>>558820434
Such an elegant title for an edition

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Rape Status?

we couldve had gambit 3 instead of this

>>558820641
A Dark Zone like mode for Gambit would have been leagues better than what we got. This was just a waste of bringing back Marathon and time that could have gone back into fixing D2, or making D3.

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It's already over, little runner...

I wish I could tell you it was difficult, but it wasn't...

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How is he feeling right now?

>>558820629
Plentiful

Someone at Bungie looked a Destiny (a game that basically has no competitor) and said "fuck this game" and greenlit a worse version of Apex Legend mixed with Tarkov. Is this what jamming looks like?

And this was all supposed to be a 3rd gambit mode ,it’s irritating how much overvaluing of these companies and their project went down. Like if this is marathon what’s gummybears gonna be? I can now easily by the fake anon saying how it went from fall guys to smash clone to skin for unreleased China moba

Worst part is there’s been people long fired off Destiny and marathon, even raid team people who if chatter was right were fairly important in the past

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Bungie couldve made the tower, with portal entrances to either D3 story mode, or Marathon gambit mode (in the D3 universe).

Is Datto actually so mindbroken hes having surgery to look like a korean woman?

please say syke...

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Remember that destiny suffered for this.

It wasn't just "oh destiny was already straggling and they decided to throw a hail Mary"
This game IS the reason destiny was struggling. They spent dev time on THIS.

This isn't just EOF btw, this goes all the way back to beyond light, perhaps even shadowkeep if you start including concepts. They leeched destiny resources and staff away for THIS.

>>558821262
Anon...

>>558821287
>this goes all the way back to beyond light, perhaps even shadowkeep
In the middle of Forsaken was probably the start of Bungie taking away resources from D2 for Maraslop. Keep in mind Activision was doing the heavy lifting for D2 after Bungie fucked up vanilla and CoO.

The dislike on the setting reminds me of where people kinda hated the tech heavy over explained shit in Cyberpunk, like the environment doesn’t really click for everybody let alone in a mainstream capacity . Destiny is a lot more approachable and less weird to “get”

I asked AI to give me a game concept to make me rich and my results was
"Make a game using animal crossing aesthetic, roblox creativity, and Pokémon style collecting mania" what do you guys think? Am I gonna make it big and make a bazillion dollars?

>>558821287
I don’t know if it’s better or worse that this was probably done by a Bungie B-team, because that’s the only reason I can think of that this became an incubation project for so long.

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>>558820629
Raped beyond recognition.

>>558821262
It’s kinda like how the guy running the parkour studio out of a storage garage is totally legit and not pursuing things with datto’s wife

>>558821262
he went there to learn korean, his wife is staying several weeks after he comes back to the states because she has sex with other men.

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NAAHHHHHHH THE FUCKING GL TECH ON THE RELIC IS FUCKING INSANE MAN LMAOOOOOOO
https://youtu.be/_K_pTbyZUow

>>558820629
Gaped and raped

>>558824308
Somehow I think that kind of glasses frame would be irritating to use

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>we've now reached the point that the shills for maraflop are now trying to say that the test numbers don't matter
They keep getting raped and trying to squirm their way out of it, they haven't realised yet that there is no escape from their imminent rape. The game was raped from the beginning as Bungie cannot afford to make niche titles at $40 since they burn through cash insanely quick and I doubt a $40 title is going to fund the 400+ developers they have on the game. Mark my words expect layoffs within 2-3 months.

To think back to a time when Spore being overhyped mediocrity made news, now it would be an IGN 9.0 in comparison to the assembly line shit spat out now

>>558825156
Oh yeah lol, this was supposed to be “Marathon becomes a hit and money goes back to Destiny” lmao.

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>>558825156
It's happening all over again

>>558820434
>"we make games that inspire friendships"
>only game is a ruthless PvP only shooter where you kill and loot every player on sight

hmmmm....

>>558825442
You were supposed to bring the friends you already had chud.

i have bungie fatigue...

>>558821819
I was just having this conversation with somebody who was trying to make sense of the game’s everything and what exactly are our runner characters , the premise of factions, lore etc in scope and they’re like, this feels like all the shit Johnny talking about Mikoshi, braindance, and other more sci fi bits except infinitely more weird and far future hell. Idk this should’ve been a single player game

>>558825442
Also some washed boomer millenial MLGer is mad they’re getting outplayed so enjoy your heat meter and insta death ttks

>>558825156
Its hard to feel bad for Bungie too, they put themselves into this position when there were countless opportunities for them to turn themselves around.

Bungie's marketing for this game has been actively hostile too, deranged even. I don't know what they were expecting, they're a very hateable company.

