It won't be another Concord
It won't be another Concord
It won't be another Concord
It won't be another Concord
It won't be another Concord

>Playstation will cancel Marathon
>Marathon will flop
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>Marathon will close its servers
>Marathon won't hit 100k players
>Marathon won't hit 500k players
>Marathon won't hit 1M players
>Marathon won't hit 2M players
>Marathon won't get a sequel

>hermen hulst
crashing playstation with no survivors

>>712594078
And what happens to Bungie

it's not as aggressively unappealing as concord at least. and it can still pull the halo audience. it will launch to decent numbers. It just needs to retain them.

>>712594078

>>712594078
We'll go up one step at most and even that would surprise me, 100k peak would still be kind of a flop too.

>>712593917 (OP)
Moving Playstation hq to California has been a disaster

>>712594186
At this point, Bungie is dead. Sony wasted so much on them and they have nothing to show for it. Even if Marathon manages to become somehow popular, Sony is still going to kill them just for all the headaches alone.

>>712594078
I will save this post # for the future :^)

Can't wait for them to say "Well it's a Marathon (tm) not a sprint" when this drops with 0 players.

>>712595242
lel

>>712593917 (OP)
it is amazing how fucken dumb SJW faggot businesses are

did they say it's still gonna be released in 2025? no delays?

>>712596286
Sept this year, yes.

>>712593917 (OP)
I hope it flops harder than concord, if it does it will bury live service sloppa for at least a decade.

>>712596452
oh wow, kinda surprising. guess them cutting the marketing means they don't want to spend too much money on it.

>>712595135
I'll remember yours too, I'll think about you deleting your little note in shame once it turns out to be true :^)

>>712596538
no anon, live service slop will keep going. all they will learn is "we market it poorly in a tight market".
that was literally what they said when asked why concord fail during the investor interview.

>>712594078
>what is that retard talking about the servers are already shut down
Marathon is already so cemented as Concord in my mind that I thought this.

>>712593917 (OP)
More like, if Marathon fails, Sony will be so on the red they might have to ditch their gaming division.

>>712600006
>Sony
>Ditching their gaming division
Lol like hell that shits ever gonna sink these years

>>712594078
Not canceling it isn't good news, they're literally burning money away

>>712593917 (OP)
Herman Hulst really, really gotta get his fucking whale, doesn't he?

Man... I used to actually like Bungie

I didn't think people wanted "live-service" games. I'm so tired of that shit.
Make the game, release the game, let me play the game. I don't want to play some living ever changing bullshit that is never finished and riddled with online-only trappings everywhere that won't work 2 weeks after release when they decide to shut everything down and provide no user-hosted servers.

>>712594078
I'm screencapping this post because I felt like it's going to be the next lah mao switch post

>>712594078
They won't cancel marathon since Sony needs it to flop so that they can have complete control over bungie.

>>712605075
how does that work? was it in their contract or something? I thought they bought out bungie.

>>712600861
correction: burning snoy money away is great news. the sooner modern "third person over the shoulder adventure game" sony dies the better.

>>712593917 (OP)
Should've made gacha for dirt cheap with Aniplex and Kadokawa licences, instead why got 30 years of console effort thrown out for PoserCore slop-flops.

>>712595242
lmao.
please do it.

They atleast have a plan right? At minimum making it f2p and more modes. RIGHT?

>>712600861
It's nice that Sony were smart enough to cancel hyenas but fuck that's still a lot of wasted effort that could have gone into adding naval combat to Total Warhammer

>>712593917 (OP)
>make the biggest failure in entertainment history
>don't get fired for losing half a billion dollars on one project
>do the exact same thing with even worse PR, and just promise it won't turn out the same way
how has someone on the board not dragged him out his office by his hair already?

>>712613074
The third Concord (Fairgame$) will be the straw that breaks the camel's back, mark my words.

>>712613074
didn't jim ryan got out with a big check? no one gets punish for failure, they get rewarded

>>712593917 (OP)
Let Naughty Dog finish Factions 2 then you stupid fucks.

>>712594078
switch 1 will be a failure energy

>>712603241
That's not what the market says, live service is by far the biggest and most popular trend. I'm sure even you hypocrites play a gacha or wasted hundreds of hours on slop like Marvel Rivals. What you mean is that people didn't ask for shitty pozzcore shooters designed to waste their time, they are not willing nor can they afford to play more than one or two live service game at a time, the competition is simply very fierce.

>>712613074
Watch the video, they are in too deep because the opportunity to keep making money after a game launches is just to compelling.

https://www.irwebmeeting.com/sony/vod/20250613/x8R5srwN/bsm_02_en/1_GNS/fireside_chat/index.html

>>712593917 (OP)
narrator: it became exactly that

>>712593917 (OP)
Hulst isn't this deluded, is he?

>>712613169
Sony eating shit and losing money ASAP would be a blessing in disguise for PS6.
$500,000,000, bet the farm, committee sloppa would a liability with no outside investment and in a search for certainty they'd need to claw back their old base.

>>712603241
I'm always all about single player, but I spent a chunk of time with 360 multiplayer games.

There was nothing wrong with just buying the game outright and playing online. No "seasons" or "rotating shops" needed.

Herman Hulst has ALWAYS been a fucking idiot. He and ter Heide almost got Killzone 2 aborted but was thankfully saved by the underlings that designed the multiplayer segment.

>>712616076
Really miss the times where you could buy a single player game and it would come with a multiplayer mode as a bonus, you could tell devs were putting them in just because they could.

inb4 it flops
inb4 they triple down on fairgames
inb4 that flops too
inb4 they announce another live service game after that

>>712593917 (OP)
that's a really strange way to advertise a project you want to be successful

>>712593917 (OP)
>diverse and resilient live-service portfolio
These retards seriously think that people are going to play half a dozen games that make you treat them like a fulltime job, don't they?

>>712619559
Concord 2 will save sony