Is Marathon headed for disaster?

[Hardstuck-Platinum]

JackHandy said:

Hardstuck-Platinum said:

They're a business. What are you talking about? Destiny made Bungie what they are today and that was GaaS. Mocking and ridiculing doesn't change the truth or the fact that these are businesses with intentions of being as successful as possible. Seriously, what is your point? What's the point of making emotionally driven digs?

I hear this a lot. This concept that a business can't care. Well, businesses certainly can care. It's uncommon, but it's totally possible for someone to both want to make money and care about the goods they are selling, and the people who are buying them.

Well of course they care about public perception. They didn't expand their studio to 1600 employees off of well regarded standard single player games or non GaaS multiplayer games though. They could have made the most well regarded single player game in history, and it still wouldn't have done as well for them as Destiny did. It was a major cash cow and still is to some extent. 

I agree that marathon doesn't look amazing, it just looks OK. I wish they were a bit more creative and ambitious but it's releasing on Xbox unlike Concord so that's another large playerbase they have access to. I don't see anything in Marathon that is just going to completely destroy Bungies reputation.