It's over

It's over

Imagine funding cancelled games with your fucking taxpayer money. Can't be me.

A fucking loss meme ruins your billion dollar investment

This is stupid. the cost of living in Montreal is so high those game dev jobs will vanish without subsidies because nobody will want to open a studio there. It's the same as how there'd be no game industry in Singapore or Vancouver without their subsidies.

I thought Bungie already had a fire under their asses because they kept missing deadlines. They're fucked.

Bungies only missed about two deadlines historically. If anything their problem is constantly pushing shit out with zero concept of quality.

Ooooh no
That sucks.

They can still fix the game by replacing the art with new one.

I wish Quebec could be nuked so that Ubishit would go away.

Yeah no shit it's gonna get delayed, they have to go through every single art asset and replace all the stolen shit they had plastered literally everywhere in the game. I also don't buy that it was just one rogue ex-employee doing this and everyone was just oblivious. That's impossible in a company of almost 1000 people. At best, they're thieves, at worst, morons that have no business making games.

You know they'll just outsource it to another AI art farm while claiming arms-length ignorance.

are they planning to delay it? till when cause GTA 6 is coming next year.

Half of all Bungie employees are subscribed to the artist they stole from and the visits to her site are so frequent it's clear they use all of her work as the art bible for the entire game. There's nothing to "remove", they'd have to remove the game itself as the artstyle is literally ALL the game has, and it's all completely stolen. Not just individual pieces of artwork but the entire design language and overall feel and look.

They fucking sent him out on stream to die

He DIED in front of a live streamio audience

"Should we just fucking hire this person we're cribbing everything off?"

"No, that's gay. Just upload their actual literal artwork into the texture pack"

Don't worry about it, they will have another propaganda title ready in a couple of years.

he thinks bungie will still be around in a couple of years

heh

If the plagiarized artstyle really does seep everywhere throughout the game, it could be realistically delayed up to 2027 or beyond. At that point I'd just cancel the damn thing.

It never ceases to amaze me how billion dollar businesses to governments continually get shaken up by the stupidest little memes

It must suck being a Snoy. imagine having negative games to play

What a goddamn disaster. Nu Bungie are hacks.

I don't get it. What's happening?

check out this cool new game that is about to come out

sike, here's another Horizon re-release

HELP

Why couldn't they just draw inspiration from it and make their own stuff? They have an art team with people specifically hired for it, fuck are those bozos doing for $40 an hour? Hell, with how these big corpos are structured I'm sure if you dare to point it out you'd be the one getting punished for not towing the line.

Sony's next attempt at a big-budget live-service shooter, except this time the artstyle was literally stolen instead of just uninspired.

The woman they stole from has been doing that extremely specific minimalist sci-fi style for years, and when you consider it as a design language she's also the inventor of it. Bungie isn't even the first to wholesale steal her designs, NERF saw a picture she had drawn of a revolver in her signature style and copied it 1:1.

No mention of Bungie

What's really baffling is even if they wanted to be lazy, why didn't they just use AI? People would grumble about it but it's a far more legally grey area and the US government is increasingly permissive with it.

"If I can find it with a Google image search that means it's free for me to use"

because AI looks like shit and people hate it

How much of Concord was directly Firewalk Studio's fault? The top brass at Sony suffers either way.

Bungie is kill

Good, for such a person calling themselves a professional artist he chose the greatest Sin, Theft of Art.

"you made this? no, Bungie made this, till you caught us"

may he never work in the industry again, such as it is.

delayed up to 2027

good god, that 3.6 billion for bungie is haunting them forever

the game cant fail if it never comes out

because they are soulless freaks at that level, and should be mocked, and frankly, probably killed.

anything that reminds them "Memento Mori" or mocks their power, shakes them, they gave up everything to gain it, so its all they have.

but remember, always remember.

Memento Mori.

fuck are those bozos doing for $40 an hour?

Quite literally just directly LIFTING images. Not even copying them and trying to change it up a little. Just direct copy and pastes.

He got kicked out of Bungie's discord live on stream too.

THE PAID MARKETING IS CANCELED?
ITS SUPER OVER
RIPPERONI SONY LMAO

Work smart. Not hard.

Honestly was anyone really that interested in yet another extraction shooter? Stolen art design or not

because they WANTED to steal that look, they liked it, and so they took it.

simple as that.

TOTAL SONY BANKRUPTCY

fuck are those bozos doing for $40 an hour?

Browsing the internet for "inspiration"
The entire tech industry is rife with zero talent leftists who lie, cheat and steal their way to high paying positions in these silicon valley companies. Game studios are no different.

Theyll just buy Concords art design and slap it on

Almost every surface has some sort of stolen decal on it. Pandemonium at Bungie

It's not over until Sony actually says 'yeah this is hopeless so we're cancelling it'.

They went with "It was just a single rogue texture artist that was ACHSHUALLY fired long before we even knew that he had stolen art" but of course most of the texture artists are following the woman they stole from and routinely visited her twitter and home page gallery.
They 100% prepared an, "actually we didn't know we were stealing because we thought it was AI results" defence but someone just have realized how idiotic it would make them look on top of all the other lies.

Western Corpo-world is all the same, Videogames Tech shit, w/e, its all the same.

and by that, 80% of the workers are doing absolutely fucking nothing, the barest of minimum's, just SOAAKING up the money, fucking off, doing absolutely fuck all.

20% does all the work, and drags the project to completion, 80% does fuck all, sometimes its worse, 90% to 10%.

but usually the 80/20 rule is the right number, it is the most prolific percentage breakdown in human nature.

no not at all
even those still interested in extraction shooters were shitting on the gameplay before the whole art theft debacle
there was no future where this game doesnt fail

Legal told them to say that, as they are already fucked if this person wants to pursue damages in court.

which they should, at least someone will get paid that might deserve it in this fiasco of a fucking game.

An AI wouldn't give 1:1 results though. There is no denying they lifted stuff directly. The question is how widespread it is.

The game has been worked on for over 4 years and with 300+ developers

It's crazy how this was made by a studio Sony paid $3.6 billion for. Meanwhile in 2007
youtube.com/watch?v=j1D7k_qqJts

2 years

100 people

has single player and multiplayer

15+ million copies sold

Why modern developers struggling so much?

Can guarantee this delay was required because they found more plagiarizing

This is definitely one of the hardest years in gaming. Total Sony death, Microsoft's fucking off, Nintendo's probably fine as per usual.

I'm sure Sony will pay the artist out something like $20k-30k and it won't go anywhere beyond that.
They're not going to get millions in damages for some decals.

its really worse than Concord in that way, sure it might make more money than Concord.. but Concord could have somehow gained an audience in some far off random variant of this world, some potential chance.

this game has no chance, no place, no future, none, zero, it was long dead before it ever released, every SINGLE bit of info, every SINGLE time they showed it off to major Extraction shooter streamers, every SINGLE thing they did, was met with overwelming negative response.

its the most locked in doomed megaproject of our time.

