Marathon 2025 - Bungie's new AAAA Extraction shooter

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What's even funnier is that everyone was shitting on the game 10 months ago in the alpha, even redditors did as shockingly as that may seem. Everyone was disappointed in the "shells", ui and the maps. I don't know where the praises come from, since then they added a map and added paint to the other maps, a lot of the feedback from the closed playtests went in deaf ears.
 
What I find so funny is, looking at these numbers, this should be considered a pretty good success. BF6, Warframe, DayZ, etc. all have similar players at this time of day. This is not a bad launch!

But they dug the hole so deep, spent so much money and time, that a consistent 30-60k players per day is a monumental failure, instead of a pretty decent successful release.

If I wasn’t a Destiny 2 player, I’d be scratching my head, but knowing Bungie, I’m not surprised one bit that they fumbled the fuck out of these circumstances so hard.
 
Best case scenario is Marathon becomes a niche game with a small, dedicated playerbase that lasts a few years. It has good user reviews on Steam but the player numbers seem to show that it's not doing as well as the devs hoped. Bungle studios wanted a blockbuster but instead they got a niche product. Not a good thing when you have a AAA budget to recoup.

Worst case scenario is players lost interest fast and the game dies in a few months. It won't be a Highguard if that happens though.
 
Master Chief. Huh, who knew? I wonder who made Halo? Certainly Not these skin walking faggots that currently occupy Bungie HQ.
Is there no one left at Bungie who isn’t an effing troon or a fat blue-haired tuna taster or a flouncing nutsack gargler? Did the founders leave after Sony bought the company? And why is a Japanese company like Sony so tolerant of nauseating woke b.s. infecting one of their gaming subsidiaries? The Japs are fairly conservative people who definitely reside in a male dominated society.
 
What's even funnier is that everyone was shitting on the game 10 months ago in the alpha, even redditors did as shockingly as that may seem. Everyone was disappointed in the "shells", ui and the maps. I don't know where the praises come from, since then they added a map and added paint to the other maps, a lot of the feedback from the closed playtests went in deaf ears.
The designs for these "shells" are all better and iconic for what they are, and one is literally just the Security officer from Marathon lol. Nothing is overdesigned or garish in all the colors Bungie let you use to color your Spartan. All 3 of those were also acquired by playing the game and doing obscenely hard challenges like 1000 gamerscore in Halo 3 for security, Vidmaster challenge or send Bungie a video of you killing yourself with a traffic cone for recon, and find all 13 skulls and the one skull literally had you jump through hoops to play the Halo theme and people only found out how to do that through datamining for Hayabusa. You also got the Katana by completing the whole campaign on LASO which is obscenely fucking hard.
The terminals in Halo 3 also look way cooler than anything the trannies at Bunghole will make today.
 

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Is there no one left at Bungie who isn’t an effing troon or a fat blue-haired tuna taster or a flouncing nutsack gargler? Did the founders leave after Sony bought the company? And why is a Japanese company like Sony so tolerant of nauseating woke b.s. infecting one of their gaming subsidiaries? The Japs are fairly conservative people who definitely reside in a male dominated society.
Pretty sure at least one of the executives remaining at Bungo after the acquisition left "a year and a day" or "as soon as possible". He was showing off his millions of dollars of "look my dick totally still works" cars or something. It may have been a different exec to be completely fair though.
 
Is there no one left at Bungie who isn’t an effing troon or a fat blue-haired tuna taster or a flouncing nutsack gargler? Did the founders leave after Sony bought the company? And why is a Japanese company like Sony so tolerant of nauseating woke b.s. infecting one of their gaming subsidiaries? The Japs are fairly conservative people who definitely reside in a male dominated society.
Blame the fact that its all Californians running Playstation now and its not Japanese.

Soyny is losing Shift Up and refuses to do anything with bloodborne despite both making a fuckton of money and being profitable. The Asians care about money and there is more money in Stellar Blade and Bloodborne than in any faggy western game but they are ideology driven and would rather sink the company than do what businesses are inclined to do which is follow the money and provide a service rather than gypping and jewing you for every penny and losing customers to have a few whales keep your studio afloat. Asians understand that services, such as simply making a good game, make more money than schemes which is why Elden Ring, Stellar Blade, and Black Myth Wukong and now RE9 sold like crack because they lack the western scam model of business.

Epstein was literally behind or at least influential to microtransactions and the modern enshittification model and using Microtransactions apparently which explains why "COD points" is also "CP."
 
Is there no one left at Bungie who isn’t an effing troon or a fat blue-haired tuna taster or a flouncing nutsack gargler? Did the founders leave after Sony bought the company? And why is a Japanese company like Sony so tolerant of nauseating woke b.s. infecting one of their gaming subsidiaries? The Japs are fairly conservative people who definitely reside in a male dominated society.
Not really no, old Bungie is essentially dead. Jason jones is still there, but he’s a hippy faggot who almost never shows up to work or actually works on any projects. He’s the one at fault for bungie acting BPD the last twenty years, constantly changing owners and projects.

