Journal of Other Forum Analysis (Volume II, Issue 2)

[DavidCroquet]

You heard it here first: Era killed Marathon.

[benji]

How would they "hear all the discussion about the CCU" if they don't click the thread and read it?

[TylenolJones]

Do they think Resetera is a discussion forum?

[Let's Cyber]

Crushed still catching strays in the year of our Lord 2026 



His post was so radioactive it killed several other poster just for touching it.

[Alpacx]

You heard it here first: Era killed Marathon.

Hey, it worked for Hogwarts Legacy. Not once was it in the sales charts posted to Era

[benji]

Wait, what's their "intention" supposed to be and what do you think it really is?

[benji]

[Let's Cyber]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/marathons-daily-ccu-peak-is-now-under-16k-on-steam-out-of-the-top-100-most-played-on-xbox-in-all-regions-barely-any-better-on-ps-what-went-wrong.1505815/page-3#post-154365211

GTA5 still makes millions and it came out 13 years ago. When you're playing the long game like Sony and Bungie and not thinking of 10k player counts on a random day in April, it starts to make sense.

Yes, Marathon is just like GTAV. 

You see, Sony is forward thinking and looking at the LONG GAME, they don't kill live service games after 2 weeks.

[Jansen]

The problem is they made the best game of all time that the world wasn't ready for. Much how the medical world didn't want accept that germs were real and paid the price for it, gamers weren't ready for Marathon and chose to ostracize it instead. Only many years from now will we look back on this moment in time and think "With Marathon, gaming peaked. But we, as a species, were too foolish to realize it."



I believe there was a popular tweet along the lines of "If we discard Marathon, we will get destroyed…….and we will deserve it." Or something like that.

When trying to make a new meme goes wrong

https://www.resetera.com/threads/marathons-daily-ccu-peak-is-now-under-16k-on-steam-out-of-the-top-100-most-played-on-xbox-in-all-regions-barely-any-better-on-ps-what-went-wrong.1505815/page-10#post-154375501

It's clear that Bungie flew too close to the sun, and in the process made a game that was even hotter than the sun, instantly killing off most of the player base. Some things aren't meant for mere mortals.



I am defensive, because this is the first game in LONG time that makes me feel something. Some may say I'm just depressed, and need the pain of a hardcore extraction shooter to feel alive. But I think it is just that I've lived so much, experienced so much, excelled at so much, that it takes a lot to make me sit up, take notice, and feel again. And the idea that this game might fail, and go offline…I can't go back to a pre-Marathon existence, where each night was spent scrolling through my library trying muster the slightest bit of excitement for a game I didn't really even want to play before spitting on my reflection in the tv and going to sleep with three pillows on my head and seven pairs of underwear on. I can't do it. I won't do it!…

https://www.resetera.com/threads/marathons-daily-ccu-peak-is-now-under-16k-on-steam-out-of-the-top-100-most-played-on-xbox-in-all-regions-barely-any-better-on-ps-what-went-wrong.1505815/page-10#post-154376950


Maybe they weren't joking...

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/marathons-daily-ccu-peak-is-now-under-16k-on-steam-out-of-the-top-100-most-played-on-xbox-in-all-regions-barely-any-better-on-ps-what-went-wrong.1505815/page-3#post-154365211

GTA5 still makes millions and it came out 13 years ago. When you're playing the long game like Sony and Bungie and not thinking of 10k player counts on a random day in April, it starts to make sense.

GTA V made its budget back up front...

edit: Destiny 2 presumably did for that matter, and this is part of why they split from Activision who didn't even allow World of Warcraft to have truly wildly varied revenue years.

[Boredfrom]

The problem is they made the best game of all time that the world wasn't ready for. Much how the medical world didn't want accept that germs were real and paid the price for it, gamers weren't ready for Marathon and chose to ostracize it instead. Only many years from now will we look back on this moment in time and think "With Marathon, gaming peaked. But we, as a species, were too foolish to realize it."



I believe there was a popular tweet along the lines of "If we discard Marathon, we will get destroyed…….and we will deserve it." Or something like that.

When trying to make a new meme goes wrong

It's clear that Bungie flew too close to the sun, and in the process made a game that was even hotter than the sun, instantly killing off most of the player base. Some things aren't meant for mere mortals.



I am defensive, because this is the first game in LONG time that makes me feel something. Some may say I'm just depressed, and need the pain of a hardcore extraction shooter to feel alive. But I think it is just that I've lived so much, experienced so much, excelled at so much, that it takes a lot to make me sit up, take notice, and feel again. And the idea that this game might fail, and go offline…I can't go back to a pre-Marathon existence, where each night was spent scrolling through my library trying muster the slightest bit of excitement for a game I didn't really even want to play before spitting on my reflection in the tv and going to sleep with three pillows on my head and seven pairs of underwear on. I can't do it. I won't do it!…

Maybe they weren't joking...

