🗣marathon-general-chat

[wet herald]

yup.

[safe kernel]

Yea cause idiots give them money for something they could see for free lmao

[round cape]

I think they said they're working on that like upgrading to the rarer version

[wet herald]

Sure? The craftable guns in D2 saved people a massive RNG headache.

[sharp halo]

I dont even blame them, bag is bag, idiots are idiots, i would do it too if i could

[safe kernel]

Naw i blame the dudes who pay lol

[inland jasper]

Believe me I know. Ran the damn wish dragon dungeon like 70 times before I got a voltshot indebted kindness.

[opaque star]

🥀

[inland jasper]

I prayed so hard for red borders in dungeons lol

[sharp halo]

I saw a post where a guy paid 10k$ to meet a model and all they did was take a picture she later used that money to fund her vacation trip she took with her man 😂

[safe kernel]

Yea i seen that people be to thirsty on the net

[wet herald]

Thats good. I just feel like looter shooters without some lite-crafting system feel very empty. Tarkov has a whole flea market thats centered around players that run raids to sell high end gear and gear that they invested to craft in their hideout. Theres a WHOLE other layer to the game besides just the runs.

[earnest matrix]

Chat are we still coping for marathon or did we move on?

[round cape]

Interesting

[safe kernel]

The should be able to make this game work ngl the concept and atmosphere are their they just need to stop being idiots

[sharp halo]

Dragon? Dungeon? Dungeon and Dragon? Demogorgon???? Stranger Things new season teaser 😮🫵

[inland jasper]

Idk dawg what server are you in lmao.

[sharp halo]

Could say we ran from it, heh get it cuz in a marathon you run. LAUGH NOW

[inland jasper]

Sorry guys marathon had some rough news. Pack it up. No more chatting. It's over. Go home.

[wet herald]

In Tarkov, you have a whole hideout that you can focus on all types of items. Getting upgrades for all of these workbenches gives you better recovery time, slight slightly better stamina, health regen. On top of all of this, you can actually jump into the hideout in first person and it doubles as a shooting range to try all of your guns.

[safe kernel]

Tf u yapping about bruh

[inland jasper]

Whatever comes to mind bruv

[sharp halo]

Marathon still has a chance

[inland jasper]

Ofc it does. Game fuckin ruled.

Just needs tweaking to capture a wide enough market

[sick wyvern]

Keep huffing the copium

[sharp halo]

Marathon will be like Tintanfall 3 and will get cancelled and it will finally release 2045 October

Marathon is like battlefront 3, bad company 3, half life 3.... damn why all 3rd installments never release

[wet herald]

We got M1 M2 and Infinity with all of the different scenarios.

[novel lava]

um they kinda can't make money off it anymore they put too much into it

[sick wyvern]

Persona 4 rewind has more of a chance of coming out this year than marathon has the chance of being successful

[sharp halo]

If they make it free to play.
Allow people to buy gear with money.
Gooner skins with gacha mechanics.
Operators locked to premium battle pass, once season is over they can buy at double the price.
In game events with store bundles linked.
Paid DLC.
Merch.
Store with 40$ bundles.

[wet herald]

good lord, chill with that

[still oasis]

wait - marathon stole art from a community member?!

[novel lava]

i guess but at this point i feel like there's a good chance sony is gonna take over

[sharp halo]

Take content out of the game to later release it again months later as new content

Wait thats what cod does 😮

[sick wyvern]

They should. Bungie needs to burn…

[novel lava]

but also i'm pretty sure bungie has always had internal issues anyway

[cold stump]

extraction shooters should NEVER be ftp

[sick wyvern]

(Halo 2)

[novel lava]

look at halo 2 for example

[wet herald]

To cheer some folks up, here are 2 steam codes to one of my favorite shooters: Quake 2 , have fun! 🖤 A2ITX-YNLIK-YGJNH
ZV6CG-AMXED-IQ5NM

[sharp halo]

I'm still going to cheat in tarkov with aimbot wall hacks unlimited health, unlimited ammo no reload, speed hacks

Server crashing hack

[cold stump]

but wayyy less ppl do it 😭

[sick wyvern]

True

[round cape]

You can ftp me fondle this y'know what I'll stop there

[sick wyvern]

https://tenor.com/view/limbus-company-true-project-moon-nocturnal-sweeping-intervallo-gif-12673101895845892560

[echo shuttle]

imagine stopping

say with yo chest BOI

[round cape]

With yo chest BOI

[sick wyvern]

“Boi” in 2025 🥀

[echo shuttle]

lame :/

[round cape]

🪫🪫🪫🪫🪫

[sick wyvern]

💔

[proud glade]

hi everyone

[novel lava]

idk bungie just needs to like needs to just be gutted and reworked in my opinion idk hot take maybe?

[sharp halo]

Lowkey how does hacking make gaming fun, tbh if the other player is better than me i acknowledge it and later send a not so friendly message to them

[sick wyvern]

No, you’re 100% right.

[wet herald]

Leadership yeah, the dudes over there are talented and can make a great game.

[round cape]

You can gut and rework this y'know what I think I'll keep it to myself

[sick wyvern]

Most of them have been fried

[round cape]

I'm fried too NGL

[sharp halo]

Bungie should release Halo Reach 2 cuz they left at a cliffhanger we gotta pick up our lost helmet

[round cape]

You can reach for this yeah second thought nvm

[proud glade]

tomato this man

[wet herald]

The people that are still there can make a good video game, but when you cant even give input on what players would enjoy and you're just directed to make something that you personally dont think would be great... at that point youre just working there and not making something you would play.

[echo shuttle]

you keep stoping, just say it with yo CHEST BOI

[novel lava]

wait didn't they get rid of a whole campaign in halo or something

[sick wyvern]

https://tenor.com/view/sancho-sancho-limbus-limbus-company-truth-nuke-truth-harpoon-gif-9993513397959303069

[round cape]

it with yo CHEST BOI

[proud glade]

THE FAULT LIES WITH YOU ISHMAEL

[sharp halo]

You can gut me up

[echo shuttle]

im so proud 🥹

[sharp halo]

Wait pause i didnt think before sending

[sick wyvern]

Sleeper agent…

[novel lava]

i completely agree with you but bungie in of itself from what i have read cannot function well

[wet herald]

Also cannot blame the devs for just putting their heads down and just doing their job, not after seeing 30% and MORE of their coworkers leaving the office with cardboard boxes.

[novel lava]

bungie needs new management

[echo shuttle]

Eh I mean big companies, it happens. They gotta lock in >:)

[sharp halo]

Bungie cut cost bungie workers when fired must carry things by hand, boxes are not supplied anymore

[round cape]

You can lock in on my big company know what I mean aha aha

[echo shuttle]

HE SAID IT WITH HIS CHEST BOI

goddamn gorgus man right there

[wet herald]

You know corporate failure, they bring out the chainsaw and get at it upwards. Not downwards, the devs will get cut before any leadership does.

[round cape]

Pete Parsons made a boss call said the game launches tomorrow plus he just pulled a second mortgage on each employees house. Real shit

[novel lava]

exactly and that's the issue if management is bad then everything else will be bad

[wet herald]

Pete is using my driveway at this point to park his cars

not cool

[sick wyvern]

Amen

[round cape]

Pete Parsons made a boss call actually went back in time dropped the game this morning and harvested one kidney from each current and past Bungie employee to sell to Guatemalan lime farmers. A true visionary

[sharp halo]

Chainsaw??? Chainsaw Man. 🐕⛓️🤝🔥💣

[novel lava]

idk i still think marathon has amazing potential its just ruined by well bungie

[sick wyvern]

We are publicly executing you ❤️

[sick wyvern]

Amen

[sharp halo]

Damn 💔

[wet herald]

They said, "Well our last director was an abuser, lets bring on a guy that gave us Overwatch/CSGO crossover hero shooter and btw doesnt play any extraction shooters to direct our next game!"

[sick wyvern]

I know what you are…

[novel lava]

tbh i'm just waiting for sony to take over as it will most likely happen

[wet herald]

oh yeah, they paid 3Bil, theyll absorb and pull them all into Sony Interactive Entertainment

[sharp halo]

They can save it, since the game is set in the future they can remove the stln *rt and replace it with ai cuz the future has ai boom it fits in the lore

[slim tundra]

Man do i have news for you on game leads that have made great genre breaking titles and never played them before

Awful argument lol

[wet herald]

its written into Bungies contract with Sony, if they can deliver, SONY gets control. Alot of people think Bungie can just run wild and make failure after failure

[sharp halo]

What bungie needs is impossible working hours to lock in, thats how they made halo 2 happen

[wet herald]

Regardless, Joe Z is NOT the guy for this game. He's just not.

[novel lava]

eh to completely scrap something idk if they are willing to take that risk

[slim tundra]

Not even defending the state of marathon/future but actually do some research before spewing shit ytbers tell you @wet herald

Because it just makes you look awful LOL

[sharp halo]

Ytubers? Shit? Asmongold refrence 😮

[novel lava]

good to know. this will most likely happen then, so in my opinion, it's a plus.

[wet herald]

You think I give af about what youtubers are saying? None of them ever even get into the development history of this game, they just call it Concord 2. LOL

[slim tundra]

“Joe isnt the guy” yeah they also said valorant would never break ground gs CS either, and that making that game was a pipe dream.

[wet herald]

I've been following this game longer than almost any of these little grifters have. lol

[slim tundra]

You just dont actually know what you are talking about or have done any actual research and seeing people just yap like they are experts is so tiring

[sharp halo]

We can hate on concord all we want but at the end of the day they actually paid artist to make those horrendous characters 😭🙏

[wet herald]

alright buddy lol

[novel lava]

LOL

[valid stone]

Well they paid someone to make the characters. I wouldn’t call them an artist

[slim tundra]

Brother your argument was based on a game dev never playing previous genre titles. Do you understand how many game dev leads have made BIG games never playing the genre before?

