Is Marathon headed for disaster?

[Mnementh]

Hardstuck-Platinum said:

KratosLives said:

What i hate, is people jumping on the bandwagon of hate. Like on youtube, famous youtubers will put up a video on it, but in a way to kind of derail it or knock it off as being sub par. People join in, it becomes a mockery, and that spreads.

I get it, they did some dumb shit like copying art, but i want the game to succeed , if it is indeed good, instead of being dead on arrival because the youtube community deemed it a failure or uncool , before release.

Absolutely. If this does happen, let's hope it backfires and just acts as a load of free advertising for Marathon. They say that there's no such thing as bad publicity, but after Dragon Age Veilguard and Concord, I'm not sure about that anymore. It's almost as if people had the ability to influence those games into complete failure  

Not true. Concord actually nobody cared... until numbers already indicated a flop. Only then it became an online debate. The reason it failed wasn't hate (which came after it already failed), but desinterest.

And for Veilguard - it didn't even do very bad. It didn't do great either. But it underperformed regarding the expectations. A pattern seen often that managers have inflated expectations of success. But EA didn't even care that much about that underperformance, the big news in their quarterlies was the much more hurtful underperformance of FC 25. So no, online discourse didn't cripple these games.