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[ChorizoPicozo]

LMAO retardera shut down their CCU thread

The desperation to protect this game is fucking insane.

It's so damn insane to think how real a fucking ass retarded game/company IS the representation of everything wrong in the industry across the board:

Creative bankruptcy
Chasing GaaS trends
DEI/Wokeness
Bloated and inefficient production
Hubris/ taking the consumer for granted.

Already, Marathon´s failure (and discourse) should´ve sent a clear and strong message to Sony (but we know it wouldn't be enough)....Bungie needs to die.

 

[cormack12]

"We are closing the CCU thread because it is the focus of the discussion of the game instead of the main topic. If you want to discuss it, just go to the main topic or create another topic."

Creates another topic:
"This topic was created in bad faith so it'll just be closed."

Discuss CCU on the main topic:
"User warned: the CCU is not part of the discussion, this is a topic for the game itself only."

Is this fo real

 

[Conflict NZ]

European audience is completely collapsing, wouldn't be surprised to start seeing a bunch of posts from Euro players having the same issues as OCE players soon.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

It's so damn insane to think how real a fucking ass retarded game/company IS the representation of everything wrong in the industry across the board:

Creative bankruptcy
Chasing GaaS trends
DEI/Wokeness
Bloated and inefficient production
Hubris/ taking the consumer for granted.

Already, Marathon´s failure (and discourse) should´ve sent a clear and strong message to Sony (but we know it wouldn't be enough)....Bungie needs to die.

I mean, Ubisoft exists and are much bigger and more high profile than Bungie are

 

[StreetsofBeige]

How high will the Season 2 CCU peak get?

Good question. I wanna say 50k but I really have no idea.

I think it'll spike pretty big but may have a very quick dropoff. It all just depends.

By the time S2 starts, Marathon peak might be down to 10k or less.

If ARC's new map is any indicator, the game had recent weekday peaks about 80k CCU. New map dropped and the peak zoomed to 135k yesterday (about +60%). This game has a 3-4 pm est Euro peak. Today it looks like it already topped out at 113k (which means it's up about +40% from map drop).

If this helps predict Marathon bump, maybe it bumps it up +60% and then slowly fizzles out. That assumes a new map is the main factor. No idea what season wipes or a new class would affect it.

 

[falconhoof]

How many players get into a match? I guess that number changes when you add the rooks (is that the name of the solo people).

Just wondering how many games are happening at once per CCU count. Would have to guess at what % are in lobbies/inventory management as well.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

I mean, Ubisoft exists and are much bigger and more high profile than Bungie are

Bungie has the ResetEra effect, more so than any other high-profile, established studio. This is why Bungie's/Marathon´s failure is an existential, emotional, and philosophical threat to these people.

 

[PeteBull]

How high will the Season 2 CCU peak get?

Generous guess would be 50k but back to under 20k after 2weeks max
More realistic guess= hermen will shoot from the hip to put game out of its misery before season2 even launches

 

[Conflict NZ]

Should also be noted that today was the first day with 12 hours spent under 10KCCU. Half a day where the game experience is significantly degraded.

 

[Timberwolf25]

Bungie has the ResetEra effect, more so than any other high-profile, established studio. This is why Bungie's/Marathon´s failure is an existential, emotional, and philosophical threat to these people.

Telling that "Producer" is listed as the 4th thing in this person's profile.

 

[Plague Doctor]

Bungie has the ResetEra effect, more so than any other high-profile, established studio. This is why Bungie's/Marathon´s failure is an existential, emotional, and philosophical threat to these people.

Well, that narcissistic asshole better start self identifying as the producer of a 200million dollar game that is made for a large general audience and not some lego colored bullshit, hunt for garbage on an endless quest grind while get shot by sweatlords.

Fucking failure of a creative lead but it's telling that his personal vanity politics take precdent over making a good game that people wanted.

 

[BbMajor7th]

The ResetEra Pitch: an inclusive socialist gaming commune.

The ResetEra Reality: an authoritarian centre-right cult overseen by corporate evangelists.

 

[Bernardougf]

Bungie has the ResetEra effect, more so than any other high-profile, established studio. This is why Bungie's/Marathon´s failure is an existential, emotional, and philosophical threat to these people.

And people still wonder wtf happened to western gaming ... jesus

 

[Hollywood Hitman]

Bungie has the ResetEra effect, more so than any other high-profile, established studio. This is why Bungie's/Marathon´s failure is an existential, emotional, and philosophical threat to these people.

Yea dude, just seeing that is why that fucking company is gone from the bungie we knew... It's over

 

[CrustyBritches]

We welcome migrants here exiled for their pursuit of fact-based data tracking. Trust the science, and Believe™

 

[BbMajor7th]

We welcome migrants here exiled for their pursuit of fact-based data tracking. Trust the science, and Believe™

ResetEra deports dissenters; NeoGAF welcomes refugees. This is not the narrative I was sold!

