Von Hugh
Member
Not enough dopamine hits from the game or the OT, so now they just (mastur)bait here.
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Not enough dopamine hits from the game or the OT, so now they just (mastur)bait here.
diffusionx
Gold Member
I guess I didn't know the playbook, and I hate it.
The only reason why I am frustrated is that I play Marathon and can see that they could have made a really really cool and stylized FPS and it could have been awesome. But instead we get a garbage man game. And while the garbage man game is ok (imo), it could have been so much more.
Angry_Megalodon
Member
Imagine a mix of Another World and Mirror's Edge. They could have really done cool things. This art direction works so much better in a story driven FPS.
As a MP, I would have gone in a different direction, with huge mazes full of traps, like The Hive in the Resident Evil movie.
KyoZz
Tag, you're it.
LMAOOOOO this is why you get so upset and bitter???
Seeing as no one else called him out (probably in fear of retaliation or being ousted from the group)
Hollywood Hitman
YOU ARE A BAD BOY! THAT WAS MEAN!Feel better now Branded?
I seriously don't care, if you can't defend yourself except by attacking and putting everyone in the same basket, it's your loss but don't act surprised when you get called out.
Bitter.
Cry me a river. How about the behavior of the chills? I guess it's ok because you love the game but truth is it's the CCU thread, and the CCU is shit. So we are making fun of it rather you like it or not.
If you find it so difficult to bear, stay in the safe place that is the OT.
Edit: and btw you are acting like every other chill, quoting part of my message and ignoring the rest because you have nothing to disprove me.
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Branded
Member
Ugh this age old yelling at the cloud thing again. This is the inherent nature of digital goods and services. These things all run on services. A multiplayer game can not be run indefinitely. The community can move on, the game itself can go under or the cost of server upkeep is simply too much. This is regardless of whether you bought it as a one-time purchase or if it's been a live service title. A software package I bought or subscribed to can be broken by an update or simply no longer be supported for a whole host of reasons.
I bought Windows but if Microsoft bricks my BIOS tomorrow I'd be hard pressed getting any financial rewards or otherwise from them. Or to take it further: I can buy a car but it can break down. It can get repaired but it cannot be maintained indefinitely. At some point you will have to get a new(er) one. The old one stops working or has features that are no longer supported. This is also true for a lease car of course. You can pay a monthly fee for one but at a certain point the one you had from the start will be swapped for a different or newer model.
I've spent hundreds on Warframe or Counter-Strike, both won't be online forever. At some point they will die or I will. The money and time spent have been valuable in my opinion.
No matter how much we would like to it's not realistic to expect games to forever work, even those on a disc. It sucks, yes I agree with you but it's also a reality of this industry. I'm not sure as to why this is now suddenly an issue with Marathon.
Branded
Member
You asked for an example. I gave you one.LMAOOOOO this is why you get so upset and bitter???
Feel better now Branded?
I seriously don't care, if you can't defend yourself except by attacking and putting everyone in the same basket, it's your loss but don't act surprised when you get called out.
Bitter.
Cry me a river. How about the behavior of the chills? I guess it's ok because you love the game but truth is it's the CCU thread, and the CCU is shit. So we are making fun of it rather you like it or not.
If you find it so difficult to bear, stay in the safe place that is the OT.
Edit: and btw you are acting like every other chill, quoting part of my message and ignoring the rest because you have nothing to disprove me.
But it seems we are in agreement then, I can come in here and discuss in good faith and you can then uhh call me bitter for defending myself (something you just admitted I should do). Steller logic!
I'd rather be bitter than stupid.
Edit: and btw you are acting like every other chill, quoting part of my message and ignoring the rest because you have nothing to disprove me.
Which part would you like to get a specific reply to? It all seems like more of the same
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Idleyes
Gold Member
Branded
Member
Now THIS I can agree with lol. The store items are very underwhelming to say the least.
Do not read if you get easily triggered by adults spending money: I would have spent more on the game otherwise but the in-game cosmetics so far, especially in the store are ass.
Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
Embark spent 100 million building 5 maps where you run around collecting literal, actual garbage and they're swimming in piles of cash now.