>>558825920
Its kind of sad when all they had to do was...
>Maintain status quo with Destiny 2 meaning no portal or tiered loot
>the new loot they added would be split amongst the newest activities so Sieve would get its own loot then when A&I released Reclaim would get its own loot like every previous seasonal activity
>Retain episodic content rather than removing it along with RoTN
>End Destiny 2 on a high note with a AoT expansion that celebrates Destiny as a franchise like 30th anniversary on crack
>Then create a D3 or continue D2 with a massive expansion instead of Marathon that they could sell at like $60-80 for just the base expansion
It was literally that easy. They didn't need to fuck with the game much since the systems were perfectly good with Heresy, they could've just tacked on the tiered upgrades onto the enhancement system. But they decided to make a $40 niche title that no-one wants and didn't even attempt to appeal to the majority of AR players with a PvE focus. Marathon should've been their new Halo for Sony and that would've sold like fucking crazy.

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>>558825442
I still can't believe that they decided to change their original motto for this soulless, milquetoast carebear banality.

in another universe renegades is an actual marathon expansion. and marathon is instead d3

>>558826443
I knew things were fucked(well besides the obvious leaking and glimpses) when people really latched to no u guyz extracts aren’t niche look at Arc Raiders and it’s like that game is a borderline fluke miracle it got to that kind of player count considering what came along and failed. People are usually set in their FPSs and live services and aren’t going to hop around too much

>>558826743
people don't seem to get that arc is successful mainly due to the fact that its barely an extraction game. that genre, when its actually done correctly, will always only appeal to a smaller playerbase. its not friendly to the wide casual modern audience at all and i genuinely have no clue what exec signed off on an extraction game as their hail mary

They should delay Marathon until June

>>558826743
Its basically marafloppers having a contradicting view. They say extraction shooters aren't niche because of Arc Raiders but then simultaneously think Arc Raiders is a "carebare pve" game and that Marathon should not be that. Arc Raiders is as popular as it is because of its more PvE focus and more casual friendly gameplay. Marathon is trying to be heavily PvP and the shills are trying to drown out the critcism that the game is lame and gay when all you do is shoot on sight by saying "its supposed to be sweaty and heavily PvP focused". There isn't even any grand over arching progression elements in Marathon, there isn't some player hideout you can customize or upgrade nor is there any community events/features that get you to engage with more people than just your teammates. Its just a very shallow game and Bungie cocksuckers trying to cope with the fact that people want a little more depth in their extraction shooter than "le shoot everyone on sight!".

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>>558827062
For fucking real. People already hate losing and getting stomped in regular PvP games, where playing field is somewhat equal, skill notwithstanding, and the only thing that gets hurt is their ego and time they wasted.
But in Marathon you can just randomly lose your gear, stuff you spent ages assembling, to some coordinated gank of people that live for this kind of griefing shit? And now you're much weaker for your next several runs, and the same people that already outclass you, now also have a gear advantage?

Nobody sane will play this. This is an extremely niche field. And Bungie hedged all their hopes and future on THIS? That level of ignorant and arrogant dumbassery must be studied.

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Uh, Marateens? Its 4:30 on the west coast, why are our numbers not going up...? Did the heckin chuds win???

>>558828726
We'll have better numbers in two weeks, trust the plan.

>>558828726
It's just the free beta test incel. We'll have 200k on release because no one wants to spoil themselves!

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>>558828849

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does mara even have half the gun variety destiny has? gl's, crossbows, fusion rifles, trace rifles, all the unique exotics...

did they really throw their cash cow out the window for the sake of a game with less weapon/enemy/ability variety where nothing happens for 5 minutes and then you get shot in the head from behind?

what the fuck were they thinking? the rapening of bungie can't come soon enough

>>558828981
Most people would prefer to give Bungie $40 than steal it. The kids are alright, chuds.

>>558829061
It has like 5 weapon types, all from Destiny.

>>558828726
JUST FUCKING WAIT UNTIL PEOPLE GET HOME FROM WORK AND SETTLED IN FOR THE NIGHT OKAY?!?!

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Rape Status: Calamitous

>>558829061
I don't know if it even has that variety. Throughout my play time all I ran into were ARs, SMGs and pistols, there's a sniper rifle that Cross used and a shotgun in the trailers, and that seems to be it. I think they just wanted it to replace Destiny so that they would have less work to do.

>>558828726
FOR FUCK SAKE YOU GOD DAMN CHUDS HAVE YOU NOT HEARD OF "WINDDOWN" BEFORE? EVERY SINGLE MARATHOONER NEEDS EXACTLY 6 HOURS OF PREP, A WARM BUBBLE BATH, A DEEP TISSUE MASSAGE AND A KALE BASED COLON CLEANSE BEFORE THEY CAN EVEN THINK OF EPIC PWNAGE

im pretty sure one of the bot enemies is a recycled psion
also the loot drop thing is definitely the cabal mining drill from the public event

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watching idubbz wife stream for the first time in years. banned chat every minute or so.