[wet herald]

Oh I offended this guy because I said something bad about Valorant LMAO, Hes a coach or something lol

[sick wyvern]

Valorant coach, opinion completely invalid

[sharp halo]

I'm an expert in anything i talk about, just ask me and i'll ask chatgbt

[novel lava]

it's kinda funny how most of the bungie devs are online rn though

[slim tundra]

Im not offended your point is just awful

[sick wyvern]

TRUE!!!

[slim tundra]

“Bro didnt have 5000 hours on tarkov how can he help lead a good extraction shooter” ignoring most games youve played your whole life have that same ideal LOL

[novel lava]

damn wtf did this chat turn into

[round cape]

Lazy response IMO

[sharp halo]

They have time to be online???? They should be working rn 😿

[cedar smelt]

Hello my fellow marathonians

[novel lava]

LMAO

[sick wyvern]

What it always devolves into

[novel lava]

how tf did it end up being an argument tf

[slim tundra]

Like critical feedback is valid. Ive given it. Speaking nonsense thinking its fact is something else entirely. Its just an uneducated take

[sick wyvern]

It always ends up in an argument

[sharp halo]

We can also hate on marathon all we want but i'll be damn we all tried getting into the alpha test

[sick wyvern]

VALORANT COACH 🥱

[golden viper]

He did a good job with Valorant. But I do wonder how much of that was just the game being clouted, right timing, and twitch culture elevating it

[wet herald]

takes 5k hours to figure out that this game needs standard features like solo queue/voip and a small crafting system? Game had no heroes before Joe Z came along, a few former devs have already come out and said that the game had features that were already in a better place before the change in leadership. But I dont know what im talking about lol

[golden viper]

Cuz Valorant isn’t an amazing game

[cedar smelt]

damn tf happened to the community man 💀

[novel lava]

sure but that was mostly before all of the stuff came out

[slim tundra]

I get paid at the VCT level all good o7

[golden viper]

Also to change so many things last second when you become director is questionably

[sick wyvern]

I’m here to goon to robots at this point😭

[sharp halo]

I dont have pic perms so ima explain the picture
Furry kid curled up with the shadow of his furry parents arguing

[cedar smelt]

Ah

[sick wyvern]

REAL

[thorn jetty]

I love that photo

[slim tundra]

@golden viper Yeh i mean im not gonna convince ppl who dislike it why its good. The numbers themselves are solid - and more so point was, theres devs that have made major titles everywhere that do not have experience playing the genre of game they made said game for.

Theres some backend competitor research devs do sometimes to get more of an idea. And not to say some CANT be fans. But theres tons of major titles across all genres that have that.

[wet herald]

They found the perfect yes man that would do the whole played out CORNY hero shooter system thing in order to aggressively push for MTX and not allow players to customize their own RUNNER. Which was HEAVILY advertised back in 2023 and completely scrubbed from all of the sites. And directly ties into this level of corpo thinking. https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/bungie-leaders-feared-destiny-2s-fancy-glowing-trials-gear-would-kill-the-microtransactions-claims-source But I dont know what im talking about because I watched 1 youtube video LMAO

[sharp halo]

Defending bungie cuz they made good games in the past is like defending kanye cuz he made graduation

[novel lava]

DAMN OKAY

[sharp halo]

But lowk he really did make graduation so like i'll let it slide this one time

[wet herald]

Graduation tho

[stuck aurora]

IF KANYE HAS 1 FAN I AM THAT ONE

[novel lava]

damn okay i see

i skimmed the article kinda interesting

[wet herald]

You try to take one of the most niche kind of FPS games and try to throw it into the limelight of AAA and you don't think that maybe, just maybe bringing in someone who knows a good amount of extraction shooters in the first place is a good idea... LMAO

[still oasis]

NHH (no hate here)

[sharp halo]

Lowk bungie should invest more money into marathon and make a AAAA game

[novel lava]

imma be honest at this point AAA games all kinda are meh

[wet herald]

I say 1 bad thing about e-date overwatch csgo and im suddenly spouting misinformation on the internet LOL

[round cape]

Is it impossible to learn / have insight on something without having done it before? Is extraction that wholly different from everything else

[novel lava]

just because its "AAA" doesn't mean the game is good...

[sharp halo]

Careful kiddo, they make the asmr i use to go to sleep with ✋

[topaz lance]

Marathon is Sony's Magnum Opus

[round cape]

The victim card shit is getting old dude stop wasting your breath w this stuff

[sick wyvern]

Real

[round cape]

It's a bummer they changed course on something you were excited about I get why it's a sore issue. Hopefully somebody else can ship the game you're looking for

[novel lava]

no it's not impossible to learn or have insight but in this kinda topic already having experience does definitely help

[still oasis]

let the man speak

[wet herald]

Not impossible, not at all. But im confident that this game would be a million times better without heroes. Everyone is going to look EXACTLY THE SAME, unless they drop 25 bucks lol

[golden viper]

Barret was part of the boys club at Bungie. A lot of terrible decisions were probably also made under his watch.

They prob picked Joey Z cuz the wouldn’t rock the boat

[sharp halo]

Lets all calm down, have a nice relaxing time by playing rainbow six 🫶

[round cape]

I wonder what free customization they got I think at 40 bucks they have to ship some

[slim tundra]

Dawg you taking it this poorly like i attacked you. I just was saying generate your own opinions and do research lol

[quick loom]

Plagiatism makes me god

[slim tundra]

Its not that deep i moved on

[topaz lance]

Arc Raiders or Marathon. Which is better?

[round cape]

You stole this joke

[golden viper]

There’s no way a director with a compelling vision would waste their time at Bungie

[quick loom]

Arc raiders

[round cape]

Taste question

[wet herald]

Regardless, players would still be able to have that creative liberty, and not get 6 canned heroes with their own backstories. Its corny and goes against this games whole narrative.

[novel lava]

^

[sharp halo]

Waifu Extraction 3D

[round cape]

It does? How?

[quick loom]

Marathon is plagiatism garbage

[topaz lance]

Thx I also think the same

[sour bobcat]

POOPING_WILL_MAKE_ME_PEE

[mild steppe]

Marathon has better gunplay and pvp, arc has more features and is a more proper extraction shooter.

[round cape]

Facts

[still oasis]

real

[round cape]

And what is plaigatism

[quick loom]

Marathon gunplay is trash all guns feel the same

[sharp halo]

No it doesnt (i have no idea i didnt get to play)

[round cape]

Cap

[golden viper]

Management either wanted one of their own (Barret) or a Yes Man (Joey Z). No one with a backbone or vision

[mild steppe]

Yeah you clearly didn’t play the game

[round cape]

Isn't it convenient that everyone who does something you don't want is spineless

[still oasis]

please don’t gatekeep

[novel lava]

you guys understand this game is not free to play i'm pretty sure...

[sour bobcat]

sounds like you might not even understand that

[round cape]

In your mouth you can keep these y'know what I'll stop right there

[wet herald]

Have you looked into the lore for the game and how it ties into the OG marathon story? Essentially we are 100 years after the events of the old games, word got back to Earth via distress signal. You are playing as a runner thats soul or whatever you wanna call it gets dumped into a shell to perform tasks and further the goals of these factions that have interest in Tau Ceti. So you mean to tell me that the people who sacrificed their bodies on earth to go and fight in Tau Ceti only have the options of 6 customized shells that already have their own stories? Cmooooon People

[still oasis]

what lmao

[novel lava]

no in September there plans were to price it around around 40

[quick loom]

Pay makes me god

[golden viper]

Joey Z might be fighting the good fight behind the scenes. But the sense I get from interviews is that he is going along with the batshit decisions the management are making for this game. His answers for hard interview questions regarding price and proximity chat are awful

[sharp halo]

We gotta account for tarrifs (they gonna find a way to make an excuse to raise the price another 30$)

[round cape]

I guess its a loose usage of the word "you"? Not that difficult to wrap my head around personally but it seems more like you gotta bend anything to your crusade just how I see it

[still oasis]

i wish they’d price marathon at $200 to keep the welfare queens out

[novel lava]

idk what you lookin at but they said it themselves https://x.com/MarathonTheGame/status/1911129962943549877

[safe kernel]

Lmao tarrifs have mothing to do with this

[quick loom]

I Would Say IT was 40 but maybe now They change to free to Play with the game having half a year now They Can Put changes in

[wet herald]

sure.

[sharp halo]

I'll use my ebt card

[round cape]

Fair enough I just know Bungie doesn't like to give answers too early and end up letting people down cuz something doesn't ship..that's the vibe I got from the stream

[novel lava]

i see

[still oasis]

sorry sweetie it’s tr*mp’s fault

[sharp halo]

Thats why i said "they'll find an excuse to raise it"

[sour bobcat]

marathons true pvp experience is free (arguing in the official discord)

[safe kernel]

Bro doesnt understand how tarrifs work but ok i guess

[wet herald]

F2P seems like a stretch considering they have a dedicated game integrity team that will be assessing matches and detecting cheaters manually along with the built in anti cheat.

