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[Men_in_Boxes]

Even my Hunt playing friend who's never played Destiny or Halo?

I don't think you're friend represents a meaningful percentage of the PvP population.

Many of the most popular PvP games are colorful. Marathon looks great.

 

[falconhoof]

I don't think you're friend represents a meaningful percentage of the PvP population.

Many of the most popular PvP games are colorful. Marathon looks great.

I wonder why people would choose to write articles about it using this kind of language then.

The thing is, pretty much all elements of Marathon's artwork could work, but in the combination of how they've been employed they don't. I'm no art analysis who knows how to structurally breakdown why, I just know that other things that share vague similarities to Marathon look great and Marathon does not. Ghost in the Shell, Mirror's Edge, Wipeout, and the general work done by The Designers Republic.

Marathon is the video game equivalent of the Jaguar rebrand. This is coming from me, someone who's never been into Halo, and probably spent no more than 20 hours in Destiny.

 

[Boo Who?]

Again, played Marathon and I like what I played. Runners look like ass. I like buying skins. Nothing even came close to make me want to pull the trigger. The characters look like shit and the guns look worse.

I've bought about a half dozen Arc Raiders skins, and they are not the best, but their worst skin is better than anything in Marathon. I have at least a couple hundred bucks in Marvel Rivals skin. I don't even want to know what I spent in Fortnite. I have PUBG skins, tons in COD. Marathon looks like shit. It's simple. I know a lot of people that only play PvP games, I could not talk any of them into buying this, and I'm glad I didn't. Number one reason, they hated the way it looked.

 

[falconhoof]

Again, played Marathon and I like what I played. Runners look like ass. I like buying skins. Nothing even came close to make me want to pull the trigger. The characters look like shit and the guns look worse.

I've bought about a half dozen Arc Raiders skins, and they are not the best, but their worst skin is better than anything in Marathon. I have at least a couple hundred bucks in Marvel Rivals skin. I don't even want to know what I spent in Fortnite. I have PUBG skins, tons in COD. Marathon looks like shit. It's simple. I know a lot of people that only play PvP games, I could not talk any of them into buying this, and I'm glad I didn't. Number one reason, they hated the way it looked.

You're clearly a SP gamer or something I dunno. Am I doing this right?

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

I wonder why people would choose to write articles about it using this kind of language then.

The thing is, pretty much all elements of Marathon's artwork could work, but in the combination of how they've been employed they don't. I'm no art analysis who knows how to structurally breakdown why, I just know that other things that share vague similarities to Marathon look great and Marathon does not. Ghost in the Shell, Mirror's Edge, Wipeout, and the general work done by The Designers Republic.

Marathon is the video game equivalent of the Jaguar rebrand. This is coming from me, someone who's never been into Halo, and probably spent no more than 20 hours in Destiny.

Are you a SP gamer?

 

[falconhoof]

Are you a SP gamer?

I play a mix.

Dayz, Deep Rock, World of Warcraft Classic are probably my highest hours games over the past decade.

 

[Boo Who?]

You're clearly a SP gamer or something I dunno. Am I doing this right?

Oh, for sure.

Marvel Rivals - 300-400 hours
Arc Raiders - over 500 hours
PUBG - Close to 1000 hours
COD- 1000's of hours
Battlefield - over a 1000 hours
Overwatch - 300+ hours
Original Counter-Strike - over 1000 hours
Fortnite - Around 1000 hours

Those are a few examples of my SP gamerness. Typing that out makes me really question my life decisions.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Games that have sold a bit more or less $$$ on Steam. Watch out Bunny Garden 2. Marathon only 7 spots away.

Femboy Futa House is literally dollars away from generating more revenue than Marathon.

