That's incredible, they recovered cause its free, but the real numbers come after this free weekWyświetl załącznik 9092729
Dude, you had fucking 30k players. How did that cause your servers to completely melt down like this?
Sounds like you were havin a blast!
Right, the retention is the thing. If they can't at least have a number comparable to before the free weekend, they're fucked(seems like they'd need 11k, since it had dropped just below that prior to the f2p week). Although they could just eventually decide to make the game f2p entirely(probably would have done better to begin for the first month if that were the case) and then just charge for content rather than trying to rely on unit sales. Even if they can keep 40k players per day, I doubt that'll justify the 3+ billion dollars Sony blew on Bungie.
Marathon objectively killed D2? No, objectively Bungie's mismanagement killed Destiny. Activision tried to get them to end D2 on TFS and start working on D3, that's why they broke up. They killed D2 bc it should have been put in maintenance mode ages ago and Marathon's failure forced them to focus on one thing at a time. Do you really wish Bungie tortured another year or two of content out of D2 to subsidize more marathon development?
Long post response, spoiled for brevity.
Ain't no 2B that's for fucking sure.
Yes but it doesn't make any sense to blame Mrathon - leadership at Bungie who manage both games fucked up massively and bc of it Bungie deserves to fail. Marathon didn't mind-control Bungie leadership into being retards, Marathon went overbudget by $200 million bc Bungie leadership was already retarded.
even the cinematic of killing the unibrow hints that they wanted to be done with D2 and try other stuff, however it's just basic implication skills to think bungo wanted to put D2 on the freezer and work on marathon, however if you look at the stuff that's out, they had like 6 projects made to burn cash and some speculators implied it was intentional to inflate company price for the sony buy out before the guys at the top golden parachuted from bungo.
Those are all still mismanagement items.
Point of clarification: the original Activision contract was for two-year cycles of new game -> minor updates -> major expansion -> minor updates. So under the initial plan, D1 would have ended after TTK, D2 would have launched and ended after Forsaken, and then D3 would come in, with a bunch of minor content updates sprinkled in there. Wherever TFS would have ended up would have been several full game releases into the lifetime of Destiny.
As far as we know, no. Marathon was used as A. A way to use a dormant IP that Bungie owns and B. An excuse to easily sell (Marathon wasn’t really known until Mandalore’s video series on it but whatever) an extraction shooter from Bungie to the public. The rumor has it that a higher up executive, probably Jason Jones, played Tarkov and loved it so much that he immediately started development on his own extraction shooter, using Marathon as a skinwalker to do so.
i'm not a fan of how system shock remake bastardized alot of the game but there's no need to offend it like that.
That nigger runs the company now, btw.
But BuNgIE gUNpLaY tho
