surviving years longer than it should purely from a slow trickle of new incoming players, but you can't do this in a genre that doesn't refresh with new players but once a generation. Thirdly it's boring, it has nothing to stand out with, it's a looter shooter in an industry of looter shooters where people had to fight for even standard features like proximity chat so you know it offers nothing novel or exciting.And lastly, it's a matter of simple trust. People just don't want to play a game by a studio that's notorious for stealing from players at regular intervals, it's as simple as that. Most gamers have been conditioned to play games because of the sunken cost fallacy, a studio that consistently wipes out both your invested time and money, isn't going to draw in players. Studio is done, we're just waiting for the studio closer notice.
Oofed and yikespilled.
>>560207442yeah anon, its rough
>>560207638Does that make you feel better? looking at 159k while hiding the trajectory?
>>560207442We just need more STAR WARS
destiny even in its worst seasons did better than marathon and steam is only like 25% of destiny's playerbase while for marathon it's something like 50%. things are not looking good.
You ever feel tired and try to fall asleep but now all of a sudden you feel super energized? What a shitty phenomenon
>>560208585I just jack off when that happens, sleep good after
>>560208451>destiny even in its worst seasons did better than marathonYou sure about that? Because Destiny in its worst season is NOW, and they're both looking pretty FUCKED.
>>560208451>for marathon it's something like 50%It's the majority, not just 50%. Its the 32nd most played game on xbox and the 38th most played on ps.
>>560208451Destiny's worst seasons are every single day going forward anon. Each day the rape sets in more, the numbers drop a little further.
>>560209768For added context, it's below Halo Infinite on Xbox. The doom brute won.
>>560209123nah that doesnt count im talking about season of plunder and the lightfall seasons
>>560210490LMAO
>>560210679>nah that doesnt countretard
>>560209768Ye, Paul Rassi said his inside source confirmed that Marathon is basically mostly on PC as far as players.
>>560210906to be fair to destiny, it's been downhill since they decided marathon was more important
So if a moollion niggas for TFS wasn't enough for Bungo to succeed with Density less than a moollion niggas for Slopathon means Total Bungo DEATH to Sony
>>560211072Damn. I wonder what the total count is then. Currently on steam the 24 hour peak is 57k so on ps maybe its 40 something while on xbox its 30, maybe even less. Thats grim as fuck
>>560207638This is even more depressing when you realize the biggest chunk of active users is is checkpoint bots, paid carries doing account maintenance, and F2P brazillians just ban evading.
It's funny how this general really did turn into a Marathon general in the end
>>560212658>It's funny how this general really did turn into a Marathon general in the endWhy? Because this general, just like Marathon, has nobody playing Marathon?
>>560212658Don't worry, once bungo is put out to pasture and Sony shifts IPs around we'll start hoping, coping or dooming about destiny again depending on who gets to take over.
>>560180297I wonder what is making them believe this was a viable path? Maybe some dumbass in marketing? Player psychology? Because there absolutely is something making them believe streamers are the only way to sell a game
>Complain for years about Destiny and how it should die>It actually gets abandoned and dies>Bitch and moan about Bungie moving onYou people are not serious.
>>560212748No, because we do nothing but talk about marathon here, not like there is anything to talk about in destiny except it's coming end
>>560212658more like maraflop watch party
>>560212780Bungie getting high on their own farts, just like Bioware with Anthem.
>>560212920>Think it died strictly from greed/incompetence/malice>Now know that the all those things were done to also pump up slopathon, an old IP being raped into a niche pvp slop genre>We are now mad they raped Destiny endlessly for a dead on arrival projectYou shills are not human
>>560212920>>Bitch and moan about Bungie moving onExcept no, nobody is, but you go off queen.
>>560212780Seeing all the BEST and most HARDCORE paypiggies in Destiny BEG for a HARDCORE and BRUTAL REAL GAYMER experience
>>560212658I wonder fucking why.
>>560212658What are you talking about anon? This is the BUNGIE RAPE GENERAL /BRG/. Its all things about Bungie's rape.
>>560213316Erm, it's /rbg/. RAPE BUNGIE GENERAL
>>560213393Oh, right sorry. Just woke up, got it all mixed up. You're right its the RAPE BUNGIE GENERAL
>>560213474Anon, you fat cat. Why are you so lazy and FAT? How are you supposed to RAPE bungo when you're so big and fat?
>Marathon has less than 50k players across all platforms just 1 week after launch
>>560213640I've grown fat from RAPING
WE ARE SO BACKhttps://flopathon.cc/?game=3065800
Maragods.. Just wait until these doomchuds see cryo archive
>>560180297It's just retardation.Remember how everything was blamed on "The casuals" you know, the one group of people that won't complain about the game at all.Fuckers still to this day blame the death of pinnacle weapons on casuals but casuals loved the power fantasy and the only ones bitching about pinnacles were datto, aztec, cammycakes and the other faggots about counting rounds or time to kill.
>>560214435>What if outpost was inside and had a compiler bullet sponge bossOOOH I'M STUDYING THE COMEBACK
>>560214435Breeding Hopussi with my Doomcock in the cryoarchives.
Just y'all wait, the epic streamer tournament this weekend will bring hundred of players back.
Season 2 is the real test. Just wait chuddies and let Bungie cook!
The kitchen is on fire.
We are the bots, everyone loves Marathon and is having a blast.
>>560215463>Dead internet is le real>Posts bot reviews>tons of positive reviews use similar words and toneLUMAOOOOOOOO. They really can't help themselves but project endlessly
>>560215463it's bots if i disagree and that's a fact
>>560215463All the reviews being 7/10 and less must be bots too huh?
Xur upcoming inventory will save D2
>>560215463Yes, everyone knows it's much more likely that random nobodies are buying bots to shit on a game so no one plays it than it is for a controversial developer bolster the perceived quality of their latest product.
It's hilarious watching r/marathoners post more and more demoralization threads about playing endless matches for the same contract and not advancing anything. They are slowly realizing Bungie keeps them on the grind hamster wheel as a replacement for content.
>>560214620I hope to god the boss is tuned way the fuck up kills everyone who reaches it
>>560216108NO, BUNGO IS WHOLESOME CHUNGUS AND WOULD NEVER DO THAT. MUH HECKIN RAZOR, THEY ARE RETARDS NOT MEANIES
>>560215463This. So much this.
Um, guys? I'm not really having a blast anymore
>destiny 2 is dead>halo mcc is dead>marathon is dying>even the fucking chink mobile game destiny spinoff is deadis this the end for bungielikes?
>>560217575Hopefully, they raped the golden goose.
>>560217575Destiny deserves one final shot.
>>560217929Marathon was the final shot
>>560217929By "Destiny deserves one final shot" do you mean:>The Destiny franchise deserves another chance, give us Destiny 3or>Destiny deserves one final shot into its head as a mercy killing
>>560218248You know which one...
