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[StreetsofBeige]

It's a holiday everywhere tomorrow, so it will probably go up again later.

Ya, totalky forgot it's Memorial Day in the US.

It's now at 10.7k. Maybe it zooms up after dinner to 11-12k.

 

[rkofan87]

Ya, totalky forgot it's Memorial Day in the US.

It's now at 10.7k. Maybe it zooms up after dinner to 11-12k.

10.7k lmao

 

[Alan Silvestro]

Someone tell Sony that forcing a crappy game on players doesn't magically make it good… if they keep pushing this abomination, they clearly have no idea what their users and fans actually want. Their loss!

 

[duhmetree]

Or, and thats way more realistic and probable scenario- each week marathon is up and those few hundo 6 and 7figures salaries bungie devs wasting time on that project company brings more and more losses.

Unless ofc each dev at bungie is willing to take cut to their salary at same %age the game is making less cash, aka 88k ccu at launch in march, now barely 10k so 80% cut in june vs every1s feb salary, that would make studio survive but obviously no dev gonna take responsibility for their terrible product

I say send there hermen so he can do what he does best- studio layoffs/clousure

Well, they can do us all a favor and cut all the DEI/Woke slop.

It would be nice to get a studio that just wants to build fun and engaging games. Stop bringing ideology into the workplace

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

The problem is the game is a casual extraction shooter

 

[Hollywood Hitman]

You legit must not be a man… Do you not like Challenges? The reason why video games aren't movies is to be active and to challenge you. That's why gaming is typically a male dominated field when females started coming into the dev gaming spaces is when single player games actually started getting easy outside of the old school movie games most games didn't give you a map and tell you where to go you had to figure it out.

Challenging and losing time are two different things.

Been there for it all, every game that is considered "challenging" I guarantee I played it and or most likely finished it, I been at this all for 45 years

 

[Zannegan]

I still think D3 or the IP will continue. With or without Bungie.

It's not a secret that Bungie's management sucks. Right now, they have Marathon. Before they even focus on a D3, which is a massive $$$ sink, they need to start bringing in money. If Sony can salvage the game, it can pay the bills. Business wise, Sony wants it to pay for itself instead of investing more money.

IMO Destiny needs a CoD type of game management. 3+ studios working on it and releasing major updates alternating years. Can't rely just on one mismanaged studio in Bungie. Maybe they' can be the 'main' guys moving forward but to support a game like this they need a lot of help. Activision did it for a bit with 2 other studios and it actually worked out pretty well. Call of Duty has 10+ studios working on it.

It all comes down to Sony and how they want to handle it. Right now, it's just my opinion.... They want to try and get Marathon to a point where it can pay for itself and also mitigate d3 costs. Is that possible? yes. Is it likely? Who knows at this point, but they're in a deep hole... . infusing Destiny type of PvE into Marathon- campaign, end game for casuals ( strikes/raids/dungeons) , more pve depth will go a long way in building a player base though imo. If Marathon fails, I still think the Destiny IP continues, with or without Bungie.

A FROMSoftware, Destiny prequel in the dark-age after the collapse... I'm there for it.

You're more likely to get Destiny: Hunters, tbh.