 

[Bernardougf]

We welcome migrants here exiled for their pursuit of fact-based data tracking. Trust the science, and Believe™

Well everytime theres some ban there we get a flush of Alt and New accounts here.. unfortunately they dont last long, its a hard life when people can talk back to you and not get banned.

 

[CrustyBritches]

Well everytime theres some ban there we get a flush of Alt and New accounts here.. unfortunately they dont last long, its a hard life when people can talk back to you and not get banned.

More fodder for the ban page, and my weekly sensible chuckle.

 

[BbMajor7th]

Well everytime theres some ban there we get a flush of Alt and New accounts here.. unfortunately they dont last long, its a hard life when people can talk back to you and not get banned.

There's plenty on GAF I disagree with - some stuff I'd even call objectionable - but better that than have everyone walking around on eggshells.

 

[CentralScrutinizer]

ResetEra deports dissenters; NeoGAF welcomes refugees. This is not the narrative I was sold!

Not sure if this is true. nial posts in full force there now that he got banned here.

 

[BbMajor7th]

Not sure if this is true. nial posts in full force there now that he got banned here.

Don't know the user, but if they've not been banned they must be kissing the ring hard.

I still say GAF is more inclusive.

 

[CentralScrutinizer]

Don't know the user, but if they've not been banned they must be kissing the ring hard.

I still say GAF is more inclusive.

I love GAF. Its a good outlet for my inner asshole. Sounds weird to say...

 

[SnapShot]

How many players get into a match? I guess that number changes when you add the rooks (is that the name of the solo people).

Just wondering how many games are happening at once per CCU count. Would have to guess at what % are in lobbies/inventory management as well.

4 to 6 3-player squads per squads raid and 6 to 8 players per solo raid, rooks join mid squad raids (maybe about 5 minutes after raid begins?) and I guess each raid can be invaded with up to 9 rooks. Rooks can't invade solos

 

[Barakov]

Bungie has the ResetEra effect, more so than any other high-profile, established studio. This is why Bungie's/Marathon´s failure is an existential, emotional, and philosophical threat to these people.

Kinda the reason I'm okay with seeing all parties involved having a hard time with how bad this game is struggling.

 

[CrustyBritches]

I watched a few of those "Marathon is a masterpiece", "State of Marathon" type videos that have come out in the last couple days and boy do they lie and misrepresent the numbers. Making claims like it's stabilizing when we still have 15%+ WoW drops, that this is what normally happens with extraction shooters mid wipe when you can bring up multiple other extraction shooters than don't show this kind of drop. They show a week of numbers on screen so it doesn't really look that bad.

I think it's genuinely shit those people are trying to lie to viewers to get them to buy a game they like without disclosing what the situation is really like.

I saw a video reacting to one of these by a glazer called "warza" and he did exactly that. Claimed that the game had "stabilized at a sustainable player base" of around 25K, when he damn well knew that it was falling 15-20% WoW, but they focus the chart on one little area instead of the bigger picture...

 

[Mengy]

LMAO retardera shut down their CCU thread

The desperation to protect this game is fucking insane.

They don't like any discussion over there which goes against the "agenda", so not too surprising.

It was a civil thread too, and fairly interesting as well. Shame.

 

[Hollywood Hitman]

This is a good take, that over the top fake positivity is what I notice it seems so forced. Like the way people seem so annoyed dying and losing their shit but like as if someone has a gun to their head they gotta say "but Im having a blast!!" lol yea, sure you are

 

[falconhoof]

Just under a month ago, on Wednesday this game had a bottom of 17k CCU and now it isn't peaking that.

 

[CentralScrutinizer]

This is a good take, that over the top fake positivity is what I notice it seems so forced. Like the way people seem so annoyed dying and losing their shit but like as if someone has a gun to their head they gotta say "but Im having a blast!!" lol yea, sure you are

Psyop is where the marketing budget went. A lot of paid shills or literal bots.

 

[MayauMiao]

LMAO retardera shut down their CCU thread

The desperation to protect this game is fucking insane.

REEs knows they have actual Bungie devs so got to shield them from hurt feels.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

Wait a minute....Is the Marathon Director the actual Men_In_Boxes, with these delulu takes?



This video explores the backlash and mockery surrounding comments made by Joe Ziegler, the director of the upcoming Bungie game, Marathon. In a recent interview with Games Radar, Ziegler compared the game's gameplay loop—specifically the mix of PvE and PvP—to the journey of Frodo and the Fellowship in The Lord of the Rings (0:11-0:23, 4:20-5:15).

Key points discussed in the video include:

• The Controversial Comparison: Ziegler argued that Marathon is like The Lord of the Rings because the journey to Mount Doom would have been uninteresting without unpredictable enemies. He claims that the PvP element in Marathon provides that same layer of unpredictability (4:31-5:15).
• Community Backlash: Players and critics have widely mocked this comparison, labeling it as desperate and out of touch (0:26-0:30, 3:06-3:16). Many argue that a well-designed game should not require such grand, epic analogies to justify its basic mechanics (3:32-4:12).
• The State of Marathon: The video highlights that Marathon has been struggling with its identity* and player retention, particularly given the massive investment behind the project. These comments are seen as an attempt to

*how fitting

 

[CrustyBritches]

Imagine FairGame$ and Horizon Gatherers watching Marathon get shredded and waiting for their turn next...

