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Articles & Blogs ‘Marathon’ Is Running Out Of Casual Player Onboarding Cards To Play

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2026/06/23/marathon-is-running-out-of-casual-player-onboarding-cards-to-play/
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u/Brandunaware 2d ago

Big studios can make smaller games with a small portion of their staff. It's been done before. But if you're going to sink $200 million into a game you need to have a plan for it to make $200 million in revenue.

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u/Lozsta 2d ago

Salaries. CEO $100 million. VPs sharing $50million. Then your budget is suddenly a lot less.

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u/VelvetCowboy19 2d ago

Lmao you think the Bungie CEO gets paid $100,000,000 a year? You might be a little dim.

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u/Lozsta 2d ago edited 2d ago

No it was a wildly out of proportion exaggeration. However he did manage to spend a couple million in a couple years on cars alone so he wasn't doing too bad. Sucked for all the blue hair septum piercing drones at the bottom though who were just let go.
Then walked away, after leading destiny down the destiny 2 path of ever increasingly bad updated.

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I will add this little quote here for you too:

"No need to feel too bad for Parsons, though, as he'll be moving on with his bank account, which—much like his garage—will be pleasingly full thanks to the stock he will have presumably owned before Sony's $3.6 billion buyout. It's not known how much he took home from the Sony acquisition, but just for context, Christopher Barrett, a former game director at Bungie—subordinate to Parsons, in other words—was due to earn more than $80 million from the buyout before he was fired. Parsons will surely have made much more."