NOOOOOOOOOOFUCKING CHUD GAMES!!!!
>>560218172No>>560218248>The Destiny franchise deserves another chance, give us Destiny 3This one but with bungie out of the picture
>>560218509Isn't Ready or Not run by woke faggot retards?
>>560215463THE BRICS ARE DISTURBING MY MARATHON GOTY
>>560218607I know it got a censorship pass, but not the details. Solasta 2 is also a faggot game based on what the negative reviews say.
>>560215463Are there any post telling him that his "side" could also be those bots he's imaging? Also dead internet theory has nothing to do with shit he's talking about.
You guys heard about the helldivers drama?>hey devs the game is unbalanced and most of the weapons and stratagems are shit >how about you play the game with those and ill pay some money towards charity>retarded shills begin to dox the nigga and ruin his lifeChrist its like you can't get any game to make a well balanced sandbox of weapons/abilities
>>560219365That one is squarely on the retarded reddit fans, I think even the devs said they were looking into it before the retards started the doxxing campaign
>>560219365It's amazing how goymaxxed people are that they do this shit to defend retarded game companies
>>560219365it was more like>Dude goes on Reddit>Asks for the devs to play their own game, stream it, and give their thoughts on the games difficulty>Hecking wholesome Redditors do not appreciate this, claim he is extorting the devs and dox him>He ends up getting fired not only from his job, but the place he has been volunteering at for over a decade
>>560219516swiggers ignored it for as long as they could, the only one who acknowledged it was pajeet CEO. btw arrowhead are the mods on that sub, conveniently this lead to a new rule being added, you can't challenge anyone (especially devs) to play the game anymoreI fully believe swiggers doxxed that man and ruined his life
>>560207442I wonder what trials matches look like now
>>560219828Same way they looked for the past five years. Paid carries vs paid carries.
>>560219365>Devs make le satire of nationalism like Starship Troopers >This attracts The Chuds™, an undesirable but profitable demographic o algo>Devs start fucking with the difficulties, the top end of which is absurd even by hardcores standards>The Chuddies rally and organize a challenge for the devs in order to prove the game is too difficult>Devs stand back as the rabid redditoids dox and harass Chuds just trying to gameThis is what I gathered about the whole ordeal
>>560219964>the top end of which is absurd even by hardcores standards
>>560219365Yeah I watched Chud Logic go over it, looks absolutely retardedfor people who don't give a shit, if I remember right it was like>Hell Divers balance is shit like too hard at hardest difficulty, and all the weapons and stuff are too nerfed>someone makes a reddit post saying "Hey if Hell Divers devs can do these hard missions with these items, then I will pay money to charity">...>... Did he... Just threaten our developers... and challenge them to play the game...?>THAT FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT>THEY ARE BUSY WORKING ON THE GAME>DOX HIM RIGHT NOW>OUR DEVS HAVE REAL LIFES AND REAL JOBS AND YOURE THREATENING THAT?>FIND OUT WHERE THIS PEICE OF SHIT WORKS>EVERYONE KEEP CALLING HIS WORK UNTIL THEY FIRE HIM>meanwhile there was a dev interacting with the community>and there could be real criticisms to pull from it>Dev unironically asked the community "hey what are these items you want me to bring? I don't know how to get them and I'm playing with a friend later, so we're going to try the challenge out"one criticism like>you're a dev and you don't know your own items in your own game?but 100 others like>HES MAKING THIS POOR DEV PLAY THE GAME IN HIS FREE TIME>WHAT A FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT>HE PROBABLY WANTED TO HAVE SEX INSTEAD AND NOW HE HAS TO PLAY SHIT DIVERS
>>560219828I think last week there were only 14 full matches of 3x3
>>560220804Holy shit
>>560220804Just pull the fucking plug
what are you going to do in destiny today
>>560221352Check Xur and log off as quickly as possible
I wonder how much they're losing on Destiny each day just from keeping the light on
>>560221467we're all still buying silver though
>>560221467The truth is they already have moved around infrastructure and bungie no longer needs to worry about that as right before Shadows and Overies that continued development for D2 will be taken over by a new studio founded by (((industry veterans))) handpicked by Sony to be the stewards of slopstiny moving forward
Wtf Ninja is based?https://files.catbox.moe/4ezi8p.mp4
>>560221352I want to solo flawless Equilibrium but after like 10 attempts on bonk Titan I'm just going to wait for a cheese or glitch.normally I'd just persevere but this dungeon is just too annoying.outside of that, I would grind Trials or Vanguard for weapons, but I just feel no motivation currently, it doesn't really interest me to grind these current weapons when I'll never use them.I'll probably be waiting for Guardian Games to get back into grinding for a few weeks, at least it'll be something to do that will give me cosmetic items and hopefully a new gun i care about.
>>560221679And by industry veterans they mean chatgpt
>>560220112I don't play it, just repeating whatever info I could scrape off xitter
>>560221681since he streamed with Peanut he has been actually kind of funnybut its like 10% of the time, otherwise he is a tryhard pvpfag who screams at the camera and goes over all his teammates mistakes every match
>>560213001It’s always sci-fi studios that start with the letter “B” that tend to die because of poor project management and sheer hubris. Granted Bethesda has been saved purely thanks to their back catalog and TES Online/Fallout 76 saving themselves from their disastrous launches.
>>560215463>opposing countries are trying to disturb the peace of western society by... calling out bungie for their evil practices?people like this live among us
>>560213001>>560222906the difference between Bungie and those studios + more is the gunplay, pure and simple. Bungie has sole advantage to remain afloat with any of their games because the gunplay feels amazing for consoletards, and in turn with high bullet mag feels good for PCcucks.this was true for Gaylo, Destiny, and now Marathon.this is thanks to the tech nerds back in the day that crafted such good-feeling gunplay, so all modern Bungie has to do is slightly build off of it every few years and ship it, really the only issue that's been dragging them down recently, from 2020 onward, has been story and activities in Destiny, and in Marathon a lack of understanding what players wanted with the setting they chose.The extraction is fun imo, but the setting and story are truly wasted on just this and not more.they honestly could've made another Destiny with the Marathon setting, and it would've succeeded 100-fold
>>560217929destiny classic will be our last stand
No bullshit, how did Bungie actually fuck up a game with this much potential? They had lightning in a bottle with Destiny and they fucked it up
>>560217929>Agreed says bungo as they proceed to take D2's corpse out of the freezer and shoot it's rotten corpse one more time for good measure
>>560224274they fired all their talented devs and replaced them with redditors
>>560224274releasing F2P game for 40$
So this is how it ends, not with a bang, but with a whimper.
>>560224274>Ruin the story and lore because writers can't keep their fanfics out>Make all primaries feel like shit to sell finishers>Dumbing down the AI for "muh power fantasy">Going F2P>Crafting>Blatant lyingIn the end, it all boils down to devs not playing their game and being beyond retarded
Baby boo status?
r/marathon status?
