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Bungie delays Marathon, telling players, "we know we need more time" (www.gamesindustry.biz)
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[–] k1ck455kc@sh.itjust.works 27 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

What they need is to make a completely different game.

Destiny was successful because it was the first real fps service game, it didnt push mtx, and had competent pve, pvp and a story(debatably). Bungie cant chase that dragon anymore. Its been done a million times now.

Players know all service games want is to milk them with mtx. No player wants to get into a new service game especially when its nothing unique.

Just make a good single and multiplayer shooter with a somewhat interesting story, then people will buy and play it.

It seems so easy, but AAA pubs and devs cant pull their heads out of their own asses to see what players want. They just see what investors want.

There, dead horse kicked again.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Yup.

Unless they just take the IP, and assets they've made, and use that to make something else, Marathon is likely DOA.

If by the time it comes out it even whiffs of a live service long-term nickle-and-diming, people will dismiss it.

[–] k1ck455kc@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Agreed. I would love it if they took all the assets and the engine and made a great campaign actually grounded in the marathon universe. Thats what i would pay for.

Tbh, its probably too late for bungie. All that company is, is a name.

[–] Paradox@lemdro.id 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

TF2 has years on destiny

[–] k1ck455kc@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago

Offline play with bots, not server dependent... Its a multiplayer game with mtx. Its not an Online-Only service game.

You could consider it a service game of sorts, but it isnt the toxic sludge that Destiny 2 and Marathon are/could have been.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 21 points 5 days ago

My interest shot up super high when they said they were making a new Marathon, and then it plummeted right back to 0 when they showed it was going to be a BR/extraction shooter.