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Bungie is now deleting negative reviews via Xbox and more.

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Bungie is deleting negative reviews :: Marathon General Discussions

bungie is deleting / demanding xbox remove all negative feedback about the game. (you can google it, youll see, i cant link here) They went from 2.5 stars review score on the xbox store to 5 stars, and all player comments have been hidden. GG Concord. Yep, that is bungie,. that same company that...
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Lenas Lenas who over at Bungie is in charge of the censorship department? Need to email them and let them k now they are doing a bad job at faking transparency.
 
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I think my single biggest issue with Marathon is that I cannot stand the aesthetic. I am huge fan of cyberpunk as a genre and loved everything about the Destiny art style and Marathon just feels wrong. It's just too much discordant bright colors for no goddamn reason
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Oh there's a reason. The result of many, many studies about conditioning human beings by exposure to stimuli.

Observe if you will the BLASTING of pinks, light purples and teals.

It reeks of individuals frustrated by the lack of immediate results and going overkill with it.

Even the fuckin super Mario Galaxy movie has this light purple glow over everything. It's not a coincidence when it's this prevalent, not a seller as people are becoming more and more disgusted by the products doing it for other "attached conditioning" elements let's call it.

Go look around for a bit then come back and call me nuts. I'm fine with that. But if you're being honest, you'll see it and it will click for you.
 
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Nah, I just can't get behind calling this concord 3. Obviously this didn't do well, but it isn't doing nearly bad enough to deserve the title of concord 3.
 
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Nah, I just can't get behind calling this concord 3. Obviously this didn't do well, but it isn't doing nearly bad enough to deserve the title of concord 3.
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Objective statements of fact won't get you very far in this thread. Three weeks on the top selling chart but Ut is convinced this is gonna to be comparable to Concord's 25k total copies sold. These things are impossible to reconcile.

Has only gone up since the test.

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Objective statements of fact won't get you very far in this thread. Three weeks on the top selling chart but Ut is convinced this is gonna to be comparable to Concord's 25k total copies sold. These things are impossible to reconcile.

Has only gone up since the test.

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This still doesn't bode well. What this means are there are low steam purchases happening across the board. Considering it hasn't topped RE9, a $70 single player game that takes 8 hours to complete that has been out a week already, is pretty shit.

The one issue with steam Best Sellers is they should metric the amount of actual steam purchases in that same time period it's gauging against and show that. This literally could mean 30 people bought RE9 in the last 3 hours and 29 people bought Marathon, and everything else below is sub 29 purchases in a 3 hour period.

Also, you will want to track global:

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Thing about these types of games, is not the initial box numbers anyway. I mean sure, they matter, but the RETENTION is really what matters in these seasonal type GAS games. They make most of their moneys in the shops, "premium" season battle passes, etc... So yeah you can have a shit ton of initial sales, but the real test will be who is playing this shit 6 months down the line. And from their server slam numbers, it does not bode well. Shit went from like 150K down to 60K in a day or two and ended up with just a fraction of that initial 150K. I mean you can see the trend and its not looking good.

Yeah this is a test, so maybe people are not as invested? IDK, but if the game was actually fun and engaging, more people would stick around and play the server slam, right?

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If this was free to play I think that’s more true. I think at this point they are just trying to sucker as many people into a box sale to recoup as much of that $250 million as possible. Of which they would have to sell 6.25 million units. But yeah even then they just get development budget back and like you said, they aren’t paying a live team (unless it’s the three people left standing at Bungie after the smoke clears here) running shit through AI.

And those concurrent numbers for server slam suck. That’s a huge drop off. If it was a fun game people are playing it all weekend.
 
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I’m not buying it but I enjoyed the server slam. I got 23 hours into it. If I had paid $40 for that experience I wouldn’t be all that upset. I’d honestly rather do that than spend $70 on a 10 hour RE9 play through.

will the game end up being an AR or HD2 type success story? No, but I think it will sell well enough to do fine initially. The Bungie Destiny-like gunplay is enough to draw people in for at least a few months I’d think. We shall see starting tomorrow.
 
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I am convinced Sony's live service games are money laundering fronts for the Yakuza.

Concord - Disaster - $400 Million
Bungie Acquisition - Disaster - $3.6 Billion Dollars
Destiny 2 after acquisition - Disaster
Marathon - disaster - $250 Million

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aside from that I have not turn on my ps5 for ages, there is really no need to anymore
 
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Pcgamer gets a lot of checks.

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Anytime I see headlines written in this millennial/gen z conversational bullshit gobbledygook I immediately know the writer is trash and they’re selling snake oil.

“…and that’s a good thing!”
 
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Utnayan said:
I am convinced Sony's live service games are money laundering fronts for the Yakuza.

Concord - Disaster - $400 Million
Bungie Acquisition - Disaster - $3.6 Billion Dollars
Destiny 2 after acquisition - Disaster
Marathon - disaster - $250 Million

Prove me wrong

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Can someone tell them I will launder their money harder if they make Mary Jane hot in Spiderman 3 and make Square Enix do turn based again? Oh, and have Nintendo go muliplatform.
 
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Here we go - Shroud is already ripping the shit out of it.

"I wish the game ran as well as the tutorial does"
 
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That said, can I just state how sick I am of the neon/bright pink and light blue colors featured prominently in so many games these days.
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Game studios are horribly infected with trannies and their sycophants. It shouldn't come as a surprise that they inject the colors of their flag into games whenever they can.

The art in tabletop RPGs (D&D, Pathfinder, etc.) suffers from the same problem. Faggoty pink and blue tones in a massive swath of the art.

More on topic - Anyone who pays for this game is a faggot. Full stop.
 
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Currently 192,003 playing Arc Raiders as of this moment on Steam - Released Oct 2025
Currently 86,000 playing Marathon on Launch day - and already down from it's peak at 86,700.

Epic start :p

And so begins the within 2 hour refunds.

They need to sell 10 million units to make back their budget.

250k on steam is $7 million in revenue after the 30% Valve tax.

Bungie titles are traditionally a 30/70 split 30% PC, 70% console. (Source: Lenas Lenas )

Based on numbers (estimated) they have made about $21 million so far on launch day with a $254 million dollar budget across all platforms.

Ouch.

And their cosmetics store is $20 per outfit :p

Lol jesus Slay the Spire 2 launched today and has double the player count.
 
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