Marathon 2025 - Bungie's new AAAA Extraction shooter

[creaturestorm]

They just nerfed grenades and made it so you get the best salvage on every map. Fucking yikes.

Keep in mind there is a free kit mode that is incredibly low risk.

Maybe it's a low chance? idk. They should of just added more loot.

https://youtube.com/shorts/2eaDBmqPM64?si=B0Xhc1a2rp4hcKZd

 

[Snekposter]

We got spoiled with concord and highguard flopping like they did and many people expected the same. Marathon is a more regular type of failure. Mediocre sales followed by a long and drawn out death as it circles the drain.

A game so mediocre not even its demise manages to stand out in any real way.

 

[Thiletonomics]

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May I present to you QC, which had exactly ONE pulse of a heartbeat and then immediately flatlined. That was almost a DECADE ago, and they STILL refuse to pull the plug OR make changes that would actually draw players in (engine optimization, dedicated servers, removing ELO and matchmaking). The game on whose coattails QC desperately tried to ride, Overwatch, is also in a state of rapid decline and fading relevancy.

At least Overwatch made billions before the devs completely fucked it into the dirt and drove away the entire fanbase. You know you've fucked it when even releasing skins emphasizing the female character's bare feet doesn't bring the gooners back.

As for QC, it launched to so little fanfare that for years I assumed it had been cancelled.

The one thing that fascinated me about QC is that it someone had an E-Sports scene that somehow kept going for way longer than it needed to, and the last World Championship for the game was in 2023. But then again, that E-Sports scene was way more forced, compared to games like the Age of Empires series.

 

[moocow]

...yeah, I've been posting charts and it's been going worse than I expected. Not sure what your point is.

Why gunt guard it?

lol fluffers gonna fluff.

I do enjoy the modest effort he's putting into being a "realistic" shill, eagerly gargling Bungie's balls and mocking everyone's predictions of instant collapse not coming true instantly while occasionally complaining about [Standard Procedure Bungie Daily Game Balance Fuckup, build 14143] and lamenting how they're fucking it all up.

Y'know, trying to portray himself as a legit Blast Haver™ who is Totally Not a Paid Shill Because We Dipshits Do It for Free Now™ and is just a genuine fan faithfully defending the Really Winning Despite All Losing Apperances™ entertainment product he's latched onto today.

Remember, it didn't instantly crash and burn like Concord, so it's obviously a Complete and Total Success™!

I'd love to find and study the research that's been done over the past 50 years about how marketing goons turn seemingly normal human beings into this kind of snarky, ball-washing shill, presumably for free. I'd also like to shoot every marketing goon who contributed to that research or who puts it to work today (gonna need a lot of ammo). Feds, take note: I didn't say "kill" ... I said "shoot." I don't want them to die or anything. I want them to suffer.