I think also some one at Bungie or Sony is doing some serious coping and pleading. I just have this feeling of total commitment to this product, I don’t know where it’s coming from, but it probably sounds like this:
If Marathon is the game that takes out Hulst, I'll take back some of the terrible things I've thought about Bungie over the years.
I think its called Sunk Cost Fallacy. Right now, Sony has about 3.7 Billion reasons they want to keep Bungie, and by proxy Marathon, on some form of life support, and someone in Upper Management is probably sweating bullets on which heads will roll if they have to tell the shareholders they burnt almost $4B and have less than nothing to show for it.
For the price of Free™, it's certainly a blast.
I think it's more a matter of "Marathon will keep running for x amount of months independently on how well it performs" kinda contract deal.
I remember hatewatching gameplay of Anthem with a friend who had gotten to endgame while it was still a thing and we got to take the piss out of how much it sucked. There was a moment I was skipping through the gameplay video and managed to land on the "stand in circle and wait for meter to fill up" objective three times in a row in totally different parts of the game.
No, @BurpIncorporated, Destiny is not sixty dollars. It is free-to-play. With all expansions it is around 200 dollars, currently. This is me being generous and leaving out the ~$300 worth of DLC that they tore away from people with no refund or compensation with the "Destiny Content Vault."
Anthem pissed me off so fucking much. I remember trying it at an early stage (it was free at some point, wasn't it?) and fucking loved the flying mechanic. The game was obviously (originally) built for/around the idea of aerial combat and exploration with nimble jetpack-equipped mechs.
well, that's 95% of destiny 2, spawning baddies to shoot sometimes but you do need to stand in the circle and wait for the random bullshit meter to fill up.
Because when you slaughter a thousand orcs it doesn't matter of Sauron is still out there, you killed a fucking thousand orcs and they're gonna run out of them eventually.
S4 will be the last I think, that will of been a full year of Marathon and we will have seen the PvE rework that no one wanted.
Remember, Bioware originally designed Anthem around having Flight, then they cut it, only for an EA Executive of all people to try an earlier build and they loved the flying so much they told Bioware to put it back in.
The schadenfreude makes my toes tingle
Sony owns Bungie, they can do whatever they want to them. I think it's more that they want to show the press and shareholders they tried before putting a bullet into it, they don't want to have to refund game or mtx purchases so safer to run it for at least a year, and if they have to kill it, they want it to go at least until the end of the year so they can say they were turning things around but GTA killed their momentum.
