Marathon - Bungie Extraction Shooter

i missed news about this, d2 players planed a mass play on june 9 for the final update




tl;dr
destiny 2's end was already determined before being bought by sony
bungie was doing poorly and had to bought
marathon wasn't meant to compete with destiny2's numbers, but with games like escape from tarkov
marathon is doing as expected

not in the article, the ex community manager claimed they had access to info from leadership and legal

Bungie's fate was sealed after The Final Shape and their lack of a good plan going forward from there.

MusicForFish said:

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400 people for a single game?

If only they had had 1600 people working on Marathon

I tried to give it a shot during the free weekend, it might be good but I dont know.

I cannot stand shooter games with shield/plate mechanics. If you have more than 1 health bar in a fps, you fucked up.

Hekotat said:

I tried to give it a shot during the free weekend, it might be good but I dont know.

I cannot stand shooter games with shield/plate mechanics. If you have more than 1 health bar in a fps, you fucked up.

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hot take -- fuck Halo for making that shit mainstream. that and two weapon loadouts.

OU Ariakas said:

I bet you infinity money that at the very least a third of the employees are not hands on with game development. This is the exact same issue you see in higher education when the number of administrators is 3:1, 2:1, or even now 1:1 with number of students. A shit ton of make-work jobs or justify their existence by creating red tape that only they can solve and then meting that solution out over extended periods of time. Worthless.

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Some dude has 4000 billed hours modelling fuzz on a female character's mole

Fadaar said:

hot take -- fuck Halo for making that shit mainstream. that and two weapon loadouts.

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Huh? Body Armor was literally a "2nd health bar" dating back to CS Beta. It's been in the genre for decades now.

OU Ariakas said:

I bet you infinity money that at the very least a third of the employees are not hands on with game development. This is the exact same issue you see in higher education when the number of administrators is 3:1, 2:1, or even now 1:1 with number of students. A shit ton of make-work jobs or justify their existence by creating red tape that only they can solve and then meting that solution out over extended periods of time. Worthless.

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Seriously, I bet at this point Bungie has maybe 200 devs with any skill, handful of infrastructure folks to keep the lights on, And Maybe 5 QA people. The rest of the company is bullshit, DEI hires, Women with made up jobs to make demographics look better, and a bunch of Blue hairs and trannies that get promoted above their skill.

I dont get how this happens over and over at every studio and in every game franchise and the same mistakes keep happening.

Doesn’t that sorta fucking fall on Sony ultimately?

So many dumb decisions from Bungie.
You don't sunset your money maker until you successfully passed the torch to another game/franchise.
Marathon should have just went f2p and tried to save themselves with premium pass or battle tracks like some mmo's did when they were doing poorly in the beginning like star wars the old republic or elder scrolls online, or just have cosmetic shops like guild wars 2 or path of exile.
Did they really think a free week was going to convince people to buy a game that had a huge potential to shut down in the next month, after they already had a free open beta stress test to show what the game was like.
Should have made a pve mode so they could have attracted their d2 pve players, instead of making just an extraction shooter which is an entirely different player base from mmo pve shooter.
Sony deserves to get fucked with all the dei shit they've been pulling for years now, they got sold a pipe dream with marathon.