notseqi
Gold Member
Even continuing using the assets on a loan-type agreement for being a placeholder should net some neat bucks.
Forbes: Marathon Info - Bungie's "Morale is in “free-fall” - “The vibes have never been worse.”
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mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
I hate this. It sucks.
HeisenbergFX4
Member
I will add a couple of things I took away from that stream yesterday that, to me, was concerning
The statement they made of wanting teams to be able to talk to other teams but they didn't know how to go about that
What is proximity chat Alex?
Also I didn't hear them talk much about tuning for solo play but granted I took a phone call so maybe I missed them addressing that
Arsic
Loves his juicy stink trail scent
From Halo to here. Boy did this studio royally fuck itself up. I loved Destiny 1, Destiny 2 was "ok" depending on which expansion you played on, but Halo era bungie? That's an incredible time to live and play.
Marathon will absolutely be a Concord 2.0. No matter the changes they make now, or delay, etc. The public has decided.
GG.
Marathon will absolutely be a Concord 2.0. No matter the changes they make now, or delay, etc. The public has decided.
GG.
PeteBull
Member
it will sell more, but will still be nasty flop;p
PeteBull
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Killjoy-NL
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Yeah and as I said, it should be a basic feature for any and all multiplayer game. I fully agree that there is no logical reason for Bungie to not just implement it.
I just don't think the lack of proximity chat will be a big hurdle. At least not on consoles.
They haven't made any final decisions yet.
Iirc they are going to make some adjustments for 1vX and such. If I'm not mistaken they were talking about adjustments to the shield for example.
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ShadyAcshuns
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Giallo Corsa
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Man, you know people were taking the piss initially about it being Concord 2.0 but, after all the latest fiascos....it really does seem like it's gonna share the same fate.
At this point, I don't know what they could do to salvage this,I mean, the bad word of mouth has already tainted the game to the point that even a big delay wouldn't do much for them...
Rebooting it completely ? they must have already spent North of a couple of hundred million dollars so throwing more money at the problem wouldn't do much.
It really sucks to be them right now
Deus Mortis
Neo Member
Wondering if they have to release the game soon no matter what as if they fail to meet financial targets Sony takes control of the company.
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semiconscious
Member
their 'newest IDEA'? smh...
Are all the Latines and Latinxes ok?
nowhat
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Clear
CliffyB's Cock Holster
Bit extreme don't you think?
Just reskin the game, and pay the artist some restitution.
Noone with half a brain would expect to heavily plagiarize another artists work and it not be noticed, so acting like this is some sort of "strategy" on Bungie's part is implausible to say the least. Its way more likely a single bad-actor taking short-cuts while working remotely.
So suggesting the entire studio suffer because of one bad actor is pretty insane, especially those people outside the art team.
Dr. Wilkinson
Member
I almost want Sony to have two major mega-bombs in a row of this awful live-service push, because it would tangibly show leadership that people want the PS games of yore. Repeat the best of the PS3 and PS4 generation first-party. We've wasted so much time on shit like this… how many millions and years of time did ND waste on Last of Us Online? My god we've lost like an entire console generation of precious exclusives. No interest at all in PS5 yet, and we're into the fifth year of the cycle.
Bojji
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TerribleAtThisGame
Member
Not the VIBES breh the viiibes! Good vibes only in our toxic positivity space of delusion 
Kotaro
Member
Bungie advised Sony to buy Firewalk
Neon Xenon
Member
Weeks back, I was actually willing to give the game a shot, maybe make it my second extraction shooter that I play (the first was
Now? You could argue that Marathon is something worse, given everything surrounding it. If it all just goes up in smoke, fuck it. There's other games to play, multiplayer or otherwise.
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Herbspiceguy
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What a time to be alive, being able to witness the epic saga of Concord Trilogy.
Kotaro
Member
Sony GAAS triology
Shubh_C63
Member
lol Concord begins, Concord Returns
TerribleAtThisGame
Member
Imagine being in charge of PR, the community manager or whatever, and still having to lie your balls off with hype posts and pretend all this isn't happening.
