Marathon 2025 - Bungie's new AAAA Extraction shooter

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creaturestorm said:
Consider that Sony didnt just buy Marathon, they also purchased a second live service game called Destiny 2, pinning it all on one of these IPs for that much loss is for those who cope and seethe.
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Interesting perspective, creaturestorm (May). Your rebuttal, creaturestorm (April)?
creaturestorm said:
Sony spent 4 billion dollars to acquire this game.
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Hmmm...
 
creaturestorm said:
again and again we go with this
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I think people are just calling things "Concord like" as a catch all for massive flops, like "tortanic", I wouldn't take it so personally. Someone might think you worked on this game or something lol.

creaturestorm said:
I wonder how many people will stick around after all their shit gets wiped.
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Not many based on Bungie's history with endgames and looking at recent extraction shooters with resets. Just for instance, ARC Raiders has an optional wipe. The first one got about 25% of players to try it. After losing everything for 5 extra skill points, the next wipe only had 6% participation. Wipes without meaningful progression just aren't popular and given Marathons isn't optional, I'm predicting it will harm the base more than help it.

I stand to be proven wrong but account wipes just aren't a fun mechanic with a game as challenging and intricate as Marathon. Games like Rust get away with it because you can go from naked to full kit in like an hour if you don't suck and the game is rather low investment once you know the in's and out's.
 
The Secret Sauce said:
Interesting perspective, creaturestorm (May). Your rebuttal, creaturestorm (April)?

Hmmm...
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Youre close to putting two and two together.

Marathon is neither a 4 billion dollar game that sony bought nor is it the billion dollar loss.

I was waiting for one of you retards to argue it one way or the other.

creaturestorm said:
You could actually rationalize it as Marathon making more money than concord could ever dream off, Bungie paid 4 billion dollars for Marathon. It's not good logic either way.
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Pod 042 said:
I think people are just calling things "Concord like" as a catch all for massive flops, like "tortanic", I wouldn't take it so personally. Someone might think you worked on this game or something lol.
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This is one of the few places left on the internet where you can speak openly. The truth wont get censored here, but neither will the lies. When i come to this forum to read and catch up on what's happening more often than not it reads like a teenage girls diary. Full of rumors, half truths, and other ridiculous shit. Depending on the subject matter, the truth can quickly get mired in these feminine rationalizations. I'm not about it, I think it's gay as fuck and men who engage in that kind of talk are faggots.

I dont remember much about TOR, I'm not a starwars person. Though its probably a more apt description of what's happening with Marathon than Concord.
 
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creaturestorm said:
I was waiting for one of you retards to argue it one way or the other.
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You're really not helping the desperate ball-washing "I work for this company, worked on this game, or financially benefit from its success in some way" stink wafting off your no-profile-picture ass with comments like this, just FYI.
 
Civillian 18 said:
We can start calling it Destiny 2.5 if you would prefer, based on their proposed upcoming changes.
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I'm pretty sure Destiny turned a profit?

moocow said:
You're really not helping the desperate ball-washing "I work for this company, worked on this game, or financially benefit from its success in some way" stink wafting off your no-profile-picture ass with comments like this, just FYI.
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boo hoo
 
creaturestorm said:
More coping and seething
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What does any of the catty nonsense you typed have to do with the fact that you yourself said the thing that you are now whining about?
You get angry when people say Bungie was bought for Marathon, but you have said this yourself. Simple as that.
 
I typed a long post about the BASED INDISPUTABLE LOGIGAL REDPILL TRUTH BOMB CHUD FACT how Marathon is far more a Halo Infinite than it ever was a Concord. Alas, I wasn't satisfied with the quality of my post, so I have made the decision to not post it, which is unfortunate to all of you and the world at large.

There's something about Halo Infinite. Even thinking about it makes one sleepy and weary, as if its some magical creation with the power to negate all interest and attention aimed towards it, a twisted energy vampire bomb that's always exploding. It's a feeling that very strongly imitates spiritual depression.
A mere mention of Concord though, and everyone gets excited and giddy, with righteous fire burning within their gamer loins, and life just seems better for it.

So perhaps it's better to have fun than to be 14% more right and depressed. But I want you to know I am still right, even if I didn't post my reasoning.
 
Marathon is so boring and has so little content that this thread does anything but discuss Marathon a month later lmfao

Elden Ring, Halo, Marathon failing or catfighting and anything but Marathon content like the braindead retarded decision to make a basic S'pht compiler fodder enemy from the OG games a boss in Cryo Archive, nu Marathon doesn't even seem to have any actual P'fore enemies last time I checked

Even if someone likes Marathon there is so little they can argue in favor of it in good faith and I would love to hear a good faith argument from the other side as a dedicated hater
 
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United Abominations said:
Marathon is so boring and has so little content that this thread does anything but discuss Marathon a month later lmfao

Elden Ring, Halo, Marathon failing or catfighting and anything but Marathon content like the braindead retarded decision to make a basic S'pht compiler fodder enemy from the OG games a boss in Cryo Archive, nu Marathon doesn't even seem to have any actual P'fore enemies last time I checked

Even if someone likes Marathon there is so little they can argue in favor of it in good faith and I would love to hear a good faith argument from the other side as a dedicated hater
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Marathon's gunplay is really really good and the team fight experience is excellent. Playing solos as a Rook is really fun too. Playing solo as a shell is fun but less universally appealing, solo games are more like arc raiders where you might not kill everyone. The problem is everything around that is bad. The game is fixable, they need to give up on it being an extraction shooter and turn it into a BR with larger team fight modes and dedicated pve content.

The issue is that they are bungie, and cynically thought if they have this cyclical extraction shooter game they don't have to make a full games' worth of content, maps and plot. Cannot believe they spent $200 million and this is all they got for it. ARC Raiders managed to have way more to engage with while coming in at a third of the price.
 
dame dudi jench said:
Marathon's gunplay is really really good and the team fight experience is excellent. Playing solos as a Rook is really fun too. Playing solo as a shell is fun but less universally appealing, solo games are more like arc raiders where you might not kill everyone. The problem is everything around that is bad. The game is fixable, they need to give up on it being an extraction shooter and turn it into a BR with larger team fight modes and dedicated pve content.

The issue is that they are bungie, and cynically thought if they have this cyclical extraction shooter game they don't have to make a full games' worth of content, maps and plot. Cannot believe they spent $200 million and this is all they got for it. ARC Raiders managed to have way more to engage with while coming in at a third of the price.
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I hate live service games on principle and quit Warframe when I realized how much I hated the model and all my top tier gear from 2016 like Boltor and Bo Prime became obsolete because the devs decided it to be obsolete, soI think Marathon should have some kind of single player/co-op campaign because I find it hard to get invested in a game without context or just being drip fed content from weekend only multiplayer events. I absolutely love the Warframe movement system that lets you be a space Ninja but really fucking loathed the skinner box mechanics and always online design.

Marathon was arguably the game that inspired Half Life and was one of the first story driven FPS games as well.
 
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Professor Donger said:
According to this article, the game sold $150,000,000 and had 2 million players when it came out. Which keep in mind Gearbox still considered a failure.

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According to the article


Keep in mind this was from 8 months ago.
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That is crazy to think a game making 150 million in revenue isn't even close to it being breaking even. Like it's just insane the budget of current AAA games are.
 
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