I don’t know what Bungie was thinking putting all their effort into Marathon. People heard “extraction shooter PVP only” and checked the fuck out. Didnt help they delayed it and had the art theft debacle.
That game was going to struggle no matter how good it was at launch. THEN they stopped work on Destiny 2 right as Marathon came out despite Bungie promising the two games would co-exist and just pissed everyone off.
Masterclass in running a studio into the ground.
People heard “extraction shooter PVP only” and checked the fuck out
Way to fuck with classic IP too. I didn’t play back in the day because I didn’t have a Mac, but they were praised highly at the time.
Can you imagine if the id guys came back after 20 years and announced Doom was gonna be a hero shooter because those seem to be popular?
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Destiny was running the studio into the ground regardless of Marathon. Behind the scenes reporting says it had been a while since Destiny turned a profit, and by the time The Final Shape came out, the damage was already done. The reason they’re not continuing with it is that it just burns through money.
jontree255@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Yeah the whole studio has been run like shit for years. They’re looking to sublet their huge office after firing like half the company.
ms_lane@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
How did they think it would be any different? - when they remove the entire beginning of the game and expect people to just watch ~15 hours of archived gameplay on YouTube to understand what is going on - they were never going to gain new players, even as F2P.