TechnoViking

@Seur101 Seems to be a theme with some of the newer characters and will probably be an issue going forward with Blizzard trying to mass produce new characters instead of taking time to develop good ones.

Sierra is boring and unfun and that’s really the biggest problem with her. Her most unique ability (her movement) is just kind of a shitty widow grapple, her grenade is whatever, auto aim is always a boring ability that is terrible to balance. 4/10 character.

@WingRaider @RedWingDiehards No reason for Raymond to have an A at this point, kid is a ghost.

@RedWingDiehards He’s saying leadership in the locker room is a big issue. We’ve always heard, since minor hockey, that when 71 is slumping, everyone else has to walk on egg shells, and then there’s Kane and Debrincat. Who are like Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure on Ice.

I challenge everyone to read between the lines a bit here. What’s he really saying? #LGRW

@RedWingDiehards I wouldn't be shocked if Todd just walks out at this point, especially if Yzerman does nothing this offseason. Gibson also looks completely done with this team.

@McCartyDangles Coaching and development isn't what it once was, we also have a terrible losing culture from our front office down into our locker room now.

Never saw this once in Detroit Somebody tell me why these dudes light it up when they leave

@ThePoniExpress Ruff is literally the only choice for this award this season.

Get a load of this BS. Not a single member of the NHL on TNT panel picked Dan Muse for the Jack Adams Award. Biz picked Lindy Ruff Chris Chelios and Tuuka Rask picked Rick Tocchet Anson Carter went with Jon Cooper (?!?) Just an absolutely atrocious job.

@fuhkutuhb @LarsThorsell Writing is on the wall at this point.

@LarsThorsell 10 points in 20 games for Pittsburgh after getting like 3 points in around 40 games for Detroit this year. That says a lot. He’s playing in the same situation he had in Detroit. Bottom 6 minutes. What does that say about Detroit? I think I know.

@LarsThorsell Something wrong with our development staff/coaching in Detroit. Him and Tarasenko both leave and immediately turn into actual players. Lyons leaves and is on the best team in the Atlantic now going to the playoffs. We need a cleansing of our staff.

Lord Elmer, the Towering Behemoth getting NHL highlights. #LGRW

@NHL @espn The change in Soda since he left the Wings is awesome to see, he was being wasted in Detroit. Our staff no longer knows how to develop these guys. Hope he plays well in the playoffs!

DOWNRIGHT DISGUSTING! 🤢 @espn ➡️ espn.com/watch

@CCPISASSH0E The power flashes in the lower left of the video right at the start was a tornado in progress.

Nope. Don’t like that. 😱

@thegrindshack There's no way it sold that much, the player numbers just don't back it up unless all those people just bought a game and never play it, lol.

This was supposed to be the next big hit by Bungie. So what happened? It’s dipping to around 7K players on Steam right now. And reportedly, Marathon cost $250 million to make, and they sold 1.2 million copies. So if we do the math, that’s around $48 million in profit, assuming everyone who bought it chose the $40 price tag. I know Steam numbers don’t show the whole picture, but man, this is sad. And I’m guessing Sony is pretty pissed right now, especially since they haven’t recovered from their Concord flop. And now this. #marathonthegame #bungie #sony

@TheTrueVanguard @Duhmeee LOL why are you running Corporate HR speak defense for Bungie? So many people had their hands in this, it's not just "one former employee" responsible for the gaffe and they've had multiple instances of plagiarism and art theft with Destiny.

To be clear, an employee who no longer works for Bungie stole Antireal's art. Some decals and specific vectors that were referenced in a Texture Sheet for Marathon and some of them made it into the Alpha. It wasn't an entire art scheme or design style for the entire game. But it was theft. So Bungie and Sony addressed it. They paid Antireal who openly said she was satisfied with the amount. They credited her in the game credits, and they removed all of her decals and vectors from the surfaces they had been applied to. Also, this stuff causes BIG problems for developers. They want to avoid these things at all costs because of the nightmares it causes. It's perfectly reasonable to assume an employee, wanting to make a great impression at work, stole the art and said nothing about where they got it from. Which lead to what eventually happened.