>>560225000Fighting the war in iran
>>560220804Actually, it was only 9 trios with 350 max solos, so the situation is even fucking worse
>>560225184uuuuuuh so the player count just fell all of a sudden
>>560225412Trump just killed another 7 billion Iranians so you can blame him for that
>>560225000RAPED
>>560223993Its definitely frustrating because even with the Marathon reboot being what it is it does have potential, I actually liked the CG trailers and even though the art direction was stolen, it does have its audience. But as people mentioned time and time again, nobody likes that everything else about the game was wasted on a PvEvP extraction shooter that is already dominated by sweaty streamers and no lifers. Even if they didn’t have the resources to make a proper Destiny clone it could have been anything else like space STALKER/Metro, something more horror focused like Doom 3 or Bioshock 1, an immersive sim like Prey 2017 or System Shock, an action/scavenger game like Far Cry, Dead Island or Dying Light, or even a simple stealthier take on Mirror’s Edge. They had tons of avenues to explore and they settled on the worst one that has people wanting to like it, instead of truly liking it.
Is there anyway I can play Marathon without givng cash to Bungie?2 friends of mine are playing and I don't want to support this fucking trash heap of a studio. Yes, I'm aware that by logging in, they benefit from me, but the less and less money that goes to them the better.
>>560225981rent an account
>>560225981family share
>>560226274wait really its able to be family shared? lol
>>560225981>2 friends of mine are playingYou should be a good friend and advise them against that instead of enabling them by joining
>>560226323yepit probably won't be for long because bungie are retarded and are using battle eye, which hasn't evolved in like 7 years.
>>560210490>For added context, it's below Halo Infinite on Xbox. The doom brute won.
>>560225184>WARS AND CLOSING OF THE STRAIT STOPPED PEOPLE FROM GETTING THEIR DATA DOWNLOADED OFF THE STEAM SERVERS AND ONTO THEIR PC!!!!!!This is actual delusional cope
We went from gay robot and garden gnome from destiny to gay tranny robots in marathon
>>560210490>Below D2 on gaystation>Below Gaylo on shartboxDeliciously DOOMful
>>560225981The money goes to Sony, and then cost is allotted to Bungie by Sony decided on what they need/deserve. Since Marathon's production cost is way higher than the return has been, you don't really need to worry about that
>>560226712Robots don't have biological genders, it's literally impossible for a robot to be a tranny you fucking retard.
>>560226712>gay tranny robots in marathonThe nuVex faction in renegaydes did it first!!!!!
>>560226031>>560226274>>560226332you know what, ill play some wipeout/ballisticNG and think about it.>>560226825my thought is that one purchase won't ultimately change anything but honestly bungie got money out of me already more than they should have.
>>560226712>what are exo warlock players
>>560226849>it's literally impossible for a robot to be a tranny
>>560226849>>560227074Why would anyone make a robot with a 41%+ chance of self-deactivation?
>>560226849so if a man becomes an exo and gets put in a female body its perfectly fine in chud logic?
>>560226849>>560227074
>>560226973>wipeoutYou know, you mentioning that makes me wonder if people who like wipeout like Marathon.
>>560227226Clovis wanted to see what would happen.
we need more trans exos/runners
I want to bring back NFTs
I played destiny for nearly half my life and I don’t know what to do now that it’s dead. I feel like a recovering fentanyl addict
>>560227074>Micah was a originally a boy>Clovis did a little trolling and put him in a female exobody>This was actually an interesting piece of story for Exos where Clovis is being the mad scientist that he is>Bungtroons retcon it entirely with The Final Slop and actually Micah was a troon all alongThe entire plot of Destiny for Guardians is forgetting who you were before and becoming someone new. But Bungtroons couldn't keep that consistent because they are so mentally ill they need to be considered "trans-women" instead of just women.
>>560227630All those freaks are troooooons
>>560227816Death Is The First Step
Finally a real game for us coffee grinders
Anything not positive is bots, you can't refute this.
>>560228838Any nigga with a SOVL can see this is a flop based off the fact that bungo begged reviewers not to drop their reviews for half a month and they actually listened, lmfaoooooo
>>560228838Its frankly amazing that they wanted people to wait until Cryo Archive to come out to review the game, I don't know if critics even gave Edge of Fate that same blessing.
>>560229430this, seriouslylike they really think "yea the game isn't good until you get cryo archive'>the game isn't good?Bungie: "Uhhh... ummm.... haha... the game gets fun after 20 hours I swear, just don't refund!"
>>560229575No other slop game got this kind of coddling, they really cannot cope with it being the final piece in the slop trinity.
>>560229691Bungie/Sony have the money to pay these "game journalists" :)Just like how they're writing articles about how other Devs are calling the steamchartfags "maidenless" or whatever
>>560229691Sony spent billions for Bungie, they clearly have a financial incentive to astroturf Bungie into continued success to justify their purchase and try to break even on it.The "coddling" is Sony/Bungie shilling in the hopes that their investment in manufacturing false consensus makes them enough sales to break even.It's all paid shills, from "journalists" (the 2014 wagon circling should have told you that they're all shills), streamers (the past decade of how Bungie treats streamers should have told you they're shills) and "regular person" bots signal-boosting each other on places like reddit and x.
EVERYONE will be raped... by me...
So how long until Bungie makes another change to Marathon that polarizes the reddit again? I still find it funny that they blamed all the toxicity on Destiny players or Arc Raider players or those who laugh at the steam charts... but one little change by Bungie and they get sent into a frenzy and start eating their own.
>>5602288385.5 is exactly what I would rate it, just mid. The things it does well are weighed down by the things that are bad.
>>560232679I bet the release of Cryo Archive will be polarizing in itself when people realize what the requirements are for accessing the map, not to mention how demanding the objectives will be even before getting to the super secret raid-like activity. I also predict it wont be long until early Season 2 before Bungie starts appealing to casuals with the PvE focus, they have zero clue what the non-Arc extraction shooter fanbase can be like even compared to their Destiny fanbase.
>>560164024Wildly conflicting design decisions.It's a revival of an old franchise with a small but cult fanbase, but it changes everything about the look and type of game that it's sure to piss off at least half of them.The game is meant to be the next big thing that takes a niche new genre to the masses (never mind that *** ******** stole its thunder and did it better), but the aesthetic is extremely polarizing.The aesthetics and storytelling seem tuned to appeal to artfags and lorenerds, but the gameplay is tuned to appeal to hardcore sweats in three man teams who are gonna be too focused on winning to look at the art and in a discord call so can't hear/read the story.It's banking on the pedigree of Bungie as a genre defining trend-setter, while being the most blatant flavour of the month genre live service trend-chasing.And almost all of these issues could have been circumvented with a 6-8 hour story driven single player campaign with co-op that would have actually had a strong appeal to the artfags and oldMarathonfags, as well as get the attention of a good chunk of oldHalofags and Destinyfags. That would have given them a way bigger install base of all the people not already into the genre who would naturally feed into the extraction mode, which would still be the big multiplayer component that Bungie could milk as their live service battlepass microtransaction shitheap for the 5-10 years.
