Bungie’s Marathon Reveal Has Me More Worried Than Excited - Could This Be ‘Concord’ All Over Again?

Despite its flashy trailer, I'm still feeling pretty mixed about Bungie's upcoming extraction shooter, 'Marathon'.

[CrimsonWing69]

Do you like Non-Free GaaS games that are Extraction Shooters? If the answer is, yes then you’ll probably enjoy this. If it’s no, then stay far faaaaar away from this.

I cannot get into 99% of any GaaS game, not saying that I’ll close myself off from them, but generally their design is akin to the mobile game model. I f*cking detest that.

The other thing is even if I were to get into this by some miracle, after about a week I know I’d be bored.

I’m sorry Sony was banking on GaaS to be the future. Let this be a lesson to them… well, maybe after that Fairgame$ game and wasn’t there another one?

[-Foxtrot]

If this fails after Concords massive failure then I'm going to be SUPER curious to see what the hell they are going to do with Fairgame$.

I wonder if they'll delay it or just cancel it to start on a brand new single player IP.

[CrimsonWing69]

I wish I knew how much they invested in all these. I mean, not only did they acquire Bungie for a huge chunk of change, but then funding the development for this, Concord, Fairgame$, and isn’t there Horizon one in the works with a weird art style? How they thought all these GaaS games would be supported all at once is beyond me.

The other kicker is remember when they announced 12 of these f*cking GaaS games and then knocked it down to 6? Whatever the hell they’re smoking over there, they need to stop.

[Extermin8or3_]

@crimsonwin69 they announced they had 12 (although that included titles like gt7) but they had so many because they knew they wouldn't all hit the market and some would bomb. The money these games make when successful is such that they only really needed a couple to be successful. We also know what most arr now and sadly the two most promising and most likely to be successful. Spiderverse and the last of us online never released becauae the studios realised it would require too much time commitment and take over their dev time for the next decade or more.

[Inverno]

The industry is a contradiction. Its pushed out the idea of F2P so hard that pay to play games eventually switched to that model or have been given out for free for a period. Yet for some reason every now and then these companies wanna shite out a pay to play game then go all *surprised Pikachu face* when it flops. First game since Destiny, some obscure game most don't even know about, you'd think they'd treat it as a smaller budget SP game but nah smh.

[Extermin8or3_]

I think they have, hence it's to release in wait is effectively early access to limit the money spent on it without it bringing in money and showing it can be successful.

[PapaBop]

It's called having your cake and eating it. Many games start off F2P simply because it makes more sense to do so and then earn your money through MTs and BPs. Then along comes Bungie who knows they have a strong enough fanbase to get away with charging for copies and if the state of Destiny 2 monetisation is anything to go by, will still be monetised like a F2P game.

[senorfartcushion]

Welcome to marketing

[MoneyMadness]

I would rather play Escape from Tarkov again.

[anast]

same

[anast]

It's going to be a rough sell, 'you' might want to be a bit concerned.

[PapaBop]

It's Bungie, simply being Bungie and their fanbase will ensure this game isn't going to do a Concord. Will it be successful though? That's the real question.

[fsfsxii]

I dont like Marathon but the ghost of concord got everyone clutching their pearls, some of you are so risk-averse i wonder why you bother living, the chance of failure is ever present, and so is success.

[Miraak82]

I'm still waiting for a FPS in the modern era with blood and viscera , all this modern tech and no amazing blood splatter . Sony needs GG and Bungie to collab and make some old school FPS of team death match , capture the flag ect .NO loot , rank and perk up

[z2g]

Im actually really interested/looking forward to playing Marathon, while simultaneously feeling it won’t last long. I hope that’s not the case. I’m itching for a new successful multiplayer that isn’t Fortnite or COD. Helldivers is good, but Marathon feels way more my vibe conceptually and aesthetically