[sharp halo]

Yeah the chinese pay the tarrifs

[quick loom]

The game drowns in negativ Reviews that Would be 1 step They Can Do the stuff people Want

[still oasis]

educate me mf

[safe kernel]

😑

[golden viper]

The Vibe I get is that they are cagey with their answers is that the answers they will give are unpopular with players and they know it

[safe kernel]

Naw u should of learned in economics not my problem u had a bad education

[novel lava]

did they not cancel all of their marketing too

[still oasis]

yeah just cause tr*mp destroyed education

[iron aspen]

FOR THE COMPANY BABY WOOOOOO
WELCOME BACK LETHAL COMPANY

[sharp halo]

Dont worry ik how they work, funny thing tho the chinese factories are posting pictures of all the magamerch they make on twitter 😂

[safe kernel]

Whatever u think man im not having a political debate in a video game discord

[sharp halo]

I feel truly patriotic when i have my temu flag with my temu chicken

[novel lava]

nor am i

[wet herald]

Everything is a WIP. VOIP in this case is apparently the equivilent of harnessing dark matter. Even tho it gets done right in Warzone. Literally using AI to monitor game chat to just 14 day chat ban players, but Bungie cant do something similar, goood lord

[still oasis]

another one in the can we all saw it i’m 3 for 3 against these people

[safe kernel]

All paid marketing yes

[quick loom]

Thats just normal why paY money for a Marketing campain now in a Time frame Like july to August When They Dont Release in September. They just pushed IT back 100 %

[golden viper]

Using ai for that sounds like a horrible decision

[wet herald]

But it works? People say slurs and just get comms banned and theyre alerted of it.

[novel lava]

didn't sony make them cancel it though

[sharp halo]

People these days srent even creative with ingame insults

[safe kernel]

It doesn't work tho people get banned in cod all the time for words that the ai thought were otherwords. Or not banned for slurs

[golden viper]

I’m fine with a bot that detects slurs

[sharp halo]

I'm glad warzone is doing that, it's bringing back the creativity

[novel lava]

and if so then it's not completely normal

[wet herald]

You know how interesting the game interactions are in tarkov because they allow VOIP?

[safe kernel]

Yea u gotta think of the insults now

[quick loom]

Its a cancel cause no campain now. But Its possible They take with the Promotion Company that the contract is still in place only with another Time frame.when They Are close to Release again

[iron aspen]

yes, as well as preorders
dunno if it was sonys say

[tiny gazelle]

https://tenor.com/view/marathon-bungie-bungie-marathon-vilesoup-nucaloric-gif-2608532843762662981

[sour bobcat]

i hope marathon gets VOIP so i can fart into my mic :3

[quick loom]

They Also canceld the pre order maybe cause Its free to Play now

[wet herald]

https://tenor.com/view/traxus-marathon-gif-3027289886436351691

[sharp halo]

P1. "Hey I'm friendly"
P2 "Hey me too"
Insert picture of astronaut holding a gun behind another astronaut looking at earth

[still oasis]

i don’t think AI can detect slurs yet

[sour bobcat]

hehe excumi :3

AI darth vader can say slurs

[misty estuary]

hop on battlefront

[still oasis]

yeah it can say them but it can’t detect

[wet herald]

Pretty sure the system in cod is fairly simple. They have a list of bad words, you get chat restricted for saying any of em.

[still oasis]

what are the words

[quick loom]

Plagiatism makes me god will be on the Black list

[misty estuary]

[sharp halo]

|| the bad words ||

[wet herald]

cmon now

[valid stone]

One of the is the animal that sonic is

[sharp halo]

WhAt arE thE woRds

[still oasis]

if they don’t say how do i know not to use them

[safe kernel]

Its legit 1 word u cant say thats it

[still oasis]

bro i already smoked you sit down

[safe kernel]

Its the other word for bundle of sticks or a cigarette in england

[sharp halo]

If you have one wrinkle on your brain you will know what words you cant say

[safe kernel]

It only bans for that word

[quick loom]

You only smoke Crack Like Your mum

[sour bobcat]

i think you probably have all the cultural context required to know which words you shouldn’t say.

[wet herald]

I imagine if they never add VOIP, itll just make community tasks (if they intend on adding those to the game anyhow) harder. If you cant communicate with players, theyll always just assume the worst intentions.

[still oasis]

ayyy someone wants to be number four

[safe kernel]

What the 4th guy u slept with today

[strong sequoia]

i shidded

[still oasis]

you funny ima keep you around

[sour bobcat]

why do you type like that?

[sharp halo]

Chuck P. Baker turned to Chuck D. Taker 💔

[safe kernel]

Lmao

[sour bobcat]

unsure if this answers my question in a satisfactory way. but carry on.

[safe kernel]

Ill dm u the one word u cant say

In cod voice chat

[sour bobcat]

i bet you will man

[still oasis]

please dm brad the word

[sharp halo]

It's in the new kanye song btw

[sour bobcat]

thanks! i never asked!

[safe kernel]

Its not what u think

[safe kernel]

Well u got told anyway

[still oasis]

moderators arrest this man

[magic rose]

had to leave for a while what happened?

[wet herald]

graduation tho?

[magic rose]

i got some pings but chat moved too fast

[safe kernel]

Blud hasnt responded to this yet think u beat him

[sharp halo]

1 to 0

[still oasis]

you number four i’m 4/4 now

rent free

[sour bobcat]

i thought you were 5’4

[safe kernel]

Dog he legit roasted u to.no words

[safe kernel]

5.4 inches he took

[still oasis]

aight done w u

[sour bobcat]

are you guys in the same room giggling while you type these messages? @safe kernel @quick loom

[safe kernel]

No i don't know that dude lol

[sour bobcat]

whatever you say man!

[safe kernel]

Ok whatever fantasy u believe bro

[still oasis]

when’s the game come out

[safe kernel]

Supposedly the 23rd of September

[still oasis]

bruh

fortnite’s back on ipad and my mom let me install it

ima just do that

[safe kernel]

Naw how old is this dude

[wet herald]

Fort is pretty damn fun rn

[safe kernel]

Bro made a discord account just to be here

[still oasis]

sit down number 3

[safe kernel]

Why ur account so new?

[wet herald]

oh cmon lol

[safe kernel]

Prolly cause she dumb asf

[still oasis]

fact

[sharp halo]

Big Mouth finally ended 😭🙏 no more canceling good shows for mid

[safe kernel]

It finally died

[scenic meteor]

bro ya need to go to sleep holy shit

[iron aspen]

another day another 1k members gone
feel like im in a Mr beast challenge rn

[spark barn]

do you have any matterbaby

[safe kernel]

Im at work lmao

[iron aspen]

im surprised anyone here is employed

[safe kernel]

I still got 1hr then i get to go home cant wait to leave the hospital

[iron aspen]

hell yea

[valid stone]

Not a huge reason to stick around tbh we all got baited here to play an alpha and now for all we know the game ain’t coming out

[kindred vigil]

They're all pretending

[safe kernel]

Eh there hasnt been any news of it changing from the sheduled release date

[reef summit]

the only "news" on that front is from a guy with a podcast and a "source"

[visual spoke]

[wet herald]

Eh I work from home so I have plenty of time to slack off and play games

[finite forum]

It's 420pm for me so

[wet herald]

Ye, we all got hella baited. "Come on down to play the alpha"

Awful code distribution, no comms, just overall a cheap way to try to get attention for the game.

Buncha codes handed to lame ass streamers that played the game for about 30 mins and turned it off.

I got a special invite from a friend that could send other invites to friends and Bungie never made good on that code.

¯_(ツ)_/¯ it's whateva now

[umbral rune]

Beta will have a higher peak player count, but an all time low the next day

[wheat pond]

I wonder why they only played it for 30 mins

[umbral rune]

That's my guess

[finite forum]

I give it a bit more staying power then the alpha. But not much. Games don't hold onto people anymore because there's always something replacing games in a month.

Nothing has much staying power

[safe kernel]

They probably didnt like extraction shooters thats why

[safe kernel]

Maybe we will see beta will be determining factor if its gonna be doa or not

[wet herald]

Maybe the game is just booty. Maybe they loaded up a match, got folded like laundry and wiped.

Who knows!

[kindred vigil]

I know but I won't tell

[wet herald]

My thing is, how long do we have to wait to get a line of communication?

Last thing we got was the plagiarism tweet on May 15th. We are approaching 2 weeks without a word. Discord member count is dropping like crazy, people are losing interest and there's no real attempt to save face.

What's the point in hiring community managers if they can't even engage here to try to make people feel a bit better?

[visual spoke]

idk touch grass bro

[wet herald]

I bike 30 miles before most people wake up, and im a MMA fighter, I know more Grass than most lol

[kindred vigil]

I mean they went 2 years of "going dark" so this isn't anything new (not that it's a good thing)

[serene elm]

??

[visual spoke]

how many members has the discord lost?

[wet herald]

Ye I get that, but is now really the time to be quiet with all of the negativity and content farming? I guess they're sitting down with Sony execs planning something out.

If the preorders/trailer/marketing push is stopped for now, something must replace it surely.... Right?

[kindred vigil]

idk 20k or something

[serene elm]

atleast 4 people

[deft mist]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1220347867323961394/1375751020495241218/Screenshot_2025-05-24_015627.gif

[kindred vigil]

They're probably restructuring things and trying to figure out what to do from what I remember I read an article saying Bungie is on panic mode and Sony isn't exactly happy too

[ember mountain]

Why are people getting so mad today?

[wet herald]

I believe it's -30K people in a day or so, so far.

[kindred vigil]

The day just started slime

[serene elm]

Idk but battlefront 2 is popping rn so

[wet herald]

-120K overall from peak.

[ember mountain]

W

[kindred vigil]

I mean there's no use to be in this discord server outside the alpha test thing, judging from how gen chat is I don't see why anyone would be around to talk here either

[visual spoke]

w dexis reactions

[wet herald]

Yeah, I've been following this game closely since 2023 with the ARGs and everything else but I think it's just time to forget about it until something concrete is said , it's been real boys!

[kindred vigil]

that's what Ive been saying!!!