>>560227410>Thinking anyone who slops for maraflop could even digest a fraction of the kino that is WipeOutThese games would incinerate the average bungoid sloppa
im having suuuuch a good time in marathon, when I got to work on my bungie sponsored content creator job all I can think of is how much I'm gonna play marathon later, the game really does get better when you keep playing it so don't refund it otherwise you're an idiot shitter retard. I'm having a blast and i love to talk about how much fun I'm having :))
What are we blasting to /dg/? Currently playing mh stories 3 atm
>>560224274Honestly and I've seen the writing on the wall since destiny 2's vanilla release, they repeatedly underdelivered nearly every single thing they've done with the game so much that anything good that came out of the IP was a complete fluke. This IP was so heavily carried by the fact that it looked cool, felt cool to move in and shoot enemies in, and that the enemy factions were pretty mysterious and you didn't really know much about them so you always looked forward to future content. I feel like what happened at bungie is similar to what happened at 343i where they ended up hiring a bunch of people that hated what the original product was based on. >>560235780Jamming on ribaorld atm
>>560235780runescape
>>560235780Me? *smirk* im playing marathon. Yup thats right. Marathon isnt a bad game like you buck broken trannies believe it is. The reason why you think its bad is because you just suck at pvp. Go cry in fart raiders while I steal more loot from other real gamers
>>560235780Starting my second run of Requiem. Got NG4 on sale. Also picked up The Coin Game
>>560235873>they just jacked the membership prices through the roof>membership expiring in 4 or 5 months>ton of quests to do still and I'm not even close to halfway maxed>can't be arsed to play
>>560236309i have not given them a dime in almost a decade. and intend to keep that streak going until they remove all the gay shit from the game
>Marathon gets all this cool original lore and story>Destiny gets a shitty unoriginal collab story
>>560235780Jumping between Division 2 and Borderlands 1 atm. Brick sucks so much ass, I can't wait to get him to level 69 and then never touch him again.
>>560237359Borderlands 1 in general is very boring, bricks especially is lame. Borderlands 2 is where all the fun is
>>560219828https://youtu.be/kztnmlXaU6A
>>560236997Nice try shill, both games are on the shit list
lmao
>>560236997Marathon is a canon alternate timeline to Destiny so it's technically the same lore
>>560239945kek
Datto status?
>>560236997>he doesn't know that NuMarathon is using the old Marathon games story and lore as background noise so they can tell the most unoriginal corpo war gay faggot slop imaginable.
>>560240193It's not. It's using like one specific event and it changed pretty much mostly everything past initial Phfor attack.
>>560240179he is doing a sponsored stream for John Carpenter's Toxic Commando. basically raped and gaped
>>560240271Mighty convenient that everything has changed in such a way that nothing of the old Marathon story actually matters to it other than references or being background noise. You could remove all the Marathon story references and nothing would change as its an incredibly unoriginal and uninteresting corpo war slop story.
Study the comeback, chuds. Bungie hasn't announced this figure because...well it would be insensitive to Iran or something. 35K players on the primary platform = 2M copies sold. #MarathonTakeover
>>560240891This goy doesn't understand how numbers work, and that's a good thing!
>>560240891>already on the Dorito factor
What happened to the six million console players?
>>560241669They got shoah'd by the Iran war.
>>560240891If they had sold 2 million, they're fucking stupid for not announcing it.
>>560240891Bungie at best has sold 1 million copies total. That is still no where close to even enough to break even on the supposed $200-250 million budget. Steam chart is a good way to gauge interest over time, if a game is getting consistently high concurrents with minimal to no loss then you know it is selling very well. Marathon has consistently kept losing players with lower lows and lower highs even on weekends meaning Bungie is not making anything from Marathon and not even the cosmetic store or battle passes will be enough to make up for it.
>>560240891>Ignore that steam is their flagship platform and is scraping by chuddies>we actually sold millionsI disagree
If the game was doing well enough, they wouldn't have hit the reversal on the skin pricing and dropped news of more bp skins so soon.
The skins are absolutely moronic, only a demented boomer would come up with such things. It's like paying for a new shader in Eververse vs armor skins.
The dlc that killed the game
Oops wrong pic
Ah, clumsy me I posted the wrong pic again.
>>560243398shadowkeep actually did kill any hope i had for the future of this game
>>560243398the nightmares were so terrible. it had no previous connection to any lore, it felt weirdly tacked on. the entire storyline felt like filler with no stakes.
>>560243869undeniable truth
I fucking hate Lightfall too but it was all downhill since Shadowkeep.
>>560240891Tassi seems to disagree but is afraid to say anything
>>560244062>>560244475>>560244856>reused location>reused bosses>reused raid armor>introduction of battle passes>introduction of temporary seasonal storylines>introduction of primary nerfsAm I missing anything?
>>560240891>Nearly half of what it needed to break even
>>560241669Marathon is a game for PVRSIAN BVLLS. All 90 million Iranians would be playing it if it wasn't for the 70+ million killed by the ayatollah and the 20+ million a day being wiped out by US and Israeli airstrikes.
>>560245102Sunsetting after they promised not to earlier in the year and introducing finishers so they could sell them.
>>560244979I love this cope that steam charts aren't accurate and aren't indicative of if the game is doing well or not, and suddenly they are just taking some ass pulled numbers and saying...>2 MILLION COPIES WOOO!!!I went and checked myself and now its saying its sold 977.3k copies, the numbers are completely fucking bogus lmao.
>>560245102Forgot>WATCHABLE content>Champions
WHY CAN'T TYSON GREEN BE LIKE THIS, JUST FUCKING TALK TO THE COMMUNITY YOU FUCKING BOOMER
>>560245437Tyson is checked out, he knows he's gone when the retention bonus maxes out in a few months.
>>560245437>make a change community doesn't like>don't revert it just reduce it slightlyHe is just spewing a bunch of hot air about what Bungie already does every time.
>>560245102removed minigame maps, added champions to pve, ugly moon weapons and armor. i can't think of anything good but i also don't remember much other than how much i disliked shadowkeep in comparison to forsaken. $35 for what was essentially two strikes and a dungeon or whatever.
>>560245102>removal of pinnacle weapons (unique perks) in favor of ritual weapons (decent curated roll with normal perks)>introduction of finishers>introduction of game balance changes specifically to sell mtx (primary nerf to sell finishers)>introduction of power floors and artificial boosts (making old content no longer worth doing to justify the removal later)>re-introducing sunsetting (after saying they wouldn't do it again in Destiny 1)>introduction of champions>introduction of the seasonal model in general>introduction of WATCHABLE
>>560244979these people are so unbelievably retarded lmao
>>560245102>Removal of strike variants so that they could be standardized for champions
Did they announce "million players/sales" for any D1 or D2 launch?