>runner shells are all just mass-produced copies so they can't have backstories or character arcs or any of the things lorefags like
>but they have unique distinctive designs and voices so they still feel like heroes instead of classes
what the fuck was bungie thinking here? it's literally the worst of both worlds

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>Marafloppers on the reddit have resorted to AI to cope with the criticism and plummeting player numbers

>>558829436
Its even worse on leafland PSN. Forget being mogged by Warframe, fucking Fallout 76, RE4 Remake, its even losing to Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 and AssCreed Shadows.

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>>558830008
>I'm having a blast
>A true return to form
>The comeback needs to be studied
>#MarathonTakeover
>Fucking chuds...
Yeah, the shilling is so organic.

The marathon comeback needs to be studied.

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>>558830008
>>558830262
Didn't they explicitly say they don't want chuds in their game? That it wasn't for us? Why are they complaining now?

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>>558829436
>losing to BL4

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>>558830008
>Yeah, I used AI to help write it. It's 2026, man what year do you live in? The research is mine. The points are mine. The formatting is mine. I used AI to clean it up because I wanted it to be readable and sourced properly. That's how tools work.

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>>558830262
>>558830418
You chuddies must've just not played a new game in your life before!

>>558830418
this is not your victory. you don't deserve it. this one is for the doomgods, marathon failed because bungie is a raped company that needs to die.

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Marathon ending LEAKED

>player count stagnating at around 70-73k
So its safe to assume thats how many people probably pre ordered right? Maybe a little a less?

>>558830008
>start match
>shoot someone in the back 30-60 seconds in
>feel bad because they brought actual gear and you could see them ragequit in real time
>happen upon another team (optional) and 50/50 win/lose based on who sees the other team first or in a worse position
>teammates want to extract without even getting anything meaningful done
or
>queue into another match
>get shot in the back 30-60 seconds in
nice "extraction loop" plebbit. Basically just quickplaying until you RNG spawn up someone's shitpipe and hope they have gear worth taking.

>>558831104
You don't know it yet but you're a chud just like the rest.

>>558831543
The new meta

>>558831538
Most likely less, anyone that preorder at this point is a Bungie shill that will try to force themselves to like this slop no matter what.

>>558831896
>Most likely less
Damn. So you're telling me bungies new game is about to have less players at launch than day 1 renegades? Thats beyond grim

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>>558832090
It's shills and people trying it out for free at the moment, the sales are only going down and Halo is about to win.

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This reads like a submissive animal that's about to get raped

>>558832420
>too lazy to even finish the rainbow of hearts
on brand

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>>558832420

They've known for years this was gonna happen

>>558832420
There was never a war. A war would imply there was competition. It was a slaughter. A rape if you will. Bungie was left gaped and bleeding out.

Obviously Marathon is a lousy pile of colorful vomit, but what I don't understand is how Arc Raiders is somehow this mega-hit. Every game in this genre looks boring as fuck.

>>558833270
Arc Raiders is actually fun and embark still knows how to make a good game.

>>558833270
It's a megahit because it's basically the opposite of most every extraction shooter and they actually put a decent amount of PVE content into the game instead of treating it as an afterthought.

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I just took a megashit, I call it "Marathon"

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>>558832207
At this point I admire 343 with Halo. They didn't even do shit but have all their Steam games go on sale and updated MCC so that all multiplayer cosmetics available in The Exchange can by obtained with no FOMO, and nuBungie is already getting mogged by their old classics. It even caused Escharum's game to go up a bit in terms of sales.
On a side note, Division 2 just went on sale for $3 again and it's already the 33rd best selling game on Steam. We may end up seeing it outsell Marathon at this rate.

>>558833874
I have the escape will make me god shirt, I'm hoping it's worth a lot in 5 years.

>>558833270
it's casual as fuck compared to other extraction shooters so it's a very social game where everyone's fucking around and everyone uses mics

It's up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlOl-7SL28s

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I won.. but at the cost of my favorite game
Fuck you bungie, fuck you

Dooming_Is_The_First_Step

>>558835023
Rape is the first step

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>>558834948
>Fire the only guy with any talent on the Maraslop project
kek

>>558834948
Craziest humiliation ritual I've ever seen. Fucking magical to watch, but Joe seems like a good guy that genuinely did make a mistake and trust a jeet on his team to not steal art. You live and learn, I guess.

>>558834948
This makes me think of that Andy guy who set up Dmg to do hosting duties for year of prophecy, like getting the way out of a grenade

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MaraXisters I'm scared...its nearly 6PM pacific standard time and the numbers haven't gone up a lot...everyone should be at home now playing the game...

