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@ManUtd Carrick hasn't convinced me and next there will be even tougher scheduling. And to top that off "head couch".....it's gone another painful season 😞😮‍💨 but at this point I've learned to live in the delusion.

It's Carrick, you know ❤️ 🇾🇪 We are delighted to announce Michael Carrick will continue as our head coach, having signed a new contract.

@PaulTassi I missed the destiny train and now I dont have the motivation to get into it now. But I think it makes sense if you've played a game for 5+ years to choose a that game.

Just curious, if Marathon season 2 and Destiny Shadow and Order or whatever it’s called now drop in the same week, which would you prioritize?

@isolatedrook i see this pop up, I could be tripping but I'm pretty sure this mega thread has been a thing for like a month, when the game had double its current players base. Are people just now finding out about it??

Meanwhile, on r/Marathon Steam chart posting is such a plague it's now being quarantined

@MikaRBW Good(has sauce) =/= have massive appeal and vice versa. They can overlap but not always and this is true for every form of creative work. Mass appeal is what makes more money.

I feel like games with sauce never do well but call of slop 28 or batteslop 8 always sell loads... This raises the question do gamers even deserve nice things?

@nickjcal @AbhsolutelyIcy @MarathonTheGame Is there a difrent sound for body shot and headshot? haven't paid attention in the heat of the moment, when I get shoot I immediately try to identify the direction of the shoot and look for cover 😅. Are you able to identify the sound in the moment or after watching the clip?

@BZC96 @AbhsolutelyIcy @MarathonTheGame The giveaway is the headshot tracking and hit marker sound from it. Every single shot on both my teammate and I were headshots even as we went down. Even unique weapons aren’t that accurate at every single trigger pull.

Pretty sure I just encountered my first cheater in @MarathonTheGame. Have never been lasered like that. Dude wiped pretty much every person in the lobby there.

@AbhsolutelyIcy @nickjcal @MarathonTheGame I'll never be good enough to tell from things like that 😅

@nickjcal @BZC96 @MarathonTheGame 300h+ and i’ve only felt it a couple of times but when its obvious someone prefires with no visual or audio cues around a wall and hits all headshots i don’t really have to think about it

@nickjcal @AbhsolutelyIcy @MarathonTheGame You are a better player so you have more sense for these things, I'm so ass, someone will have to beam me through a wall for me to be able to tell 😅

@BZC96 @AbhsolutelyIcy @MarathonTheGame 200 hours in the game and have never felt like someone was cheating until this haha

@AbhsolutelyIcy @nickjcal @MarathonTheGame I'm so ass at FPS that if this happend to me I'd be - ''well that's a better player'' - and move on. I wouldn't be able to tell if this is cheating or not.

@nickjcal @MarathonTheGame people in the comments saying thats not cheating are just snitching on themselves clearly have never played a video game in their entire life and it shows

@vesseloftauceti @TheBocop @PaulTassi Can we stop with the r6 comparison. Completely different games and situations.R6 was cheaper to make and is way more pick up/casual friendly. No wipes,just pop in and play,no vault management, no skill tree and sbmm all of this makes it more casual friendly and it went f2p.

The game’s numbers are comparable to R6 Siege at launch, Street Fighter 6, and those games are doing fine or are even successful. Sony also bought Bungie for both their game talent AND their expertise with live service titles. I have no reason to believe Marathon is getting shut down, and every reason to believe Marathon will grow and change over time to become the success they want it to be

Buddy doesn’t know just how similar the original Marathon games are to NuMarathon, how much it captures the tone despite an updated art direction, and the only major difference being that the genre of NuMarathon isn’t a PvE Doom-like game. The original tweet is correct.

@KryDotExe @CANAD1AN_KRONiC I think it's more like Bungie is woke so they don't want to support it.

@CANAD1AN_KRONiC i didnt ask what's woke about bungie, i asked what's woke about the game

Genuinely what is woke about Marathon Every time a comment like this is made and people ask “what is woke about it” they never reply

@KingRichard The game is an arena shooter with extraction elements. You are meant to wipe the lobby than loot the map, a safe pocket goes against the flow of the game they've created and turns it into 'first come first serve" situation

Marathon went a little too hardcore and it was one of its biggest mistakes. One thing that should have never happened is releasing a hardcore extraction shooter with no form of a safe pocket. No other game in the genre has done it. With all the hate and things working against it they should not have attempted to reinvent the wheel. I promise you if they had some form of safe pocket its outcome would be different. In this day and age where everyone cheats and exploits because they suck and hate losing you have to have a way for people to get wins even in their loses. If I was @MarathonDevTeam I would implement a safe pocket immediately for season 2

@isolatedrook I think every game gets it(I've seen last flag haters) the algorithm feeds marathon related post to you more also combine that with the fact that marathon is doing so poorly that the haters get a big validation and more exposure because they are being proven to be correct

The dedication to hating Marathon is wild. Half these accounts commenting are regulars in my replies now, acting like an obsessed ex. Does any other game fanbase have to deal with this kind of thing?

