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Report: Marathon Delay Likely as Sony Cancels All Paid Marketing Plans [UPDATE]
Bungie’s Marathon is likely to be delayed as a new report claims the studio has canceled all paid marketing plans.

im with you, except i'd want a full reboot, wipe and everything.Bungie is a shit show.
Just make a proper persistent Destiny game and turn it into the fully fledged MMO it craves to be.
I'd kill for a proper Destiny "reboot" - keeping all your shit but the game is actually built to handle itself.
Concord 2.0
This is a good idea which is why it won't happen. These companies are hell bent on chasing trends for the quick buck.Bungie is a shit show.
Just make a proper persistent Destiny game and turn it into the fully fledged MMO it craves to be.
I'd kill for a proper Destiny "reboot" - keeping all your shit but the game is actually built to handle itself.
Or a AA single player shooter based on Destiny mechanics and gameplay.All the money and time investment in this sure to fail game that could have been put towards Destiny 3, shame.
They're terrified to do that.Bungie is a shit show.
Just make a proper persistent Destiny game and turn it into the fully fledged MMO it craves to be.
I'd kill for a proper Destiny "reboot" - keeping all your shit but the game is actually built to handle itself.
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Report: Marathon Delay Likely as Sony Cancels All Paid Marketing Plans [UPDATE]
Bungie’s Marathon is likely to be delayed as a new report claims the studio has canceled all paid marketing plans.thegamepost.com
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And by the looks of it, it also goes for internal marketing.
They went a full week with zero updates or previews of marathon last week. That's despite saying in the live chat the Friday before that they were going to scrub the videos and show the new improved visuals this past week. Nada. Zero updates.
Crazy thing is concord launched and marathon will probably launch at some point. And these games are bad.Concord lasted like 3 weeks before Sony pulling the plug.
This one won't even launch.
Sony will survive, but the real worry is Bungie. These guys are cooked and now falling into the same heap as BioWare, Ubisoft, blizzard, etc. Major fall from grace.I'm starting to get worried about Sony
i bet his head and balls are in the hopping block tooFire hulst already.
I think they've shown an alarming trend of bad decision making and you can see it from Concord, Marathon, Fairgames, God of War Live Service, TLOU Online to Intergalactic.
I wouldn't have greenlit Roblox or Minecraft
If they are delaying then its either a short one or a year imo if not its in GTA's launch window.
A more sober approach would have been continuing what worked so well with PS4 and collecting that sweet sweet 30% from third party GaaS that uses your store. So much less risk on that path while we navigate this new economy.PS+ and third party GAAS is so much of the revenue right now, you can see why they felt why they needed to chase it.
But where will the talent come from to make that campaign? Microsoft's game plans for Xbox sounded similarly good on paper, but at some point, you need visionary creatives. Maybe they really didn't do their homework on who was still on the Bungie payroll, or they thought the logo imbued some type of magical powers on the people wearing it.I think honestly, a full year and a half under the right management could probably fix this game. And in fact if you put me in charge of it, I'd say I need three years.
I'd pitch Marathon to Sony as Sony's own Halo with single player campaigns every 2-3 years and build Destiny 3 in the process.
- I'd change the art direction entirely to mirror a lot of classic Marathon and Halo
- I'd create a single player campaign that continues the story of Marathon, perhaps even a reboot/remake of the first game or the first three games
- For the extraction end of it, I'd add proximity chat, single queues and duo queues
- I'd put in several extra modes as additional areas for people who don't want to play extraction to still play online and enjoy themselves, BR, CTF, Forge e.t.c.
Without significant knowledge of all the leadership, I feel like Peter Parsons, Joe Zielger, and Joseph Cross all have to go.