Bumblebeetuna
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yet_another_alt
Member
Kojima is probably seething with jealousy that the best he managed to get out of Sony was the opportunity to hang out with celebs while Bungie got billions.
Bumblebeetuna
Member
This could end up being a blessing for Bungie. All this talk about stolen assets has shifted focus away from the game just not being any good. And nothing they said yesterday stokes any confidence that they will fix it.
They seem to have abandoned the idea of single or duos being balanced in any way. That and a lot of other stuff makes it seem like this is them trying to make the most casual friendly extraction shooter ever.
They seem to have abandoned the idea of single or duos being balanced in any way. That and a lot of other stuff makes it seem like this is them trying to make the most casual friendly extraction shooter ever.
Embearded
Member
And to think, they have Destiny on their hands, a well established IP with a sufficient fan base.
Yet they decided to go with the esthetically shallow trend chasing shooter, 5+ years late to the party.
Bungie should have gone the other way around. As Destiny is already a GaaS, they needed a AA single player 10 hour shooter based on the destiny mechanics at 50€ as an one and done project to test the waters.
Yet they decided to go with the esthetically shallow trend chasing shooter, 5+ years late to the party.
Bungie should have gone the other way around. As Destiny is already a GaaS, they needed a AA single player 10 hour shooter based on the destiny mechanics at 50€ as an one and done project to test the waters.
PeteBull
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Hey, im there where im needed, dont wanna hear/read the sad and hurtful truth, instead prefer to live in ur tiny woke bubble where no1 knows what is a woman - we got a forum for such ppl, its called reset-box-era 360I was looking for you in this threadPeteBull
Always making sure that the Woke monster can't hurt us
I am eager to spot you in more woke-bait threads. It is quite fun anticipating your comments and then seeing them play out exactly as expected.
CLW
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Imtjnotu
Member
Sony will probably take control of the entire studio and what they can develop if it fails.
FoxMcChief
Gold Member
I'm going to say it...
Bungie should've accepted Microsofts offer to buy them instead of Sony's, cause it's clear they can't make decisions on their own.
The only time Bungie thrived was when a publisher was telling them what to do.
Bungie with Microsoft: Halo
Bungie with Activision: Destiny 1 and early Destiny 2.
When Bungie left Activision, Destiny 2 went to shit and now Marathon is fumbling too.
Bungie should've accepted Microsofts offer to buy them instead of Sony's, cause it's clear they can't make decisions on their own.
The only time Bungie thrived was when a publisher was telling them what to do.
Bungie with Microsoft: Halo
Bungie with Activision: Destiny 1 and early Destiny 2.
When Bungie left Activision, Destiny 2 went to shit and now Marathon is fumbling too.
Thedtrain
Member
No, this one doesn't bug me so much. Pay the artist and move on. Their direction over the past few years has caused me to pretty much abandon all hope in them. They need a total reboot.
ChorizoPicozo
Member
I think, theoretically, any competent and harmonious studio can salvage any project. at this point... i dunno if i can say Bungie is any of those things.
can they make the game better? yes.
can they make something exceptional? i don't think so. I think marathon is fundamentally crippled, they would need to rework the core desing...They would need more than 1 year.
LordOcidax
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Last Hearth
Member
Are they ever going to share the names of the individual(s) who did the plagiarizing so other people know to stay away from hiring them?
KungFucius
King Snowflake
One would think that would be enough right, but I think they suspect that the dude who plagiarized also stole other art.
clarky
Gold Member
I was willing to give this game the benefit of the doubt, but the art thing has completely fucked them and the stream last night was just plain weird. I concede, without a major delay and a rework this game is fucked.
The fact that they couldn't show any footage yesterday on stream means the just don't know how much art has been lifted from other(s).
I don't think they are being entirely honest either, they have blamed this on a nameless grunt who doesn't work there anymore. LOL fuck off how stupid do you think we are?
I will say this. The artist whose work has been stolen has played this all wrong. Much better to wait until the product launched then sue the fuck out of them.
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