Sounds like EA/Nintendo pricing has taken hold.
The price of the game will be announced this Summer
Bungie is probably waiting to see if Nintendo is able to get away with $80 for “premium” titles.
And it’ll have all the microtransaction features executives have come to expect. Overpriced battlepass, loot boxes, overpriced fomo cosmetic store.
Marathon will be a premium title. Marahton will not be a ‘full-priced’ title.”
I mean, Nintendo already got away with it. People are pissed, but you already have people saying theyre gona buy it anyway.
Shows up 10 years late to the Battle Royale trend
”Hey kids check out our cool generic extraction shooter with a battle pass”
2 weeks after release, only 900 active players remain
Cancel season pass and layoff half the company.
Can’t wait!
Off topic but I genuinely can’t understand why people like to throw battle royales and extraction shooters into the same pot. The fact that battle royales have been immensely successful (PUBG, Fortnite, Apex) while the only extraction shooter with relative success is Escape From Tarkov (I won’t get into the details but pretty much everyone hates to play) should be indication that any similarities between the two genres are entirely superficial.
They cater to very different audiences.
It’s wild indeed. The worst part about this comparison is that people say it’ll fail because of the competition, but there’s literally 0 competition in the genre from big studios. The only three somewhat successful games are Delta Force, Hunt Showdown and Escape from Tarkov, two of those are premium games, one where people are willing to pay 250$ for it. It’s even a genre where people mostly want it to be paid to reduce cheating.
To a layman like me the gameplay looks the same. Groups of 2-3 people exploring a large map for resources. Encountering other groups and looting on the way. Extraction shooter to me just means more money on micro-transactions like bank slots.
It looks the same because you are more or less doing the same thing (looting and shooting) but the core motivation to do those things are very different. Battle royales are all about combat, everyone goes in with the sole purpose of winning (with some exceptions) and you win by beating the other teams. Extraction shooters “in theory” are about survival. You take your crap with you into a raid so you could find better crap to increase your chances of surviving a raid. But if you die you lose the crap you took in. Because the goal is survival extraction shooters don’t have a sole focus on combat, but rather combat is a means to an end.
lol yeah, is this going to be Concord all over again?
No. Marathon has strong marketing.
Don’t forget that they spent 150 million on getting Alberto Mielgo to make a cool cinematic trailer for the game.
Lmao premium? My ass. That doesnt mean anything. BG3 was “premium” because of the soul put into it. Is this game anywhere near that? Does it at least tell me I’m pretty for the “premium” price?
I’ve spent more time in minecraft and terraria (and skylim, released in 2011, which I last played in 2023) than I have in any other games, and those aren’t exactly what I’d call “premium”. I’d agree that more than money needs to be poured into a game to make it good.
I’m just glad the minecraft launcher doesn’t track time playing. knowing I probably have over a year of playtime is different then actually seeing it.
Does it at least tell me I’m pretty for the “premium” price?
Probably only available for the digital deluxe ultimate limited edition.
Which will also be available a month later as a twenty dollar microtransaction.
40 dollar* they’re just adding twenty to everything.
Cassette Beasts just had a free update BTW.
Indie is the way to go moving forward.
I think ‘premium’ in this case is synonymous with ‘not free to play’.
That would make sense but the descriptor is still not a good one. Admittedly it might be my ancient perspective.
It is not great, I agree but it’s how it is used. When you think about it, F2P is pretty standard these days so anything with a price tag could be considered “premium” in comparison
It does, and its not like F2P is inherently bad, it let’s a lot of people play who otherwise wouldnt be able to. But the monetization always sucks.
There’s a few examples of F2P games with good monetization. Warframe comes to mind immediately. I’ve heard Path Of Exile is also a solid example of F2P done right, but don’t have personal experience with that one.
Web Fishing comes to mind for me. Idk if it even has monetization besides ads on the web page. It is rather rare though. Warframe was great but when I played leveling each piece of gear was too much for me. So it wasn’t even the monetization it was a game mechanic. Phenomenonal gameplay though. I wish it was more about that than leveling.
Fair enough- I find leveling stuff is fine if I either do it passively via either just equipping a weapon I don’t intend to use or just specifically focus farming leveling. But Warframe is very firmly not for everyone.
Web Fishing is just outright paid, is it not? The game is $5 on steam.
yeah this is a lil fucked up way to even try to announce pricing, or avoid announcing it in this matter
I don’t even understand what they mean…
I don’t even understand what they mean…
Something on the line “We wish we could charge you the 80$, AAA, price; hoverer, we didn’t implemented decent AI bot for you to play with/against… so we need players themselves to do the job”
TL;DR: 20€/$
My guess is $30, could be $40 although I doubt it after the response they got.
I’d guess $40. Same price as Helldivers 2.
Just to be clear, I didn’t mean that 20€ is the right price… honestly I think that if they put the 20$ price tag, it would be still too expensive. If you take a look here you can see the industry standard for online-only games free and paid (Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo don’t share this data; but I think Valve is the overall winner/standard for the last generations of the gaming industry)
So… is there any relation to the Marathon that came out in 1994 by Bungie?
Because… the art style genuinely looks awesome but I don’t see anything that reminds me of the original. Not in enemies, or gameplay, or plot, it also seems entirely online multi-player, I see no rogue AI.
Honestly I would be intrigued by the art style alone but… the shameless name grab makes me think it’s gonna flop.
Such a shame. I do think Halo was very much already the spiritual successor to Marathon, and I know all the studios just want to have the big multiplayer game that everyone plays for years and years these days, but man was I excited when I first saw the teaser for this last year. I still name all my computer equipment after Marathon AIs.
It’s almost certainly not going to have much connection to the Marathon series beyond the name and general thematic direction.
I would love to be priced wrong.
I’ve seen a few of the famous quotes, but the Marathon itself is too spherical to be the old flying Space Spud. Bungie has often referred back to Old Marathon but this feels off. It’s like someone is doing this only reading Wikiquote and a few summaries. I did see hints of Tau Ceti’s spaceport being nuked, and the involvement of MIDA as a contractor, so there’s a few hints of the deep lore.
They’re cagey about the story as well, suggesting they don’t have a written one yet. I’ll bet they were starting towards a proper story and an author keen on the original Marathon left with the pieces sat idle in the meantime as the game grew.
It also feels incomplete, lots of pve features despite pvp extraction as the stated goal. I think this was intended to have multiple game modes, several factions trying to find something left behind, Tycho making a move on the ruins controlled by fragments of Leela. Throw in a bonus UESC force Sent by a hint from Durandal who is still off having his own brand of fun elsewhere. Perhaps Straus’s plans with the Colony long term come up.
A dream perhaps. On an Idea for a new Aleph One Scenario.
Maybe they fed some Marathon assets into Claude and asked it to build a generic cooperative loot shooter, or whatever they think is cool this year.
I could play single-player games like Witcher 3 over and over for the next 5 years and not miss a single thing put out by EA, Bethesda, etc. We’ve got other stuff to do.
I am playing Stardew Valley and there is so much to do in the game that I’m set for this year.
It will be a flop
As soon as they dropped the trailer and said it was an extraction shooter, my interest dropped to 0.
It’s a shame too, I really like the visuals
Anything with the word “premium” attached to it goes on my ignore list.
There are so many games out there these days that I really don’t feel pressure to buy any single title.
yes, I too expect all games to be free
Yeah, imma wait for the 1 month later reviews.
Fine fine, so maybe one or two years after release in a sale.
We’ve put our “top men” on the pricing strategy.
