Marathon - Bungie Extraction Shooter

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So just comparing this on PC, Destiny 2 had almost 300K on release, this game has only 88K. Not looking too good. Granted this is a different and more niche genre of game, but still....

Agreed. However, Arc Raiders had 264k immediately on launch without any IP to draw from. This should put the nail in the coffin.

Not shocking - here is their senior producer.

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And their UX deisnger

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Wonder how they went through 250 million - it's a conundrum for the ages.
 
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What a bunch of faggots. Don't review our game, which is launched and you paid for it, for another month while we try to salvage anything of value in this God Forsaken mess.

Hopefully even the Libtard "Journalists" are pissed at them for stealing art assets and the debacle of the Red War stealing as well, and do the right thing for ONCE.
 
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Is grummz entire job to be basically frothing at the mouth to shit talk games though? Is he just a fat retarded mongoiloid with no life?
 

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Hey Lenas Lenas how are you enjoying Marathon so far? I would ask over 250 friends on Steam but the four that bought it three already refunded and are playing Slay the Spire 2. Booted up the Sony PS5 Pro 650 friends there and only 3 friends have it and they are playing Arc. No one on Xbox has it. And 99.9999% (save you) on FOH knows better. So I have no where else to turn but you.
 
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He's not wrong about this. Guess we'll see how it turns out long term, but atm it's a total Bungie launch title.


Sunk Cost Fallacy and Sony is knee deep in the water 1 hour after the iceberg ripped the hull.

At some point they have to cut the losses but someone, somewhere, high up top at Sony is shitting their pants when the hammer of accountability to buy these fucksticks comes down in Tokyo.

Unless my Yakuza money laundering conspiracy is real. In which case the shit will continue to float.
 
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He's not wrong about this. Guess we'll see how it turns out long term, but atm it's a total Bungie launch title.

His logic is flawed and already been proven objectively false by Sony's recent actions with other projects/studios.

The gaming department at Sony is hemorrhaging cash (and the good will of players) so they have been proactively nuking a ton of stuff from orbit. Including projects that had been in development for years and were nearing the end of production.

I don't think Marathon will get shut down as quickly as Highguard, but unless a miracle happens, it won't exist in a year.

All these faggots, trannies, boss-bitches, fem-nazi's, soy-laden cucked 'men,' etc., etc., etc. are constantly complaining about layoffs, but in an industry that is already fast-tracked to being swallowed whole by AI, they INSIST on making games that are crammed with their activism, social cancer, and general ineptitude.

Literally billions of dollars have been pissed away, but they're so captured by their own mental-illness that they can't or won't admit to themselves that they're destroying their own careers.
 
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His logic is flawed and already been proven objectively false by Sony's recent actions with other projects/studios.

The gaming department at Sony is hemorrhaging cash (and the good will of players) so they have been proactively nuking a ton of stuff from orbit. Including projects that had been in development for years and were nearing the end of production.

I don't think Marathon will get shut down as quickly as Highguard, but unless a miracle happens, it won't exist in a year.
And not to mention their cash shop, which was Destiny 2, is not doing so well either these days. Not good.
 
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His logic is flawed and already been proven objectively false by Sony's recent actions with other projects/studios.

The gaming department at Sony is hemorrhaging cash (and the good will of players) so they have been proactively nuking a ton of stuff from orbit. Including projects that had been in development for years and were nearing the end of production.

I don't think Marathon will get shut down as quickly as Highguard, but unless a miracle happens, it won't exist in a year.

All these faggots, trannies, boss-bitches, fem-nazi's, soy-laden cucked 'men,' etc., etc., etc. are constantly complaining about layoffs, but in an industry that is already fast-tracked to being swallowed whole by AI, they INSIST on making games that are crammed with their activism, social cancer, and general ineptitude.

Literally billions of dollars have been pissed away, but they're so captured by their own mental-illness that they can't or won't admit to themselves that they're destroying their own careers.
It feels like billions understates the issue by an order of magnitude. Isn’t just Highguard, Concord, and ’maybe’ Marathon almost $1B? That doesn’t include what we don’t know about that has been canceled. Even if not all of it is explicitly due to DEI, the poor management and leadership decisions render that a distinction without a difference. The actual loss has to be multiple tens of billions across the gaming industry in waste. Not a “oops we started prototyping an idea and it wasn’t working” waste, a full “we spent years making shit and knew it was shit but were do captured we kept spending investor dollars” oops.

Who cares I guess? Write off the loss and move on to the next slop.
 
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