Marathon 2025 - Bungie's new AAAA Extraction shooter

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Checking In On ‘Marathon’ A Month After Launch​


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DiabeticSydePhil said:
For $26 I think it's worth getting and fucking around with as long as you wanna do extraction shooter PvE with the milsim aspect of Tarkov and less autism.

The helicopter system takes some getting used to and does occasionally mean an annoying wait, but besides that for the asking price it's pretty fun to fly to a landing zone on a little bird then make it to any POI and light up some Vietnamese. A few locations like the underground bunker and sawmill are fun set pieces for lighting dudes up and they fixed the weirdest damage to enemies bugs.

There's not a ton of great loot or anything, but you get to play SOF soldier man and such in a more bite size fashion than something like ARMA.
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Unfortunately you're a bit late and the sale's over now and its back up to $39.99. Definitely not worth the price there.
 
Prophetic Spirit said:
The theory which Bungie wants to bankrupt Sony by a desire of vengeance makes more and more sense.
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Bungie, has a former Microsoft company, still holds loyalty to it's old flag, and wishes to make it proud I guess.
Tragic considering Microsoft brought a company into it's house and has been trying repeatedly to make it skinwalk Bungie unsuccessfully.
 
I think that Forbes article is right that the game isn’t in immediate danger of getting shitcanned but there’s no way Sony is happy with these results. It launched very soft and it’s already lost 75% of its playerbase, which wasn’t very big to begin with. The fact that their players are mostly on PC is also not good news, obviously Sony wants those people to buy a PS5 and pay for PSN. They only released it on PC because they knew making it PS5 exclusive would kill it in the crib.

Unless it has a major second wind this summer I don’t think it will make it to 2027. Running an online game is expensive and it’s reaching the point where they’re gonna be losing money every day they keep the servers up. And if Sony isn’t willing to treat their consoles as loss leaders, they definitely won’t do that with a game whose whole purpose is to be easy passive income.
 
GeorgeFloydFentanylStash said:
how much did Bungie spend on advertising Turdathon?
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A lot more than it should've gotten, tbh. There were tv spots, twitch ads, influencer fly outs, ARG, they did a cringe inducing hidden camera show where they pretended to be the company making real versions of the in game shells that would then 'come to life'. We're talking the kind of marketing blitz you used to see for a Halo launch party.
 
Site of Origin said:
For anyone looking for an extraction shooter PvE style, you could check out Incursion Red River. They hired the guy that did the SAIN AI mod for SP Tarkov, Solarint
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Yhea, it was very noticeably his AI when upon being spotted by an enemy he procceded to scamper away to the closest blindspot and hold it like a dirty fucking rat.
I tested the AI, they won't move unless you do, fuck you Solarint.
 
Disc said:
Anticheats I think function a lot like locking your door: if someone really wants to get through your door, they probably can, but some hooligans just looking to fuck around will probably just rattle the handle and walk on by.
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It does also help not to make the lock of brittle, water-damaged tissue paper.
 
Bussy Catalog said:
I think that Forbes article is right that the game isn’t in immediate danger of getting shitcanned but there’s no way Sony is happy with these results.
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It's not getting shitcanned because it would be a major embarrassment for Sony, to say nothing of the knockdown effect it would have on shareholder confidence, if they were to admit they have another $400 million (development + marketing costs) dud on their hands, not even a year after Concord bombed, and among all the other news of canceled Sony GaaS projects.

A game with under 30,000 concurrent players at peak hours that was released not even three months ago does not justify a $400 million price tag.

So Sony and Bungie will both pretend the game is doing fine, throwing more money into the furnace just to keep appearances, and hope they'll be able to shut the game quietly a year down the line when most people have stopped caring..

Let's not forget that Sony still has to release Fairgames and that Horizon thing, and both games have only received mockery and derision since their respective reveals.

Sasuga, Bungo, you've done more damage to commiefornia Sony (largely unintentionally, but still) than anyone else. A true hero of the chud revolution.
 
regalterry said:
It's not getting shitcanned because it would be a major embarrassment for Sony, to say nothing of the knockdown effect it would have on shareholder confidence, if they were to admit they have another $400 million (development + marketing costs) dud on their hands, not even a year after Concord bombed, and among all the other news of canceled Sony GaaS projects.

A game with under 30,000 concurrent players at peak hours that was released not even three months ago does not justify a $400 million price tag.

So Sony and Bungie will both pretend the game is doing fine, throwing more money into the furnace just to keep appearances, and hope they'll be able to shut the game quietly a year down the line when most people have stopped caring..

Let's not forget that Sony still has to release Fairgames and that Horizon thing, and both games have only received mockery and derision since their respective reveals.

Sasuga, Bungo, you've done more damage to commiefornia Sony (largely unintentionally, but still) than anyone else. A true hero of the chud revolution.
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That's more or less what I've been saying. At this point it's more of an image issue because they sure as fuck aren't going to recoup their money.
What Sony has to justify to their shareholders is the $3.6 billion they've wasted acquiring the sinking ship that is Bungie.

I think Sony hasn't been doing all that well since going full commiefornication mode. While I want Bungie to die, it leaving a festering wound on Sony would be a welcome bonus.
 
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