>>558833270
Arc Raiders is easy to get lost in and appeals to a lot of people feeling for that more sandbox-y like environment where you can just shoot random robot and fart around. The pressure is low, and it’s inoffensive enough . Even the nerdlingers with the big visuals about how it’s more beneficial to pve do illustrate what makes people stay in that game .

>>558836291
west coast players are eating and smoking weed and then they will get on

>>558834131
Buy an ad.

>>558836291
We'll hit 100k by the end of tonight xis. Don't worry

>>558836646
please stop spamming, ramesh

>>558836291
What do you not understand?

People don't play on Friday, they unwind and chill after work. You'll see people actually playing on Saturday. Your gonna see a new peak.

>>558833483
>>558834080
>>558836514
So it succeeds by severely downplaying the main element of the genre?

Is HiddenSoysperia dooming yet?

>>558836946
It's still entirely there but because it's not the only thing there it attracted a lot more people that wouldn't normally play extraction shooters.

>>558836834
Stop shilling your slop videos, Dikshit.

I hate the marathon community and streamers shilling it more than bungie themselves at this point. Can't wait for this game to fucking die and have sony obliterate bungie so these fucks shut the hell up

>Maraflop tries to use spooky and eerie music
>you're wandering around an empty and lifeless set of buildings that look like a scale model that's been scaled up and thrown onto a random area
>random robots stomping around mostly outside while you collect bagged feces, beer coolers, rolls of wire, and half-melted lead
>Warframe uses spooky and eerie music
>you're wandering around a ship that's stuck between reality and the void
>dubiously haunted by ghosts and humans-turned-anomalies creating unusual and unnatural statuesque anomalies around the ship
>enemy factions are canonically trying to collect things from the ship for study
It's almost funny because the games themselves have the exact opposite in gameplay and tension but Bungie doesn't know what the fuck they are doing and Warframe is just trying to set the mood.

Marathon is at 80 thousand players and rising. What do doomchuds have to say for themselves?

>>558838764
It's losing global sales to poppy playtime

>>558838764
it's being botted

>>558838764
Only 60k more until you can compete with the already disappointing peak on a friday night!

>>558838896
If you don't delete this I'll have your entire family black bagged by the BDF.

>>558837949
The only time I really got scared in warframe was during the mission where your introduced to the infested. Your still relatively new so it's really creepily built up until you see one for the first time.

After that, when you master the movement, at no point do you get afraid. Not even chains of Harrow.

>>558838913
I would not be surprised desu. Other games have just as many players as they normally do, and we even have RE9 blowing up, so where are these players coming from?

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>>558839083
Fuck Marathon took the lead again!

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>>558838764

It's OVER

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Stop raping, ser

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CHUDDIES LOST! MARATHON WON! BUNGIE WON!

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Do you guys remember the really odd thing shill were doing
"Dude, the public sentiment is TURNING. The tides are SHIFTING. people are HYPED"

Even tassi was doing shit like that. Like trying to gaslight an opinion shift....was going to shift our opinions?

>>558841159
Well I studied the comeback and found that the game is fucking gay and sucks.

Reminder to not chud up /oursister/ stream tomorrow

>>558840841
CALL PAUL NOW

>>558841159
Yup its kind of funny how hard they were trying to astroturf the game but they forget that people aren't going to play dogshit because Paul Tassi said Bungie was JAMMING. Most gamers don't even look at anything outside of the game and with the test they have probably tried it and immediately saw the awful artstyle and written it off as a lame and gay game, which it is. I think its mostly desperation from Bungie because they NEED to sell a shit ton of copies to even break even on Marathon that has been developed for 7 years and with a estimate being generous to Bungie probably cost them around 200 million to make meaning they'd need to sell as another anon said like 5 million copies just to break even.

They didn't try appealing to PvE AR players and just made essentially Destiny 0.5 but this time the entire game is Trials of Osiris with some Not!Cabal sprinkled on the map.

>>558841159
The only fun I've had in the game is playing Rook and that's because I've only ever backfilled into games where the KOS pvp mongoloids have already extracted and I'm literally scavenging through 80% of the map being untouched loot. I've see multiple other Rooks but they've never seen me.
The game still sucks.

>>558841159
No anon, you see if a few content creators are invited to play the game at Bungie's offices and give a positive opinion, that means its 100% a turn around and people love it. And if half the player base leave the open beta despite trying to give the game a fair chance, that just means they're a bunch of Arc Raiders loving CHUDS trying to sabotage Bungie.

>>558829436
>losing to borderlands 4
grim.