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

Another great video for those who are Marathon curious. The State of Marathon...

 

[Darchaos]

Another great video for those who are Marathon curious. The State of Marathon...

Why does he have a passive-agressive grin all over his face, stroke or something?

 

[rkofan87]

Marathon belivers right now

what the reality really is

 

[Cumulus]

I absolutely underestimated how satisfying it would be to watch Sony's GAAS efforts go up in flames. one. by. one.
I'm starting to look forward to fairgames and that horizon game, probably not for reasons the developers would like though.

 

[Plague Doctor]

I absolutely underestimated how satisfying it would be to watch Sony's GAAS efforts go up in flames. one. by. one.
I'm starting to look forward to fairgames and that horizon game, probably not for reasons the developers would like though.

And just think, Marathon was the most defensible of them.

Fairgames is universally trashed, even by the access press. There is no outpouring of support on any subreddit, purple place, no where.

Hunter's gathering is the butt of all jokes except for the clearly bot accounts on X. Even the people who love the Horizon series (Fat Aloy and all) unanimously complain about the cartoony fortnite rip off style and it not being Single Player.


Marathon was the high water line.... by far.

The rest of Sony's GasS games will be pure comedy gold.

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

Why does he have a passive-agressive grin all over his face, stroke or something?

 

[Darchaos]

Ok, that is clearly a dude eating ass

 

[Plague Doctor]

 

[Hollywood Hitman]

Imagine FairGame$ and Horizon Gatherers watching Marathon get shredded and waiting for their turn next...

Yet somehow tho they are like unwavered, they continue forward delusional as fuck expecting different results and they get shredded. I mean what is that, what type of brainwash is that to see every one of these pieces of shit just fail and not course correct

 

[CrustyBritches]

2 Piglets eating a scarab.

 

[Guilty_AI]

I see a CCU going down

 

[rkofan87]

Men_in_Boxes
is a Psyop

 

[CrustyBritches]

Yet somehow tho they are like unwavered, they continue forward delusional as fuck expecting different results and they get shredded. I mean what is that, what type of brainwash is that to see every one of these pieces of shit just fail and not course correct

Japan headquarters better reel these tards in before they piss even more billions of dollars down the drain. It's baffling.

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

Men_in_Boxes
is a Psyop

I'm Samwise Gamgee you spawn of darkness.

 

[amc]

The game looks like it was designed by rubber loving pimp gimp sex pests. Definitely some personal fetish injected into those unappealing characters.

Gives me the ick.

 

[Zannegan]

I'm Samwise Gamgee you spawn of darkness.

I understood that reference.

Clever….

Wait a minute....Is the Marathon Director the actual Men_In_Boxes, with these delulu takes?



This video explores the backlash and mockery surrounding comments made by Joe Ziegler, the director of the upcoming Bungie game, Marathon. In a recent interview with Games Radar, Ziegler compared the game's gameplay loop—specifically the mix of PvE and PvP—to the journey of Frodo and the Fellowship in The Lord of the Rings (0:11-0:23, 4:20-5:15).

Key points discussed in the video include:

• The Controversial Comparison: Ziegler argued that Marathon is like The Lord of the Rings because the journey to Mount Doom would have been uninteresting without unpredictable enemies. He claims that the PvP element in Marathon provides that same layer of unpredictability (4:31-5:15).
• Community Backlash: Players and critics have widely mocked this comparison, labeling it as desperate and out of touch (0:26-0:30, 3:06-3:16). Many argue that a well-designed game should not require such grand, epic analogies to justify its basic mechanics (3:32-4:12).
• The State of Marathon: The video highlights that Marathon has been struggling with its identity* and player retention, particularly given the massive investment behind the project. These comments are seen as an attempt to

*how fitting

 

[RafterXL]

The game looks like it was designed by rubber loving pimp gimp sex pests. Definitely some personal fetish injected into those unappealing characters.

Gives me the ick.

Western developers are chock full of fucking degenerates, and Bungie is one of the worst, so it's not surprising that it's so repulsive and attracted the audience that it did.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

The game looks like it was designed by rubber loving pimp gimp sex pests. Definitely some personal fetish injected into those unappealing characters.

Gives me the ick.

Western developers are chock full of fucking degenerates, and Bungie is one of the worst, so it's not surprising that it's so repulsive and attracted the audience that it did.

Wokeness has been fully assimilated within Bungie, it's now part of their DNA. With marathon they are not even trying... They just are.

It's fascinating then (just as with Concord) that the vast majority of people (normal people) got off-putting vibes from those games.

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