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gtotheunit91 said:

the-pi-guy said:

@underlined, they're still working on other games. Matter is another IP they've had listing for. There have been other incubation projects besides.

Bungie definitely was not cooking their books.

The reality is probably a combination of:
- relatively disappointing expansion

- reversal of the Covid boosts

- some waning of live service games (even Fortnite has stumbled, Epic laid off a lot of people.)

Not to mention, 2023 was practically a record setting year when it comes to big game releases. That definitely didn't help Bungie when they released a dud of an expansion and the following 2 seasons. 

There's been a little more news on the Destiny/Marathon situation. 

NEW: @Aztecross is reporting that Bungie had ‘Escape from Tarkov’ streamers play Marathon and they did not seem interested in the game.

Bungie asked them if they would play Marathon if it released “tomorrow” and no one raised their hand.. https://t.co/DriZGidvu4 pic.twitter.com/jzSY2xCWcF

— DestinyTracker (@destinytrack) November 1, 2023

I used to watch a ton of Aztecross vids when I was a diehard Destiny player, and he's always been reliable on information/leaks he presents. Which isn't that often. But if Marathon is in that poor of a state that not even Tarkov players want to play it, then it would explain why both The Final Shape and Marathon were pushed back quite dramatically. Aztecross claims the biggest creative leads at Bungie have been moved from Destiny to Marathon and that the announced "episodes" that are replacing seasons with Final Shape are just to keep the lights on and bring in some additional revenue. Destiny 3 won't happen unless Marathon fails.

So Bungie's betting quite heavily on Marathon for the future, and in the short term, The Final Shape has to practically be perfect. And who the hell knows what Matter is. Everyone thought Christopher Barrett, the Director of by far Destiny's best piece of content ever, Forsaken, was leading Matter, but he's actually leading developing on Marathon. 

I'm starting to wonder if Matter is nothing more than a trademark at this point. 

But hopefully Bungie actually listens to feedback on how to improve Marathon. The last thing any Destiny player will tell you, is that the games PVP is fun or great lol.

EDIT: Actually, many believe that Matter is Marathon. There's several forums on Bungie.net showing "proof" that's the case. 

If they did had a focus group review the game and the answer was negative I do think they will take that in consideration otherwise would be asinine to do it.