Bungie morale reportedly in “free fall” across all departments, and “the vibes have never been worse
Bungie morale reportedly in “free fall” across all departments, and “the vibes have never been worse
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Yea this game is gonna be more of a catastrophe than concord, which is impressive
i mean its their own fault
It’s like they said “Let’s copy everyone else and enter the market ten years later than the established competition” and thought yeah that’s a great idea. 💡
From the very moment they announced this game, almost everyone collectively winced and said “this isn’t gonna bode well”. And so far.. the result has been PRECISELY what everyone concluded..it’s gonna fall flat, I bet this game gets scrapped and we get some save face apology as to why.
“Marathon was originally pitched by higher-up “good old boy” Bungie leadership, and as far back as five years ago devs were telling them what would and wouldn’t work and were often ignored. Many have said previously that it needed to have some sort of PvE component.”
Yup sounds about right. It’s the same shit that happened with Destiny. Bungie is basically a poster child at this point for how to let inept leadership ruin a successful business.
quick! send them the emergency knitting kits!
i didnt even know they were making an extraction game lol
I wouldn’t touch a Bungie game after Destiny 2.
I’m curious about the alternative timeline of what would have happened if Microsoft hadn’t let them go. I mean sure they’d have probably made two or three more Halos without the original creative team. But wonder if they’d be in quite this bad a state and would’ve had other games at the same time. I remember quite clearly when they were “freed” about the amazing games they’d make. And while Destiny was fun…eh? Still waiting.
Oh no, not the vibes.
Sony should never have bought these guys
That’s because they’re no longer part of a game company, they’re part of a corn processing plant producing insulin-resistant substances
Back to the destiny machine they go
Super talented devs surrounded by incompetent management and thieves. I wonder why they’d feel shitty?
Nobody wants Marathon and they need to accept
that.
What a fall from grace for Bungie. I miss the Halo days 🙁
boo hoo. literally no one asked for this game in the first place. Bungie can’t even balance small pvp with zero loss penalty in Destiny, how the fuck are they gonna balance a dynamic pvp game with loot loss on death?? plus imagine the bugs lmfao. they can’t bugfix to save their lives unless it’s to fix eververse.
then they go and completely ignore all the common practices to make sure everything they use is their own or licensed properly. AGAIN.
Bungie should have went under as a company the second anyone on their board of directors approved sunsetting and I hope that case I heard about really hits them below the belt. it’s absolutely asinine what they get away with.
That game is so ugly. This is the most “corpo rats have no tastes” design I’ve ever seen.
And extraction is a bad genre. Most people don’t wanna lose all their progress repeatedly.
Also Destiny was already unfun. Too much pointless mmo stuff, not enough shooting.
Good
I think they’re giving too much credit to the art theft and not enough to the fact that the gameplay just sucks.
Given how they’ve mismanaged _Destiny_, this doesn’t come as a surprise.
I feel for the employees though, stuck working at a place with a product that has so much potential and management just keeps yanking defeat from the jaws of victory over and over and over.
That’s too bad. The trailer/teaser whatever looked decently interesting, almost like a Love Death and Robots episode. But after watching the gameplay it just looked so…Same. Meh.
It’s interesting to see how Creative assembly with total war and hyenas was in the exact same scenario as Bungie with marathon and Destiny ignoring their studios core revenue generating franchise chasing trends years late, burning good will in the process.
One has managed to turn it around and steady the ship and the other is Bungie 🙁
It’s only going to end up as yet another multiplayer FPS dominated by sweaties a month after release, if it even lasts that long. Pass.
I’ve known Marathon was gonna flop as soon as they announced it. Nobody wants that shit. We want more good Destiny.
I’ll always have you, Myth 2 Soulblighter.
As much as I love the destiny series, this is a self inflicted wound from bungie and they deserve every consequence they get. Enough is enough at this point. For a multi billion dollar company, they should know how to handle things, and every time they screw it up. It’s not the what, 4th time they’ve blatantly stolen content? Shit, their own developers actively follow the person they stole the content from, but they’ll still try and say they never knew. They simply don’t care and they’ve shown it time and again
Oh no, not the vibes!
Come on Gamers, we should let them do a little bit of plagiarizing next weekend, as a company treat.
Close enough welcome back Concord
Bungie has been so poorly run since the beginning of the halo days I’m shocked it took this long for everything to start finally catching up to them. I don’t think there’s anything they can do to salvage marathon.
I played Destiny/Destiny 2 since launch over 2000 hrs combined and I’ll tell you the The Witch Queen was right next to the Taken King for best dlc but my god what were they smoking for Lightfall was garbage
Makes the most generic uninteresting game imaginable….Is shocked that people notice
I have no clue how marathon is going to release. It’s in alpha, mixed reception, stolen artwork, barely ANY info on the game, it being an extraction shooter.
I think Bungie was damn wise to go hard with destiny when they did. It’s going to be the only thing to make them and Sony money. I’d also imagine Sony stepping in to keep that game going and start to get some players back.
Jesus, imagine, Bungie, gone. What fucking burn and crash story. And yes, burn and crash, because Bungie has been burning for a long time. Were just now witnessing the crash.
Despite people’s opinions on destiny, they need to be nurturing this game right now like a golden egg. I play the game. I took time off so I got a lot of content. But they need to treat this game as a golden child, get rid of the ceo if he hasn’t yet and get players back into destiny who are willing to spend money, then you slowly work on ONE game.
Fuck man, an alpha.. that’s what we’re at with a game releasing in a few months, with live streams being gameless, stolen artwork, employees are crashing now…
I love Bungie, but they have themselves to blame.
They fired a bunch of Destiny staff and bet on a game genre that is niche and has been done much better than they ever could.
Imagine the timeline where bungie stayed microsoft and we still got good halo games. I can’t believe sony paid so much for this turd.
“As soon as we’re done, you’re all fired!”
Didn’t even know Bungie moved past Destiny
Tencent locking in and waiting patiently
This game is gonna bomb so hard. I’d be bummed too, but I don’t understand why they thought this was the game to make at this point in time. The genre isn’t all that hot any more, it’s a crowded space, it doesn’t have mass appeal, and their take on it looks mediocre across the board.
I feel like this same story comes out about Bungie every couple of years.
Micro transactions killed this company. The sucked dry everything on Destiny 2 and killed their company. Marathon is most likely dead on arrival
Not a single person working at Bungie today worked on the projects that garnered the studio the goodwill and prestige it had in the past with the real Marathon game and original Halo installments. The Destiny price tag/DLC shenanigans and stolen stories were already bad, and an entirely pilfered art style for a schlocky extraction shooter feels like the first foot outstretched over the cliffside.
I think they misspelled Ubisoft
Man, Sony really bought a winner lol. I know they couldn’t have seen this coming, but what an absolute waste of money. They could’ve reinvested those billions instead into their own studios.
At this point Bungie is just cursed.
If they didn’t treat their own destiny PvP players like crap for so many years, they might have something to fall back on.
But no. They chose to put all of the attention on PvE.
Then chose to develop a niche mode PvP game.
Using the funds from the PvE players.