>>560246059Yes, even for expansions and preorder numbers.
>>560246059the sales for D1/D2 were in the billions iirc, they didn't need to boast about it cause it spoke for itself
>>560245810If you take the image from the time of that tweet and then go look at the site yourself this totally accurate site btw shows that Marathon has sold 200k more copies on steam in the last 4 hours. So... why is it not over 200k players right now if that is accurate information?>>560245357The copium never stops flowing from the Marafloppers. Bungie has probably only sold around 500k copies at best.
https://www.tiktok.com/@savestated/video/7616037087447420190KEKKKKKKKKKKK>Skarrow gets raped while trying to a gay little ARG in Maraflop
When Marathon and Destiny die and Bungie is shattered into as many pieces as there are grains of sand, what will come of /dg/? Would you keep coming back here? How long would this place last before its final thread?
>>560246997>infighting already in such a small communityLove to see it
>>560246997deserved
Darktide just announced a PvE extraction shooter-like mode, I'm thinking it's pretty much over for Marathon. There's been a lot of demand for PvE extraction lately.
>>560247776Wardogs looks pretty cool, I know they're marketing it as something else but there's a lot of player overlap from extraction shooters and battle royales.
>>560245437Sorry anon, he's gone fishing.>>560240891Hitting nearly 1 million copies sold within the first month on Steam alone is a huge deal, Bungie is fucking retarded for not even mentioning that there's already a million copies sold on all platforms to go>See? We aren't Concord 3 you fucking retards
I wonder if they'll shutdown Marathon when they announce Netanyahu is dead.
>>560244979>800k copies sold>88k peak onlineHow is this possible?
>>560244979I love how when they admit steam is the leading platform, they only credit it with 40-50% of the playerbase. Xbox ccu for marathon is 5k when pc is at 60k. 1/12th the numbers. Assume the same for sales and rounding up you get 75000 copies sold on xbox. This is in line with marathon's place in the thirties for xbox popular game sales. Search engine ai says playstation has 120m monthly users to xbox's 200m monthly active users. I doubt that's true so i'm going to say twice as many people play marathon on psn than xbl. 150000 copies sold is a very safe, if not generous, estimation. Just over 1m copies in total. If every version sold was $100, they'd have made $100m. Bungie's operating costs are $90m in salaries alone. Marathon is a flop and Bungie is going under.
>>560248602third parties bought keys to resell and nobody's buying
>>560245710The change was fixing the broken audio. Player footsteps were inaudible and gunfire couldn't be heard past something silly like 100 meters. How the game is now is how it was intended to be at launch.
>>560245437they are flailing and have no idea how to balance their game to make it fun.
>>560230057Not even pay, just threaten that they won't receive game keys anymore in the future if they stop out of line
>>560248602Everyone is waiting to play after the war in Iran.
>>560248602Player count isn't fully representative of the buying population, people play in different times at different intervals etc so a lot of players just rotate around.If anything only 1 million is too little for a game like this.
>>560240891>Bungie has said nothing>random site that uses arbitrary algorithmThese numbers are probably fucked by the amount of reviews Bungie begged people to leave.But also if the numbers are to be believed, despite Bungie not coming out to gloat and cowering from their GDC events for the game... or that Tassi came out and said that PC is the primary platform so both consoles combined has noticeably lower sales and players...>1 million copies on steam>maxed out at 88k players>even the site claims a bad average daily concurrentImagine the fucking refund rate. That has to be over 80%.
>>560247082I wonder if we'll hang on as long as the Multiversus thread did after EOS was announced. That was a gigaflop in a similar situation to Marathon. Then again, those guys seemed to actually enjoy their game. Lord knows Warner can't afford shills.
>>560245710Still more than Tyson has done during his tenure as director
Arc Titan vs Destroyerwho would win.
>>560250284The fuck is a destroyer?
>>560249647Peak ccu being 10% of the sales is high, even a week after launch. The ccu swing of 30k between dips and peaks shows people aren't refunding it. If the average playtime is 3 hours, average daily ccu is 45k, then you have 360k people logging in to play it each day on average since launch and only putting in 3 hours. That's almost half of the steam population for the game. I want marathon to crash and burn more than most, but the refunds all happened before launch.
>>560250284Master Chief
>>560250372Marathon's titan with an air dodge
>>560250284I don't know what the fuck a destroyer is and I don't care
>>560250372John Marathon, the other asspisser
>>560250372>>560250479this shell in Marathon>>560250431Master Chief vs Arc Titan vs Destroyerwho would win.
>>560250479>>560250372Marathon's not-titan.
>>560250541@grok, generate me an image of Marathon's Destroyer and Destiny's titan engaging in a Dragon Ball Z beam struggle, but the beams are yellow and coming from between their firm, round buttocks.
>>560250284what's a destroyer
>>560250479based
>>560250427Its that, or people rightfully lost interest when the Server Slam happened. 4 hours and you feel like you've seen it all, its far worse than something like D1's beta, let alone D2's open beta which also had TDM.
>>560250427>you have 360k people logging in to play it each day on average since launchlol
don't kill me
>>560252420*rapes you*
>>560252420*sloppy second rapes you*
>>560252420*thirdly rapes you followed by cuddling*
>>560252729>>560253556>>560253719Stop you're going to make me want to buy Marathon and instalose to people as Thief...
>even other devs hate sloppython
>>560239945>retarded admin had to leave vercel.app>retarded admin finally found a better host wesite>retarded admin immediately starts sucking Ukrainian dick>retarded admin doesn't know VPNs exist>patriotic Ukrainian protects his burning home country from le ebil Russians on a website that people barely know aboutThis shit just keeps on giving like Marathon itself.
>>560254573Better than you americans whose patriotism means dying in the middle of the desert for the glory of ISRAEL
>>560254526>All those dev studios dunking on Bungie on social media last week didn't even play the gameThey're just like us
>>560254573>>560255191no brown posting allowed
I can't wait for the shill veil to break and everyone admits the game is ass
>>560255394>>560239945>>560254573>>560255191Kek, I guess everything that touches Bungie or anything created by Bungie is cursed.
*jaws music*
>>560255394Why are you posting here then mutt?
>>560255394But we'd have to nuke israelcucks for that.
>>560256180>RE Requiem>Slay the Spire 2>Crimson DesertI genuinely think it would've been better for them to release this shit last year
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9Ca-Ojg8Yo4
>>560257756It would have been a disaster desu, it probably wouldn't have even gotten these playercounts. If they released the game as it was last year it would have died a faster death.
>>560257793This is how I picture all of you desu
Where is Hopesissy? Is xe safe? Is xe alright?