May I remember wrong, but DmC didn’t flop? It didn’t set the world on fire but sold well enough that Capcom re released as a  “Special Edition” and a lot of DMCV Nero characterization takes cues from Donte.

[benji]

I love how they always cope with "the world wasn't ready for Concord/Marathon/etc." and yet can never articulate what the games do that's so different from anything else out there. Other than fight creeping fascism of course.

[HaughtyFrank]

I'm of the opinion that toxicity didn't make it flop, but it definitely hurt it. Between it being Bungie, Sony, GaaS, art theft (which was settled and the artist is credited in the game), and there being female characters, people from all corners were already against this game before it even released. So even the smallest things the games did wrong had the weight of all that baggage as well.

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-approval-sinks-to-new-low-as-war-with-iran-drives-cost-of-living-concerns-36-34.1505044/

Well, I'm an independent. Frankly, I just wasn't a fan of Kamala. It was the lesser of two evils. I could have written in somebody, but I felt like I had a better chance of a little hope with Trump. I was hoping that Congress and other branches would keep him in check, and that he'd have better advisers, and that maybe the second go- around, he'd learn some lessons. But it seems like it's just
total chaos.

This is the type of person I have no grace for. I can excuse someone who bought propaganda as young adult and who had no role in creating Trump 1. This asshole knew what she was buying because she had seen it all play out as a full grown adult who likely has voted in multiple elections. This person has no room for redemption in my book.

 

Is the same logic that ERA used to not vote for Kamala.

“Yes, Trump is an asshole but at least has this take on *insert single issue* “

[Greatness Gone]

They know a game’s concurrent playerbase is gonna be what it is no matter whether there’s a CCU thread or not, right? Making the threads go away just because you can’t handle the latest Soyny slop flopping doesn’t make the problem go away. 

The amount of people praising B-Dumbs for caving into the cult is hilarious. 

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-approval-sinks-to-new-low-as-war-with-iran-drives-cost-of-living-concerns-36-34.1505044/

Well, I'm an independent. Frankly, I just wasn't a fan of Kamala. It was the lesser of two evils. I could have written in somebody, but I felt like I had a better chance of a little hope with Trump. I was hoping that Congress and other branches would keep him in check, and that he'd have better advisers, and that maybe the second go- around, he'd learn some lessons. But it seems like it's just
total chaos.

This is the type of person I have no grace for. I can excuse someone who bought propaganda as young adult and who had no role in creating Trump 1. This asshole knew what she was buying because she had seen it all play out as a full grown adult who likely has voted in multiple elections. This person has no room for redemption in my book.

 

Is the same logic that ERA used to not vote for Kamala.

“Yes, Trump is an asshole but at least has this take on *insert single issue* “

No, it's different from them. She didn't refuse to pick, she just didn't like Biden/Harris for good reasons and decided to hope Trump had matured and would have better people managing him this time. This is the entire reason Trump won again, people who voted against him in 2020 and gave him a second chance because they didn't like the other option when they got it. 

The stupidity is trying to blame her for "buying propaganda" as if this is why she rejected Harris and not that Harris said Biden made no mistakes. They think Nancy owed it to the Democrats and should suck it up and vote for them. It's one thing if Nancy said something like "Trump is a fascist going to kill everyone but Biden sucked so I gave him another chance" but that's not what she said, she clearly didn't like her options and decided to hope Trump might be better the second time than continue with what she didn't like. Her entire explanation is her trying to spin one of two bad options into maybe being better, this cut against Harris because she was the incumbent and more recent information to evaluate. The excuses wouldn't have played if Trump was still in office, and that's why it didn't work in 2020. She would have had to use this same reasoning to justify voting for Harris against what Harris herself promised.

This is actually the common voter and their common decision making process. Era doesn't like it because they actually want voters to be people who buy propaganda like themselves.

edit: And amusingly it's likely Nancy did have a role in creating Trump 1 as it's likely she used the same reasoning to pick him over the "known" Hillary.

[BIONIC]

They know a game’s concurrent playerbase is gonna be what it is no matter whether there’s a CCU thread or not, right? Making the threads go away just because you can’t handle the latest Soyny slop flopping doesn’t make the problem go away. 

The amount of people praising B-Dumbs for caving into the cult is hilarious. 

Can’t like this post enough.

[benji]

Can’t like this post enough.