>>558842317
>can't even do faction bounties as rook
bullshit

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>>558836201
probably the best stream bungie has ever done, I hope someone managed to keep the full vod without the cuts bungie did like getting rid of the salute at the end. It was fucking magical

>>558838764
>it's above 84k now
It's over

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>>558843372
this image sums it up perfectly

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>>558843372
>>558843531
for me, it was this one

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>>558843593
and pete showed up too

>>558843593
>>558843963
The black dude might've fucked up but you could really tell he didn't wanna be there in the first place
Kept fucking ignoring the dude over-explaining everything and cutting him off to focus, was a great stream, that and exposing the steam account to everyone

>>558843372
Cozmo cutting in to correct him on something or clarify some questions from chat and he gets spooked like oh yeah this fucking guy who somehow is an employee forgot about you.

>>558844145
Where is Gambit 3???

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>kill yourself

https://www.youtube.com/live/ibCMeYOsQIo?si=w0NUfIpzjcn0pu0N&t=1107
fucking hilarious

>>558844425
>his face when he starts talking
holy shit the contempt

>>558842236
>>558841159
I forget if it was this thread or elsewhere but the comedic thing was all these marateens tried to pull rank and talk big shit because their heckin goofball cast of approved content creators they use as a replacement for an older sibling and father said how this is the real intense game, get lost AR carebears, and now of course just like how we got double primary and fucking morons acting like D2 is going to be an esport,we now got this ass backwards game where they’re trying to make hero characters who’d have this more intense combat, but everything is gated by heat stamina shit, and the ttks are comically low it brings no strategy or skill into the game. The AI are annoying and wastes of bullets and everybody kind of loses. So many of these decisions Bungie stuck with are just so awkward

>>558844145
anon what are you doing?

>>558843372
>the cuts bungie did like getting rid of the salute at the end. It was fucking magical
Did they actually

>>558845019
I don’t even see how this could shape into much of a “competitive” game or like what the fuck shit show Ranked will be when everybody wears a clown suit, so many engagements feel like a coin flip, and inevitable partying goes down when everybody is low on health and shields. Idk it feels weird as fuck how like this shouldn’t be a hard concept to make more fun and interesting and Bungie just included such weird bits of it.I also don’t wanna hear shit from people talking how awkward clamber and certain hill climbing in Warzone or BF can be when there’s some spots in this game that are awkward as fuck to get atop of or walk by

>>558845658
they cut the numerous parts from the into the light livestream, the IGN one keeps it all in I think. Should be the same for the Marathon apology

>>558845827
Lel

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Bungie has been raped. We are just witnessing the after rape...

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Yhwach won.

What's the playercount at gents?

>>558852759
Day 2 peak is 84k on a friday night. Currently sliding downwards at 72k.

>>558852889
>84k on a friday night
BAAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
B-b-but I thought it was the future, and that it was gonna destroy Cuck Raiders

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>>558853235
Careful anon, talking about declining playercounts is still a sorespot for the BDF.

>>558828726
umm, after school jobs because of the economy chud

>>558832207
It looks like people tried marathon and went to buy arc raiders because if you're going to pay $40 for an extraction shooter might as well buy the one you like.

>>558855562
SOVL

>>558855562
I still dont know how they made D1 look nicer than D2 despite the game also having to be made with Xbox 360/PS3 limitations in mind.

>>558855562
It's unreal how games got worse

is it so over or are we so back
haven't checked in here in a few years

>>558853527
the player count should not be decreasing for an open beta. this is the surest sign it's a dead game. if this were any other studio than bungo, they might be able to turn this around, but they can't move fast enough.

>>558855713
Isn't it because it just had super good art direction? Its how MGS5 also managed to be on the old gen consoles and look amazing. Look a little closer in game and things aren't exactly the best but its not like you'll ever notice it. I sure as hell didn't

>>558856312
D2: dead
Marathon: DOA
Destiny 1: still alive with a healthy raiding community unlike d2

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>mup da doo didda po mo gub bidda be dat tum muhfugen bix nood cof bin dub ho muhfugga

>>558856542
Looks like it's time to make d1 better by adding portal to the game. A little bit of sunsetting won't hurt either.

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>>558856689
Why did they choose to make the characters so ugly?

Is the "im having a blast" meme new or old?

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>>558856487
You aren't wrong, but even running at 900p on the Xbone its still far from a disaster of polygons. And it's just ironic how D2 in theory carries so much from D1 to even some employees, and yet despite being on more powerful hardware it just doesn't always look as good.

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>marathon but good

>>558857373
Old. Seen it since dragons dogma 2

>>558857737
Oh. I've never seen until now with marathon. Its funny whenever someone says it and then a marakek freaks out on them

>>558855713
Even Reach is a better looking game than current day D2. They massively downgraded graphics with vanilla D2 compared to D1, all to allow for more abilities and enemies to be out at once. Then they doubled down on that and removed all lighting tech from the game so you could have thirty thrall getting slapped with volatile by six guardians with seven active effects.

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both helldivers and arc raiders, $40 live services, are above marathon

>>558859446
Poppygods... why are we letting this shit ass game beat us?

