"I commend them for taking a chance."
I can safely say that this latest Marathon reboot has the potential to be among the best of the genre.
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So.... what's the over / under on this game also getting pulled shortly after release?
Arc Raiders is already getting better reception in the preview sessions than Marathon, anyways.
Idk why. Just got off ARC. Marathon has more hook. Arc gunplay is trash. There’s more reloading than shooting lol. It already has 3 different currencies & monetization trash on a play test.
Marathon has its shortcomings but the gunplay is superior. I actually went back to marathon lol
Marathon playercounts don't matter at this point, but we can see a few things about short-term interest in the game that are a little concerning.
One former Concord dev defends Marathon and discusses the "vitriol" people have toward games in a statement shared with MP1st.
Plenty of people are excited for Marathon- nobody was excited for Concord. That's the difference.
Not really. It's quite rare to see excitement for Marathon in comment sections. The only place where I've seen positive rhetoric for Marathon is the game's subreddit.
The marathon discord jumped up around 300k on reveal. Which is like what, triple of what concord sold lmao
Hold on! He may have been on the same team, but that wasn't this developer's words. The guy who made the "talentless freaks" comment was Xavier Farrell. I don't know if Stephan Williams shared the same attitude, but I think it's fair to not hold that over his head.
He's not wrong. There are talented, great devs who made games then quit because of online vitriol from a tiny group of shitstirrers.
Wow, you hate a game you couldn't possibly have played yet. Or you hate a game that you couldn't possibly have played. How original.
Normal people (because you never hear from them) when they don't like a game, don't care and move on. They don't waste their time talking shit about it.
And the people who do just search for people they want to agree with their bias.
"There are talented, great devs who made games then quit because of online vitriol from a tiny group of shitstirrers."
I dunno about Tiny group of ppl. Hell ppl online made it collectively known they didn't want Concord.
If you were speaking as early as last gen. Yeah you could say it was a handful of small ppl online that talk down on certain games but ultimately had no impact on the games sales. Look at Destiny IP. Ppl Talk so much crap about that game post launch and the game still sold like crazy. Same with 2. These days there's a collective whole of ppl who are trying to tear down games by using platforms and followers to do it. Grummz is a perfect example of someone who has been terrorizing the game industry with his rhetoric of "anti-wokeness" and he's been doing this most of this gen along with his retarded followers. Doesn't matter the game he'll go after it if it doesn't fit his agenda and world. he's hurt this industry with fake outrage that spreads like a disease. It's definitely not a tiny amount of ppl anymore it's annoying movement that's hurting this industry. If a game doesn't get announced perfectly 10 outta 10 the with no "agendas" then "fans" will destroy said game.
Grummz is a scam artist and part of his thing is using anti-workness as a sheild to block out the criticism he has rightfully earned.
What does compassion have to do with this? This person needs to realize he’s not living in some fantasy world. This is the real world, and he was involved in a massive failure. No one is obligated to offer compassion for failure just to make others feel better about themselves. The so-called vitriol comes from deeply frustrated people who are tired of the industry producing low-quality content and then blaming gamers instead of the creators. It’s ridiculous.
Title should've said *Concord Dev
The game that cost $400m & Sony wanted you to pay for it & was live service, hero shooters are one thing which was copied from OW but I really*3 can't see players enjoying extraction shooters where once ya dead you've lost your entire loadout, it's a very different steaks type of game.
Is this guy for real?
"I commend them for taking a chance, trying something foreign to them"
It isn't that foreign, it's a first person live service online shooter which is exactly what Destiny was, the only difference is that it's an extraction based game.
"But to call this game a failure before it’s even out is wild to me."
Or maybe we've had 10, if not more, years of this kind of s**t were we start to see a pattern. Why risk giving them your hard earned money especially in this kind of economy when you have a gut wrenching feeling how it's going to turn out.
Bungie could have revived Marathon and made a remake of the original or a Doom 2016 styled sequel but they instead chose to do more live service slop.
I don't care about small studios trend chasing but when well established studios like bungie try their hand at it, it usually just ends up biting them back in the end. Trend chase games should only be small projects, you ain't going to trample the top dog for very long until there are good signs of it going downhill like overwatch, marvel rivals found a perfect time to release their game but it's not going to work 9/10 times.
internally reviewed very well
It only shows that this developer has no idea why his game Concord failed, and that's WILD to me.