Will Marathon Survive?

[mutantsushi]

Yup, this empty negative hype train just tells on it´s self continually. 

¨ The main point you're continually missing here is that Marathon cost a lot of money to make...¨
This kind of ¨point¨ actually has ZERO bearing on whether Marathon will ¨survive¨ or not. Zero.
For sure it can be a bad investment outcome, but forever fixating on this is just crying about spilled milk.
Having gone thru develoment hell by mismanagement and having blown way too much money,
doesn´t actually have any bearing on whether the resultant product is self-sustaining and profit bearing.
In fact, having lost lots of money doesn´t have any bearing on whether it´s a good idea to invest further money.

For all the ¨concern¨ about whether this game ¨survives¨ or not, I see ZERO mention of it´s microtransactions.
You know, the thing people love to complain about it being a live service game etc.
Except it´s model has been sub-AAA $40 price with unlimited gameplay, and only cosmetic microtransactions.
And AFAIK their post-launch cosmetic releases have been garnering positive feedback (in contrast to launch options).
That is only a positive trend in regards the game´s ¨financial sustainability¨, yet ZERO mention here.
I´m not saying this instantly turns the game into profit factory, but how can something so relevant be so simply ignored?

Oh, because these people aren´t serious about their own topic, never mind not being engaged with the game itself.
I honestly don´t get it, why somebody who isn´t into a game or even the game´s genre could care so much.
If I don´t like My Little Pony farm simulators, I´m really not going to spend much time ¨worrying¨ about one such game.
If somebody doesn´t like 4X Strategy games, they don´t make posts upon posts in forums discussing a new 4X strategy game.
This whole topic is driven by click farming social media hype aimed at people desperate to distract themselves.
They fixate on the most superficial ¨big scale¨ number source they can concptualize as authoritative truth,
yet can´t move beyond that to truly engage in the topic, because that would demand real thought and engagement from them.