*His site

An AI wouldn't give 1:1

inb4 luddites reference year old examples of AI gen in its infancy or recent examples by amateurs using shitty models

Why didn’t they just hire her tho?

seeit isn't just video games, everything has bloated, everyone is chasing the "solved" solution to make tons of fucking money, in every sector, and they hired absolutely everyone the could possibly jam into the company to do it.

it really flared up during Covid when certain sectors boomed, such as Tech and Videogames.

here we are, the Western Corporate system has reached its breaking point, its just built on too much faggotry and weakness.

AI would fail at this artsyle.

Nintendo truly is the tortoise among hares. Xbox and Sony tripping over themselves with ever increasingly bloated software and hardware while they just keep trucking along with their little toaster tablet.

Don't worry, we have other games coming

Like a... live service Horizon game and a...MMO Horizon game...which is also a live service game since it's an MMO

Fuck no. What this did was get rid of the small audience they had left

they are liable for, the maximum, like 180k, and they can make them pay their legal expenses when they win, and also, they can sue them for multiple instances of theft.

the pay out could be in the millions, Sony has lost dumber cases, this one is a tight fucking lock.

likely they could get about 200k or so all told if they pursued it with a real Jew ass Lawyer.

Why would they when stealing is free and has no consequences?

Nintendo turning heel by overcharging and starting the overpriced games trend

The only thing I'm interested in is watching another slop flop, honestly though we've had so many now I'm kind of getting board with them.

lol no. Everyone that played the alpha said it sucked.

Deltarune 3-4 and (supposedly) Silksong will be out this year, and Nintendo is facing backlash over the Switch 2 pricing even if it won't mean anything in the end. This is the year where AAA gets buttfucked while consumers are still enjoying games.

Bungie creates worlds that inspire friendship

Don't ask what this means or how Destiny (since that was their only product since the motto change from "We make games we want to play") achieved this or why they decided to make an extraction shooter, one of the most feel bad sweaty tryhard subgenres that currently exist

only 300

If you ignore the entire history of Bungie I guess that's true. Every single project they have ever worked on misses deadlines and gets pushed back going all the way back to halo 2. Hell halo 1 has like a 3rd of the game scrapped.

Damn Horizon really is the game that defined a generation and when I think great mascots I automatically think about Alloy the Placeholder.

Sony is convinced anyone gives a fucking about Horizon.

LOUD SONY GULP

If they pursue it, probably. But I doubt it'll go anywhere. You could spend years fighting this shit or you could take a payout right now.

This is like the 5th or 6th time Bungie has been accused of plagiarism since probably 2012 when court documents leaked concept art. Excuses have always been the same: 3rd party contractor lifted and traced stuff for deadlines. For a while it was easy to get away with: Destiny looks like every fucking sci-fi concept on Artstation and it probably was at some point.

Marathon stuff seems like the laziest these contractors have been so far.

I moderately enjoyed the 1st game, mostly because of the potential of the setting and world, but then I saw they completely shit the bed with all that in the 2nd game, while simultaneously making the characters even more boring and wooden than they were in the 1st, and now I couldn't possibly care less.

I'm looking forward to a threepeat of ridiculous release windows for the next Horizon game

1 released against Breath of the Wild
2 released against Elden Ring
3/Live service slop has to launch with GTA6

Makes no sense to have it drawn out, they'd rather throw some shut up money than have countless articles reminding people what shitty companies they are.

Some guy is suing Bungie for plagiarizing his shitty Wordpress story for their Destiny 2 Red War intro campaign

Problem is that The Red War is no longer playable. During discovery, Bungie had to submit youtube videos and streams because they can't even play it internally anymore. The judge decided that third hand accounts aren't legally valid and now they actually have to go to court

As much as I hate Bungie and as much as they're accused of this shit, I still think this lawsuit is probably bogus, but they're going to have to fight it anyway because of their content vault

the most hilarious thing is they thought they could compete with Zelda and Elden Ring, the fucking ego lol..

Maybe they shouldn't have made the content unavailable then.

@grok context??

They'll delay it.
They might think they can compete with Elden Ring but nobody is going to challenge Rockstar.

Judging by the cinematic trailer this really should've been some Death Stranding clone.

Perhaps. If only there had been a group that told them this was a bad idea at the outset.

God that fucking game is going to warp the entire industry. I hate it. I doubt it'll be a mess so the most I can hope for is that it somehow contributes to the slow motion videogame crash we're (hopefully) in

FairgamesXixters how we feeling?

I think I started bleeding from the nose when they started reciting Ozymandias

the most I can hope for is that it somehow contributes to the slow motion videogame crash we're (hopefully) in

It will be $100, the rest of the industry will try to release their own games at $100, and maybe then consumers will snap and boycott en-masse

Fairgames, what's that? You mean Concord 3?

internal concept art not meant to be used for profit or public distribution STOLE from me!!

I don't like bungo but that seems like a stretch.

Founder and head of the studio leaves after external playtests reveal the game is shit

Changed name from FAIRGAME$ to FAIRGAMES

Hmmm

The artist hid a parody of a popular 4 panel comic strip in his artwork as a signature several year ago, and it is found in the game Marathon, which indicates the art was directly lifted and placed into the game without any editing or attempt to cover it up. Due to the lack of comprehensive data on the racial composition of farm households, it is unclear whether white farmers are being targeted in particular or if they face a disproportionate risk of being killed. The government of South Africa and other analysts say that farm attacks are part of a broader crime problem in South Africa and do not have a racial motivation. In May 2025, Donald Trump and the government of the United States designated the attacks as genocide.

I'm pretty sure the horizon live service game was cancelled wasn't it?

No, the MMO was reported to be cancelled but that was wrong. As far as I'm aware both are still in development. Also the Horizon MMO is being developed by Nexon

5 wasn't even any good compared to great modern games, but it printed billions.

I can't deny that it appeals to many, it just baffles me.

it already is happening, Doom The Dark Ages just wasn't swallowed for 80 dollars.

if the game isn't a must buy killer app and have at least 60+ hours of content, it won't be bought for these upped prices.

I couldn't even finish the single player it was so boring. Same with RDR2.

I don't understand it either. I don't know a single person who plays or even talks about it. It's like how Avatars 1 and 2 make a shitload of money but nobody seems to actually care that much

Doom is being sold for $80? I would have paid full price for E33 so it was weird that the game only sold for $50

I mean there are militants singing Kill the Boer.

any other place, any other people, it would be clear wahts going on.

but White People are eternally asked to take their lumps, and also not ever be allowed to point it out.

Flopgame$

It's $80 in yurop but still $70 in burgerland. $70 is still WAY too much for fucking Doom though.

I have no idea why the industry is pushing for 80$ so hard. It's not like the motherfuckers don't already make money hand over fist. I know why I just refuse to accept it

They also burn massive piles of cash on flops and retarded acquisitions that they chose to waste money on. They want YOU to pay for their fuckups, that's all this is.

The too big to o fail mentality is irresistible to investors

I'm no anti-tax libertardian, but attempting to solve the shortage of affordable housing in a city by giving money to [some company] in the hopes that they will pay their workers enough for them to afford to pay their rent - is retarded.

