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The words "Death March" came to mind while watching it.
My grandma's cremation had more uplifting vibes.

The words "Death March" came to mind while watching it.
My grandma's cremation had more uplifting vibes.
Fairgames is the Sony Gaas riddled with AI designs and people already thought that one would do worse than Marathon before this scandal and the poor alpha happened.Damn at this point, just use GenAi if so creatively bankrupt.
If you like stuff like the office (uk) and partridge then it was gold.Was it good?
If you are the type of person that slows down at bad auto wrecks hoping to catch a glimpse of a mangled body then yeah it was pretty decentWas it good?
I don't think any amount of delays could help this game.
- 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.
Destiny 3 is a 5 year - optimistically - project. That's not going to do anything for them anytime soon.bungie better comes up with destiny 3 (and being good), otherwise they are fucked.
Worst acquisition from Jim
Agreed.I don't think any amount of delays could help this game.
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Are all the Latines and Latinxes ok?
No wonder Sony's profit margins sunk like a rock the past few years.I usually roll my eyes whenever I hear someone talk about the "corporate greed" but I think this right here is probably the best example of it. Sony spent 4 billion on Bungie, 400M on Concord, and who knows how much on Fairgame and Factions and all their other GaaS projects thinking they were gonna 10x their money and pop out another Fortnite. 5 years later and billions of dollars wasted and they have absolutely nothing to show for it.
They could've made a dozen single player games for franchises that millions of people everywhere love and adore and yeah I know they would've made only a fraction of the money they hoped to make with their GaaS ambitions but they would've still been in the green. Instead of that they're now billions in the red and outside of Helldivers 2 every single project failed. And HD2 alone won't come anywhere close to justifying the billions they spent.
Corporate greed.
And the only thing saved them was the fact that Xbox is a dumpster fire that's been burning for ages and Nintendo switched focus to the handheld market and cornered it. If the core market starts to migrate away from consoles to handhelds, Sony is cooked. A PlayStation handheld has no chance competing with Nintendo in 2025.
It's always been "arrogant Sony" when they get greedy, but now it's more like "retarded Sony" if they're still on this GaaS bullshit.No wonder Sony's profit margins sunk like a rock the past few years.
Their top lines sales have grown phenomenally. But their bottom line profits of about $2B have stayed the same for 6-7 years (with exception of Covid bump to $3B one year).
When companies double sales, profits should go up too. But at their gaming division it's barely moved. Too much money blown on R&D dev on failed projects.
And they keep gunning for it too. As crazy as it sounds, they bought and shut down Deviation games lead by Jason Blundell. I guess nothing was going right, so they shut them down. Next thing you know, Sony opens up another studio called Dark Outlaw lead by Jason Blundell again making another GAAS game. Weird.
And for Bungie, the studio is tanking, layoffs etc... Instead of just being modest with what's happening, what do they do? They carve out Bungie people to work at a new LFG studio for another GAAS game.
So you can see what Sony is trying to do. The GAAS push is still there, but to minimize any negativity they just shift people around into newly branded studios.
I'm assuming they did it because they already delayed it once and were worried delaying it again would equate to a negative reaction? But yeah, I'm not sure why they didn't connect a negative reaction to the whole plagiarism thing, lol. They're just doing everything to themselves.What idiot thought going on with that twitch stream after all the plagiarim news was a good idea?
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The only person I know that uses LatinX is a Salvadorian Woman that uses her husband's 300K a year job and her Instagram to get companies to let her shill products and get free vacations. Not even joking.![]()
Are all the Latines and Latinxes ok?
Fairgame$ vs Marathon, which one will become the next Concord? Those are big shoes to fill.
That sounds about right. Gotta keep up certain appearances for the shill money.The only person I know that uses LatinX is a Salvadorian Woman that uses her husband's 300K job a year and her Instagram to get companies to let her shill products. Not even joking.
Its a funny thing because way back, the big name shooters had good SP campaign and MP modes. Pick your poison which one one to focus on, or be a gamer who likes both and blow through SP on a weekend and then MP for the rest.I don't understand why these companies keep making shit nobody wants. Make a really cool single player Marathon with a good MP component, and I guarantee it would have sold better than this will. But no, they've gotta chase that GAAS money.
I'm assuming they did it because they already delayed it once and were worried delaying it again would equate to a negative reaction? But yeah, I'm not sure why they didn't connect a negative reaction to the whole plagiarism thing, lol. They're just doing everything to themselves.
We joke constantly that we don't know if she's ever working anymore. Again, not mad, I gotta respect that she figured out how to work the system for free shit and vacations all over the world: Saw a live questioning she did about vacation spots, 2 months ago me jokingly saying go to Bora Bora is where she ended up with a blog about traveling as a LatinX couple while showing off products and clothing! I wish I was making this up!That sounds about right. Gotta keep up certain appearances for the shill money.
I've never ever known anyone in real life to ever say this. All the Latin folks I've ever known think it's absurd.
Man, at this point I'm just more interested in everything revolving around Marathon's outcome more than the game itself. What a goddamn mess.