Edit: Jones is one of the founders of bungie, and throughout the years, would constantly change what the company was working on because he would get bored. He wanted to abandon halo, three fucking times, and had to be tard wrangled by microjeet. When D1 came out, he did not want to make a sequel, despite being contractually obligated to by Activision, and had to be threatened by either his CEO or his own lawyer to fulfill said obligation. He is a fucking sperg.
Pretty sure at least one of the executives remaining at Bungo after the acquisition left "a year and a day" or "as soon as possible". He was showing off his millions of dollars of "look my dick totally still works" cars or something. It may have been a different exec to be completely fair though.
Correct, Pete Parsons, car buying expert and faggot. He left right after his stocks from the Song acquisition vested.
its already dipped to ~25k twice so I dont know how much longer that 30-60k daily players will last.
Ruh Roh Raggie.
 
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Its not that magically making this iteration of Marathon single player would make it better, it’s that the obvious greed and retardation of Bungie and Sony led to this live service shit stain, instead of a sequel or soft reboot to a niche but beloved shooter series.
Don’t forget Sony’s plan was 12 concurrent live services games all going at once by now, March 2026.
They said this in 2023. Marathon was always ultra agreed from Sony who has now decided to stop releasing games on pc altogether and do dynamic pricing where people who buy more games get charged more. Fuck this company
 
Don’t forget Sony’s plan was 12 concurrent live services games all going at once by now, March 2026.
They said this in 2023. Marathon was always ultra agreed from Sony who has now decided to stop releasing games on pc altogether and do dynamic pricing where people who buy more games get charged more. Fuck this company
Not to mention, most of those either failed already, are in development hell, or deliberately killed by Bungie directly.

example:

It’s always important to remember that bungie advised Firewalk studios on Concords development and (conspiracy theory) willingly gave them incorrect or bad advice so that the game would crash and burn and they could maintain the most market share in the Live Service genre.

Which is fine, Concord should and would’ve died regardless, but if true, it shows that Bungie isn’t just inept and incompetent; they are knowingly malicious. This is why I genuinely think Bungie abandoned D2 out of spite, this company and its executives have a track record of actively punishing or abusing their communities for slights against them.
 
No wonder why corpos and their useful idiots want Steamdb gone.
Its really just obviously the next step after they attempted to eliminate user reviews across media. Cant gaslight unexpecting consumers into giving you money when there is solid evidence your work is shit.
As soon as these undesirables identify something as being fuel for a shitstorm they must eliminate it.
After all, the problem clearly isnt that consumers are rejecting sub-par products, but instead just the evil online trolls and their review-bombing cursed statistics.
Eventually we will see "Why online trolls dont understand that shutting down a game is actually a sign of success." as a kotaku headline.

this should be considered a pretty good success
It would be, had Sony not payed out the ass for Bungie and tried to shill them as the god-emperors of life service games. (Which to be fair they kinda used to be)

This isnt some nobody patchwork studio like whomever is making Battlefield these days or some AA level indie team, but THE people who used to be THE real big shots in the (non-MMO) live-service area.
Destiny was one of the milestones that laid the foundation for the current wave of live-service garbage. That series managed to get millions of (concurrent) players during its peak. D1 for example sold 6.3 million copies in its launch MONTH without a PC port.
The studio making that being beaten by the sequel to a fucking indie card game and whatever other slop is in the Top 20 on Steam during a slow month with no other new AAA games is doomsday level news for Bungie, Sony and the AAA industry as a whole.

Undershooting the previous new franchise by an order of magnitude and then some + Sony and Bungie failing to make a big live-service project work should doom the entire concept and in a world ruled by sane people would signal that the entire idea of Live-Service games is done for and that AAA publishers should do something else.
 
Pretty sure at least one of the executives remaining at Bungo after the acquisition left "a year and a day" or "as soon as possible". He was showing off his millions of dollars of "look my dick totally still works" cars or something. It may have been a different exec to be completely fair though.
To be fair, the gaming industry is a notoriously horrible place to work and burnout is rampant. At least he left and didn’t actively help turn Bungie into an LBGQTXYWZ hellhole.

Blame the fact that its all Californians running Playstation now and its not Japanese.
G*dd*mn Mexifornia strikes again. It currently ruins other states because the Limpwristers who voted for its failed policies flee that shytehole and infect new places with their Leftist b.s.

Jones is one of the founders of bungie, and throughout the years, would constantly change what the company was working on because he would get bored. He wanted to abandon halo, three fucking times, and had to be tard wrangled by microjeet. When D1 came out, he did not want to make a sequel, despite being contractually obligated to by Activision, and had to be threatened by either his CEO or his own lawyer to fulfill said obligation.
He should be flayed alive. No mercy.
 
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