Marathon is stuck between a rock and a hard place. It's an incredibly good game, but the more casual audience seems to be avoiding it. But if they dumb the game down, it will be considerably worse and I'll likely stop playing it. It's basically a phenomenal game that doesn't appeal, I guess, to a wider audience. I'm not sure what exactly the solution is, maybe it's better strategic marketing and creative efforts to onboard new players. I'm not sure. But dumbing the game down would likely fix nothing. You might get new players to temporarily try it, but then they're playing a considerably less inspired game and will bounce off it. I also think the truly bizarre pre-launch hate campaign was SUPER weird. Like, gamers can be such strange people and I say that with peace and love. But I'm not sure I've ever seen a global predisposition to hate a game the way I saw it with Marathon. People were literally parroting the exact same sentences for months, almost like they had talking points and were collectively regurgitating them. Like the places where gamers hang out (YT, Reddit, Twitch, X, etc) had posts or something hating the game that circulated so much that people just latched onto them. I dunno. Either way, it didn't do the game any favors. I'm not sure what the best path forward is but good marketing and a positive outward image might help. And the vault wipes are definitely a good thing, that's totally necessary. But I think diluting the game to make it more palatable is the wrong play personally. Short term gain maybe, but over time will actually hurt retention I think.

@AbbyAZK Not worth the sanity lost, I'm grinding the cardboard titles in QP...which in all honesty, isn't much better. It's like only the serious players are in QP now and it's a 50/50 spawn camp/be stomped every match, lol.

PSA to Overwatch Drivers farmers. You have to >WIN< your games to actually unlock the drive rewards, I know this is a VERY difficult concept to grasp since the game has become a lot more casual in nature lately but hopefully we as a community can do better and stop trolling. ♥️

@theoneandonlyiz @SamitoFPS Go into QP to chill a bit or practice and immediately getting spawn camped by enemy team. Everyone playing like their life depends on winning the match, counter swapping every fight loss, it's crazy.

@TechnoVikingGA @SamitoFPS lol the qp comment. can’t even practice other heroes in qp no more

YOU ALL WERE NOT KIDDING ABOUT DRIVES THESE PEOPLE HAVE NEVER PLAYED THE GAME PUT THEM IN QUICKPLAY ONLY THIS IS THE WORST STATE I'VE SEEN RANKED IN FOR 10 YEARS OF PLAYING THE GAME

@PaulTassi Should have made it a PVE/PVP game like The Division. The game is so well made, it was just begging for a PVE campaign in this environment with the lore, etc. Huge mistake and they left a ton of $$$ on the table. Game would have done 150-200k daily easy if it was a full game.

May not be what people want to hear, but I do not see any way this doesn’t happen. They need more sales and players, that’s just a fact. Though very hard to pull those players in given that it’s known as the super hardcore extraction shooter now

@BroYouWack This somehow looks worse than the original post match cards screen.

Blizzard just announced that come Season 2, Overwatch will have post match voice chat where you can talk to the enemy team. Here is ingame footage of this feature in action!

@_GoldenWitch_ @mushroomiiee Getting shafted by the OW writing team.

@mushroomiiee So Vendy did in like 5 minutes as Talon Leader what Doom has been struggling with for years and sent OW packing with absolute ease. Now Emre can just walk in there and Vendy may make more Super Soldiers. I am sorry but what has Doom been doing all this time?

The vault Emre raided was called the Naughton Vault, assumedly named after Victoria Naughton- the creator of the soldier enhancement program (SEP) Seems vendetta or moira wants to make more super soldiers like 76 and Reaper!

@permaybe @PaulTassi @Forbes They need all the players they can get.

@PaulTassi @Forbes Bungie will ban you for naming a cheater on the forums. (forum ban) Apparently cheaters are a 'protected group'. Why is that? 🤔

‘Marathon’ Is Now Plagued With A Cheater Infestation via @forbes forbes.com/sites/paultass…

@IFrostBolt It's funny that they basically made this game for their streamers so they could have their little "elites only" game and then they can't even get this stuff right.

Hot Take Dissapointed most Marathon streamers feel obligated to play Ranked. It isn’t fun, and you’re exposing yourself to stream snipers & cheaters in one of the worst game genres. Why this sucks as a fan of the game, is that people are constantly exposing their fans & viewers to the worst Marathon has to offer. This isn’t going to convince anyone to stay on the game, let alone buy the game. The vibe from creators shifted from hyping the game & showing off the best of Marathon to an already burnt-out topic, cheaters & stream snipers. This isn’t blaming creators, honestly. It can be taken that way, so my b. I’m a fan of the game and avoiding ranked seems like the best thing I can do as a creator if I want to see Marathon grow. Ultimately, this is on Bungie. Always has & always will be. It’s embarrassing. Big talk about no cheating policy. They succeeded at baiting people with that & being one of the first extraction games with ranked. This is going to backfire badly if they don’t take some form of action. A game convo being surrounded by cheats, an extraction game, is going to do irreperable damage to the game’s image & their player morale. Thanks for reading. :)

@WVUBagMan I just took that as RR being RR, he always seems salty in the pressers.

Sounds like Rich and Alley might be having some issues. Not great. But they are both professionals who want to win. They will figure out the right balance.