That AMA stream was........beyond rough. As someone said in a comment, "I've been to funerals that were more cheerful" lol. This is quite the hole Bungie has dug for themselves with Marathon. The plagiarism probably wouldn't have been taken so seriously if Marathon hadn't had such a lukewarm reception, at best, over its alpha release.
Bungie's name will certainly help the game take off in some way at launch, but, they gotta keep players there, and the game currently just doesn't have any substance to it that would keep players there. Combo that with Arc Raiders's alpha out at the same time, which the Extraction community has just been glazing over, and now this awful PR with this livestream being the utter dud that it was.....paints a pretty grim picture about Bungie's future. Sure Destiny 2 is still there, but, the game just had its Avengers: Endgame moment. It's no longer the studios primary focus and is now getting pretty standard support now. More content is nice, but you can tell it's not leading up to anything anymore now that previously took a decade to get to.
You called down the thunder, now reap the whirlwind