Reminds you of Supernatural season five?

[simiansmarts]

Stupid fucking chuds on the nazi site don't understand absolute cinema 
 

[Boredfrom]

Saying that Marathon “soys slop”.  

Words have meanings.

[benji]

Saying that Marathon “soys slop”.  

Words have meanings.

Did you miss that it has female characters?

[Boredfrom]

The game was never going to be successful because it is a AAA premium extraction shooter and the reboot of a single player 90’s Doom Clone exclusive for apple computers.

The people that would care for this game would wanted it to be single player or free to play. But it doesn’t sound like they didn’t try.

[Greatness Gone]

Saying that Marathon “soys slop”.  

Words have meanings

If it makes you feel better I did preorder Saros   Returnal was goated

[Lonewulfeus]

If they really want the Marathon CCU thread to die they should just sticky it.  

[benji]

Yes, it is genocide (a FAQ and what you can do about it today): The Marathon CCU Thread

[Let's Cyber]

My favorite thing about ZeoVGM is he'll still go to war over the 2016 Ghostbusters Reboot at the drop of a hat. 

Some brave souls need to be in the trenches fighting these important battles.

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/marathons-daily-ccu-peak-is-now-under-16k-on-steam-out-of-the-top-100-most-played-on-xbox-in-all-regions-barely-any-better-on-ps-what-went-wrong.1505815/page-3#post-154365211

GTA5 still makes millions and it came out 13 years ago. When you're playing the long game like Sony and Bungie and not thinking of 10k player counts on a random day in April, it starts to make sense.

Yes, Marathon is just like GTAV. 

You see, Sony is forward thinking and looking at the LONG GAME, they don't kill live service games after 2 weeks.

GTA5, famous for its slow start out of the gates selling only 29 million copies in the first month.

[Potato]

I love how they always cope with "the world wasn't ready for Concord/Marathon/etc." and yet can never articulate what the games do that's so different from anything else out there. Other than fight creeping fascism of course.

If you think the cope is real now, just you watch if that woke space game from Naughty Dog flops.

[Potato]

They know a game’s concurrent playerbase is gonna be what it is no matter whether there’s a CCU thread or not, right? Making the threads go away just because you can’t handle the latest Soyny slop flopping doesn’t make the problem go away. 

The amount of people praising B-Dumbs for caving into the cult is hilarious. 

The CCU arguments are the symptom, the virus is retards unable to just ignore things they don't like.

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-approval-sinks-to-new-low-as-war-with-iran-drives-cost-of-living-concerns-36-34.1505044/

Well, I'm an independent. Frankly, I just wasn't a fan of Kamala. It was the lesser of two evils. I could have written in somebody, but I felt like I had a better chance of a little hope with Trump. I was hoping that Congress and other branches would keep him in check, and that he'd have better advisers, and that maybe the second go- around, he'd learn some lessons. But it seems like it's just
total chaos.

This is the type of person I have no grace for. I can excuse someone who bought propaganda as young adult and who had no role in creating Trump 1. This asshole knew what she was buying because she had seen it all play out as a full grown adult who likely has voted in multiple elections. This person has no room for redemption in my book.

 

Is the same logic that ERA used to not vote for Kamala.

“Yes, Trump is an asshole but at least has this take on *insert single issue* “

No, it's different from them. She didn't refuse to pick, she just didn't like Biden/Harris for good reasons and decided to hope Trump had matured and would have better people managing him this time. This is the entire reason Trump won again, people who voted against him in 2020 and gave him a second chance because they didn't like the other option when they got it. 

The stupidity is trying to blame her for "buying propaganda" as if this is why she rejected Harris and not that Harris said Biden made no mistakes. They think Nancy owed it to the Democrats and should suck it up and vote for them. It's one thing if Nancy said something like "Trump is a fascist going to kill everyone but Biden sucked so I gave him another chance" but that's not what she said, she clearly didn't like her options and decided to hope Trump might be better the second time than continue with what she didn't like. Her entire explanation is her trying to spin one of two bad options into maybe being better, this cut against Harris because she was the incumbent and more recent information to evaluate. The excuses wouldn't have played if Trump was still in office, and that's why it didn't work in 2020. She would have had to use this same reasoning to justify voting for Harris against what Harris herself promised.

This is actually the common voter and their common decision making process. Era doesn't like it because they actually want voters to be people who buy propaganda like themselves.

edit: And amusingly it's likely Nancy did have a role in creating Trump 1 as it's likely she used the same reasoning to pick him over the "known" Hillary.

Imagine casting your vote based on the hope that a 70+ year old man with a history of being an immature twat might "mature" in his second term...