A lot of people still don't understand the depth and complexity of the genre. It's not a mode like CTF or TD, it's a PvP RPG.
Any genre can be described in such obtuse manner if you're not willing to understand the art form.
Guilty_AI
Member
None of this bothers to differentiate something that simply breaks vs something designed to break at the developers will.
There is a very big, obvious difference between a software that simply stops getting official support or sees its users dwidling out, vs a software with a literal kill switch embedded into it.
Case in point: Unreal Tournment games, old CS titles, Half Life deathmatch mode, online Quake; all still work despite all the entropy forces of time. Concord doesn't, neither will marathon if it pulls the plug, because they were designed to stop working, unlike all previous examples.
Signalis
Member
You don't seem to be living in a healthy reality
It was really fascinating how so few of you could see it. I saw it the first time I played Vigor.
Branded
Member
Who cares how much money they spent on it? Was it your money? Are you an investor? Do you have insight into their financials? How much it costs to develop a game?
Would you have played it if it had a singleplayer story mode? Does every game need to have both a singleplayer and multiplayer portion for you to feel satisfied making a purchase on? Does Tarkov need to have a singleplayer mode as well for instance?
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Guardian Monkey
Member
Shill not chill btw
KyoZz
Tag, you're it.
You did not defend yourself or discuss in good faith, you posted some stupid things by generalizing like this, and that's just one message:
Here you are playing the victim as I did not saw anyone post "I'm an alpha for not playing Marathon" lmao wtf.
Playing the victim, part II. I still saw no insult like that btw
Playing the victim, part III
Playing the victim, part IV. Seriously I tried to engage with
Men_in_Boxes
but it led to nothing as he stopped responding once proved wrong, failing to show a single fact or anything to back any of his claim. Oooooooh the irony, when did I get personal with you? You, meanwhile:
Yeah, getting personal right?
Ah thanks, still learning English ^^
Guardian Monkey
Member
No worries, wife's learning French. Know how it goes.
Guardian Monkey
Member
I do wonder what the deal with Cryo-Archive is, I thought that was coming out today and would give a bump.
KyoZz
Tag, you're it.
Hey I'm French !
It's very hard, but really beautiful imo (but I may be biased lol).
Branded
Member
Those are some valid examples yes and I am happy they still run, for the most part, in all their glory. But this goes into a deeper discussion on DRM, always online models (singleplayer games included), server cost etc.
It's the current state of the industry, for better or worse, where you can't have something on the scale of Fortnite or Warzone with decentralized servers for instance and expect the community to cough up those costs as well. So whether its free to play or priced games... they all inevitably go under. It's an unfortunate reality and one I don't think we'll ever see changing.
Branded
Member
I'm very chill actually.
Bernardougf
Member
What more they are going to do ? Play that horrible game ?
Branded
Member
You should give GTFO a try (no that's not an insult lol but the actual name of the game).I just hope this all somehow leads to Extraction games being made less. such a shitty game genre.
Witchfire shares many elements of the genre as well but is entirely singleplayer and also playable offline. Actually one of the best games of recent years tbh.
Arsic
Loves his juicy stink trail scent
GTFO is the single hardest coop experience I've ever done and I only managed to do 60-70% of the level with people from the official discord.
I'm excited for their next game den of wolves.
PeteBull
Member
It could coexist if it depended on players choice, but as we saw recently from sony, singleplayer dev studios are forced/tempted( i trully dont give a damn which one of the two it is, its awful anyways) to make gaas games and we all know how it ends- with studios clousure like in bluepoint case.
Pubs/ studio heads/top bosses dont want those genres to exist, they going all in on gaas no matter the sacrifices, so us, as veteran players gotta put our foot down and send those greedy stupid mofos to the 7th circle of hell
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PeteBull
Member
Welp sorry then, brah, u are kicked out of marathon hate force and forcefully put on the defense force, partially to make numbers more equal, partially coz of white flag waving as a national sport, better be safe than sorry here
KyoZz
Tag, you're it.