This vocal minority has been right a lot of times this gen... from suicide squad to concord ... but hey than again if its just a minority the game will be perfectly fine nothing to worry about.The schadenfreude is strong with this game and the obnoxious vocal minority are doing their best to try and bury it. There are players that are actually enjoying the game and hopefully that sentiment is shared when more people get a chance to play. I haven't had an invite to get into the alpha but I'm hoping I'll get a chance to try it when the beta rolls out. If it sucks I'll not entertain it but I won't shit on it until I've given it a go. I get the feeling a lot of people shitting on this have not tried it and have no intention. It's just the usual console war bullshit.
I get the feeling a lot of people shitting on this have not tried it and have no intention. It's just the usual console war bullshit.
Which could signal they didn't expect the backlash which would means they are even more tone deafAt the very least turn off the dang comments. Internet 101 shit right there
Exactly its mind boggling to me too.I'm confused as to how one decides that this niche genre is a good idea to invest in as their next major IP. This is the type of game that is made while another major IP is in its prime and getting a lot of success.
Meanwhile Destiny 2 is wrapping up and they are going to pin their hopes on this?! Game is probably going to be very good for what it is… and that's a niche extraction shooter that a small percentage of people will play.
Strange decision.
Sony destroyed the studio, bad management
Sony destroyed the studio, bad management
Now thats just silly ...Halo revolutionized console fps and every Halo was damn good in both single and multiplayer. Destiny did a lot well too.Personally, I think Bungie's only good game was Myth.
They made all their way to the top thanks to the Xbox hype machine. Now the crash will be hard...
Sony destroyed the studio, bad management
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Now thats just silly ...Halo revolutionized console fps and every Halo was damn good in both single and multiplayer. Destiny did a lot well too.
Problem with this dev is the way they treat their audience, bad management, taking shortcuts and greed
Sony destroyed the studio, bad management
Which could signal they didn't expect the backlash which would means they are even more tone deaf
Maybe that's why the one dude looked like a murder was going to happen after the stream
Probably because their legacy of gaming for the last 20 years is all Halo and Destiny. Both sci fi shooters. Both big sellers.Exactly its mind boggling to me too.
Anyway, if I believed in Karma then Bungie has a disaster coming to them and its name may just be "Marathon".
What they did with the Destiny "Content Vault" was THE dirtiest move I've had happen to me as a gamer in my entire gaming history.
Bungie deserves reprocussions for removing half the game + DLC that people paid a lot of money for and they never did jack shit to preserve the content they removed. I don't want Bungie to die but damn it they deserve to.
Agreed.
Even if Bungie fixes all the gameplay issues and resolves the stolen art debacle with antireal making her happy, this game is tainted forever. And like everything in life, it's always a bigger thing when people can see it with their own eyes.
Let's say Bungie got caught using some copied netcode. Some guy breaks into the game sees netcode is a copy of his work and he lists 1000s of lines of code. I dont think anyone would care. But if it's something visual, people can easily understand it better and see the colours and designs being duplicated and then take sides.
Oddly, the other times Bungie got caught stealing art over the years never blew up like this. Maybe it's because Marathon was already half trolled on so people piled on. Or perhaps it's because the theft is way more than just a nerf gun pic. But this time it blew up everywhere in 24 hours across all game sites and popular streamers.
It's so big, even the Bungie guy in the chat openly admitted it and apologized, and Bungie admitted it on one of their Marathon twitter profiles within 24 hours.
Sony can still release the game and see how many dedicated fans will play the game not caring about the theft, but everyone will rag on it until it disappears like Concord/Firewalk closing down. Thats when everyone died off talking about it.
Making it worse for Bungie is that the game still has 4 months to go and a beta test later. So that's a lot of ammo and runway for people to still rag on it. At least for Concord, the beta test laughed at was only 2 or 3 weeks till launch. But this time there's 4 months of filler time.
Fuck off with the faux outrage. Nobody who actually played the game felt this way.What they did with the Destiny "Content Vault" was THE dirtiest move I've had happen to me as a gamer in my entire gaming history.
Bungie deserves reprocussions for removing half the game + DLC that people paid a lot of money for and they never did jack shit to preserve the content they removed. I don't want Bungie to die but damn it they deserve to.
When it comes to blame in any place, it comes down to whom people beeline to first.Remember when people cheered because Bungie was separating from Activision as they believed Activision was behind all of the bad decisions that was plaguing Destiny 2? Only for Bungie to double down on shitty decisions, get even greedier and lazier as an independent studio before Sony impulse bought them? Those were the days!
Bungie has been fucking up since the launch of the original Destiny. Activision's poor reputation with gamers in general gave Bungie cover for their poor management and now some are trying to use Sony's recent failures in the GAAS space to deflect blame from Bungie.
Bungie's current state is entirely of their own making.
They are using the term "gold old boy" incorrectly, right? Even in a more general way.Marathon was originally pitched by higher-up "good old boy" Bungie leadership, and as far back as five years ago devs were telling them what would and wouldn't work and were often ignored. Many have said previously that it needed to have some sort of PvE component.
They'll be gone. But not yet. They are still churning out Destiny 2 content. No point shutting them down yet or rebranding the studio, or shifting them all in house. Just let them work in a Bungie branded studio.they havent made anything good since halo reach. just shut them down already.