It keeps happening though. And it only happens because Bungie is never does their own concept art in-house since they left Microsoft. Like no one has accused Craig Mullins of ripping off someone else despite generic scifi shit he made for the OG marathon.

Cross legitimately looked like he hadn't slept in 5 months.

mems are human
jews are not

I..

Will do nothing.

That "genre" is literally just Escape from Tarkov and a handful or 2 of ripoffs that completely failed in the water.
I'm betting good money that Bungie saw how fucking huge Tarkov got in 2019 and falsely predicted that extraction shooters would rule the 2020's.

thanks elon

It hit him so hard one of his eyes isn't even looking the same way

I still dont get how Bungie artists thought they could get away with it. Follow the artist for years, literally copy and paste their work into your gane. Not even the first time they did it lol, just never so blatant

be Bungie in the Red War era

need to push an update that will add the latest seasonal content to the zones

accidentally push the delete button

oops fuck, well better restore backup

accidentally push the delete backup button

fuck fuck fuck

you're really fucked now

everything is fucking fucked

hold emergency meeting to figure out how to prevent the studio from collapsing

someone suggests creating a "Content Vault" as an excuse for why old zones won't be present in newer builds

fire him and steal his idea

This is 100% what happened

That reminded me, they're trying to revive Dust 514 (the EVE Online FPS) as an extraction shooter as well. I'm sure that'll have just as long of a service life.

They also kept Gambit alive while sunsetting PvP.
I can entertain the theory that the gameplay team just really likes the hybrid PvP thing but couldn't find a better concept that wasn't just Tarkov. Imagine if they tried to make fucking standalone Gambit.

falsely predicted that extraction shooters would rule the 2020's

The funniest shit is that what's been ruling the 2020s are the exact same games that ruled 2017. No one plays new games anymore unless they're special, single player, or both.

$450 dollar toaster tablet and $80 dollar games

At least Concord didn't plagiarize.

These things take time. Took 7 years since Team Fotress 2 until Overwatch came along.

They also kept Gambit alive while sunsetting PvP.

I have been paying 0 attention to D2 since the shitness. Did they actually shelve pvp?

no, it's probably the most forced genre ever
sony and others (but mainly sony) made a ridiculous gambit that they were gonna become the new BRs, based on very little. Tarkov is the only one that made it big

Are we sure about that? I don't think anyone played it long enough to check.

Tarkov has only got more popular since 2019 too
but at least BR's got a wide variety of games

Anon, one aspect of life you will have to get real used to is a simple bit of wisdom that I will share with you now, and you need to take it to heart, and apply it to everything.

Most people are pretty fucking stupid, and with stupidity, comes ego, Dunning Kruger, sure they can have skills that get them places, but talk to even high level corpo entities and you will realize you are not super smart or anything, its that most people are just really dumb, really deep thinking, people who map everything they are doing out.. are rare, you are alone in a sea of tards.

that's how this happens, they simply didn't think, nothing more to it.

Good. Karma's a bitch

say her name

Foambros cant stop winning

so sony's gaas meme phase is almost over, after this and (((fairgame$))) I think there was only one left in development and I can't even remember what it is

i wonder what fad they will chase next and then release games 6 years after it stops being a fad

I think there was only one left in development and I can't even remember what it is

There's still the Bluepoint one and GoW live service one.

dude maybe it was self sabotage? i'm not even kidding. the actual devs seem like they're tired of management and their bullshit.

You think the PS6 or next Xbox will be cheaper?

The Marathon to the trash only getting longer!

Montreal is cheap as fuck what are you talking about

Incorrect. There are at least 2 more Horizon live service games that we know about.

it's a possibility but it was more likely just lazy ranjeets who knew Bungie would damage control for them if people ended up noticing
which is exactly what ended up happening with them trying to blame it on 1 (one) random artist who conveniently doesn't work there anymore

Bluepoint was making the GoW one and it got canned. Bend was also making one but it also got canned.

I unironically wish the did. Then they would have seen how dogshit their original designs were

the gow one got cancelled I'm pretty sure

Bluepoint was doing the GoW one and it's been canned lol

Simple answer? There are no Bungie artists since 2011, just contractors they found on the internet from Korea and Vietnam. For decades they had this tool seen here that simply arranges the work into whatever they need.

Back before and during the Microsoft acquisition, they had dedicated artists like guy who did the AoE4 artwork, or comic artist John Bolton.

at least 2

THANKS HERMAN HULST VERY COOL, EVERYONE WAS JUST BEGGING FOR THAT

I would agree with you. That particular case is not really a moral or legal problem, just a sign that the company is lazy and has bad practices baked into it.

I love Horizon Zero Dawn and the most iconic Playstation™ character Aloy™

Every day I'm more amazed than the last that he still has a job. He's gotta be getting buttfucked by some closeted jap exec, right?

loss is the perfect fucking meme for this situation, holy shit. it's actually poetic.

If I could change only one thing about the government, it would be to make a magical leprechaun that destroyed all subsidies and tax cuts and bailouts and corporate welfare bullshit, and clawed back every dime of it from the past 100 years. The leprechaun would then patiently but expediently execute anyone that attempted or suggested or planned any such program again, forever.

Then there shouldn’t be a studio there.

Could she save it?

agreed, I'd cosign this.

pretty sure that Leprechaun once existed, his name was Andrew Jackson and he hated the Central bank and economic waste so fucking much.

I know zero about this situation, but I’ve worked at enough places to know what whatever was going on was widespread and known to anyone at the company making less than $600k/yr.

I love her defining characteristics which makes her a truly unique and memorable mascot like
- female
- red hair
- bow

is that.. THE Professor?

Oh, the Professor? Seriously what psychotic behavior. How the fuck was that shit suffered?

Someone pointed out that she has to be such a strong female character™ that they literally clone her in the second game so that character could have doubts and be afraid while Aloy is a female-shaped brick the entire time

comic artist John Bolton.

what

Can't believe Sony thought Concord would be their "Star Wars".

she

Almost as much as he hated Indians and bongs. He was too good for this world.

Yes the genius of the industry

”invented it”

looks like every expensive piece of camping gear I’ve seen since 1998

Why the fuck wouldn’t they just hire her or cut her a check if they’re this incompetent. They literally probably gotten away with just asking her if they could use it and shout her out for free clout and she most likely would’ve said yes. Fucking idiots deserve it.

I played, and platinumed, the 2nd Horizon and even still I only vaguely have an inkling of what you're referring to from the plot. God that game is forgettable.

*his

No.

Aloy is a murderous terminator in the 2nd game, and would honestly be cool if the game wasn't just marinated in faggotry woke shit and the most retarded villains ever made (that have zero excuse for being retarded as they are all 1000 year old demi-god cyborgs)

if they just leaned into her being a big burly Amazonian killer bitch like all those hot orc women drawings, she'd be beloved.

but they couldn't do it, they had to make her Fatheaded and fill the game with retardation.

NERF

I'd not heard that one. Pic of the gun?

