Marathon 2025 - Bungie's new AAAA Extraction shooter

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Cornlord88 said:
I think it'll get close to 100k, my bet will be somewhere between 85-95k.
Looks like there's already issues with the pre order content not appearing for people.
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Gotta love the Bungie special kek

Prophetic Spirit said:
I think Marathon gonna survive.
Not in the best way, just like Destiny 2.
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It entirely depends on the games player retention

Highguard had 90k peak players and lost nearly 60% of that after a day
 
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Cornlord88 said:
Looks like there's already issues with the pre order content not appearing for people.
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yes, i havent gotten my server slam participation shit. I was wondering if it were tucked aaway in a codex menu or something. Wouldnt be surprised with how dog shit these menus are.
 
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taking at face value that's 3,161.920$, it's a fair amount of money, if no refunds happen...
although rumors go that marathon cost from 80M to 250M... not good.
 
Professor Donger said:
It entirely depends on the games player retention

Highguard had 90k peak players and lost nearly 60% of that after a day
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Yea but Highguard was free, which was good and bad. It's easier to get players to try it out, but it's also easier for players to drop it. With a paid game, it's harder to convince players to play it since they have to purchase it, but it decreases the chances of them instantly dropping it.
 
StacticShock said:
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taking at face value that's 3,161.920$, it's a fair amount of money, if no refunds happen...
although rumors go that marathon cost from 80M to 250M... not good.
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Yup, remember that this is the game that soyny was banking on being the new Fortnite/PUBG/Warzone/Tarkov. Even if it does alright, it won't be enough, between this and other live service disasters like Concord Soyny invested into this HARD. Heads are about to roll, it doesn't matter how well the game sells unless it breaks new ground(it won't).
 
RGK5H said:
>outsold by Slay the Spire 2
Its erver
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Unsurprising, one is the long awaited sequel to a highly praised Roguelike that's still rated overwhelmingly positive 6-7 (6-7! 6-7! HAHAHAH fuck you) years later and still averages 10,000-30,000 players on Steam alone...vs yet another sci-fi FPS game surrounded by controversy in the still niche genre of extraction shooters, while also carrying disappointment about the company that made it, and released when something like Arc Raiders is still relatively fresh in people's mind with 100,000+ players daily still playing it. Not to mention the price tag. Doubt this game will last too long.
Also I hear people aren't even getting their preorder bonus, but if you preorder in the first place, you're retarded. So let's see, generic FPS #42069 or a sequel to hundreds of thousands of people's favorite roguelike. Decisions decisions...
 
Day of the Cope said:
All these developers seem to think that Tarkov doing account wipes was "part of the genre" and just proves how the industry is full of midwits. The entire reason Tarkov did inventory and progress wipes is because Tarkov was still in beta. They wanted a reason for players to use the new things they added or to try out something that was adjusted instead of relying on their old faithful with a massive stockpile of resources. Of course, when you mention that Tarkov, the game that "inspired this tentpole of the genre", moved away from bi-annual wipes to a permanent character system with it's 1.0 release, you get retards sperging out.
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>IMPLYING said:
but I mean what's the incentive to try and get out with it at all if it's inevitable you'll lose it in the future?
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I think the wipes ended up unintentionally being good design.
You’re kind of collecting trash that you cant use, along with weapons and gear you wouldnt want to use due to their rarity. I think if you give the player good incentive to wipe their loot (xp boosts and cosmetics) then you at least have a short timespan in the end of the season where people are using their rare gear that will be lost anyway.
 
Prophetic Spirit said:
I think Marathon gonna survive.
Not in the best way, just like Destiny 2.
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Marathon is going to outlast other Concords, that's a given. Bungie has the money to keep it going for a while (and another source if income in Destiny 2), probably, and they'll do whatever they can to make it happen. I don't think Sony would pull funding like Tencent did with Highguard, but it is a possibility.
But that by itself doesn't mean success. They might not even make their money back.
 
People still expecting concord are delusional. Just on box sales the servers are at least going to stay on through the end of the decade even if it's just on box sales. Will there be a content freeze, layoffs, or 4-digit playercount well before that? I wouldn't be surprised, but even Battleborn stayed around 4 years on a much smaller initial playerbase
 
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