>>558859446
Has arc raiders fallen out of top 10 since launch? Helldivers has been out for what? 2 years? Marathon needed to come out 3 years ago to be successful with what it offers.

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I think it'll get 50k~ players perhaps on launch, maybe 200k altogether across the consoles + PC. Whether or not it manages to sustain itself and the playerbase post-launch is going to the real decider.
What is likely, is that people are done and not going back to Destiny after Marathon launches. The average player count will maybe bump back up slighty when (or if) they get the delayed whatever it is now in the game, but its a really long bleed, and this game just doesn't have Taken King-level longevity in it. And that lies a problem, I don't think Destiny fans are going to pick up Marathon when the curtain calls on Destiny. The ones who are playing Marathon will probably be the ones to play it on release and either continue or eventually drop it, the ones who are holding back I really don't see ever getting a PvP extraction shooter.

We haven't really seen any monetary systems in place for Marathon yet but I expect they'll do whatever the industry it doing and similarly charge premiums. I don't see them as a studio supporting themselves without it.
That last map in Marathon also needs to be actually good otherwise there's little point to the entire gameplay loop.

>>558859779
I'll never understand how/why bungo are so slow at map development, they always seem to struggle so badly

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>me with my Truth

>>558860583
you're late, damn

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>>558860665
It's my last day in Scotland, going back home today so back to normal hours of postin'.

gonna miss the higher quality of food though, I don't want to go back to America ; ;

>>558861220
Where at in America? Don't worry, i'm not rapeanon.

>>558837838
Shills usually not this blatant, but they do try to set the tone of discussions through select chosen leaders or whatever. Most successful shill campaign are the ones that infect regular users and turn them into the carriers that spread the message further.

>>558861310
crabs and old bay

>>558862002
I'm going to rape you.

>>558862185
this will be the third or fourth time now

>>558841159
nu-males call this "manifesting." You create a victory narrative and hope that people will believe it and join in, knowing that it's human nature to favor a perceived "winner." ex. "the vibe shift around Kamala is massive, you can feel the energy!"

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>>558858965
People keep deep throating nuBungie and their art direction out of habit, but it's been arguably in dumps since 2019s, even their trademarked skyboxes feel so lifeless and static nowadays.

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chat is this real?

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>>558863526
they fixed arc riders, its not longer banned
now you can't type i love arc riders, love gets censored
>>558857667
fun game, its on sale for dirty cheap atm, Division 1-2 are also on sale for that one anon who wanted

also for anyone who wants marathon but good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_MCxIAQFjA

>>558863591
>playerbase so bad I am having trouble filling a team game
I'm only playing this because it's new and free but I'm probably uninstalling it tomorrow. It's just too fucking bad.

>>558863671
the most goth trannycore game I've ever seen in my entire life.

looks fun will check it out

>play bad game shartathon
>have good run
>lone guy with sniper ambushes us from like 20 meters behind
>kills all 3 of us with headshots in under 3 seconds as we are spread out
looks like the anticheat has already failed

>>558865132
nah, you just need to git gud, it sounds about right because pvp ttk is <1s in maraslop, it's super low by extraction shooter standards, it's also a lot lower than pve ttk

>>558865302
I was the only person to realize what was going on because it took 2 shots to kill me.

>>558865367
>2 shots
wait till you run into an experienced ape, you can effortlessly wipe a team with a shotty
they need to tweak pvp ttk pretty badly because pve takes forever and pvp is almost instantly over if you're jumped unless the person who jumped you had absolutely dogshit aim, there's a huge gap between the two

>>558855562
i was 12 years old. this sucks

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reaching new lows on the weekend

>>558866219
dw, in 4 hours it'll start climbing again, it will however be over if they can't set a new 24hr record over the weekend

>>558868037
It's already over

>>558863671
That's crazy that someone has already made a game with a worse UI than Maraslop

what did you guys do in destiny today

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ALL OF YOU
WILL BE SORRY
THE REBOUND CANNOT BE STOPPED

>>558869393
The marathon rebound needs to be studied

>>558869393
these numbers used to be concerning for destiny once upon a time and now marathon is launching with them

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>>558871813
>marathon is launching with them
they PRAY they will have this many players on launch lmao

streamers are getting mad defensive

>>558872229
It gets better when you're outside of the refund window, Chud.

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>>558872229
SHUT THE FUCK UP CHUD! DONT SHIT ON IT DAY ONE! LET THEM COOOOOK!

>>558873867
How much did they pay him to have a shill melty?

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Okay incel, wait till Sunday. That's when the REAL peak starts.

