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Bungie's Marathon Likely Won't Be Free-to-Play Based on Gameplay Reveal Announcement Message

Don't expect Bungie's upcoming game, Marathon, to be a free-to-play game like Destiny 2 based on the gameplay announcement details.

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Stopac17d ago

Unless its a fully priced, or any priced game, that still has battle passes with mundane updates like D2 has. D2 was once a paid game too with a live service model, people seem to forget that.

rudero17d ago

$40 and will have seasons.
Is the rumor.

StoneTitan17d ago

Would fit the sony pricetag for mp games

InUrFoxHole17d ago

$40 on xbox would be great.

S2Killinit16d ago

I think it will be full price.

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anast17d ago

The probability of survival just went down a bit.

anast17d ago (Edited 17d ago )

I hope so. The last thing we need is Xbox drones filling the forum.

PanicMechanic16d ago

Yea that’s right. That’s what everyone wants right now. A multiplayer extraction shooter yyaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyy

S2Killinit16d ago

@panicmechanic
Yeah I do. Are you more valuable than me?

PanicMechanic16d ago

S2Killinit

No I’m not more valuable than you. I’m saying with all of Sony’s woes with first party, I HARDLY believe the core fan base has the appetite for a multiplayer extraction shooter. If you’re excited, that’s fine. But on the whole, Sony and Bungie especially are a massive disappointment

Michiel198916d ago

@anast yeah cause god forbid someone has a different opinion

DodoDojo16d ago

You said the same thing about Concord.

S2Killinit16d ago (Edited 16d ago )

So what you are saying is that in your opinion people dont want ANY multiplayer game. Well I think you are dead wrong. Just because one multiplayer game did badly? What about Helldivers? That was a multiplayer extraction game. It was a MASSIVE SUCCESS. Whats your explanation?

Oh and this is Bungie we are talking about.

PanicMechanic13d ago

Well after all that, it looks painfully generic and bland. And confirms to me again that Sony buying Bungie for 3.8 billion dollars was a complete waste.

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lukasmain17d ago

Bungie are really good at gameplay and how it feels to play.

neutralgamer199217d ago

This is bungie their FPS sell. They know above all how to get the gameplay right. Moment to money gameplay

anast17d ago (Edited 17d ago )

I see but the world has to be right. Destiny for all of it's flaws has a decent enough world and the art isn't overly stylized. This stuff matters.

neutralgamer199217d ago

That's true. Hopefully they can get it right

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Ex- Concord Dev in Defense of Marathon & Against "Lack of Compassion" & "Vitriol" Attached to Games

One former Concord dev defends Marathon and discusses the "vitriol" people have toward games in a statement shared with MP1st.

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Alos884d ago

Plenty of people are excited for Marathon- nobody was excited for Concord. That's the difference.

Kornholic4d ago (Edited 4d ago )

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.

TOTSUKO4d ago

The marathon discord jumped up around 300k on reveal. Which is like what, triple of what concord sold lmao

HyperMoused4d ago

Didnt he call anyone who didnt like his game talentless losers..yeah...vitriol

coolbeans4d ago

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.

thorstein4d ago

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.

Lightning773d ago (Edited 3d ago )

"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.

Eonjay3d ago

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.

Rancegamerx3d ago

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.

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Bungie's Extraction Shooter Marathon Explains its Setting in New Cinematic

If the reveal of Marathon has left you a bit perplexed about its setting, the cinematic released today may help explain it in simpler terms.

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anast4d ago

I still don't understand whose decision it was to make a F2P game that is not F2P. The Streamers will farm it for content after this the game will have way below average numbers.

SlothLordPootus3d ago

I dont think the game inherently should be free to play, but maybe would suit it better. Lots of extraction shooters aren't. I know it's not the norm in terms of mutiplayer games anymore with Fortnite, Warzone, Apex, overwatch, etc.

anast3d ago

"but maybe would suit it better. "

exactly

badz1494d ago

When Sony bought Bungie, I was secretly hoping that they would produce something magical like Halo for the PS consoles. an LS extraction shooter was not I had in mind

Ninver4d ago (Edited 4d ago )

That was my exact expectation of Bungie. Disappointed is an understatement.

rudero4d ago

The game has been in production since 2018 and almost tanked Bungie financially before Sony stepped in…

They were not going to scrap the game and Sony did not dictate the game to bungie.

The_Blue4d ago

a quick check, but no disrespect, but let me say this.

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Marathon Might Be the Game That Finally Brings Extraction Shooters Into the Mainstream

TNS: Bungie hosted a gameplay reveal for Marathon, and it looks like this might be the extraction shooter that takes the genre mainstream.

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isarai9d ago

Such a beautiful art style wasted on some GAAS shill 😞

S2Killinit7d ago

How do you know it wont be a great game like Helldivers?

S2Killinit6d ago (Edited 6d ago )

The alt accounts disagree with me but seems they can’t tell me why.

Notellin4d ago

N4G is a pathetic cesspool of neck beards. They barely represent but a tiny fraction of the gaming community.

Relientk779d ago

Do you actually believe that, like truly believe that? Lol

Do you remember Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Extraction? I don't think even Ubisoft remembers it.

Nitrowolf28d ago

I feel like your joking about rainbow six extraction, cause that WAS NOT an extraction shooter

Profchaos7d ago

I think he's talking about the unreleased project they canned in development

Cacabunga8d ago

Remember Dead Space Extraction on Wii?
Well still not extraction shooter. Do you even know what you are writing?

goken7d ago

About Ubisoft not remembering about Rainbow Six…
I don’t know… there is a possibility that they are secretly working on something to make it their latest endeavour for DEI

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