[kindred vigil]

I mean by this point it's either an cancellation or a delay, I'd be surprised if they stick with the regular release

[visual spoke]

have to get rid of the plagiarism so

[wet herald]

Highly doubt they stick with the regular release, there's just no way lol

[kindred vigil]

thought sony might not want to cancel it, since like 3 of their live services are having issues
Concord
Fairgame$
And now marathon, they're probably not too happy with the live services blunders

[golden viper]

I can’t believe there is 17 live service Sony attempts. wtf

[wet herald]

Those boys seem to be 3 for 3 with live service flops

Well HD2 is a banger, but could've gone much better

[kindred vigil]

Maybe they should stick to those "movie" games 😭

[compact dawn]

Nah Sony need to back off the live service they can’t do it right

[valid stone]

The amount of people who would know more than most basically all agree via their independent sources that marketing is canned and with Bungie admitting to an audit this means at the veryyyyyyy least a delay — and it will probably be a significant one since if you are gonna take one in the first place you may as well try and rebuild goodwill and fix game issues

[compact dawn]

They need to stick to story games

[wet herald]

Seeing SONY fail here only means certain IPs will probably never see the light of day again. They've had some banging MP games in the past, Resistance, Killzone... But they will probably never touch that stuff now.

[charred cloak]

ugh the plagiarism is hitting hard. I made some stupid fanart and used a font someone posted here in the art section, and apparently they're ones ripped off from AR. The problem being they're on everything Bungie's put out, like all the promotional material. wild stuff. anyways, gotta delet my posts lol

[wet herald]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[valid stone]

funny thing is I could see Haven shitting the bed with Fairgames giving Marathon an extra lease on life since between the two Marathon is way more serviceable

[magic rose]

they had no intention of touching them anyway

if sony had intentions of reviving strong multiplayer games in their past they would have done so by now
instead of doing stupid shit like funding Concord

[wet herald]

Ye, I'll probably just get a remaster for a game that didn't need one in the first place

[kindred vigil]

so no killzone 5?🥀

[wet herald]

Single player games are great, I just always find value in a good MP for replayability as I usually don't go through second or third playthroughs in games unless I'm incentivized with NG+

Armored Core 6 was perfect in that sense

[magic rose]

there would be if they didnt fuck up killzone 4

[kindred vigil]

killzone shadow fall is a spin off I can't believe it's a mainline

[golden viper]

Sony stopped making killer stuff when they closed down Japan Studio and put their eggs in the boring shit movie game basket

[golden viper]

Killzone would have been turned into a nickel and diming live service

[mint light]

wish i was playing rn

[limber aspen]

Destiny is infestedi just want titanfall 3 😟

[kindred vigil]

You'll never get Titanfall 3 it's time to let go

[marble cave]

Let’s hope Sony gets some good stuff rolling out soon

[tame nacelle]

The accident wasn't your fault

[magic rose]

killzone 3's mp was f2p for a little while

both it and kz2's mp were very good

it was like playing a better CoD

[dusk badger]

I just wish Sony would even mention Bloodborne.

[magic rose]

thats interesting to consider

[stuck aurora]

Nuh uh, duskblood

[magic rose]

there is literally nothing that prevents it

Sony owns bloodborne 100%
they could do whatever they wanted with it

[tame nacelle]

Thinking Sony would mention Bloodborne is aligned with the vision that Sony cares about what people like, Bloodborne, or art.

Its been two decades of this behavior. I don't know why people act shocked.

[dusk badger]

Sony used ~one~ Bloodborne clip in an advertisement last year and hasn’t done anything with it since.

Didn’t even mention its ten year anniversary.

[kindred vigil]

I don't think sony cares about it as much the fans do

[tame nacelle]

At least Microsoft, for all its failures. And weakness. Has a strong engineering team maintaining backwards compability. Always pushing to make more and more games available for more and more people, arguably, to the point that now they have no exclusive platform (honestly good riddance). Compared to Sony who lied about BB's performance ever since the game fucking launched. And has done just about everything to be lazy.

Ten years. That's crazy.

[magic rose]

i speculate that Japan Studio was involved in the development of bloodborne and likely they held onto the source code
when Japan Studio was folded into Asobo alongside the usual layoffs, something got lost along the way
and combined with moving their headquarters and basically entire operation to US, now sony probably doesnt even remember what bloodborne was

[tame nacelle]

It's, possible but then the times they remember it are only malicious ulcers. Provokers where they pretend to have a hold over an audience they damn well know they aren't serving.

Like what the fuck was the until dawn remaster shitshow? They seriously thought they were going to get away with the original team leaving, the game getting the George Lucas treatment and Digital Foundry being shills was gonna be enough? That people wouldn't notice no ones still in-house at Sony and at launch it ran and looked worse?

Grandmas cookie tin has sewing supplies but I don't need to take a bite to know I'm going to bleed.

[restive minnow]

test am i timed out

[tame nacelle]

Yeah you're timed out. No one can see it

[restive minnow]

aw damn

[magic rose]

who here played the Horizon games?

cuz sony pushed this franchise a lot

[restive minnow]

played the first, never finished it. woke nonsense ||I'm joking||

[magic rose]

I found them... okay
not impressive in anything but graphics

the first game had some interesting lore
but the actual story they told was meh

[restive minnow]

it was pretty ill give it that

[magic rose]

second game felt like a holding pattern and the story was lame

[kindred vigil]

I mean the concept was cool I'll say

[restive minnow]

agreed

[kindred vigil]

Primitive scifi would be very cool if given to anyone else

[tame nacelle]

They seem like games that exist to show what developers with instruction manuals to SDKs and resources can do. I can't say I played it but like. The core concept is as cool a concept as any napkin cool one.

[magic rose]

but regardless
Sony seemed to have major confidence with it
they made spinoffs, promotions, etc
they even put the main character in genshin impact

[tame nacelle]

They pushed until dawn on VR. With Rush of Blood

[restive minnow]

I mean why wouldnt they

[kindred vigil]

And monster hunter

[restive minnow]

aloy is pretty universally liked and cosplayed

[magic rose]

she's very boring in the actual games
and cant stop talking in gameplay, often just saying the obvious constantly

[tame nacelle]

Diabetic overhanded design probably.

Diagetic*

[restive minnow]

news flash: game devs arent necessarily the best writers out there 🤷‍♂️

[magic rose]

no you got it right the first time

[restive minnow]

its only recently that game studios has started hiring professional writers from movies and tv shows

[magic rose]

i dont remember the names of any of the characters aside from Aloy obviously

[tame nacelle]

There's very few games that do Diagetic character talking right.

33 is one for example although tbh I'm stupid so I'm still figuring out dodge vs parry.

[magic rose]

I love it when the player character ruins puzzles or tells you what to do while youre in the middle of doing them

[tame nacelle]

God what fucking game really got under my skin with that.....was it the latest monkey island?

[magic rose]

that was a bizarre game with a weird ending

[restive minnow]

monkey island always had that

[tame nacelle]

5 is a very old veteran trying to do the game he "didn't" want to make while larping about how actually its the game "he did" its very bizarre. I like it but its rough.

I feel like if a Diagetic bark is going to be a hint it should just be a hint button or something. But clearly that does not jive with this play testing pipeline.

[magic rose]

the problem is that the discovery itself is supposed to be part of the gameplay experience
by removing that you just reduce what's supposed to be an open world to series of points that simply maintain the action-reward loop

defeating the point of an open world in the first place
ubisoft has done this for like two decades now

[restive minnow]

which game does this experience justice though. I feel like all rpgs and open world games have markers and shit. go here, do this

[verbal patrol]

I am kind of Hating and generalizing but ensuring th players enjoy themselves and have Fun seems to clash with games being solid art in general I think . I am tired of being treated like DarkSydePhil

[magic rose]

I had more fun exploring levels in Marathon 2 than anything in most of these Ubisofty sandbox games

[paper barn]

Yes sir

[surreal nova]

I still can’t reconcile how good Destiny’s grimoire was and how mediocre the writing is for most (though not all) of Destiny 2.

[lilac glade]

11 days since anything on marathon its so over chat

[paper barn]

Maybe they are preparing something big

[candid talon]

Yeah like the cancellation of the game

[round cape]

Why?

[candid talon]

I dunno why do you ask? I like saying things on the internet

[round cape]

Do you want it to be canceled?

[candid talon]

Yeah sure why not

[round cape]

Why?

[candid talon]

Why not

[round cape]

Cuz I like it

[paper barn]

Billion dollar companies losing money 👅

[round cape]

Why do you want it canceled?

[candid talon]

Anyway why not

[round cape]

Think of one reason

[candid talon]

Because

why not

[round cape]

Not a reason

[devout flame]

I would like to see it delayed. It’s the only chance Marathon has to be viewed positively again. Add proximity, fix the graphics, maybe remove the hero based mechanics and add in things that make this stand out from other extraction shooters. That’s what Bungie needs to do, because right now it’s a let down to the player base.

[round cape]

That's a deflection and I already answered

[candid talon]

Is a reason why not anything can be said or done on a whim

why not

[round cape]

Not a reason. it's asking a reason not to do it

It's a question not an answer

[candid talon]

Okay why not though

[round cape]

Cuz I like it. Why do you want it to be canceled?

[paper barn]

answering a question with a question classic

[candid talon]

Because why not

[round cape]

Not a reason it's a question

[candid talon]

Why isnt it a reason to the question

[devout flame]

Yup, a conversation that goes nowhere. 🧑🏻‍💻

[round cape]

Because it's another question not an answer

[candid talon]

why not answer a question with another question not everything needs answers so why not

[round cape]

You like to say stuff on the Internet. Why say that? Do you want it to happen? Why?

[round cape]

Because that's not answering a question it's asking another question

[candid talon]

why not

[round cape]

Not an answer

[candid talon]

why not

[round cape]

Not an answer

[candid talon]

why not

[devout flame]

I will do you one better, “Why an answer”.

[round cape]

Not an answer

[paper barn]

This is getting intense absolutely shaking in my boots

[candid talon]

why not

[round cape]

Because it's a question

[candid talon]

why isnt a question an answer sometimes

[round cape]

This case it's a question not an answer. So let's go back. You like to say stuff on the Internet. Why say that? Do you want it to happen? Why?