>>558874325
You think nuBungie got an emergency plan, where they have ~100000 Indians at standby and force them to play Marathon for better chart metrics?

the real test will be sunday
the real test will be launch
the real test will be after 1 month
the real test will be after 6 months
the real test will be year 2

>>558874325
What will his next cope be when it starts to drop again?

let them cook.....please........just let them cook you know they work their best when their back is agaisnt the wall

>>558873867
This guy is 100% a corp sellout right? Never heard of him, then hes apparently a big eceleb and most of what he does is defend slop.

>>558876894
he plays pvp games, so he is not important

>>558876894
Bungie has been paying him for a minute, they paid him to do that stream after the State of Play a few weeks ago too. He's a #MarathonPartner

>>558876894
Even if he wasnt he is now, the "haha peanut look funny" shtick ended ages ago and now he is speed running his career into right wing griftcuck / industry shill

>>558877438
lol mad cuck is mad

Marathon is actually a REAL extraction shooter game. Its much more real than Arc Raiders or Tarkov because you go in, kill some braindead bots and loot dogshit stuff... and then? You extract... extract to a completely different game never to return.

>>558877496
From random clips i saw, he kept getting baited by chat and eventually brought his friend on to cheer for him, so yeah he was giga mad lol

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Heh.

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>>558876894
He gives me the feeling that it's a Dylan Mulvaney situation. I've tried to watch the streams a couple of times and I literally cannot stand it for more than 30 seconds. Maybe twitch audiences are just that stupid, but it honestly makes more sense to me if he's just a an utterly controlled goybot golem that's being aggressively algo-boosted behind the scenes.

>>558866219
It's fucking over.

>>558878786
I think its the comical personality he has which is entertaining but is like brainrot level entertaining. Its enjoyable for maybe short bursts but eventually you can only hear him go "Hmm uhmmm" so many times before you click off. I do think he might be viewbotting because his youtube had like 90k live viewers at one point while his twitch had like 60-70k, I simply do not believe that guy gets over 100k people watching him live.

>>558879051
everyone is viewbotting

>>558866219
Holy moly. This is even worse than I expected

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The marathon subreddit is starting to shift it's mood, people have already started to call bullshit on the toxic positivity around there, with the drop in numbers already being a inflamatory point for many

>52,331
I think we got a bit cocky doomgods....they might just reach 100k

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>>558880657
>they might just reach 100k

>>558874325
Why something arbitrary like a Sunday night, when people are getting ready to go back to work or school? If people don’t want to play the game on a Saturday morning or afternoon then it’s already over for Marathon. I get that Paul desperately wants Bungie to remain afloat but goddamn.

players rising bigly

>all the marathon hate being spread
>find one defender
>t-the game isnt even out yet!
How can people just be so retarded?

LET. THEM. COOK

>>558882094
>y-you just don't get extraction shooters
>g-go play a battle royale or something

odds of an official bungie exec execution stream by sony?

at most blacked stream, sony is muttmerican for like a decade now

>>558837838
eh, it was more being randomly kicked by extremely hostile retards on lfg just looking to shit on randoms that killed destiny for me. I just want to run VOG or some dungeons and they turn it into a popularity contest with their IRL friends.

Bungie should just remove the kick from fireteam option entirely. Its nothing short of abused and even their pet streamers like aztecross make constant spectacles over it.

Making dickheads leave or just spawning you into your own instance of the activity like helldivers 2 does solves the problem immediately.

>>558882630
They spent all that money on Joey Z for this trash lol. I hope he gets called to head office and forced to do the same humiliation ritual they made Joe Cross do

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You dont wanna know what they are gonna do to mr ziegler

>>558883731
He deserves way worse than what Joe Cross got.

>>558883731
I hope they livestream it and take sugestions from the chat.

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>>558856825

>>558885153
lol

>>558825920
I'd hate bungie less if they didn't bother dressing up all their player retention bullshit like sunsetting and just straight told us they were going to attempt to fuck us in the ass another time.

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Paul? Raped... by me.

>>558888486
I really just can't believe Paul tassi is considered human. How does this nigga think videogames work?
>WOWIE ZOWIE THOSE CINEMATICS ARE FRICKING HECKING EPICRINO I CANT WAIT FOR THE FULL GAME
>erm... why are they ugly?
Like has this nigga only play bungie games? Other videogames do this shit where the cinematics are majority of the time vastly different from what it actually looks like ingame. The fact he fell so hard for this slop is unbelievable ASSUMING he wasnt payed which isnt likely

>>558888767
All bantz aside Tassi is an unintelligent mouthbreather and as such a very good barometer for the smoothminds Bungie wants "locked in our digital storefront ecycostem" in a slop game like Marathon.

>>558888767
usually games still look pretty good outside of cinematics unless its a compslop

>>558888735
escharumGOD, please leave some bungieBUSSY for the rest of us........

