Marathon 2025 - Bungie's new AAAA Extraction shooter

[Steven Chapman]

this is morbius-levels of humiliation for them lol. s2 is great, to bungie's credit they have listened to the extensive, legitimate list of complaints about ux and quality of life things. but it's hard to get too excited b/c this is the state the game could have shipped in had they done any kind of user testing before launch. that would have prevented a lot of the immediate retention loss they had at launch, but it's not going to bring people back. if sony is willing to pay for a year of development in the hope of salvaging the game, and they keep up with this rate of improvement, then maybe in december or next march the game will be so different that they can re-launch it and people will give it a second look. i'm new to bungie's behavior but that seems super unlikely given how bad they are at management. seems more likely they keep pushing incremental content outdates, and the 50k-100k core of sweaty vets burn out and move onto something else before the game hits a critical mass of players.

Testing!? Are you suggesting that the perfect work of our fellow trans-sisters should be critiqued? And by whom, do you suggest, does this critiquing?! White male chuds!? Fuck you, bigot. These beautiful, true, and honest women made a perfect product, and the bigots in management forced them to make those changes because of filthy, exploitative capitalism . Disgusting behavior, check yourself and do better, chud bigot.

 

[GeorgeFloydFentanylStash]

Their end goal is to make everyone functionally the same and uniformly bland and any actually interesting or likeable "diverse" designs like Sheva will be relegated to history in fear of pissing off journos and you will get character design like Forspoken instead

That’s because they hate art and want to tear it down to replace it with ugliness. Straight from the Marxist playbook.

 

[The Doom Slayer]

Dude, you had fucking 30k players. How did that cause your servers to completely melt down like this?

 

[StacticShock]

Dude, you had fucking 30k players. How did that cause your servers to completely melt down like this?

good ole pentium 4 servers.

 

[King Dead]

Severs are down already to fix something that is causing them to crash, which is apparently a pretty typical thing when Bungo releases DLC according to Destiny people

Yeah. Just about every launch for destiny 2, even the seasons, had the servers break day 1, they've had 15 years of live service experience and still can't launch something without the servers fucking dying.

Honestly, Destiny actually got better about downtime as the years went by. Maybe part of that could be chalked up to fewer players and thus less stress, but I recall that for the past few expansions, launch day was pretty smooth, and even server queues were relatively short.

Marathon crashing on literally its first major update is pretty funny though.

 

[creaturestorm]

Wyświetl załącznik 9092729Dude, you had fucking 30k players. How did that cause your servers to completely melt down like this?

I think they scaled back their servers due to going from 100k+ peak down to like a 10k daily peak.

 

[my penis is on fire]

This is more generally about extraction shooters as a whole and why Bungle was stupid to bet everything on this game in particular achieving mass appeal.

It pains me to say it but I bet if Bungie had listened to that one suitnigger who tried to make Marathon a hero shooter, the whole studio wouldn't be on the blocks at U-Pull It right now

 

[Voop]

With season 2 finally here, did they fix up the cheater issue and make it noobie friendly Or is it the same?

 

[Cardef1121]

Meanwhile, Warframe can deploy patches when you're in a mission and the next time you go through a load screen you're in the new version.

 

[Civillian 18]

Phonefagging even harder, but the addition of the labels just makes it so much better.



what a flaccid cock of a launch.

 

[dame dudi jench]

what a flaccid cock of a launch.

the servers have been down for a few hours, it's 5k ppl who left the game open

edit: game back up, will be interesting to see how many ppl hop back on asap

 

[Tanner Glass]

Apparently they should have shut Destiny 2 down even faster so they could use the Destiny 2 servers for Marathon.

 

[Civillian 18]

the servers have been down for a few hours, it's 5k ppl who left the game open

edit: game back up, will be interesting to see how many ppl hop back on asap
Wyświetl załącznik 9093342

I know the servers were down, I mentioned it in the Destiny 2 thread also. It is just such a fuck up and seeing that FW tag on SteamDB and then plummeting is just cinema. They are really highlighting this expertise they got bought by Sony for.

 

[Thiletonomics]

Wyświetl załącznik 9092729

Dude, you had fucking 30k players. How did that cause your servers to completely melt down like this?

good ole pentium 4 servers.

They must be using the same servers that Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown has, since that game also has server issues whenever they have a Free-to-play weekend, and the game was literally unplayable on launch because the servers couldn't handle it.

 

[creaturestorm]

what a flaccid cock of a launch.

looks pretty girthy to me bro

 

[Mr. Suction]

Not in I.T.; how feasible would it have been for Bungie to get away with lying about the cause of the server(s) failing? As in, corroborate the mara-bot cope that focused DDOS-ing was the cause, and Bungie affirms that cope to avoid embarrassment.

 

[Civillian 18]

looks pretty girthy to me bro

Wyświetl załącznik 9093422

I was trying to find a funny moment in D2s SteamDB chart history and just ended up making myself sad

 

[Professor Donger]

 

[creaturestorm]

Not in I.T.; how feasible would it have been for Bungie to get away with lying about the cause of the server(s) failing? As in, corroborate the mara-bot cope that focused DDOS-ing was the cause, and Bungie affirms that cope to avoid embarrassment.

I think the optics of that is worse imo.

So the multibillion dollar company decided to kill a franchise so beloved that the fans then attacked the company on a launch day? Seems a lot worse than "Tom (he/him pronouns) forgot to feed the hamster that powers the server."

 

[Leaf Wage Slave Jr]

Wyświetl załącznik 9093564

I'm not surprised - look at Highguard, Free To Play will bring in a lot more curious people than a $40 asking price.

The kicker will be how many want to stay around once they need to pay, and if we flatline back down to just over 10k the question will be "How long before we go completely Free to Play?"