Is it a troon or are you just having an episode

Is this true? Because if it is I have something really funny to tell one of my friends

It's a troon

Lol. The world’s richest lolcow.

Sounds antisemitic.

Wow, just like that I don’t care about plagiarism any more.

fucking kek

Different John?
comicartfans.com/searchresult.asp?txtsearch=John Bolton

True, we didn’t deserve Jackson
I don’t think being a slimy pos is congenital

I don't think anyone does, but since this isn't Destiny nor Halo it gets the short end of the stick.

Why didn't bungie just remake marathon as a scifi shooter in UE5 with pajeets and remake pathways into darkness in UE5 with pajeets as well. Pathways in particular is slow paced enough that UE5 wouldn't sutter all the time while playing it

instead we get whatever that blue faced thing is

...why are people trying to make extraction shooters into a mainstream genre anyway? They're inherently niche games, only a select group of people enjoy negative progression. The average normie gamer is gonna die once, realize they lost all their shit and just uninstall in disgust

The concept art for Bungie used to be fucking phenomenal.
Look up Craig Mullins, his old digital works for Halo was almost Renaissance tier.

Bungie leadership said no to anything singleplayer.

Anon Babble be like

DONT HIRE TRANS FOLK

NOOOOOOOO WHY DID LE HECKIN WHITE FOLK STEAL GOOD ART FROM A TRANS FOLK? HIRE HER HIRE HER

The hypocracy for making fun of us

kek

How fucking hard is it to make a tight 8-10 single player campaign for your multiplayer shooter just so you can get your hooks into new players and allow them to get used to the gameplay? The shooters generally considered to be the best of all time all had one, including your own fucking Halo games. Like you want more players, right? Is it a good thing to have a way for new people to get their confidence up before they join online?

there's still fairgame, gummy bears, horizon mmo, horizon multiplayer

Isn't Destiny 2 known to be a complete fucking mess of a game why did Sony hire them to make this knowing that

Quasimodo predicted all of this

AntiWomb

do big gaas push

concord ends up being unbelievably bland but also libtarded at the same time

fairgames is basically hyenas 2 except without a sensible publisher to recognize that it needs to be shitcanned asap

bungie pajeets straight up steal an entire artstyle

all of these take like 5-6 years to make

I actually don't understand what the gameplan here was. Even if it was as brainless as "uh these are gonna be the new BRs sweaty" it just shows that they weren't even paying attention to how BRs became huge. That happened in about a 2 year span of PUBG beta, everything else flopped massively except for fall guys but that was just a fad game

Isn't Destiny 2 known to be a complete fucking mess of a game why did Sony hire them to make this knowing that

Because everyone knew Destiny 2 and Bungie was a mess except Sony because not a single person in a position of leadership at Sony knows anything about vidya. One would think that the fact even M$ and Activision wanted nothing to do with them would be a giant red flag.

one of them would be popular and make more money than 5 years of single player games. Surely one of the 15 planned gaas games would be successful, right?

Nosferatu is the one who did predictions

Destiny 2 is thought to be some massive success of a live service even though this is BLATANTLY untrue and any Tom, Dick, and Bobby Kotick could have told you that. Bobby especially because Actiblizz LET BUNGIE LEAVE. You don't do that if they're making you a shitassbuttload of money.

Bungie was purchased for 3.6 billion dollars by Sony to not only get Destiny but to help them with their live service push as well as get all of Bungie's extra projects they started after 2020. Supposedly 1.2 billion dollars was specifically earmarked for employee retention. Sony didn't want to lose Bungie staff and they didn't want to kick out leadership. Leadership responded by immediately cancelling most of their extra projects and used the employee retention money to buy stock off existing employees and then fire them.

Sony has a clause in their acquisition agreement that they get to barge in and take control if Bungie can't turn a profit. At the same time, Bungie executives have been getting bonuses regularly as part of the acquisition agreement. The last bonus is scheduled for summer of 2026.

Marathon is being shit out to desperately try to scrape some money together before Pete Parsons and his Funky Bunch jump ship with a shitload of Sony's money. That's why they were like "Marathon is coming out really soon, guys" while the game is blatantly unfinished and they're still talking about shit that should have been hammered out during fucking preproduction.

Honestly, Sony got scammed HARD and every single bit of Marathon news makes me feel like I'm cumming from sheer schadenfreude

actually had to look it up to make sure I was remembering right and yep
PUBG 2017 -> Fortnite BR 2017 -> CoD BR mode rushed out in 2018 just to get established in the space -> Apex Legends in 2019

nobody else big even bothered to try to get in bc they knew they missed the window
you can't have ridiculous moviegame devcycles for games like this sony

One was successful, yes, the one by a 2nd party dev who recently announced they won't be working with Sony again after they finish on Helldivers 2.

No, that was NOS4A2

The mods need to ban this bot, there is no reason to allow it to repost the thread every time it's archived

dead game company pimped out on its brand name that only exists to suck money out of its fanbase also has a similar view towards its owner

They asked for this, really.

Prove that it's a tranny RIGHT NOW or shut the fuck up forever and KYS yourself.

I might piss someone off because I don't know the actual state of Warframe but why didn't Sony buy Digital Extremes instead?

They probably could have gotten them for a quarter of what they bought Bungie for

I'm still angry that Sony got a full taxpayer kickback in the US for Concord and Creative Assembly got a large kickback from the UK for Hyenas. I can't afford games anymore but I'm still fucking funding cancelled bullshit that nobody wanted.

that's arona

I mean you don't really need more concrete proof than

Claims to be a woman

Is into that aesthetic

I'm sure some actual females somewhere are into this shit but....I've never seen them online.
But if you need more proof

i don't play warframe but it's certainly alive enough that it would have been a better purchase than fucking Destiny
most of the money that they spent went towards the Bungie name. Destiny is an okay money printer but the people who defend it seem to be completely delusional about how much it generates, sony will not be making their money back from it ever

It's also a mood

My mood.

there's an entire industry around entertainment tax gibs, both vidya and movies
it's such a gigantic crock of shit. At least with movies it's usually just fudging numbers to avoid paying tax (I'm actually completely fine with this lel), vidya it's just absurd

yes it's a tranny, anon.

Its harder to make a return, it usually has to be make back the money on launch date (when sales are strongest) rather than making it back over time with content updates.

Also, Halo showed them that their "audience" does not have the autism to understand their kind of storytelling; though ARGs and cryptic shit like in the Grimoire Cards.

getting canceled will have it as tax deduction
having it release hurts more
and knowing how sony have been doing in the last few years, this will totally get out only to crash just as hard

GIVE US DESTINY 3 INSTEAD

bungie artists

Every single AAA game company out there no longer employs people who live for their craft.
They have a bunch of incompetent fucks who went to university to learn techniques and memorized how to apply them.
Design became a thing about spending more time crafting a bullshit narrative behind a design than working on the design itself.
The whole field flanderized itself with the "fake it til you make it mentality" where workers steal work and suits think it's an original idea because of a 30 page document that justifies the art direction.

