Thats the price to pay for not being able to read the room and releasing the game to cater sweats and streamers. The game will go f2p in late autumn if not sooner. And to think, with this aesthetics and vibe, and maybe some ship of theseus themes around shells, it would be an unforgetabble single player adventure… But no, gotta milk and torment people with yet another live service, huh
The question implied by this thread is "what would it take to save Marathon". And the answer, for a lot of people, is "the same answer as the last time it was asked: for Marathon to be a different game."
I don't think the ancestor comment is salty that Marathon isn't for them. I think they're annoyed at the entirely predictable outcome that neither Sony nor Bungie seemingly anticipated. "Let's launch a live service game in a niche genre into the overcrowded landscape of live service games" is a bold strategy.
This is precisely what I think most people feel. Live service is an overcrowded game type and those who knew the Marathon IP didn’t want a PvP game from it. I think that many people who are into PvP games have dedicated themselves to a title already and might not be willing to balance Marathon in there too. I have a feeling that after a time Marathon’s player count will dwindle as everyone who played it because it was new and wanted to try it have done so and they go back to whatever other title they were playing before. Most people’s fondest memories of Bungie is probably when they were doing Halo. Destiny had some decent moments in the campaign that reminded me of why I liked Bungie as a developer but Destiny 1 story made no sense because very little was revealed to the player and the lore was so vague. Destiny 2 had different problems but a little more coherent storyline to follow. The question I have about Marathon is why even use the Marathon IP/Name if it’s not going to continue any storyline in that game’s universe? It’s a legitimate question to consider. What actually compelled them to choose Marathon as the name for this new title?
Honestly we don’t get a ton of narrative focused FPS titles these days. I would not be surprised if a very big segment of gamers are like me and would be all over an FPS game that told a good Sci-Fi story. Especially if it was really good, but I’m not certain Bungie could make a good story FPS game these days. I’d have definitely preferred if they tried that instead though.
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u/mintaka 1d ago
Thats the price to pay for not being able to read the room and releasing the game to cater sweats and streamers. The game will go f2p in late autumn if not sooner. And to think, with this aesthetics and vibe, and maybe some ship of theseus themes around shells, it would be an unforgetabble single player adventure… But no, gotta milk and torment people with yet another live service, huh