Welp sorry then, brah, u are kicked out of marathon hate force and forcefully put on the defense force, partially to make numbers more equal, partially coz of white flag waving as a national sport, better be safe than sorry here
go back to the ot.
diffusionx
Gold Member
This is hilarious. It's really not lmao.
I mentioned The Division which again had a full story, map, and other modes in addition to extraction. If Marathon launched with all that, I would not be saying this. And The Division added modes over the years while Bungie is talking about unlocking a map and doing server wipes. This is GRIM.
It's weird that the first example of this game style has way more content and is way more fleshed out than the brand new examples coming out today. and the new examples are being defended.
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Sohurmk833
Member
Monday will be brutal.At this rate we will reach the lowest peak yet and it will be reached today, on Sunday.
Spyxos
Member
I didn't think the marathon felt smooth. But since the sys requierments were so low, I initially thought I was just imagining that it wasn't running quite smoothly.
So today I turned on the FPS counter, and lo and behold, not only am I not hitting 120 FPS, it never even goes up to 100 FPS, and the lowest drops were around 55 FPS...
7600x, 9700xt, 1440p using fsr on quality.
So today I turned on the FPS counter, and lo and behold, not only am I not hitting 120 FPS, it never even goes up to 100 FPS, and the lowest drops were around 55 FPS...
7600x, 9700xt, 1440p using fsr on quality.
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Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
It is.
I don't know what any of this means. You suggested that Bungie was crazy for making an Extraction Shooter when ARC Raiders sold 15 million in 4 months. The genre clearly has big time appeal.
This isn't weird at all. You are aware of how Live Service works.
Guilty_AI
Member
This is bullshit and you know it. Server costs are only high when they have to support millions of players on multiple matches. Its perfectly possible to host a home server for you and 5 friends, heck even all the way up to 100 players would work on a better machine.
There is no tecnical reason for it to be like this. It is a deliberate business decision because they know its harder to sell $20 dollar skins and battle passes when players have the power to host games their own way, not to mention its much harder to herd them towards newer slop when the old stuff works just fine.
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GermanZepp
Member
I like this thread, we came here daily, crack a few jokes, is like an open bar thing. Hope the game has enough players to keep the thread going though.. 
Dorfdad
Gold Member
I don't recall the name of but there is a new mid evil co op extraction game coming that has dark souls vibes which looks great to meI just hope this all somehow leads to Extraction games being made less
WoodyStare
Member
It's not gay as long as you're wearing socks.
RafterXL
Member
They have no one to talk to in there.
You should be careful what you wish for, this is Bungie and they're one step away from gatcha developers when it comes to monetization of their products. I'd prepare your lube because their shitty practices are coming, especially now that they know that the retail price alone isn't going to keep them afloat.
Get ready for the F2P, PS+ nickel and dime approach, coming to an extraction shooter near you!
Sure thing, bud.
No, let them stay. It's amusing and the fact they are leaking over here now is pretty telling.
BTW, it's 16th on US PSN, (3 spots below Arc Raiders, btw) which is the only market it's actually selling in and still has pathetic numbers. But at least it's not as bad as on Xbox where it basically doesn't exist.
SomeNorseGuy
Gold Member
Yeah, both Witchfire and Zero Sievert looks like fun SP extraction themed games. Got them both wishlisted ...but as always - so many games, so little time.
CentralScrutinizer
Member
Oh I didn't get triggered. But it's clear as day that you did. For someone who loves marathon, your sure as hell are spending a lot of time here during its peak.
PeteBull
Member
CentralScrutinizer
Member
The CCU is clearly down because instead of playing the game, Marathon fans are too busy trying to gaslight everyone that it's a good worthwhile experience. Imagine how popular it'd be if the defense force played the game.At this rate we will reach the lowest peak yet and it will be reached today, on Sunday.
Hollywood Hitman
Gold Member
Hollywood Hitman
Gold Member
No I know it isn't the mcc, I just mean I want at least one halo on ps5 still meaning the CE remake, if they were to stop putting Xbox exclusives on ps5 with the changes they're making etc
CrustyBritches
Gold Member
This is how we get more elephant enema gifs. For the love of god please stop.