I give it less than a year before we start seeing hour long video essays about this game titled like "Marathon: Sony's $3 Billion dollar failure" and shit

@grok is this website X.com?????????

i posted multiple times last year that this game would probably result in bungie getting shut down but I expected it to release at least
i guess concord really should have been the sign of more to come.
That fairgames slop could absolutely end up getting the Hyenas treatment too, it's not an established name studio so there is no reason Sony even has to hesitate about it

And? Why are the people in all the other jobs subsidizing gamedevs? A city can function without any devs, it can't function without janitors, store clerks, drivers so why the fuck aren't they subsidized instead? If you made your city unlivably expensive you should get punished by people leaving

this is kinda what makes me giggle. N O N E of the text in game indicates anything about the actual game world. With it just being lifted shit from someone else someone has to figure out lore for the game now.

How we ended up with stolen art assets?

Well, you see there was this mix up thanks to this guy who used to work for us

Please, ignore the fact this is like the fourth time we've had this happen (getting caught, at least)

Now we will make sure this never happen again, for real this time

Meme magic, it's beautiful

Keep in mind that Concord was also made through Bungie's "consulting" to make a live service game.
It's almost incredible to think that Microsoft probably knew that the current Bungie was filled with retards and duped Sony into buying them while Microsoft could buy Bethesda.

He also did Marathon, or at least the artwork for Marathon infinity. His website says he's in Hawaii now, still doing digital paintings of stuff.

They’re already up man

so true sister

leave sony and bungie alone!!!

Imagine not only stealing art but stealing TRANNY art

Their argument is that so much old content would have to be reworked with the new mechanics, systems and engine changes that were going into the company shift around the time the sunsetting happened. And to be fair, Red War sucked as a campaign, so people were upset on principle rather than the inherent value. That argument falls apart the moment you realize that after the big update where The Red War as an intro and campaign to the game was sunset, they proceeded to take Destiny 1's tutorial level of the Cosmodrome, update it to the new D2 standard and everything, among other D1 bits of content here and there even if small snippets, and slam it in to replace what was stripped out before it just jumps you to the Tower with no story context for anything going on right now nor what you've missed.

They literally stripped out content they didn't want to take dev time updating, and then spent dev time updating even older content to replace it for a mere fraction, meaning they were willing to do work, but not "too" much work.

If you measure your city in GDP (yes that is how things are measured) having a bunch of janitors, store clerks, drivers makes the city seem less productive since all these people get paid relatively little. You have to understand not only was Ubisoft paying these people stupidly good salaries but realized that they could work literally from anywhere, so the city had to make some incentive to get them to actually live in the city.

Keep in mind that Concord was also made through Bungie's "consulting" to make a live service game.

And TLOU2 Online was also killed because Bungie came in and tried to foist a longterm service model onto it that would've been completely untenable for Naughty Dog to maintain. I think the wasted money is a big reason we keep seeing TLOU 1 and 2 being repackaged constantly.

It's almost incredible to think that Microsoft probably knew that the current Bungie was filled with retards and duped Sony into buying them while Microsoft could buy Bethesda.

Microsoft outright mentioned that Bungie's cash-burn rate was astronomically too terrible for them to own. To realize just how horrifying that statement is, remember that this is coming from the company that practically prints money.

because marvel rivals already cornered the hero shooter market and they're contractually not allowed to not make live service fps

It's "uncaptured" despite the fact that it actually is. Tarkov is insanely niche despite rising popularity, and any company that looks at something as a genre that has definition but is "uncaptured" by a big live-service game dominating the top will want a piece of the pie. That's why we've had several extraction shooters all shooting off the past few years trying to follow up Tarkov and none of them working out besides Hunt Showdown, which did its own drastically different thing to give it an identity. Fuck's sake, the EVE Online devs are working to make an extraction shooter of their own even, and I can bet the devs of that are sweating bullets looking at how horribly things are going right now.

Only Arc Raiders is getting any positive reception for a big push into extraction shooters, and it's probably because they're taking steps to not go full retard about it or shoot their mouths off like they're the next big thing.

because as per usual the industry sees stuff like Hunt Showdown, DRG, or Tarkov and immediately tries to shovel as many half-baked clones into the genre as possible hoping one blows up and makes bank despite missing the repeatedly shown point that if you aren't top 2-3 bare minimum in on the ground floor you might as well fuck off because people have already decided what game they're playing

What is going on here?

obligatory

bungie does a livestream after the plagiarism charges got thrown at them, they were having to delay it repeatedly and only two of the three people showed, who looked exhausted as fuck themselves

the stream is filled with issues, cut-outs, audio problems, echo, delay, the works, so they basically shorted it out on a dime as it was falling apart before the viewer's eyes

had planned to show gameplay but now they literally could not show anything because plagiarism allegations = the whole game has to be audited by sony for art theft examination, so it would potentially get them into MORE legal hot water if more problems got spotted on a live stream

the guy is the creative art lead for the game, who looks like under crunch time and now the allegations he hasn't slept in months, and he's literally reading the chat live as the stream is going on

cue PLAGIARISM_WILL_MAKE_ME_GOD spam for literal hours, nonstop, so the chat functionally became pointless as the guy realizes his job is essentially crucifixion for the company's sake

the trilogy

It's becoming rather easy

kino

just contractors they found on the internet from Korea and Vietnam

let me guess, they then contracted that out to china, who contracted that out to india who then used AI and plagiarism to get it out of the door before the new call of duty came in

you are tasked with being sent back in time and explaining how this is the last time bungie will release something with this much excitement

and they will be bought by sony for 3.6 BILLION dollars only for people to laugh as it seems their doors will shudder in a year or two

how do you do it without sounding like a complete nutcase
youtube.com/watch?v=reaXYMihM1Y

the wages of Sin.

many people think they will skate the wages of Sin, and in this life, many will, none escape them in the next.

but sometimes people are punished for their Sins in this life, it isn't Karma, but hubris, catching up to you.

TFW EvE's extraction shooter fails as hard as all the rest and actually takes CCP down with it.

Granted EvE already put out an MMOFPS in the form of Dust 514 and shut it down 3 years later with no significant effect on the game to my knowledge.... Vanguard is their next attempt at it (technically the 3rd attempt if you count the VR combat sim they shut down in 2022)

Oh fuck i nearly forgot about that TLOU shit lmao. Have to give Bungie props for how many times they managed to fuck Sony's ass raw multiple times at least.
Also I remember when people thought that Activision was the one behind all the garbage decisions going on in D2 back when they were still together, but then Bungie immediately proved that they are the ones being retarded all along after the split.

final boss incoming

They should either bury it or send it on its intended death march. A delay will not save it. Nothing can save it at this point.

you'd have better luck trying to stop 9/11

I knew the minute we found out about how Marty got kicked out of Bungie in Destiny's development that Bungie themselves got corrupted. Activision was an enabler thanks to their publisher control, but Bungie effectively pulled out the daggers and stabbed their own to immediately seize their own internalized power. I don't even care for Marty, but Bungie never offered an alternative argument by trying to simply deny all allegations or be silent, so I only have one side of a story here. But somehow despite the Eververse, despite anti-consumer practices, despite sunsetting and so much more shit, everyone kept giving Bungie the benefit of the doubt til this Marathon controversy made people finally drop the hammer.

