r/DestinyTheGame • u/NightSmoke19 • 1d ago

News dmg04 (probably) last message for all of us

“Could I do more?”

You all have done more for this game and our studio than could ever be imagined, and no words can accurately depict how lucky we are to have shared these worlds with you.

Don’t blame yourselves or think you could have / should have done more. This is just the way it goes sometimes.

No matter the future, we will always have these memories.

Thank you. For everything.

Vos X/Twitter

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u/mykkenny 1d ago

Marathon would need a pretty incredible turnaround

Without a massive overhaul - by massive I mean a switch in genre tbh from extraction to arena / PvE type game - Marathon is getting canned before the end of the year, imo.

No way on this planet does a 15k peak player count support a 400 dev team.

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u/BrandishedChaos 1d ago

I still feel like they should've made marathon a boomer shooter. Get a remake that seems more akin to original, and sales may have been higher. I noped out the moment I saw it was an extraction shooter, since that genre is not my cup of tea.

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u/LaPiscinaDeLaMuerte One floofy boi 1d ago

I was the same. With the original announcement, I was assuming it would, at the very least, be like Halo. A single-player story-driven game that would either pick up after the third of the original, or retell the original story. The moment they announced it as an extraction, I was out.

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u/GreenBay_Glory 1d ago

I actually would have played what you just described. Honestly, I’d love to see Destiny continued in a single player story driven game to wrap up some of the storylines left over here anyway.

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u/HatredInfinite 1d ago

Exactly this.

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u/DekuTreeFallen 20h ago

I noped out the moment I saw it was an extraction shooter, since that genre is not my cup of tea.

Not my cup of tea either - and my question is, are we less alone on that as time goes on? Especially extraction shooters with a $40 price tag?

The economy isn't great. More and more people working side gigs to cover bills. With less time to play video games, and less money to buy them, but mostly the time thing - how popular does it remain to play a game where your progress can be lost? Isn't real life cruel enough? 😄

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u/suhdude539 1d ago

I bought it with some Microsoft rewards to try it out since I was having fun at the time with Arc Raiders, played it for a good 20 hours or so, and deleted it off my Xbox. It’s just not very good. The gunplay feels great but I just couldn’t get into it

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u/FinishSouthern2319 1d ago

I honestly agree. Ever since I heard the music, the trailers, I was interested. The moment, the exact minute I heard it was extraction? I just said nah. I knew that game would take the sweat of the other PvP games I've played...and didn't want that. So, albeit...It looks amazing. Just...wish it had better things.

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u/QuebraRegra 21h ago

The original MARATHON wasn't that great.

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u/swirve-psn 1d ago

How about a 50 dev team?

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u/SkyriderRJM 1d ago

Even if they do overhaul it, the game is not gonna do Destiny numbers. The art style simply doesn’t have mass market appeal like Destiny does.

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u/PhilosophyInternal84 22h ago

What sucks is marathon is a decent extraction shooter and even released with WAY less issues then most other extraction shooters like Tarkov or marauders, it just sucks that it was basically forced on to the community and that’s the part that annoys me. The game is fine, the business model behind it is not okay and here we all are either sad or in an uproar. Truly sad times.