>Every peak is lower than the last>Regions like South America already struggling to get matches>Shareholders going buck nutty doing the math and seeing it might have not broke 1.3 million copies sold and screaming the f2p button needs to be pushed yesterdayIts happening isn't it? Bungies not seeing 2027.
>>560261905>Its happening isn't it? Bungies not seeing 2027.
>>560261905>Shareholders going buck nutty doing the math and seeing it might have not broke 1.3 million copies sold and screaming the f2p button needs to be pushed yesterdaywhat?
>>560261905Has any game ever gone f2p in less than a year?
>>560261905I think today might have a slightly higher maybe the same peak as yesterday by mere virtue of it being Friday. And then resume it's decline.
>>560262304The lack of any announcement had actual industry people do the numbers and it looks like Marathon has sold around 1,290,000 copies total. People who own Sony shares are going ballisitic as this is a straw breaking the camels back scenario because this was the last thing in the whole jim ryan live service debacle they thought could be a "fortnites" because fairgamedollarsign sure as shit wont be.
>>560262357>Has any game ever gone f2p in less than a year?SWTOR
>>560261905ackhthually today's peak is higher than yesterday, it's the weekend after all.regardless, bungie only has the next week to turn things around. if the upcoming shill tournament and 4th map can't bring new players in, then it's dead in the water. Sony's next earnings call is in May, they'll be cutting Bungie down to the bone
The game is not fun because there is no point to it. Bungie wants you to do contracts which have you going back and forth on the map. You will probably get killed and kill some other runners, but that is not the end game. So eventually you get purple and gold weapons and that's it, you just keep doing more and more contracts. Nice end game.
>>560261905I really do wonder if they can convince sony to greenlight D3. That's the only thing that could stop from being closed at this point.
Are the leaderships shares meant to divest some time this month and they are jumping ship on golden parachutes?
>>560262703>ackhthually today's peak is higher than yesterday, it's the weekend after all.It's still worse than yesterday
>>560259950It seems in your DOOMING, you gaped xer...
>>560262834There's no way they're letting them do D3, it would be a multi year project that they can't really handle right now, at best they'll give them a chance to revitalize D2 and see if they can make it viable again.
>>560262357Battleborn IIRC did so in a last ditch attempt to save itself, but then Borderlands 3 happened and it saved Gearbox. Battleborn I think shut down around 2019 or so as the F2P attempt didn't work either, and it didn't help that Randy Pitchford refused to call the game F2P. I still think Marathon could maybe be saved, but only after they add in a regular 6-8 hour long campaign which can serve as a tutorial and a jumping off point for new players into this new setting, the fact that they never once thought about even trying this is frankly shocking. Or even something like story mode cutscenes playing between extraction runs like Let it Die inferno, along with a PvE only playlist for those that only care about the story and world.
>>560262595Idk, 1.3m seems a little too high for the numbers it's pulling and "pc being the main platform". I feel like announcing 1m sales would have been a good tactical move though to try and hype people up for example especially among those that are too stupid to realize 1 million isn't even good.Regardless I've been keeping my friend from throwing his money away to play Maraflop and playing other things with him. He randomly kept dropping hints he would buy it at a moment's notice if I would play with him even though I told him it was mediocre or downright bad and it feeds into everything he hates about extraction shooters.On a similar note I don't think anyone is going to react well to it going F2P. Especially in a timespan where it might actually save the game. So many purchases being burned or at best turned into goy currency... and in general it's admitting that the game failed to everyone because it launched with a pricetag and those expectations. Going F2P would have to revamp the monetization model too.
Are exotic armor ornaments not sold anymore? Its been a while since i've seen one in eververse
>>560263980this is a lie
>>560263980Oversaturation of other slop I guess, ornaments for the new exotic armours haven’t been sold for BD so far this season yet either. Think we may be waiting a while on those ones desu
>>560263687Jfc Bungie...
All Bungie needs to do to save marathon is to put Anti-Player Shield in the Cash Shop. This will make you immune to damage from other players so you can safely do the ARG and other tasks.
bro Bungie PLEASE give us the community manager for Marathon and their comms team, at least they're talking to their community ;_;
Patiently waiting till the 24 hour number goes up so i can call someone a doomfag. It might not go up though.
>>560265150The ARG is on discord and youtube, you dont even have to play the game.
>>560266164>>560246997
>marathon general is still well alive>marathon reddit is still full of joy and hope and comfyMaybe... maybe we were wrong...
>>560267052
>>560266409>playing past season of the deepyou deserve to be raped
>>560267052You should go back to the subreddit if you like it there so much.
>>560267172I don't play paid games
>The reddit
>>560267305Marathon's biggest fan patiently waits for it to go free to play so he can play it for the first time...
>>560267416I hate this stupid speak about things "having legs". Its been uses more times to tey describing marathon than I've ever seen used toral for entire years.
>>560267129Cryo Archive isn't out yetalso how many hours did they even play?It gets fun after 20 hoursand if it's not fun for themCryo Archive isn't out yetit gets fun when you do Cryo Archive
At first I was excited for the Nine getting some plot focus. But all this "in mysterious ways", time travel shit is reallly...lame. They always were too abstract to make a story about
>>560267613Before someone points it out I'm not an esl I'm just not used to phoneposting.l amd dont proofread much.
I miss wasting all my time on this game bros...I miss my sunshot...
>>560267724Thats because the people who work at bungie now are marvel fags and realized too late that multiverse timetravel fuckery is in fact a bad writing device and quite cringe.
>>560245437because everything rides on marathon for bungie they are convinced you will come back for destiny next expansion anyway
>>560267724Time travel just sucks. I don't think I've genuinely enjoyed a time travel story since Back to the Future. Avengers Endgame, Steins;Gate, Re:Zero, it's all slop with no stakes of meaningful plot.
Okay everyone lets give Bungie some usable data to fix this shit show because we ain't got shit to do until the 2026 WARLOCK SWEEP of Guardian games: At what price point are you prepared to buy and play Marathon in its current state assuming Free is not an option.Which of the current Runners do you like best? Why?If you have not purchased Marathon what new feature, mode or change would get you to jump in soon as it dropped?Which platform would you most likely play Marathon on?Come up with a skin theme you'd like to see everyone rocking.Name something about Marathon you think really hit the mark and really impressed you.
Rape Bungie
>>560267967It's funny how fast multiverse shit got old. Only took a couple Marvel movies and one show for the concept to get run into the ground. Then they cancelled the movie they had been building up to and had to hastily scramble to make a new one.
>>560267724You don't like things like the Nine being responsible for Ikora being bald? They also orchestrated every one of our fights as tests, even though they're atemporal and would know that we would win.
>roflwaffles streaming Marathon >Can't even get 300 viewers
been paying mayhem clash on d1 for a few hours. bretty fun
>51k on a friday night
>>560268563I think Primer was the only other time travel that managed to still be interesting. But yeah I watched plenty of others including the 3 you listed and they were shit.