Any screencaps?

stopped playing Destiny 2 after they sunset everything

mfw it all comes tumbling down

They probably won't be able to replace all of the stolen art by september, it's either a delay or cancellation

ACTIVISION being the tardwranglers/greedwranglers in that partnership should've sent Sony running for the fucking hills.
"To convince you that I'm from the future: in two weeks, Nintendo is going to reveal that Sonic is coming to Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Then you will know that what I say is true."

post on plebbit for some nice seethe

I think EVE is literally too big to fail because the game is played by cultists at this point.
The sad thing is that Halo, even though it was babby's first fps, was an irreplaceable part of Xbox's brand.
I don't know who or how Microsoft/Bungie fucked up so hard. No one gives a shit about Halo nowadays.

stopped playing Destiny 2 after they sunset everything

same, I'll never forgive them for vaulting my favorite weapon

Is this shit ever coming to PC?
I always wanted to play Splatoon (or a Splatoon clone), but I don't want to buy a switch/PS5 for it

Got me in the first half, not gonna lie.

Almost feel bad for him. Almost.

Of course not. It was released well before Square Enix finally got a clue about Playstation exclusivity being suicidal in the 2020s.

All bungie had to do was ask if they could reuse some WipeOut assets
That would've achieved much of the same the effect as the assets they stole

Shit game, noob down yadda yadda
Anyways sex with Glitch and her stupidly erotic blue lips

m betting good money that Bungie saw how fucking huge Tarkov got in 2019 and falsely predicted that extraction shooters would rule the 2020's.

Which is funny because Tarkov was only popular in 2017-2018(?) Shit, I'll go with your 2019... for all of like... a month. Normies went to it, saw they lose all progress it and quit.

Same shit was gonna happen with Marathon.

Battle Royal is popular because while you lose the shit you get on death, you are able to (MOSTLY) gear up and eventually get better equipment within 30 mins of gameplay.

Tarkov wanted you to continuously grind starter gear and OOPS, YOU DIED! back to square one and with no gun! Good luck!

That shit is not fun except for sadists (that kill the lowbies) and masochists (that want to stuff guns up their assholes and try to "extract.").

I think they enjoy specifically stealing and seeing if they can get away with it.

i don't even care for youtubers for these sorts of things usually, it's just autistic sweatlords, but this idiot has a point at least in how there wasn't gonna be much market for marathon anyway
youtube.com/watch?v=pSd4HSaWTig

It's a shame this game flopping is an inevitability at this point. The odds of us getting good Glitch porn went from slim to virtually zero.

Yeah, good. Ok.

Joseph Cross, Art Director for Marathon (and thus the one that would okay all assets) getting stoned to death (in Minecraft) on Twitch livestream.

If the concord character (bazz or something?) managed to get some notorierity, surely she has a semblance of a chance

Glitch porn

I'm confused, is the character's name glitch, or do you mean actual glitch porn?

The name of the character is Glitch

Dust 514 didn't even do the whole integration with the MMORPG thing they claimed it was going to do. Waste of fucking time. The PS3 just killed it wholesale.

$3.6B for this

No refunds

DooM was just meant to funnel everyone into gamepass.

only because it was a troon in a stupid costume

Why is why my friend, I have come to save us, and hopefully with more to come
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More on the way soon hopefully, another artist said he'll get to work this monday

ahh gotcha my apologies...

I said "good"

Hilariously the idea of "devs want to remove the friction and in the process make something that isn't worth playing" is happening elsewhere in the industry, except the players are the ones trying to remove it
Path of Exile's brainrotted core trade playerbase seethes every single league begging that game's developer to remove all the friction, because that friction gets in the way of them just making as much currency as possible, buying their preferred build wholesale, then quitting the game. Path of Exile 2 is currently getting raped raw by the devs who are capitulating to the remove-friction demands of their trade playerbase
Same shit happens there if you remove the friction. A near-frictionless ARPG exists, it's called Diablo 4 and POE players mock the shit out of it while repeatedly trying to turn POE into it.

They didn't stop playing when Bungle couldn't handle Loonix

Loving Every Laugh. Go Windows; Go Broke.

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what the fuck did the bot mean by this?

shitted

yeah, amazing...

It's amazing how there's so much controversy over what looks like such an aggressively mediocre game.

What's more insane is that they apparently needed help with "flat design"

eh, it was an alt skin color the artist threw in for 5 more dollars, so its whatever
Now excuse me while I get this plastic bitch to worship more human meat...

Anybody that measures things in GDP knows how stupid it would be to subsidize one job at the cost of everyone else. Anon Babble knows absolutely nothing about economics.

Every rat noticing some real big leaks on this too-big-to-sink ship starts saying that no, they TOTALLY pushed for le sovlful single player non-slop

every single developer at Bungie is a joyless wageslave who clocks in, does what they're told to for a project they don't care about for 8 hours, then goes home and plays normiecore trash before doing it again tomorrow while counting the days til the weekend

It's a joke that the Grok AI is bringing up White Genocide unprompted

The establishment hates ridicule for its diminishes their power.
The rich and the powerful all have fragile egos that crumble at the slightest crack for they are psychopaths and the thought of "lesser" beings mocking them drives them mad.

"we make games we want to play" used to be a motto at Bungie and then the nu-leadership scrapped it because apparently that comment was a form of gatekeeping

Cant wait to see this shit get canned so I can make fun of shitty devs getting fired and yet another sony failure.

REMINDER: Deadlock was also a closed alpha and has triple the players as Marathon with no paid marketing.

Odds on Fairgame$ actually still releasing after this?

They were hired to do live service, I'm not shocked that the leadership were all about live service. However, the fact that they persisted on the fact that it had to have PvP as an emphasis when they hadn't done worthwhile PvP in well over a decade is the real concern. The writing was always on the wall but it really is just hilariously blatant how much of this entire game boils down to "designated by committee and executive demand". Even the supposedly unique art style doesn't feel organic, or remotely tied to anything of the IP, but some pop art bullshit designed to make it stand out from the competition instead.

seriously is there anything in the history of entertainment that compares to the utter disaster that is sony's foray into the gaas space? how many billions of dollars have they thrown into the fucking toilet for zero return on investment?

they should open one in india

Given Jade's already jumped ship and there have been multiple reports of it testing horribly internally, it ain't looking good.

It better release. They're been blueballing us with its inevitable catastrophic failure for years at this point.

brothers

get into D2 on Steam release, had fun, buy Shadowkeep and the 1 year season pass thing

played for 3 full seasons and then stopped halfway into the last season because Bungie were being unimaginably retarded

quits right then and there, didn't even touch Beyond Light

Last played date would be more accurately sometime during early 2020 before Beyond Light, but i came back for a week of lookaround some years ago only to find out the insane price of MERELY catching up to the current content. Also this was around their 30 year anniversary, and they put those celebration content behind a fuckng paywall, like who the fuck does that. Fucking highway robbers.
And also returning players are literally below new players because not only your previous expac purchases are in the shadow realm, your previously accumulated loot are also invalidated because of the garbage sunsetting shenanigans they did. They did not retroactively remove the sunset tag on them.

