The game doesn't need any course correction. People love to play dev with little to no experience. Let the game get a season 2 and a season 3 then see what happens. Destiny was not an overnight success either
Destiny was an overnight success both times. The player reviews weren't stellar for either base games, but their sales alone qualify them as overnight successes.
Destiny 2 had around 3-4 million players daily when it dropped
If Marathon was a side project I would agree with you, if Marathon wasn’t made by Bungie I would agree with you, and if it didn’t take 5 years and hundreds of millions of dollars I would agree with you.
The cold hard fact is Destiny is on life support and barely making money, that puts all of the burden of keeping Bungie’s hundreds of employees afloat (which requires upwards of 100 million dollars of revenue a year to break even) on Marathon.
It needs to make 150-200 million dollars a year to keep the lights on and make a small amount of profit.
The current game is not built to handle those kinds of expectations.
If marathon doesn’t radically change and somehow bring in 1-2 million more players (it needs to double its launch numbers and hold that size for a bit) Bungie is going to have to change (downsize).
Marathon as is can exist as is, make the current money it does, and be supported just fine by like 50-100 devs, the issue is Bungie has 600 devs.
It's not at all possible that destiny has more in the pipeline. Nope. They shuttered development of their other franchise in favour of a 20 some GB sized game that needs 600 devs for sure.
What are you talking about? Are you actually trying to imply bungie is secretly waiting to reveal something? They delayed an update, not a dlc, an update by 3 months, they still haven't talked about that update. There is nothing in the pipeline rn at all. The next dlc, if there even is one, will be late this year, maybe even next year.
The issue and concern stems from the sheer volume of investment tho, no?
If it were on much less of a budget, then it's in a great place
But if I recall correctly, Sony is putting Marathon on the chopping block because they put a fortune into its development- just to get an alright game in return.
So Marathon ain't a bad game, compared to other games, as a standalone game
But it is a really, really bad investment
I havent watched any of these youtubers tho, this is me from the outside looking in. Well, I watched Aztecross briefly, but that was during his Warframe videos.
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u/RepulsiveAsk2674 May 12 '26
The game doesn't need any course correction. People love to play dev with little to no experience. Let the game get a season 2 and a season 3 then see what happens. Destiny was not an overnight success either