>>560269023BUT THE MARATHON TOURNAMENT IS TOMRROW
>>560254573he didnt actually ban russians bro
>>560268815I understand you're joking but that is exactly the problem. It's the same shit they did with the Witness; suddenly everything is about the Nine and the stuff they did for us or against us that we can't percieve. Bungie only knows how to write retcons, it's all they do. Besides Guardians should be immune to that shit because the Vex also control time and they can't fuck with us.
the curve is flattening already.... where are the 2 million players....why arent they logging in.....
WHERE IS THE HYPE
>>560259950what do you want
>>560240891>>560244979>>560245357they are just multiplying reviews by 30~70, sprinkling in some concurrent adjustment and calling it a day.Considering marathon had MORE reviews than STS2 until recently i wouldnt trust it
>>560255191>implying military golems are humandon't be ridiculous anon
>>560269943I'm honestly glad that Shattered Cycle and on will probably never release, because the spotlight they started shining on Guardians' lives before their resurrection is so antithetical to the entire concept. This is especially true for the player Guardian, whom they very heavily suggested was someone important and knew things that were vitally important to the Nine.
>>560255191>>560270875ukrainians are not choosing to actively fight russians, they are dragged off the street.americans proudly sign up for service for a whiff of jewish cum
go back to pol you fags
>>560271110I mean I do want origin stories but not like this. If everything just becomes "The Nine did it" then we're fucked
>>560271381the nine did it has been plot for both edge of fate and renegades
>The shills are running with the 2M copies sold cope
>>560272789Even if it hit 2m total and none of those were refunded, it still needs at least 5m to break even on development. I don't see people buying 3 million copies worth of lux.
>>560273151I don't think it sold anywhere near that. STS2 has 10x the player count and only just hit 3M copies sold, confirmed.
>>560269943>guardians make their own fate>except they dont
Bungie should make the next runner shell a Guardian who got teleported into the Marathon universe with its Ghost.
>>560268563Have you tried Astlibra?
>>560272789>According to community estimates Lmao. Also the $35m revenue is especially funny considering the games budget is $250m
>>5602727892 millions copies sold would be incredibly good, even too good to be true. It's literally more than 99% of the other sony games.
>>560272789These people have no idea how sales or any of this works. Dragon Age Veilguard peaked higher on steam, sold better on console, and it sold 1.5m copies in a month and a half
this game used to have so much sauce before the lighting change
Emergency Marathon review dropped, boosted the score to 72 on metacritic. Don't they know they're supposed to wait at least a month after it's for sale? https://gamingbolt.com/marathon-review-runners-high
Uh chuddies, everyone is going to be drinking all weekend for St. Patrick's day so the player count doesn't count again. Next weekend is the real test.
>>560274868>Intriguing narrative set-upthat's all it is, though. there's nothing else.
Guys there's gonna be an emergency "Marathon was actually Destiny 3 all along!" update.Trust the process
I found an Ikora line where they forgot to record over Debra Wilson. But then the next one was the right actress. Very strange.
>>560240891>How accurate are the estimates?For individual games, our tests have shown that 77% of estimates were within 30% margin of error, while 98% were within 50% error margin.This is from gamalytics own website, a minimum 30% margin of error is not a good data set
assheadcross is really desperate isnt he? why hasnt this dude stopped playing bungie games and moved onto arc raiders?
>>560275836>Marathon was actually Destiny 3 all alongIt quite literally is exactly what I would imagine the current day tranny developers at Bungie would reimagine it as had it not had an established aesthetic already. We've already seen how much ugly weird shit they've shoved into D2 over the last number of years, Marathon is their awful design tendencies fully unbound.
>>560276001I think he's waiting for Soulframe. It's too late for him to jump onto Warframe.
>>560273230Maya's the only one making sense to me because she's calling out the Nine for manipulating us. Everyone is just going along with it
>>560276001>arc raidersAlready occupied by the peanut fag. He's clearly hoping to be the "go-to guy" for a new game like Datto was for Destiny all those years
Isnt it funny that they burned all their bridges with the destiny community to push marathon out the door only for the game to flop?
>>560276001I wonder if he has a contract that basically requires him to play Marathon until X date. Its that or hes desperately trying to keep Bungie alive so that they can make a new D2 expansion.
>STS2 gets nearly 600k CCU >3 million sales in a week Using this as a basis with Marathons CCU it likely hasn't even sold 600k
>Friday night>Peanut isn't playing MarathonIt's over
>>560276840He won't admit it because he got a good paycheck, but he doesnt want to play what amounts to a 24/7 sweatfest.
>>560276769Probably right, but sts2 isn't on consoles.
>>560277396We know Steam is the main platform, seems to be insanely high considering it's only competing with games like Fallout 4 and Black Ops 3 on consoles in 2026.
Why can't some people just admit marathon flopped
>>560277856Owning the chuds is their personality
>>560277856Ccu could drop to like 20k next week, updates could slow down next month, layoffs could happen the month after that, Tassi or Schreier could get insider info that it underperformed, and the game could go into maintenance mode by end of the year, but unless Bungie themselves flatout says "it was a flop", bdf would never buy it.
>>560277856The real question is, who was honstly expecting it to do well? Bungie is known for 2 things: Halo and Destiny. NuBungie making a new IP was never going to work out.
>>560276769>using chink slop as an example. lol caught another brownoid
>>560278279Damn, even just counting North America STS2 still triples Marathon lmao
>>560278279Marathon tried to appeal to the Chinese desu beyond a simple localization announcement. They had an event there pre server slam, but people would rather play Slay the Spire instead.
>>560278279China and New Dehli are the second and third largest regions for Marathon players.
>>560278534Weird that China likes it
>>560278657It's slop, they love slop.
>>560276507He's just clinging onto the game in hopes that it becomes the next Destiny. And Bungie is too. These people dont have any integrity, they sacked Destiny 2 to focus on Marathon which was a massive gamble and when things were looking grim do you know what they did? They pulled all the sleezy tactics to garner as much hype and as many preorders as they could.They kept postponing the release dateThey kept releasing footage of "UPDATED GAMEPLAY" on their YouTube channelsThey launched one of their biggest marketing campaigns across PSN and XBOX Live (You couldn't even stream something without seeing a Marathon ad)They paid dozens of popular streamers to play the game.They're cooked. Bungie have a tendency to ignore player feedback in favor of analytics, numbers, charts, y'know the lines going up and down and now they're on the opposing end of that? It probably doesn't feel very good.There is legitimately no excuse this time. Bungie was Sony's number one live service studio They had all the time, funding, and external help along with it and their game still failed.Bungie management and I would assume a number of employees are counting their days right now. Good riddance. Fuck Bungie.
>>560278279>fucking up your greentextSAAAAAAAR
GET THE FUCK ON MARATHON WE CAN'T LET THE COUNT DROP EVEN MORE
>>560278924I refunded after leaving a negative review and getting like 20 comments from shills in about an hour.