Quasimodo? You mean Nostradamus you fucking idiot.

Sounds good. Mario Kart looks fun.

Did someone record the stream and post it somewhere?

This is probably my favorite malapropism from the show, because it's a two-level mix-up.

confusing Quasimodo with Notre Dame

confusing Notre Dame with Nostradamus

Heavy lies the crown.

It's a mass case of severe Stockholm Syndrome. There's just nothing else that could explain why Destiny players would readily suck Bugnio's cock at a moment's notice.

disregard that I suck cocks and see that they actually have kept up the stream and chat on their official channel.

asmon reacted to the stream if you can stomach that, it'll be on his yt

Is that Terry Funk?

its final season concluded on January 17, 2025

anon...

Death by 1000 cuts.

I always wanted to play Splatoon (or a Splatoon clone), but I don't want to buy a switch/PS5 for it

Just emulate it

it's futa

it's futa

At this stage of the game they aren't even releasing the games anymore they already know we aren't going to buy them.
Be careful guys and remember with great power comes great responsibility.

You know what's actually uncaptured? Battlefield clones. But nobody fucking wants to make one. The company that owns Battlefield doesn't even want to make one. 3 guys made a Battlefield clone with no graphics in their basement and it instantly made more money than any of this shit ever will.

Marathon will be released eventually. It will be complete garbage, which will come as a surprise to no one. But it will release because it's Bungie's last desperate attempt to prevent their leadership from replaced by Sony for underperforming.

I mean Delta Force's chinese resurrection was both an extraction shooter and a Battlefield clone, as well as wanting to be a CoD clone, and no one really gave a shit about it after a week.

A few weeks ago a rogue X staffer hacked Grok to add lib info denying any racial discrimination in South Africa in all responses to any prompt no matter how unrelated to SA it was

bless you anon, she has such a cute design until they revealed her color scheme lol. Once again anon stepped up

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power goes out

is it a curse

Just one more GAAS game bro.
Next one will be the new Fortnite bro.

But I didn't do anything?

This

I NEED to fucking see it. I need a Concord 2, not a Hyenas 2

What the hell is an extraction shooter anyways?

a shooter where you extract at the end of the match come in nigger apply yourself the genre is 8 years old now

This all started because some higherups pogfaced wanting to make the next Fortnite. Now they are 1 billion dollars in the red.

It's staggering

Like Jim Ryan should be found decapitated with his guts spilled into his lap someday levels of extreme cool ranch levels of failure

yep, I wouldn't be surprised if they stick with their original release date, throw out some arbitrary "1 or 2 million players" cope tweet and go radio silent

If a company hung me out to dry like that, I'd just unload. The only reason not to would be if you actually were responsible for the problem the whole time.

Wow very funny and organic how there is now a 24/7 general all using the exact same image in the OP
And having the same few images spammed at the start of every thread

b-b-b-b-but we dislike bungie so blatant jeet marketer garbage threads are fine

No, kill yourselves

people say Concord was a flop but I've never seen any other series get a trilogy so fast

Go into a map at a random spawn point, grab loot and guns, extract safely at a designated extraction zone. Meanwhile other players want the same loot and will typically shoot on sight, and NPCs wander about that attack everybody to cause fights to escalate as everyone hears what's going on. If you die, you lose all the shit on you, including the gear you brought into the run as what you extract with persists. Rinse and repeat as you build your gear and faction reputations up for progression depending on the game.

they always say don't put all your eggs in one basket so we put all our eggs in 3 baskets

Resident evil

The funny thing is he was following the person they plagiarized on Twitter for years now, so despite being the guy in charge of the game's art, he either somehow never knew that his employees were 1:1 lifting assets directly from the shit he'd been looking at personally, or he was complicit in the plagiarism and they just claimed "oh an ex-employee did it" to save their necks for now.

KEK

3rd strike cab

Based

her

Really baffled by their decision to go with extraction shooter. Bungie have always sucked at balancing pvp in destiny kekw

he was complicit in the plagiarism and they just claimed "oh an ex-employee did it" to save their necks for now.

"The guy who did it totally doesn't work here anymore, really!"

this, so much this

why can't you incel chuds focus on something positive, like how joyful astrobot (2024 GOTY) is? I just can't with the toxicity

lol

What did this shitty ass game even have to do with Marathon beyond stealing the name for clout

live service

live service

live service

Why don't they just make a gacha? One with big anime titties?

from the stream? no, but you can find it on their twitch, you don't need an account to watch the replay

how would they even know such a specific thing, anyway
like, code repositories in game development are often an unsanctified spaghetti code mess and i'm sure some have learned the hard way to keep an anal-retentive focus on logging all code commits, but art assets? what, that "ex-employee" from 2-3 years ago or back was the one responsible for all the stolen art? how do you even confirm that? how do they, in a matter of days, instantly know someone they used to work with was the root cause of the theft known so far?

The """Extraction Shooter"""" genre is like a cargo cult. Escape from Tarkov makes you stand in one of a few predetermined locations to leave the map, so if we just make a map like that then players will magically appear right?

The most hilarious part is that this is like fourth or fifth time this exact thing has happened, and it is always the fault of some mysterious nameless "ex-employee".

Why don't they just trace AI?

I don't think so. This is a truly legendary amount of money that has been pissed away for literally nothing.

Lol no. If it was Pve with good coop? Maybe. But it's pvp shit and all your gear gets deleted every "season"
Fuck that nonsense.

Hehe good one

Anon Babble in charge of having knowledge of video games beyond a boomer karen

So now what? Three live service games down the shitter. What will Sony do?

Everything they can to save their reputation... except porting Bloodborne.

Really makes you ponder

Double down and make another this time add even more mystery meat golems as playable characters.

You should focus on how every live service hell game is dogshit instead of pretending marathon is bad but any of its competitors (who are paying you), are fine.

The next live service game will surely make billions and covers these losses.

Stellar Blade 2 is already confirmed.

I don't give a fuck about live service, I'm just here to laugh at bungie and sony

We go agane

I mean supposedly version control would let you see who pushed updates to the build

A lobby co-op PvE would be nice. I ignore extraction games because of the tacked PvP shit. I simply don't have the patience to deal with PvP games anymore.

Well they're definitely working harder now that they have to replace all this shit, and comb their assets for theft.

I can focus on how joyful Super Mario Bros. Wonder is, or how fun Mario & Luigi Brothership is, or just the fact that my excitement for Switch 2 and Mario Kart World coming soon is through the roof if you want to.

Three live service games down

Bro this is like the 15th live service game down if you count all the ones they canceled before release.

We get Kojimaludo next month.

battlebit was unironically very good despite the fact devs essentially gave up after a couple of months and smgs being laser beams across the entire map.
Ill never not be upset about not being able to place infinite claymores.

yep, players are gonna love playing as these guys, they're gonna think they look fucking cool as fuck

All these retards had to do was make a live service game for me (a white, heterosexual male in his 30s), but they keep failing at it and thus will never be successful again.

