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New ‘Marathon’ Info: Bungie Morale, Launch Worries And Changing Plans
After a rough playtest and now plagiarism confirmation, Bungie is changing some Marathon plans and internally, things are bad.www.forbes.com
New 'Marathon' Info: Bungie Morale, Launch Worries And Changing Plans
- The public explanation for the art theft, one ex-employee taking things in 2020, is the same one being given internally at Bungie among the rank and file.
- Sony and Bungie legal are now sorting through this and there is unlikely to be any much new information as all of this continues to unfold. It is not clear how long an "audit" will take of the assets to remove or find any more plagiarism, as it's an expansive enough process to have Bungie not even show any footage at all in its recent livestream.
- Morale is in "free-fall" across all departments, and "the vibes have never been worse." Everyone has the same concerns about what happens to Bungie as a studio if Marathon bombs, which is something they absolutely cannot afford.
- There are not even hints or jokes about a delay from the September release date internally. With that said, it is entirely possible, if not likely, those conversations are happening privately between higher-up Sony and Bungie leadership. It's unclear what the plan is to launch the game in a "now actively hostile environment" just a few months from now, or how to turn that around.

I couldn't give a fig about any FPS MP/GaaS going down the drain, and their developers and publishers with it.
They robbed me of great FPS campaigns and inmersive sims, lots of them, so all I have for them is a big smile.