A COD game that came out in 2014 sold more. And AW is even one of the worst COD games.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

10 pm completed hour CCU. Big cryo bump day. Plus that map tweak and green shield tweak yesterday. Peaked at 15.2k
All time peak was launch day 88.3k. Today's peak at 15.2k is -73.1k or -83%

Today vs yesterday: 15.2k vs 13.4k (+1.8k or +13%)

Yesterday's low 4k. If the rate holds, low tonight will be 4.5k

Thu vs Thu: 15.2k vs 17.1k (-1.9k or -11%). Much better than the historic changes of -20%

Ratio method to estimate peaks and valleys
Mon-Thur 3.3:1. For example, a peak of 15k will have a low of 4.5k. For Fri/Sat, gamers stay up playing so the ratio is 2.5:1

Steam Rankings
Daily Active Users: 131
Global Top Sellers: 201
Weekly Top Sellers: Unknown. Not on top 100
Top Rated Games: 6,105 (83.77%)

 

[Zacfoldor]

Summary
The video discusses the critical financial situation surrounding Bungie and their game Marathon ahead of Sony's Q4 fiscal earnings report on May 13th (0:00-0:05). Following significant losses in November 2025—including a $204 million impairment on Destiny 2 and $118 million in cost corrections—Sony faces pressure regarding Marathon's underperformance (0:19-0:49). With Marathon seeing a sharp decline in player counts and falling short of revenue projections, the creator outlines three potential outcomes for the game: a public write-down (impairment), a "wait-and-see" approach, or a major pivot like a free-to-play transition or cancellation (1:26-1:57).

Conclusion
The creator concludes that May 13th is a pivotal date for the future of Marathon. Whether Sony chooses to absorb the losses or trigger a restructuring, the financial data suggests that the current trajectory is unsustainable. The market will be looking for specific signals in Sony's report, such as the direct mention of Marathon or shifts in divisional revenue guidance, to determine if the game has a future or is nearing a total sunset (3:14-3:42, 4:09-4:35).

lol I came here to post this video! <3

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

Summary
The video discusses the critical financial situation surrounding Bungie and their game Marathon ahead of Sony's Q4 fiscal earnings report on May 13th (0:00-0:05). Following significant losses in November 2025—including a $204 million impairment on Destiny 2 and $118 million in cost corrections—Sony faces pressure regarding Marathon's underperformance (0:19-0:49). With Marathon seeing a sharp decline in player counts and falling short of revenue projections, the creator outlines three potential outcomes for the game: a public write-down (impairment), a "wait-and-see" approach, or a major pivot like a free-to-play transition or cancellation (1:26-1:57).

Conclusion
The creator concludes that May 13th is a pivotal date for the future of Marathon. Whether Sony chooses to absorb the losses or trigger a restructuring, the financial data suggests that the current trajectory is unsustainable. The market will be looking for specific signals in Sony's report, such as the direct mention of Marathon or shifts in divisional revenue guidance, to determine if the game has a future or is nearing a total sunset (3:14-3:42, 4:09-4:35).

 

[Ðuelist]

Most people are playing it on Consoles.

 

[TintoConCasera]

Most people are playing it on Consoles.

Since when?

Marathon Is Reportedly Being Played Mainly On PC, Which Paints A Pretty Grim Picture

It's been reported that Marathon is being played primarily on PC, which isn't great news considering the game's less than amazing numbers.

www.thegamer.com

 

[CrustyBritches]

Femboy Futa House is literally dollars away from generating more revenue than Marathon.

A game by Bungie vs a game about Bungie.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Huge write down. Translates to $766M US. I posted the ballpark math in the other thread.

Getting there. I remember way back I said in a post Bungie is worth no more than $500M US. Another billion to go. But technically if you include all the operational losses they've done for years based on huge overhead and tiny sales, technically probably already got there. But since the above math is purely balance sheet and buyout valuations, still more to go.

Post in thread 'Sony Q4 FY2025 results'

Today at 4:50 AM

Bungie write down 120.1B Yen. That translates to $766M US. Huge additional impairment charge. In Q4 2025 they already wrote down some (Sony's Q2 fiscal quarter). You can see above their Q4 was another 88.6B Yen on slide 11.