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Erm...MaraXisters? Why are we losing to Division 2?

mara-thon more like mara-sov

>>558889836
the browner the country the lower the marathon sales

Good goy

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>>558890179
nice try, but those are global sales

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>>558890320
Yasuke won, bigly

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>>558890320
thank you for confirming what i said and for being so retardedly brown that you have no idea you did it.

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>thank you for confirming what i said and for being so retardedly brown that you have no idea you did it.

SAAR YOU ARE BROWN SAAR REDEEM MARATHON SAAR BUNGIE GOOD BLOODY BENCHOD

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lmao

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>Poland (95% White)
>Not even in the Top 100
>Czech Republic (95% White)
>92
>Norway (90% White)
>62
>Sweden (85% White)
>42
>Switzerlands (85% White)
>37
>Austria (80% White)
>35
Sales of Marathon are significantly higher in brown countries versus white countries

>>558891176
austria is arguably the only white country on that list

>>558891176
>eastern yuropoors are white
that is the brownest cope ive ever heard kek

>>558891491
They're all whiter than the US or Canada

>>558891176
That would explain why it's so high in NA lmao

>>558829436
Forza sweep

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>>558891176
>Trend is sales of Marathon increase as white population decreases
That's funny

Reminder that the browner the country the lower the marathon sales. Marathon is not in the top 100 sellers of Turkey or Brazil, for example.

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>Reminder that the browner the country the lower the marathon sales. Marathon is not in the top 100 sellers of Turkey or Brazil, for example.

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Ummmmm brown people are based now?

>>558891176
>Brazil (100 million whites)
>not even top 200

>>558893174
sounds like ignoring your playerbase after taking away their money and spitting in their face isnt a good way to attract new customers

>>558892190
>mentioning a random ass country like turkey but not india
i can smell you from here rajeesh

So how badly are cross and byf coping that they cant parisatise Marton and ride it for another decade rather than flip burgz?

why does pandering to people who don't play your game not fix your population issues?

>>558894119
post the top sellers steam charts for india, ramesh

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>>558894384
I feel like cross could make it if he shifted to another game. Not even a shill, just my opinion.


Byf is fucked though. That fat fuck is gonna have to start flipping more and eating less. The ego lose of no longer being praised will hit him hardest though.

>>558894384
you can tell cross is holding back every time he gives his opinion on the game, he very obviously is forcing more playtime in the hopes that he'll really get hooked, but he's already been talking about going back to warframe and playing other games.

>>558894905
He looks like he wants to be playing The Division instead but needs to ride the wave just in case.

Are we studying the comeback or jamming to the doom?

Currently <digging> my grave

https://files.catbox.moe/6lxi45.mp4

>>558895232
disappointing tits

>>558895285
True

>>558895095
destiny hasn't reached 10k peaks for a few days, im jamming the doom

Could you imagine if bungie actually went through with dropping marathon last year? Christ.

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>>558895735
Its already bleak now with 61k players at 10AM PST on a Saturday, if Marathon released last year in the state that it did with zero story at launch the game would've been buckbroken into oblivion by Arc Raiders. And that's not even getting into how bad the cheating situation will become after launch.

>>558894846
>I feel like cross could make it if he shifted to another game.
He's too much a chud and he's not that funny, he won't succeed.

>>558894846
easily. the fact that he isn't a leftist like all other destiny streamers is why he gets 10x their viewers.

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What do we think Bungie is going to try announcing or changing as they flail around in these final moments of their's?

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tassi loves to play the martyr. look at how everyone attacks him for just having opinions

>>558897223
Because this is modern Bungie we're talking about, I can see them trying to sell back the Red War campaign + CoO/Warmind + Forsaken and its seasons back under the guise of a "remaster" on consoles. Its either that, or they'll quickly shit out a PvE mode for Marathon to desperately keep players from leaving.

>>558897223
Maybe a solo mode but with 0 changes because they're lazy. I think they'll just do a lot of "we're listening and we hear you" until Sony shuts them down. Destiny might get another STAR WARS expansion.

I really hate the people defending marathon and forgetting all the bad shit bungies done

>>558898471
Don't worry when the game flops they will be raped alongside Bungie. Feel free to tell them they are retarded faggots when Bungie goes under.

>>558897273
kek

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the fruits of their labor

>>558898692
I was a fanatic when the games were good.

Why are they all trying so hard to make a mid game seem special?

>>558899096
to own the chuds

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>>558899096
Bungie dies and the parasitic shills stop getting paid

Scientology ahh fanbase

They sponsored fucking forsen to play this dogshit. An actual unironic chud.


They're so desperate it's not even funny.

>>558899463
They should just get Nick Fuentes if they really want this game to be successful.

>>558896041
BBBUT MUH STREAMERS
MUH PLAYER STORIES
NOOOOO GO BACK TO DESTINY