[candid talon]

why do you need to know so bad

[round cape]

I don't. Just curious

[candid talon]

why

[round cape]

Why'd you have to say it so bad?

[candid talon]

impulse why not

[round cape]

Cuz I'm interested

[paper barn]

absolute cinema

[devout flame]

This is entertaining.

[candid talon]

dang thats awfully hostile of you to wish ill on a fellow human why are you like this is everything okay at home?

[round cape]

Why not?

[candid talon]

why not

[paper barn]

bro😭

[round cape]

Ur mom

[candid talon]

why mom?

[round cape]

My mom?

[devout flame]

Yikes, come on guys.

[candid talon]

i come on guy

[round cape]

Hey man do what you like

[devout flame]

Or they/them, whatever you are.

[paper barn]

why not

[candid talon]

why

[round cape]

I'm lo/cus

So do you want the game canceled yes or no 🗣️

[candid talon]

why not

[round cape]

Yes or no

[candid talon]

why

[paper barn]

I didn’t know this was a game I thought we were having a heated debate I am scammed

[round cape]

Cuz I'd like to know 🤘😔

[candid talon]

anyway i gotta go to my job since i wasted the right amount of time

[devout flame]

I feel like I am watching 3rd graders talk right now.

[round cape]

Bro definitely doesn't have a job

[austere lichen]

So you all wanna get banned?

[round cape]

I'll ban ya mom

[paper barn]

why

[round cape]

Cuz I had the impulse 🥀

[paper barn]

why

[round cape]

Because I am alive!

[paper barn]

why

[silver stirrup]

Doin ya muum doin doin ya muum

[round cape]

Because when two people love eachother very much ...

[paper barn]

they form a inseparable bond 🫂

why

[paper barn]

bro is hammered

[trim summit]

what’s he hammering

[paper barn]

railroad spikes

[round cape]

Why not!

[subtle tulip]

Spicy sweet chili Doritos

[ember sparrow]

Did this server just die after the news

[golden viper]

Sony is getting scammed by Bungie

[wise spoke]

Good Morning Runners!!!

[fallen grove]

Dam they stole art

[wise spoke]

What news?

[golden viper]

They literally are rushing this game out just so they can keep it running till summer 2026, so they can then cash out their last payment from Sony buy out then bounce

If I was Sony, I would clean house and delay

[fallen grove]

They haven't even paid the artist for stealing art dam

[golden viper]

Get rid of all these C-suite fuckers

Delay the game for a year

[ember sparrow]

It sucks so much I also can’t believe the og lead had allegations on him the whole development is completely fucked

[long ruin]

God damn still no informations on that ?

[golden viper]

He’s probably not the only higher up with creepy shit. Just the one they actually dealt with; let’s be real

[long ruin]

It's like they want to manage this in house when it's a very public problem, how can exec be this oblivious to the outrage that's funny lmao

[golden viper]

That company is 💯 a frat house

[golden viper]

They must be making this process hard for anti-real. God I hate Bungie

[long ruin]

Yep pretty sure they cant comment on anything because lawyers are involved

[flat depot]

Balatro balatrez currently balatreing

[hasty crest]

tbh, bungie never going to learn and stealing arts from lesser known artits is not their first rodeo.

[rose escarp]

Pete? Are you here?

[rigid oriole]

phyton or c++?

[magic rose]

Bungie collapse let’s go

Rekt nerdz

[dawn ridge]

I haven't been here in so long, our kidnap- Marketing budget has been worn thin because they found us plagiarising murder methods (Still love the game)

wheres my man the traxus ceo

[carmine knot]

Grand Theft Arto 🤣. Haven't heard that one yet.

[dawn ridge]

i need to mida gif him like good old times

[deep patio]

This is gonna be a long wait for any news

[dawn ridge]

what are we waiting for now?

[deep patio]

News straight from bungie, or sony about the game

[dawn ridge]

i got into the alpha and it was honestly so fun, I also got into the Arc Raider TT2 and can confidently say that both are bangers, Bungie had to go and ruin any chance of other people playing the game it by plagiarizing art 😭

[round cape]

Pete Parsons called me he says the game drops tomorrow. Enjoy everybody

And yes EVERYONE is getting laid off

[dawn ridge]

I believed that "damn must be an honest mistake one person put the art into the game" but then i realised #1 its the entire art style pretty much and #2 The art team follows the artist

[deep patio]

I never got into the alpha, tho i wish i did the game looked pretty fun. I got into Arc and that was fun and kinda frustrating. They gotta redeem themselves or do something about how this is unfolding

[deep patio]

That would be pretty crazy

[round cape]

Well the art style is from the 80s and the director has art in the style from like 2010 so

[deep patio]

That would be tragic

[round cape]

Pay the woman stop stealing stuff and everyone else stop making stuff up

[paper barn]

Marathon Discord peak Discord unmoderated perfection

[round cape]

Why not?!

[dawn ridge]

I wonder what the one mod watching us thinks, probably like watching little bugs argue

[dawn ridge]

There has to be at least someone

[dusk cloud]

people following the artist isnt the smoking gun you think it is and antireal definitely didnt invent the style but it's definitely telling how poor management and the vetting process is that plagiarism like this has happened 4 times alr

[dawn ridge]

Surely

[paper barn]

Bro I’ve seen so much homophobia and one time ||a guy was talking about assaulting a mentally disabled girl||

💔

[dawn ridge]

Yeah I guess

[stuck aurora]

Antireal not inventing the style doesn't give anyone the right to steal her art.

[dawn ridge]

Gee wilikers/Aw shucks... That's quite the precarious predicament!

[dusk cloud]

fs, anyone defending bungie for stealing art is out of their mind

still shouldnt exaggerate what was stolen and what wasnt tho, dozens of other artists contributed to the visual style of the game

[round cape]

Yes. Everyone agrees on this. Nobody thinks stealing is OK. Stop pretending anyone said it's OK

[dawn ridge]

[round cape]

Truth nuke

[paper barn]

why not

[round cape]

🤑🤑🤑

[dawn ridge]

I really need to talk to my man the TRAXUS CEO. It's genuinely making me sad that no one is on this server when the hype was so real

[lilac glade]

Can we go back to the corporate advertising wars we used to have please

[stuck aurora]

Our hearts are going all out for the team that worked on this, we all agree leadership needs to be held accountable for the shit they've been doing since d1.

[dawn ridge]

This, please 🥺

[round cape]

GOATed era

[paper barn]

Remember the day before?

[stuck aurora]

"Shit happens".

[dawn ridge]

Here's a slander I made in the goated era, :( https://youtu.be/RWKhSo91jPQ?si=Ms1IXidzTW8gJQl-

[lilac glade]

im so tired 😭

[stuck aurora]

Can we have a game? Or perhaps that has become too much to ask.

[dawn ridge]

RAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!! The one discord mod... S P E A K

[lilac glade]

I am that sekiguchi fan

[round cape]

We just got Splitgate 2 bro it's peak

[dawn ridge]

Pretty accurate hey?

[stuck aurora]

Rough start but I love it.

[round cape]

But I played like a dozen hours of it over the holiday weekend and I'm a little burnt

[paper barn]

The owners mistreated devs and made them remake the game several times

[lilac glade]

Yeah they all seem pretty accurate tbh

[stuck aurora]

You mean made them flip assets every 3 days.

[paper barn]

Nahh it was originally gonna be a pve game

[stuck aurora]

The whole game was an asset library.

[paper barn]

No

Bro got hacked

[stuck aurora]

[round cape]

Pete Parsons called me told me the marathon beta is behind that link also he's wondering if you can spare a ciggy

[dawn ridge]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/768996478872977432/840140018634981396/image0.gif :(

[stuck aurora]

Spinning lego coin.

[round cape]

That's a stud to you

[umbral rune]

Mods are more blind than tiktok moderation atp

[tender lance]

Splitgate 2 looks more marathon than marathon

[umbral rune]

Should I click the link tho

[stuck aurora]

Splitgate 2 pve mode when

[umbral rune]

I'll play splitgate 2 when the xp is fixed

[frank urchin]

Oh. It's moronic hot takes hour again

[stuck aurora]

It's fixed.

There's like a whole patchnote in the #announcements tabs in the server.

[umbral rune]

Could you send me the link?

[stuck aurora]

With an apology video from the CEO.

[craggy flax]

Marathon is getting dunked on by Project Edo discord 😂

[stuck aurora]

It's in your dms.

[umbral rune]

Crazy work

[stuck aurora]

Still waiting for Pete Parson to appear on camera.

[silver blaze]

Today's my last day of school wish me luck everybody

[umbral rune]

Good luck

And do your own thing

[austere zodiac]

Yes

[long ruin]

Not very Holy intent

[stuck aurora]

What's a Holy intent?

[long ruin]

idk man I assumed it would be the same as saying christian like

[spring forge]

it’s when the Pope goes camping

[whole nest]

Lol this discord is still up?

[uncut tundra]

[wraith reef]

so 5this game failed?

holy hell i went bakc in time

[slow pike]

Alpha

[edgy parcel]

lmao

[ember summit]

Thank you.

[sharp halo]

I be having a good till i remember certain people exist

[austere zodiac]

There’s no available employees left to disable it after the layoffs. Pete parsons is too busy petting his cars.

[golden viper]

Imagine being in alpha and you’re 6 months away from release 💀

Alpha is when you’re like shipping in 2 years or something

[austere zodiac]

“Completed my essay last night” type energy

[wintry isle]

An alpha should be over a year before release

That way changes can actually be done

[austere zodiac]

They did it late so they “don’t have time to make changes”

[long ruin]

Dont tel this to the shareolders they might get grumpy

[golden viper]

And they won’t delay it, because if they release in September and wait till summer 26, then they can cash out their final payment from Sony buyout

So they are tanking the game so they can scam Sony out of money

Imagine

You run a video game business

Your job is to produce the best possible games for consumers to make it worth their money?