$3.6B Sony bought Bungie
Less $1.2B of that used to pay out retention bonuses to keep employees
-------------
$2.4B left of Bungie value remaining split between assets, goodwill, etc....

Less $766M impairment charge against intangibles and other assets
-------------
$1.6B value left

Make note this would be balance sheet stuff. Not included would be any natural...

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[ChorizoPicozo]

Most people are playing it on Consoles.

CopeMaxxing

 

[duck_sauce]

Hars to really say considering how big and ambitious the genre is. I think Marathon is too difficult to surf the wave.

- Skill gap too high
- Squad fill is awful
- Cryo Archive not compelling enough

Marathons ceiling will innately be limmited due to it's arena shooter DNA but it's floor is higher than what we saw from S1. Marathon is great if you're a higher skill than the average and can consistently play with friends. It's much choppier for everyone else.

So it is not casual friendly?
Did I summarize your point correctly?
If that is the case, maybe it is not meant to have a big player base. Maybe that is all it can ever achieve ?

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

PvP players are built different

The title of the video, *Marathon depende de los tramposos para sobrevivir* (Marathon depends on cheaters to survive), serves as the core argument for the creator's analysis of the state of Bungie's title.


PvP (Pathetic versus Pathetic)

 

[calico]

 

[calico]

Maybe they'll acknowledge they overpaid for Bungie to an even greater extent than they previously acknowledged. They did say that could happen if Marathon flopped, but perhaps it's too soon.

Arsic

 

[Hollywood Hitman]

Most people are playing it on Consoles.

 

[Conflict NZ]

10 pm completed hour CCU. Big cryo bump day. Plus that map tweak and green shield tweak yesterday. Peaked at 15.2k

The funny thing is even with all of these "big bumps", the game has still never had a WoW increase, every single day has been down WoW since launch.

 

[Kronark]

Are you a SP gamer?

Nasty single player gamers. We hates them, we does. They attack our precious.

 

[mdkirby]

At the risk of sounding like a casual gamer (which I am regarding GaaS games) - this guy is not making any favor to the communication of this game - basically nothing he says is triggering even one ounce of desire to buy/try the game and the reason is he is like talking in terms of what the people that are already playing the game understand:

* UPDATE: WALKING THE PERIMETER - what is this??
* Experimental queue - what is this? what is even the regular queue? or more importantly, why would we care?
* and shifting the Sponsored Marsh map to Sponsored Perimeter - ?????
* to have a free (green/enhanced tier) sponsored kit equipped to queue. - is this something that people were complaining about? what was the problem?
* To commemorate this experiment we will also be upping the floor on sponsored kits. - what are kits, and what makes them sponsored?

You get my point, basically this guy is the Game Director and I think his posts should be much more digestible for both people that played the game and for people looking forward to play, or that don't know about the game but be potential buyers.

Something like "We heard your complaints, we categorized them into the following bucketed problems" and then describe the problems in terms of the human aspect of the problems like "People are not having fun because they get killed too fast - for this we will be doing X because of Y" "People are not liking the style - We are adding the option for now to do X, and in the future we will evaluate doing Y".

Just a suggestion though.

My takeaway is, you can get free stuff that you normally need to earn or buy, but it has a giant red bull logo on the back.

 

[Roman Empire]

Two great gaming news to look forward for me today: Sony's earnings call and Genshin 6.7 update stream with the hypest story moment until now.

Friday is promising!

 

[Angry_Megalodon]

Games that have sold a bit more or less $$$ on Steam. Watch out Bunny Garden 2. Marathon only 7 spots away.

Femboy Futa House is literally dollars away from generating more revenue than Marathon.

A COD game that came out in 2014 sold more. And AW is even one of the worst COD games.

BUNNY GARDEN 2 (in capitals) is tough competition.

 

[Guilty_AI]

BUNNY GARDEN 2 (in capitals) is tough competition.

Certainly has better character design