>>560278534They sold more Marathon than Finale Shape. People don't hate bungie, they Destiny bungie.
>>560279015There's no way that's true. Steam is apparently Destiny's least popular platform and it still had 300k+ CCU, sure not all of them owned TFS but I bet most did. Marathon is the most popular on Steam by far and can't even get 60k on a Friday night.
>cant even break 60k on a friday nightSuper omega grim
>>560263687>but only after they add in a regular 6-8 hour long campaign which can serve as a tutorial and a jumping off point for new players into this new settingI very much doubt they could make this in time to save themselves, bungie always moves at a glacial pace so making a campaign would be beyond their abilities
>>560262357Most studios would rather see a game die than go F2P, like the retards that made Babylon's Fall and Anthem.>MY GAME NEEDS TO BE BOUGHT IT'S WORTH THAT MUCH!>But nobody is buying it...>YEAH THAT'S WHY IT NEEDS TO COST EVEN MORE!!!Is the gist of how they think.
Lock the fuck in Runners. Tomorrow is our last chance to reach 100k between the streamer shilling and tournament. I need you to FORCE your friends and family to play it. Threaten them if you have to. If we fail we are fucked
>>560279701This, I doubt we'll even see another map before the end of the year. It took them 3 years to make 1 bad crucible map for D2 while that was their money maker.
>>560263650And there is no way to revitalize D2 either, there is nothing they could do that would pull people back to it because people would rightfuly expect it to just be a stopgap before they fuck up everything even worse
>>560279750I've been telling my friends and family that it's bad because it is, lying is bad.
>>560279795Aren't the maps for the next seasons supposed to be just night versions of the current maps?
>>560280151>Aren't the maps for the next seasons supposed to be just night versions of the current maps?Just one of the maps, doing any more would be overdelivery.
>>560280249That actually means they will dripfeed the night version of the maps and vaulting or putting them in "rotation"
>>560280249>Game launch>+ 6>+ 3>+ 28>+>+>+This shit triggers me so fucking hard. These motherfuckers are so desperate they count launch content as additional content.
>>560279230Finale Shape didn't sell 2 million copies
>>560280579Neither did Marathon
>>560280395>putting them in "rotation"Thats exactly how they are going to sell vaulting to the retards buying this game
>>560280249Wait, so there's a seasonal wipe? Why are drones so desperate to sell this shit as some kind of positive? "So everyone starts fresh" get the fuck out, it's not starting out fresh, you start out fresh once, at game launch, your knowledge and experiences don't get wiped, so literally it's not a fresh start, it's a start where all your hard earned shit got taken away.
>>560280763>Wait, so there's a seasonal wipe?Yeah, every 2-3 months you lose everything in your vault and all of your faction progress. Most people that bought the game don't know this and it will be very funny when they find out.
>>560280867Doesn't Arc let you save some shit or something?
>>560280969They make it optional, you can wipe if you want for a bonus but you don't have to. It's mandatory in Marathon.
about to go over 60k...MARATHON WON
>Wallpaper Enginebros...not like this...
>>560281154Has the streamer event started yet?
>>560281297no
>>560280763People have deluded themselves into thinking>yea resetting my account is goodWhen only hardcore people who would spend hundreds of hours would need that, not the casual player just picking up the gameImagine how stupid you would feel if you pick up the game 2 months from now just because it looked cool, and then you get reset 2 weeks later.
>>560280610I know Bungie is stupid enough to push through a light form of "sunsetting" instead of making it a 50-50 chance of it being Day/Night Marsh, but it would be a horrific mistake. More and more remaining casual D2 players have turned against this practice, there's no chance a new playerbase would entertain the idea let alone tolerate it. >>560281025Even in Hunt, a more hardcore game in some aspects, they do the same thing as Arc where its an option. Its only if you want a fresh start ala Prestige-ing in CoD, its not something all players are forced into.
>>560281297I hope they give Peanut the Marathon Temu pancho and make a custom slot for his peanut penis.
The sooner we admit Marathon is a success, the sooner we can move on and start a new /dg/ era. The doom is over, they proved that they can make a game for gamers and we have hope for a new Destiny2 chapter or a Destiny3
Blast...?
Furance
Marathon won, bigly.
>>560284594
>>560284594It's still Ramadan, bro. There are like 3 billion Muslims on Earth, so people aren't playing as much as usual. It ends next week, you'll see the numbers spike again.
DoomGODS? EternalTheir power? Infinite
I don't feel so well rn /dg/ where is hopesissy when you need 'em to make your feel better with xer holes?
>>560285948Xhe needs a rest from the non-stop hole poundings we've been giving xer over the past few weeks.
>>560286113Unfortunate, maybe a Marasissy will suffice for now.
>>560163556I hate bungo, loved D1 hated D2. Hope they suffer
>>560285631
>>560285631No 60K?
marathon doing those AEW numbers
>>560287810>doomfag moving the goalpostuh oh, faggot melty
>>560289535What's the goal for Marathon? To not lose players every day? Because so far they can't even do that.
>>560270501That's what I thought, I knew that Bungie begging for steam reviews was going to mess up these guestimates with the disproportionate review ratio that just keeps climbing higher and higher despite the playerbase shrinking.
>>560289535uh oh, illiterate jeet melty
I would honestly buy marathon if it had a traditional multiplayer mode with stuff like 12v12+ btb with vehicular warfare and stuff like 6v6 or 8v8 slayer, ctf, assault, 3v3v3v3 multiteam objective modes, etc. I would have literally put xheir dicks in my mouth if they did that.
>>560292225That's overdelivery, Chud
>>560284594peaked 2k over thursday we are SO back marasovs
>>560292225just play destiny at that point
>>560293624YO it almost got Wednesday numbers on a Friday. EPIC!
>>560292225The only thing stopping me is the seasonal wipes
>>560293886It can’t even get Monday’s numbers, that’s bleak.>>560292225I don’t know if Bungie even knows how to design 6v6 maps anymore, let alone pull a D1 where you’d at least have modes like combined arms. Because outside of the interior layouts, 2 of the 3 Marathon launch maps felt haphazardly thrown together. Halo modders or even Infinite forgers can probably do better at level design than current Bungie.
>>560294369having to grind faction missions to level them up so that you can unlock the ability to buy character and stash upgrades is solely whats stopping me from enjoying the game. i just cannot do this ever again let alone every fucking three months.
>Arc Raiders plans to implement voice acting by real humans instead of using AIThat’s one more selling point Marathon had that is just gone.
>>560295705this is two lies
>IF YOU SAY ANYTHING BAD ABOUT MARATHON WHILE I'M STREAMING YOU'RE GETTING BANNEDI can't think of another game that had this problem.
>>560297026link to a streamer saying this?
>>560297369All of them
>>560297390thank you for confirming it never happened
>>560297530Name one that hasn't said this.