But instead; you decide to use a game as a ploy to scam your new corporate owners out of money

[high orchid]

Yes. Are you still down? 😏

[round cape]

Nah it's not coming out September 26

[golden viper]

SIE has to know about this, they can’t just let this shit happen. If I were in charge of SIE, I would make it so that they don’t get their payout unless they reach a quality level

[austere zodiac]

September 23 am I right? 😂

[golden viper]

Brother, we still haven’t heard any delay. I bet you that Bungie is trying their hardest to prevent a delay for their shady ploy

[round cape]

Pete Parsons called me he said it comes out tomorrow. The headquarters are getting sold and each employee is donating 3 extremities to the Pete's Dream fund. A cadre of Lithuanians are moving in and starting an artisanal basket weaving co-op

[golden viper]

Cool

[native topaz]

We reckon Marathon may get cancelled, or possibly put back into the cooking pot to get it's own art style and become a differen genre?

[round cape]

Your mom could use a new art style

[native topaz]

Gottem

[long ruin]

By the look of it Antireal might get sued and marathon keep the art

[sage owl]

i don’t think the art style is the problem 😭 just the whole corp goin on at bungie is pretty bad

[round cape]

Sue all artists to generate hot rod revenue for our guy Petey the Parson

[native topaz]

lmao, if that happened I'd never play a Bungie game again

[austere zodiac]

She deserves it, how dare she bring this to the public’s attention while the game is struggling

[golden viper]

Why are Bungie C-Suite even in business of making games if they don’t care about the quality of their games

[high orchid]

Technically, you are in alpha until you reach beta. And that can be pretty close to release.

Whether it's wise to launch open mechanics tests four months before release is a different issue.

[long ruin]

I mean the silence is heavy on bungie and antireal sides, this smell of legal dispute

[golden viper]

They aren’t going to pull it off. It’s not possible

[sage owl]

well they did say they’re reaching out privately

[golden viper]

This smells of Bungie vs Sony fighting

[long ruin]

Privately is not really an option when your entire player base is aware of the problem

[golden viper]

I would be shocked if Sony is just sitting idly by

[long ruin]

You cant save the face by doing things privately

[round cape]

Your mom is reaching for my y'know what? I'll stop right there

[golden viper]

They gotta clean house. Now

[long ruin]

Sony prbly went old up lil bro what u doing over there

[golden viper]

Yeah, they can’t afford another embarrassment like Concord. They have to act now

[brittle slate]

I just wanted to play it myself 😦

[round cape]

Ur dad can't afford another embarrassment like you 🥀🪫

[sage owl]

😭😭😭

[golden viper]

I wish I was a fly on the wall of this convos, the Sony execs have to be screaming their lungs out at Bungie

[full gazelle]

Marathon will succeed with this trajectory.

[austere zodiac]

Imagine being the rep from Sony that has to discipline the Bungie team

[golden viper]

Pete, that u? Why you on discord, go look at ur car collection or something

[native topaz]

I'm not entirely sure how they can see a good release coming from this game now, unless they remix it into something else and fix the plagiarized art issues

[sage owl]

game is fun though i like it just bungie really needs to clean house and fix whatever they got going on

[round cape]

I wish I were as noble and magnanimous as Great Pete the Par Son

[long ruin]

I can already see the discord chat on fullscreen during the shareolders pres

[austere zodiac]

I mean, ARC raiders was not well received in Alpha, they took 2 years and then it was a hit

[austere zodiac]

Pete did it in 12 Par Sons

[golden viper]

lol, I bet you one of the C-suites looks at this discord

[round cape]

My boy Pete just called.. Supposedly the game dropped yesterday? Bungie is saved they sold 8 trillion copies to a race of bacteria native to Venus

[austere zodiac]

No one has harmed themselves, so I would guess none of them do

[native topaz]

The sad thing is, the only thing really doing it for me with this game was the art and the vibes. But that's not actually bungie's so... 😅 I may have to duck this one out now if it does somehow release and do well

[high orchid]

To be honest, I've looked into what actually was plagiarized, and it could be replaced in like a couple of hours, including both drawing time and the time to search all assets and replace decals with new ones. I can't see why they would even do that since it's very easy to draw their own decals in that art style. Also, I can't see why they would go into trouble hiring Antireal or fighting her in court, aside from a frickin' token gesture to fix their frickin' reputation.

[full gazelle]

Bungie cannot be criticized.

[round cape]

Stolen textures = bad, regretable, avoidable

Stolen textures = / = whole game stolen. This just pretends all the artists who worked on the game didn't, it's reductive and untrue

Again stolen textures = bad, regretable, avoidable

[austere zodiac]

Joe. Joe. Joe. Joe. Joe.

[golden viper]

Sony could easily afford to give her 500k or something. It’s def worth it just to salvage Sony’s reputation

[uncut monolith]

This game looking DOA

[long ruin]

Yeah so why the silence, just take the art out of the game pay some money to the artist, make some comm' on what you did and move on

[round cape]

Beach volleyball?

[native topaz]

It's more that this whole thing leaves a bad taste in my mouth

[round cape]

Ya mom left a... Yeah NVM I'll keep it to myself

[golden viper]

These things take time, but there def should be some juicy compensation

[uncut monolith]

Everything can be criticized

[long ruin]

1/10 rage bait

[austere zodiac]

Dead on Alpha 🐒

[golden viper]

The question is, they can’t stick to this September release if they want to properly deal with this art issue

[uncut monolith]

Dead before that 🤣

[golden viper]

But these c-suite bozos prob want to stick to September release just so they can do their shady financial ploy of cutting and running

[wise phoenix]

Always the ones who didn’t get into the alpha hating the hardest. Game is enjoyable to play. Stop being miserable.

[native topaz]

I enjoyed Concord and it'd be sad if the same thing happened with Marathon too. I just feel like there's way too much bad press with it now to be salvaged. But I would like to be wrong, for the Devs

[wet herald]

morning, how we doin fellas

[round cape]

Favorite concord character? And why?

@wet herald I'm good man waiting for my boy Pete to call with the update

[austere zodiac]

Got into the alpha, did not enjoy a single second of the game. Played 7 hours, hoped it would get better. It didn’t

[native topaz]

Haymar was good fun

[round cape]

Filtered 😔🥀🪫

[round cape]

Never got a hang of her..Jabali though???

[limpid void]

How can I sign for alpha?

[austere zodiac]

Refined***

[wet herald]

its been a few hours now, did he get the new 2025 trailhunter? If so im jealous. https://www.toyota.com/tacoma/

[austere zodiac]

They are selling it for 20 pesos on the black market. Sign in blood

[native topaz]

He was good, his homing bullets were pretty satisfying

[uncut monolith]

Who's miserable? I don't even have time to play this game. I'm just talking about how this company openly ripped off work and put it into their game. Defending that makes you the problem

[round cape]

He got 3. One for every month the game is getting pushed up. Game drops tomorrow

[round cape]

Nobody is defending that and no one ever did. You are huffing hard drugs for breakfast

[wet herald]

Does he have enough space in his 21 car garage or does he still need to use my driveway?

[round cape]

He is expanding your driveway as we speak

[austere zodiac]

Hide your wall paintings when he comes over

[wet herald]

oh.

[uncut monolith]

Because my opinion differs from yours? Okay internet warrior 👌

[wise phoenix]

Fair. If you tried for 7 hours and still didn’t like it, game definitely not for you. I can’t see your server role to confirm or not, but I’ll take your word for it. The vast majority in the closed alpha chat seem to have enjoyed it though.

[long ruin]

Honestly now it's just funny to talk sh*t about the game but im getting tired of beating a dead dog

[round cape]

No dude it just straight up has never been defended

It's just convenient to say we defend it so you can be a VICTIMMMM

[uncut monolith]

Then we disagree on nothing

[round cape]

Exactly

[limpid void]

E PALL

[austere zodiac]

It’s still barking so I keep swinging

[high orchid]

It happened a week ago. Communication takes time. I hate that aspect of this industry, but sometimes I would wait weeks for a simple reply, because everyone is so busy. And even if they are communicating, they are probably deciding on how exactly they will act. If they actually decided to buy her work, the negotiations would take a while. And even if not, they are deciding on a joined statement or some shit. They won't and shouldn't do that publicaly. That would be a very bad idea and could potentially backfire real bad.

[golden viper]

NoJoakim why are you so defensive about this game?

Like it’s okay to liek something other people dislike

Like I love Sonic Adventure. People shit on that game, but I don’t give a fcuk if they do

Bro it’s just a video game. Do you work on it or at Bungie?

[native topaz]

I feel sorry for the devs at Bungie who just wanna make games getting sucked into all this. I know they have a lot of issues in their studio with lawsuits and other allegations, but some of them are just peeps trying to make a living. I heard moral is at an all time low in their studio (understandable) but man do their higher ups keep making oopsies it seems

[high orchid]

Your mom looking... ok

[wet herald]

Its possible that they didnt intend on a new update until they figured out all of this stuff with AntiReal, and if its turned into a lawsuit.... dont expect them to say anything for a while. And if thats the case, we are COOKED!

[austere zodiac]

I think those who remained still enjoyed, but I think close to half of us quit.

[wise phoenix]

Not defending art theft at all. Hope Antireal gets compensated very well. Also hope the game succeeds. The people who worked on this game outside of the art department don’t deserve to lose everything because some coworkers are seemingly not great people.

[uncut monolith]

Victim? Jesus-a-Christ... I said defending it makes you the problem. If you're not defending it, why do you feel attacked?

As I said, we disagree on nothing in that case. WTF lol

[austere zodiac]

Thanks for being a reasonable Marathon defender.

[long ruin]

They could make a statement on what are their intentions at least regarding the situation. I mean it's not that hard or problematic to say what they decided to do.

