@psalmlab There's something more to consider.
In the Imperious Sun shelllore, Rhulk tries to trick a ghost to give him light, but is immediately blocked off.
This suggest that true Dark power, like Ressonance and Taken cannot be mixed with Traveler's Light.
Maybe Oryx could never be rez.
@TheVanguardBR Vanguard, estou montando um documento onde analiso as vendas do Destiny, custo de produção e possĆvel planos de recuperação. Acha que isso tem alguma chance de mudar o cenĆ”rio que estamos enfrentando?
Former Bungie Destiny CM just said the quiet part out loud:
SUPPORTING MARATHON IS YHE BEST SHOT AT KEEPING BUNGIE AND FUTURE PROJECTS ALIVE [Destiny 3] RIGHT NOW.
āHalf the community is going to hate me for saying this, but the only way to keep Bungie alive right now is to support Marathon.ā
Please read her thread but Iāll summarize below. She immediately cleared up that Marathon was never designed to pull Destiny numbers.
Marathon is an extraction shooter in the Tarkov/Arc Raiders genre, a completely different target audience with some natural overlap from the huge Destiny player base.
Expecting it to perform like a live-service looter-shooter is missing the point entirely.
Liana pushed back on the ājust let Bungie dieā takes and the āIām never touching Marathonā crowd.
She reminded everyone that there are real developers behind the name, passionate people who didnāt make the big corporate decisions.
She talked about the nuance of the acquisition, how Bungieās value to Sony isnāt only Marathon, and how the studio could potentially shift into more of an expertise/service role across Sony if needed.
Very cool to see was that a Destiny player asked her for reassurance to give them her word with a hand on her heart that playing Marathon actually helps, she replied with a photo hand over her heart, shown below.
Whether you love Destiny, are still excited for Marathon like me and the rest of the community, or are somewhere in between, her thread is worth reading.
Itās real, emotional, and highlights why player support for Bungieās current projects actually matters for the future of the studio and the people who work there.
Marathon is amazing. Season 2 Delivered so well (outside of the servers being ehh) and the community is still so passionate.
To the @DestinyTheGame crowd we love you! I love Destiny, I love Marathon, I still play Halo for god sakes.
And. I LOVE BUNGIE.
SO supporting Marathon might be the best way to keep Bungie (and whatever comes next) alive.
What do you think? Will you Destiny players give Marathon a/another shot? @Aztecross ?
#Marathon #Bungie #Destiny
Remember to be kind to the Blueberries on June 9th. They must be protected at all costs. Helping a new player is one of the easiest ways to rediscover what made Destiny special in the first place. ā¤ļø
I wanna be honest and real for a min:
The whole Bungie/Marathon/Destiny situation is so weird to me. It doesn't make sense in my brain.
You have Bungie making the most successful sci-fi, live service, looter shooter of all time, over the last 10 years. They were already known for Halo, and Destiny took it to the next level.
Destiny starts to fatigue. Development starts to become lazy and stale. Bungie fucking OWNS the live service shooter market, with basically no competition, so there's no reason to change.. cause it sells. But as things remain stale for Destiny, there's a HUGE window open in the market. A Destiny 3 fresh start would have been the greatest gift to the community, a community that is far beyond a cult-following. It would have plunged life back into the franchise. D2 just cannot hang on forever.
So instead... they cancel D3, and launch a brand new game. It's not PvP like Halo; it's not a Destiny-like; it's an extraction shooter... kinda a weird genre imo. You have all these Bungie/Destiny fans that WANT to like Marathon, but the truth is - there's little crossover between Destiny players and extraction shooter players. It exists, but it's not what many would want. So who's the target audience here?
Destiny players want Marathon to succeed, so Bungie can succeed, and therefore push resources back into Destiny, and have Destiny succeed. As for Marathon right now, it doesn't look like it's revolutionizing the video game world or anything. It kinda gives off a "been there, done that" extraction shooter vibe. I know it's early, things could change. But these are my early impressions.
So the whole thing just kinda confuses me.. a bit? I dunno. I just feel like a game winning ball was dropped.. hard. This isn't a hate post. I WISH Marathon succeeds; at least at the minimum, selfishly, so that Destiny continues to get more love lol. This is more of a "these are my shower thoughts" post.
Take care, everyone. Much love.