@WholesomeRaf @VGC_News @MarathonTheGame It's gonna be in an interview with the narrative director in about 5 years, after he's been fired by Sony, the games been shut down and he's no longer under NDA

@VGC_News Sure, but is more than 10% of players going to see it, or is it going to be some superhardcore endgame raid and we’ll know the narrative from patch notes and YT videos? @MarathonTheGame

Bungie has claimed it has a narrative plan for Marathon that stretches "years" into the future. vgc.news/news/bungie-cl…

@aiiygatorz I absolutely agree. I know Im not good enough and Ill never be good enough to compete in Cryo and thats fine. Worst case scenario I get pummeled so hard that I stop having fun and stop playing but thats entirely a ME issue and has nothing to do with the game. Its a great game

there’s the people who respect Marathon for what it is… and then there’s the people who just hate on the game anytime they die & say “no wonder it’s dying.” they refuse to take any personal responsibility 😭😭😭😭

@JNavok Im gonna be ignorant and ask what is this post about? As far as gaming is concerned Im just a consumer. Is this about holding Sony accountable for investments? About Japanese media helping Sony cover up said bad investment? I thought the just released a mid game.

In 2012, Disney released John Carter. It was an infamous bomb, with Disney taking a $200m loss. A lot of ink was spilled on it at the time. Earlier this week, Marathon and Destiny 2 inverted; on Tuesday, at one point, D2 had a higher player count than Marathon. $3.6bn in acquisition cost + $400m (between cost of game estimated at $250m and cost of marketing + other assumed costs at $150m or more) is a $4bn sinkhole. Bungie made around $55m in revenue if we believe the leaks, and probably not much more since launch based on player count loss. That is a wider project cash loss than John Carter, ignoring the acquisition costs. It's curious to me that the Japanese press and stock analysts haven't been louder on this, because we're looking at one of the biggest potential write downs in games history, and one of the bigger losses in media history as well if we consider acquisition value. (This probably speaks to the cowardice of the Japanese business press.) If Bungie had other potential projects/assets/bets, you could justify not doing a full writedown on that basis, but with the founding team mostly gone, Destiny 2 in life support mode and I assume any other project years away, what keeps up the Bungie asset value for Sony? Has there been a similar case of cash + value destruction in media so quickly? One could have cited Warner Bros if it wasn't for the Netflix/Paramount bidding war making Zaslav into a hero. I'm also skeptical that ATVI was worth what MS paid for it given COD performance. Also Roblox last night had the equivalent amount of market cap vanish. Anyway, back in the day, you would see the senior executives of the company in Japan call a press conference and bow their heads in shame apologizing for the loss they're going to have to announce. But even with Concord blowing $400m, in 2024 Sony made enough money off service revenue to goose the overall earnings and sweep it under the rug and so that never came to pass. I'm normally a staunch management defender. In this case I would have expected heads to roll. I suppose Jim Ryan being long gone makes this easier, as you can point the finger at the architect-- which is what AT&T did when they sold WB at a loss to Discovery. But after he left Sony should have been more carefully shepherding these bets because they all had material ongoing costs + expectations, and that does not seem to have happened. I also would have expected a Sony IR release about Marathon's status (good or bad), yet we saw nothing since launch. And as I wrote about earlier this week, Marathon post-launch user acquisition has been very limited. It'll be interesting to see what happens at the next earnings call. I assume a big write down, as I mentioned some weeks back, which would explain the quiet period. If they don't, I guess it will be the quarter after, with them citing a S2 launch re-engagement attempt as the excuse, or at least delaying until Sony can get some other earnings to run cover for them.

@falloutplays Completely opposite for me. Im LV91 I only care about salvage so I can upgrade factions. I absolutely do not care about other loot. And salvage can only be found from the map.

Incredibly curious, would like to hear your thoughts: From my OWN personal experience playing Marathon - close to 400 hrs at this point - I feel that the vast majority of the time, the best loot that I manage to extract with almost always comes from the bodies of enemy players that me/my team kill (and not necessarily from the map itself) Is this your experience as well, or is it different? Interested to hear perspectives outside of my own.

@Common_mon @sugifps_ There are more successful extraction shooters with SBMM, like Hunt. Marathon is more similar to a team death match with extraction elements, than it is to Tarkov. It needs some MM, whether that's SBMM, LBMM or something else I don't know.

@sugifps_ I’m of the opinion that SBMM should only be to 30, or not there at all. Keeping it to 30 lets players get through the first grouping of prio contracts, and get a good feel for every map. But extraction shooters are made to have highs and lows, and SBMM makes that difficult.

Wishing for a lot as we're coming close to Season 2 of Marathon.

@brugererer I'm definitely garbage but I've seen tighter LBMM, when I was LV80 I would regularly match 130-160lv players, but recently even though I'm up to 87lv, I've matched with 65-100lv players, I can count on one hand the 100+LV players ive ran into.

Also sbmm is still very much in marathon If you do not think this then you are too shit at the game to be affected by it (good for you)

@PoIarxD @Separer thats a playerbase issue about 3k people in your pool add to that different playlists and location that narrows even more. The game NEEDS players to increase the pool you are in you stomping players with 1/4 your game time isn't gonna help that

@BZC96 @Separer how is it unpredictable if we are matching the same people with the same stuff on the same maps over and over bro

10 outpost games with @Separer , myself, and a lvl60 friend. Only 5ish players of those games under level 100 (and not by much.) The steam achievement for hitting level 100 is 2.5% on steam, which is where most of the playerbase is. Do the math and tell me there's no sbmm.

@PoIarxD @Separer I'm LV 85 I should be getting 60-160 if you are 200+ the lowest you should be getting is 100 and that's at best 6k people of the total player base adding all other factors that's 3k online at the same time add the playlist that pool for you drops do you need more unpredictability

@BZC96 @Separer did I say it wasn't ok? It's just the fact that it's EVERYONE. I've said many times, a large part of what makes the game fun for me is unpredictability. maybe you get a whole noob lobby. maybe you getting smashed by a really good team.