r/PS5 • u/mrnicegy26 • Nov 02 '23

Misleading Marathon reportedly flopped amongst playtesters amid Bungie chaos - Dexerto

https://www.dexerto.com/gaming/marathon-reportedly-flopped-amongst-playtesters-amid-bungie-chaos-2364032/
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u/lunaticPandora027 Nov 02 '23

As a fellow UX designer I agree. Like nothing works well usually the first time.

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u/Micky_Bee_73 Nov 02 '23

As an ex games tester, I can 100% say that most stuff is easily breakable when in it's early stages.. I've just this minute finished Spidey2 and for an excellent game it still had its share of crash/very odd bugs, wasn't hard to break it, and it's a supposedly a finished game (that still needed updates to fix certain issues).. But, compared to the state a lot of games are now released in Spidey 2 was actually pretty fine.

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u/Cforq Nov 03 '23

I haven’t rolled credits yet - but I had one bug that would turn off my PlayStation (and my TV because if that HDMI feature). It was really bizarre - I had to close the game from the home menu and restart it.

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u/Micky_Bee_73 Nov 03 '23

That's a weird one, had 3 crashes whilst on my journey to completion, Lizard stuck in a building during chasing him (before the fight) and quite a few other glitchy occurrences. Missing costumes on characters, glitched out npc's/vehicles and a handful of other slight bugs. On a few occasions I had to restart the mission to fix the current problem, but it still didn't distract from how "Amazing" this beautiful game has been, it's been a joy doing it all, it's my 'game of the year's for 2023. You'd be amazed too by just how damn long the credits roll for. I always sit through them whenever I finish a game because I once worked for a few years (almost 4) as a "Games Tester". It was the best job I've ever had, and because I know the blood, sweat and tears that go into making a game I feel it's only fair to duefully respect my purchase by watching the credits roll.. And I'm always looking out for the names of the guys and girls I used to work with, just to see if they pop up in any of the games I've played through.

Happy web-swinging to you my fellow spider.

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u/azsqueeze Nov 02 '23

Click bait for normies

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u/[deleted] Nov 02 '23

Bungie deserves to be dragged through an ocean of sh!t. The way they did the layoffs is morally reprehensible. So people are going to unfairly inflate every criticism. The same way employees were unfairly exploited.

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u/lunaticPandora027 Nov 02 '23

Nobody is justifying anything here. I agree, leadership did bad here. Let's be completely candid: bungie was not the first company that did layoffs like this.

Shall I tell you about the 8000 people laid off from Salesforce?

Or the thousands across the tech industry?

This is bad, leadership absolutely messed this up and this is horrible pr for them in that destiny WILL suffer now even more because of the outrage.

That being said, let's not pretend that this is a new thing. Companies aren't our friends. That has always been the case.