Marathon 2025 - Bungie's new AAAA Extraction shooter

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yt Oliander said:
If I remember correctly, isn't Bungie's excuse that the files aren't LOST, but they are only compatible with older versions of the Destiny client so they can't get them to run today? Although that just implies that Bungie doesnt keep old builds beyond a certain date... does that seem likely?
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That's probably it, more or less. Something like an MMO can quickly turn into versioning hell with all the systems being worked on simultaneously.
 
yt Oliander said:
If I remember correctly, isn't Bungie's excuse that the files aren't LOST, but they are only compatible with older versions of the Destiny client so they can't get them to run today? Although that just implies that Bungie doesnt keep old builds beyond a certain date... does that seem likely?
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Yeah that was the explanation someone gave a few pages back. They introduced an new lighting system and swapped to an engine that was incompatible with the old content, but I remain sceptical they couldn't have ported the old content over if they actually wanted to, or even had a 'Destiny 2 Classic' version like Runescape has.
The Doom Slayer said:
Just cancel it. This game is already a huge money pit and a total joke.
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And deny us the pleasure of Concord 2.0 and the ensuing journoscum chimpouts? Booooo, shame, shame!
Hiphopopotamus said:
I can't wait for Marathon and Fairgames to finally kill Sony.
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Sadly that won't happen. Even after Concord and the cancellation of multiple live services with years of development costs sunk into them Sony still turned a profit for the 2024 financial year. Not only that, it was a record-breaking profit; up about 18% on the previous year.

That's why they are barrelling ahead with these doomed projects, just like Microsoft has kept Xbox around despite it bleeding money for 2 console generations. The losses are a drop in the ocean in the bigger financial picture.
 
Oliver Onions said:
Sadly that won't happen. Even after Concord and the cancellation of multiple live services with years of development costs sunk into them Sony still turned a profit for the 2024 financial year. Not only that, it was a record-breaking profit; up about 18% on the previous year.

That's why they are barrelling ahead with these doomed projects, just like Microsoft has kept Xbox around despite it bleeding money for 2 console generations. The losses are a drop in the ocean in the bigger financial picture.
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Sony won't die, but it's gaming division might. They don't have to stop making games, it's enough if they stop making consoles(real consoles) and go multiplatform like Xbox, which doesn't exist as a brand anymore. We're halfway there already, you can count the actual PS5 exclusives on one hand and everything else also came out on PC.
 
KissMyTaint said:
Damn. I was kinda hoping it’d release in September like planned so we could see it crash and burn and laugh while the studio closes. Just like Concord.
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Maybe it will be a surprise December launch and we will get a Christmas present.
 
Hiphopopotamus said:
It's worse for them with Marathon, because they bought Bungie for 3.6 billion which is a lot more than 400 million. When this flops it will be at least 10 times the failure Concord was.
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Jesus, 3.6 billion? I love Bungie's old pre-Destiny games and Halo titles but even I wouldn't pay that much for them if I could. The fuck are these suits smoking?
 
Hiphopopotamus said:
It's worse for them with Marathon, because they bought Bungie for 3.6 billion which is a lot more than 400 million. When this flops it will be at least 10 times the failure Concord was.
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The $3.6 billion is offset by whatever money Destiny 2 has generated since 2022, and continues to generate, compared to Concord which made literally $0. And even still Sony declared profits of $7.7 billion in FY2024, which is enough to buy Bungie twice over and still have enough left to fund another Concord flop.

I don't think Bungie was the wise investment Sony apprently saw it as, but it's not going to sink the company. Not by a longshot.

ETA: By 'the company' I mean Sony, not Bungie. Bungie are almost certainly fucked no matter what happens with Marathon.
 
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Oliver Onions said:
I don't think Bungie was the wise investment Sony apprently saw it as, but it's not going to sink the company. Not by a longshot.
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It's going to cost some bigshot a yacht, and that will make him angry. That will lead to a shake-up to find out where the money went, and eventually he will see the moneypit known as Bungie that isn't pulling their own weight. We will see people losing their jobs and pressure to do whatever it takes to chase current trends, as in the post-Trump current trends, to make up for this flop. We're not talking about Nintendo, Soyny can't just shrug off failure after failure back to back without consequences.
 
Oliver Onions said:
The $3.6 billion is offset by whatever money Destiny 2 has generated since 2022, and continues to generate, compared to Concord which made literally $0. And even still Sony declared profits of $7.7 billion in FY2024, which is enough to buy Bungie twice over and still have enough left to fund another Concord flop.

I don't think Bungie was the wise investment Sony apprently saw it as, but it's not going to sink the company. Not by a longshot.
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Destiny 2 is not really making that much money, and they have definitely sunk a couple hundred million into Marathon minimum.
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Hiphopopotamus said:
Destiny 2 is not really making that much money, and they have definitely sunk a couple hundred million into Marathon minimum.
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It's been averaging somewhere between $100-300 million the last few years. Sony's projections will obviously be much higher given what they paid for the studio so I'm not surprised it's failing to hit projections, but it's still making money.

Either way, as I said, Sony are making billions in profits so even if the entire Bungie experiment fails, Destiny and all, it's not going to kill the corporation as a whole.
 
Oliver Onions said:
Either way, as I said, Sony are making billions in profits so even if the entire Bungie experiment fails, Destiny and all, it's not going to kill the corporation as a whole.
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The biggest consequence to Sony's live service failure has already happened- Sony ousted all the faggot-americans and retarded euro CEOs from top brass and replaced them with Japanese sociopaths, like God intended.

EDIT: Good News Everyone! We are now charting vessels to the currently-sinking ship. Welcome aboard!
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