The fact they dont is shady as f

[golden viper]

See, thank you for being reasonable. We need more people like you who like the game but are reasonable

[pallid shoal]

public statements about a private matter between antireal and the lawyers could be illegal

[austere zodiac]

Why would they make an announcement on something they know we will hate. They are correctly not disclosing.

[raw scroll]

Lol you understand lawyers are involved and they dictate what they can and cannot do

[uncut monolith]

Eh, I'm on the fence about its success after how they reacted to the whole thing. I like the idea of it, but it's gonna take a lot for Bungie to pull this one off. I wish 'em luck, but time will tell

[earnest matrix]

Bungie groomed me into liking marathon

[golden viper]

No one wants this game to fail. I love Halo bro, why the duck would I want to see people lose their job?

[austere zodiac]

Adds up

[round cape]

Bro continues to huff straight cocaine

[golden viper]

I agree bro; the amount of silence is telling. It must be a shitshow rn behind the scenes

[austere zodiac]

Let the fenters fent

[wet grove]

because probably less than 10% of the current people working at bungie were even there during halo 3 or whatever halo you are having a nostalgia trip about @golden viper

[wise phoenix]

Didn’t even think about that. Definitely checks out that the people talking the closed alpha after the alpha is over probably enjoyed it. I also wish the “casual extraction shooter” description never got pushed. If the game launches without changing a TON of balancing and spawn locations, game will be a complete sweat fest.

[uncut monolith]

I hope whatever you're going through bets better

[high orchid]

No, they shouldn't. Because intentions may change during negotiations, and if they make any statements, they will just shoot themselves (and Antireal) in the foot. They should first reach an agreement, then make statements. The statement they made (to fix this mess) is enough at this point.

[deft fable]

When is the next chance to play the game?

[rugged gyro]

Make the game free to play as an apology to gamers

Earn the people’s trust back.

Yall got enough millions to float salaries until it pays off

[round cape]

Dude is the 300th to drop the same smelly deuce in the last 13 hours talking about "why are you guys defending so much why are you so attacked?" Dude we just don't wanna smell the same dumps all day

[austere zodiac]

I think having a full kit with gold gear and attachments filled out was a good feeling, but the rest of the game feels like it’s missing the “Bungie Magic” from Halo or Destiny

[golden viper]

Why are you so angry that people are naturally discussing this shitshow?

[uncut monolith]

Bro's clearly butthurt

[round cape]

Alert the 301st and 302nd deuces have dropped I repeat

[native topaz]

Should we maybe move on from who's defending what and who's attacking who? Devolving into a bit of a rage fest lol

[austere zodiac]

There are no second chances in Ba Sing Se

[golden viper]

Go back to managing your company, Pete

[long ruin]

if they keep everything public and shit goes sideway because antireal is being unfair in demands or they are being unfair I mean at least you get to decide for yourself if they deserve your money. And a statement on what they want to do to resolve the matter is not a problem if they are not trying to pull some weird move after it

[austere zodiac]

No, my popcorn isn’t ready yet

[pallid shoal]

and the statement will probably be "settlement reached for undisclosed amount", "identified copyrighted material removed from game" and "antireal waives the right to sue for the identified copyright infringement"

[raw scroll]

Lawyers 😂😂😂😂😂 I don't know what to say

[round cape]

More convenient projections and hallucinations

[wet herald]

This is probably another reason theyre afraid of Solo Queue with way they have map spawns for the Trios right now.

[wise phoenix]

How “they” reacted is crazy. If you think that the vast majority of the people who worked on Marathon aren’t upset about what happened, I think you’re crazy. The higher ups and the PR team are the people who get to respond. The people who actually worked on the game have to silently watch as people hate on their game for their coworkers decisions and probably just for fun.

[golden viper]

You are defending a corporation like you are some shareholder bro. Ofc I’m going to joke that you’re the ceo

[quick seal]

Game will be free?

[round cape]

I'm not defending shit holy fuck

[uncut monolith]

It's the internet. Often those people feel satiated to continue this type of drama as their lives are that boring they need some kind of excitement elsewhere.

The attacking however, should be done. It's rather sad

[austere zodiac]

Absolutely. Too many teams fighting off spawn will make this game even more like a respawn simulator.

[round cape]

You just pretend I am because it's convenient

[honest prairie]

dead game fr

[golden viper]

I feel so bad for the ordinary devs, none of them wanted this shit

[austere zodiac]

Unborn game. Had to be alive to die.

[high orchid]

Yeah, but that's another issue. Antireal declared she doesn't want publicity. Making this public would be another d*ck move to cover their asses. Out of basic respect, they shouldn't. I know you want to know what's happening. Me too. But confidentiality in such matters is for the best.

[round cape]

none of them? Unlikely

[visual bronze]

men

[honest prairie]

you can kill an opportunity

[uncut monolith]

At the end of the day, I'm speaking about the public situation. It's been handled extremely poorly. Your point is completely valid, I wasn't talking about the internal situation at all. More about the "brand" image and public eye.

[wise phoenix]

7 hours and you had a full gold kit is pretty lucky. Definitely does not have the bungie magic, but it is still a fun game. Worth $40, probably not. Hopefully they figure out a pricing scheme that makes more sense.

[golden viper]

Wdym? Ofc the ordinary devs don’t want to see art theft in their game

[round cape]

I thought you were talking about making the game in general

[raw scroll]

All of you angry whining kids will be playing anyway 😂😂😂

[high orchid]

I hope not. But that's also possible.

[round cape]

Thank you monkey AI image

[long ruin]

That's a mistake on her part honestly she could have reached out to them privately she choosed to do it publicly now everyone is involved, I at least expect a statement from her on the result of the exchange with bungie, buying the game for me kind of depend on it

[visual bronze]

penis 😂 😂 😂

[tawdry olive]

next to type is lying

[earnest matrix]

Remember, this is art theft, the whole art department should be fired, not the devs, the ones push Code, not pretty images

[quick seal]

This game will be free?

[austere zodiac]

Not full, but getting all attachments and buffs with some of the rarer drops was such a different feel. Triple jump glitch with no reduced fall damage was fun for instance. But you have to grind hours to get that and lose it in one bad fight

[visual bronze]

Yes

[long ruin]

that said it's mainly because I dont want to trust some half assed lawyer statement from bungie

[native topaz]

That's why they're angry and whining tbf. The most angry are the ones who want to like a game and feel the need to let out their frustration. #deeptalk

[golden viper]

If no one buys it then it will be

[quick seal]

Thanks nezerath

[wise phoenix]

Solo queue would come with a lot of its own balancing changes. Definitely not something they would likely be able to squeeze in before a September release. A 2026 release would probably slow for it, though.

[visual bronze]

Your good

[high orchid]

Yeahhhhh. That's the problem. She decided to play a "cancel culture" card and should be a subject of all the risks it involves.

[golden viper]

Game will fail without solo queue

[dreamy crow]

easier said than done. that investment closes the studio easily

[round cape]

The leads and bosses and people meant to check this stuff should be fired. Still tons of original art in the game no reason for them to take the fall

[austere zodiac]

Idk apex has been fine for years and had no issues ignoring solo que

[pallid shoal]

def, the "no solo queue" smells like something they decided to leave out just to save time and focus on the "intended" experience rather than making something players can play the way they want

[austere zodiac]

Also, Void only/solo mode would be so boring so fast

[pallid shoal]

imho it's bananas to make a game that can be played wrong and that's the biggest drag on marathon as they proposed it

[round cape]

Monkey mode

[visual bronze]

penis 😂 😂

[round cape]

Bro is kinda goated

[dreamy crow]

oh damn

[wise phoenix]

Yeah, what happened sucks and how they responded to it sucked. I don’t get why people ignore the random, unwarranted super hate from the alpha though. Before the art stuff ever entered the public’s eyes, everyone and their mother was hating on the game because their favorite streamer thought it wasn’t great or some other reason. Only a few thousand people actually got in.

[round cape]

Yeah people hate Bungie

[wise phoenix]

That’s the way of extraction unfortunately. But in the full game, you will accumulate more and more keys, resources, and kits. That will make getting gold items easier.

[high orchid]

This is a VEEEEEEEERY small art theft. The amount of art being stolen could be drawn from scratch by a single artist in an hour. There is no reason to fire the art department because they physically couldn't be all involved. It's either a single extremely lazy artist, or someone just put those as placeholders and forgot to replace them. Personally, my bet is on the latter because, again, a single hour of a single person. Why the hell would you steal a single man-hour of work for a project that involves tens of thousands of man-hours of work?

[dreamy crow]

"public situation. its been handled poorly" wth can they do because it seems to me it could have been a different scenario but i dont think it would solve nothing. people just seem to be wanna be angry for the sake of it so youtubers can make arm chair videos like industry insiders recycle the planet people this world is polluted

[uncut monolith]

Oh, I've not once hated on the game itself. Like I said before, I like the idea, and frankly want to see a game like this - hence why I'm here in this Discord. I have no idea why people blindly hate on stuff, especially when there's no hands on or actual reason.

I just hope this whole situation with the art/design gets made right. That was where my disgruntled "hate" comes from lol

[earnest matrix]

This is the 6th time that happens

[austere zodiac]

Like ARC was fun instantly, I lost track of time and was fully immersed. I never got any of those feelings with marathon.

[dreamy crow]

you idiots hated the artstyle regardless now some fonts and symbols thieving gonna make a better excuse for haters. they even say the whole aesthetic

[high orchid]

I'll tell you a secret: it happened more times than that. Also it happens on every project ever created. Most of the time it's just doesn't get cought.

[uncut monolith]

I.P theft is theft, regardless. That creator has a very strong legal case if they wanted to pursue it. Whoever is responsible should be reprimanded, not the entire department if they were unaware. Either way, Bungie should do better, and sadly this is a recuring thing for them

[dreamy crow]

antireal didnt even make those fonts dammit 😂

[austere zodiac]

She won’t pursue

[wise phoenix]

I don’t think there exists a scenario where the game will succeed at this point. Too many people having bad opinions and sharing them. Is the game great? No. Is the game dogwater? No. The game is mediocre. That’s just from the alpha. They can only go up in quality, and they seem to have some content they haven’t shared yet. Many mediocre games have huge success because they have a public perception umbrella like call of duty. So many mediocre call of duty games, but they all see huge success.

[pallid shoal]

i forget the name of the rhetorical strategy of just vomiting bullshit that's easily disproven but people anchor to and share if it feeds their existing biases

[uncut monolith]

Regardless, it doesn't make it right

[austere zodiac]

Agreed, but they will act differently knowing she won’t

[uncut monolith]

More than likely, which is the worst part. Either way, it's something that's beyond our control

[dreamy crow]

no matter what bungie does it wont be effective cause people love drama and hate whatever is popular. then a studio closes or suffer layoffs and its oh no. oh but wait is because everyone is chasing trends huh? my dog chasis his tail too

[wise phoenix]

I believe it. Arc seems like it’s going to be a huge success. Personally, I had that fun experience with marathon too.

[high orchid]

She already damaged them much more than the court could ever do. So, it doesn't matter.

[austere zodiac]

I was really hyped for marathon, the trailer sold me, and then the game was nothing like it

[uncut monolith]

How so?

[rigid oriole]

when you watch something on temu VS when you open the package

[ember mountain]

I like musty woman

[wise phoenix]

We have no idea what Bungie and Antireal have discussed. There’s no reason to beat a dead horse even deader. Everyone constantly trashing the game and Bungie for the art situation and never looking at anything positive is bound to kill the game.

[novel lava]

bro i go to sleep and wake up and yall are still talking about the same thing

[ember mountain]

Ye I thought I was going to be getting some hoodies with cool designs with turns out they were plastic designs

[pearl lagoon]

I think Bungie should sell the Marathon IP to tencent. At least we'll get a successful gotcha game out of it, that'll somehow be better than the alpha.

[austere zodiac]

Mature game, virus blowing people’s heads, blue blood everywhere, savage alien planet type feeling.

[ember mountain]

I’m gonna sniff you all over

[uncut monolith]

Public perception is a powerful thing. I'll leave it at that

[uncut monolith]

https://tenor.com/view/paris-hilton-thats-hot-hot-gif-4269087

[austere zodiac]

Go take a sun bath

[golden viper]

Apex came out at the right time before battle royal was oversaturated, added enough mechanics to stand out from Fortnite; was free to play, and was in genre that is far more accessible that extraction shooter

[wise phoenix]

I had a very similar experience initially. Cinematics were incredible. The gameplay trailer dropped and I was extremely disappointed. Got into the alpha and played with an open mind, and I was pleasantly surprised.

[round cape]

I did. Imagine that. Different experiences

[dreamy crow]

worst part about all the negativity is that we still dont know how the full product plays and looks. how sad is that 😂

[wise phoenix]

Wise words master yoda

[round cape]

I was worried I might not like it. Lucky me. I loved it

[dreamy crow]

playtest means nothing it wasnt even a public beta and people talk about the player numbers dimming down. wha!?

[paper barn]

Why

[austere zodiac]

I think most people didn’t and the few who did are in this discord

[wise phoenix]

Very odd for companies to leave out important features to meet deadlines. I will never wrap my head around it.

[round cape]

Good to own it by saying "I think" better than pretending to know

[pearl lagoon]

So is marathon suspended indefinitely, or will it release sometime in the next few years ?

[paper barn]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1371320284858159205/1371332724266369055/image0.gif

[high orchid]

Every time another frickin' troll from twitter comes along the discussion starts anew.

[wise phoenix]

Same

[paper barn]

Click this please

[austere zodiac]

Again, public perception vs individual experience

[austere zodiac]

Instantly blocked

[paper barn]

He hates cat gifs

[dreamy crow]

it better be a cat gif

[austere zodiac]

Don’t get baited

[fickle shell]

I initially thought the same thing. "There's not much to do, and everything is being wiped, so why play for more days?" Then I signed up for arc... The incoming wipe didn't matter, I wanted to play every day

[paper barn]

no scam all cat guaranteed

[rigid oriole]

it's a plane

[wise phoenix]

Public perception is obviously the most important thing when it comes to any product. Unfortunately, the general public don’t have the ability to form their own opinions.

[dreamy crow]

it was a cat

[paper barn]

damn right

[round cape]

This is how I felt about marathon

[high orchid]

People like to discuss metrics they don't understand.

[austere zodiac]

You should start with this instead of the logic arguments

[dreamy crow]

i hate that embark has to be pinned in the middle of this. great talent and studio 😭 . and i hate that their game is being used to destroy this one. which i also believe in

[round cape]

I always do

[fickle shell]

Based on the only numbers we actually have, u were the minority sadly

[rigid oriole]

thats what concord devs said

[lilac pebble]

still true

[round cape]

What numbers? The planned to be private barebones alpha that was mad peublic last minute? Oh no it didn't retain as well as a public test w friend codes

[stuck aurora]

Good ol' "This game's not for you".

[paper barn]

I think everyone is rage baiting each other atp

[austere zodiac]

463 players on marathon of the 30k codes given out

[fickle shell]

Point stands 🤷‍♂️

[dreamy crow]

friend codes barely were a thing

[round cape]

With incomplete info sure

[stuck aurora]

You new here?

[dreamy crow]

it was a playtest with no nda

[lilac pebble]

i wonder if bungie regrets opening the alpha like they did

[high orchid]

And they were right.

[dreamy crow]

steam numbers are not counting the console players either

[paper barn]

[rigid oriole]

explain

[austere zodiac]

They both were

[long ruin]

Well there is no game anymore

[round cape]

We'll never know

[stuck aurora]

[rigid oriole]

how?

[brittle slate]

Are people starting to make up numbers here? lol

[fickle shell]

And most people didn't want to play test for more than a day. It's not complicated

[austere zodiac]

For sure - the artist issue would not have come up

[dreamy crow]

what i meant is. not everyone gets a code

[lilac pebble]

how what? players love to talk about metrics they don't fully understand the meaning of, it's just a fact

[dreamy crow]

or access to play

[fickle shell]

True. Which is why I said "the only numbers we actually have". It could be that for some reason console players liked it more, but that's assumption vs real numbers

[rigid oriole]

so if we talk about the low player count and the negative reception of marathon, we are wrong?

[austere zodiac]

90% of statistics are made up on the spot

[lilac pebble]

never said that

[dreamy crow]

yea sips coffee

[lilac pebble]

i love discord conversations because you'll say one thing and the other person imagines a whole other sentence lmao

[austere zodiac]

They aren’t ready to talk about that

[rigid oriole]

thats how lenguage works in internet lol

[long ruin]

You talked about metrics in general so yeah you said that be specific

[rigid oriole]

I mean tahts why I understand

[lilac pebble]

no not really, i was just agreeing with the other guy. Never said that it means everyone talking about marathon's player count are wrong, because there are million different people saying a million different things

[wise phoenix]

6700 peak with ~1500 average throughout the test. If 30k people got codes, they had to have signed up for them. Idk the numbers, but I imagine there were over 100k sign ups. If the test allowed for more players, I’m certain we would see a lot more people who enjoyed it.

[round cape]

Friend codes enabled as well would've made a difference

[wise phoenix]

True

[austere zodiac]

But this a company that only makes bad decisions. You weren’t getting a friend code.

[pallid shoal]

features are always cut because there's always more people want to do, but it became a software MBA fetish to cut stuff to the point of mismanagement and just throw their weight around defending their sunk cost

[long ruin]

Wasnt the play test only open in america too ?

[wise phoenix]

I got 2 friend codes. But I get your point lol.

[rigid oriole]

watching the general consensus of the gaming community, marathon is not doing well

[stuck aurora]

Servers in America, but people could play from other countries.

[lilac pebble]

yes, but there was no region lock so you could just lie

[lilac pebble]

yeah i think anyone can agree on that

[rigid oriole]

whistlist can be another metric we can I agree is bad, marathon is on number 58

[dreamy crow]

too many games

[round cape]

Bad decisions or "this test was supposed to be private' decisions. See

[rigid oriole]

I just want game to be dalayed so bungie can cook another year more

[long ruin]

It's already overcoocked

🫡

[dreamy crow]

i dont want it to fail without knowing its full potential

[rigid oriole]

prob, but based on my experience on destiny 2, they can deliver, just let them cook a little more

[tiny sphinx]

Tbh the way they spoke about it, im not sure if they would’ve caught it before release. Bungie has 4 prior instances of plagiarism not including the lawsuit

[wise phoenix]

I just got a bachelors in engineering and I am 1 year off a masters in business administration and I promise you that 90% of the people in these programs will not be good at what they do. Test averages in the C range when professors send out practice tests that are exactly the same as the test but with the numbers slightly tweaked.

[austere zodiac]

Every video is:
“Marathon is Cooked”
“WTF is Bungie doing”
“Bungie steals ART”
“Why Marathon is delayed”

[dreamy crow]

they are all the same bullet points too i think they are 3d printed humanoids spreading propaganda

[austere zodiac]

Veo 3 has the formula down

[dreamy crow]

omg see the veo 3 thing before that the studio ghibli renders. now they wanna close bungie down for decals. aint that crazy!?

[wise phoenix]

This opinion is always strange to me. Destiny 2 had a very underwhelming launch and an even more underwhelming first couple dlcs. Let Marathon launch poorly, support it, and give it the chance to get the forsaken treatment.

[dreamy crow]

this world is cooked

[wise phoenix]

Delay isn’t necessary

[dreamy crow]

bungie is just a piece of carrot in this soup of a world

[rigid oriole]

| think is too risky for a new IP, imo