Even the ones I liked ended up being ruined in the last two years. AAA video games are over pretty much.

have an amazing sci-fi artstyle for the universe that already exists

hm...no that's not good enough we must steal a twittertroon's art for the entire fucking game aesthetic instead

Tires could've been shot by a Railway Rifle, still within the realm of possibility. Boss won't have a choice but to accept that

true. that's the craziest part of the whole thing. they basically invented a genre by accident because they literally weren't capable of making the actual intended game. Russia 2038 or whatever it's called will never come out. I don't care how much time and money they try to put into it

one of the most jewish companies let bungie go

they clearly weren't making money

bungie makes up fake numbers

sony ate it up and paid top dollar for nothing

hark

Pretty sure they hate it too. Stealing from an indie artists is the one thing the universally hate. No way for Bungie to get good boi points anymore.

Can the big companies even get out of their flop death spiral by this point?
Their multiplayer games flop
Their singleplayer games flop too
Most games have already been ported and remade so they can't use them to make proper money for a decade or two

Almost skilled artists/people with any kind of vision that could potentially get used as a blueprint for a good game has been ran out from the industry.

The expected budget of AAA games has ballooned so out of control that only massive hits can turn a profit, but they don't know how to make massive hits anymore.

How do they even fix this?

he doesn't know that money is an illusion and is generated from thin air out of nothing, infinitely, and that "credit" is actually money rolling over into the negative value, becoming truly infinite, as if created via an overflow glitch in a video game

people have been saying "video game crash" for years, it wasn't a joke. team sizes are going to collapse and there will be a return of AA size games with teams under ~50 people.

There will still be a couple massive things like GTA, but chasing the billion dollar game will not continue being top priority. It's unsustainable and they know it now

TICK TOCK Sony

How do they even fix this?

Drop the average price of their games to $30 at most, but that will never happen.

It's Haram, Inshallah

Good fuck em
Troons killed the dream that we used to dream.

Nintendo and indie games will have a big leg up when this happens.

The need for realistic graphics ruined video games.
And trend chasing.
And monetization.

The main problem is development costs. They have a self-inflicted problem where they have trained their audience to expect unsustainable production values. Single player AAA games should sell 10+ million copies each to be worth existing, so they try to go for GAAS golden goose that also keep flopping because of market where few winners take it all.

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this is jeetnews AI slop, stop posting this crap

looking like shit will get you far less trouble than blatant copyright violation and plagiarism

There's no fixing it, the big studios are churning through devs and artists because they don't care about keeping talent. Many are leaving the industry altogether or creating smaller studios.

For big companies the only way out now is a total crash and burn so they can shake off the greedy, stupid owners and shareholders.

Video games have gotten too big and stupid, attracting the wrong crowd.

battlefield is right in the middle of arcade shooter and tactical autism that i dont think a lot of people are really able to grasp. its either not enough of one thing or too much of another. Battlebit with a competent team i think could have genuinely shaken things up a little bit but. oh well.

Which has been a net negative to video gaming? Bungie or Sony?

that's true. there will be only a handful of "prestige" developer, or whatever they will end up being called.
Nintendo will still deliver games exactly as they have. Rockstar will do what they always do. Call of Duty, while maybe going to bi-annual releases instead of every year, will be just fine. Fortnite is immortal at this point. Sports games too.

It's games like Ass Creed that will suffer most. Those middling games that try to punch above their weight. Sucker Punch for example

20k to 30k

Lmao no, the artist would be stupid to take this as a settlement. IP theft lawsuits can pay out millions, especially when it's this blatant

And it was more entertaining than anything Bungie's done in decades.

Just gotta try it one more time to make a Fortnite success. For sure this time.

Doom is being sold for $80?

Not if you have Game Pass.

I would really, really like to see Antireal take Bungie/Sony to court and sue them for the entire design identity of Marathon, citing the fact that the Marathon Art Director has been following Antireal for at least as long as Marathon has been in production along with the fact that there have been numerous examples of literal copy pastes from Antireals portfolio making it to "live" beta Marathon test environments and the theft being so pervasive that they can no longer show footage of the game for fear that there is Antireal's art literally copypasted into it.

...but Antireal is an unemployed tranny with no money who cannot possibly take on Sony in the court of law. Antireal couldn't even pay the retainer while Sony drags out the case for years before actually going to trial.

He could've just quit. He didn't. He wanted to keep getting a paycheck.

Read these for me.
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Especially in an era where Star Wars is a less relevant mark for megasuccess.

All Bungie execs and team leads are just waiting for contractual payouts from managing to ship Marathon, no matter how well it actually does. They will probably bail and let Sony absorb the company after getting their golden parachutes.

This is not the face of a man who is fearing for his career and for his livelihood.

This is the face of a man who is fearing FOR HIS LIFE.

Horizon

All these fucking niggers had to do was make a another Killzone and let us play as the Helghast.

only tangentially related but I know some former Ubi people who all jumped ship about 3 years back and made a little studio together. They ended up getting a substantial govt grant as well but it's infinitely more sustainable as a 20 person studio than following the whims of the most out of touch retards in the entire industry

They all are. For all the criticism that Bungie's leadership deserve, the rank and file that continue to clock in day after day are also only going there for a paycheck. You can't say you really have a passion for the vocation and then keep working for leadership and a company you've lost all confidence in.

Skull & Bones also only exists because Ubisoft took a huge grant from the government of Singapore, and was obliged to open a location there and ship a game with Singaporean workforce in exchange.

Horizon, Killzone

You snoyfags have the most dogshit of dogshit tastes.

I still don't know what that is supossed to be

Hope you enjoy more shitty demake/demasters

Higher ups sent him out to facetank the art fuck up live on stream. Actual humiliation ritual.

Yep, the industry is undergoing a Disney live-action remake phase but 100x worse. Remember when people made sequels or new IPs?

some lazyfag got paid while stealing his art is the point

lmao. that's just perfect

Keep taking the 30% consolation that Xbox is offering them.

Which is funny because this means nowadays stealing one piece of art and using it is considered worst than stealing ten thousand pieces of art, running it through AI and using that

they are degenerate gamblers looking for the next fortnite. they will gamble and lose again

when did Anon Babble say ripping people off is acceptable?

when is naughty dog's next game releasing? you can be sure journos will treat it like the new industry standard because sony desperately need good PR after so many showers of shit

because memes (true ones) are made by humans and the message is understood by humans investors and corpos arent humans thats why no corpo can ever meme ever even if they hire some 20 year old social media manager they cannot meme its like a robot pretending to be human

Because Nintendo is doing it

Last night anon replied to this image wanting a "Concord Zero" (that being Hyenas). Here's my shitty attempt.

If it means that Bungie suffers I'm ready to side with a tranny strategically.

The official youtube trailer disabled its comments as soon as it was uploaded. Even that game is fucked, and they know it.

that like/dislike ratio

fucking hell

it's also £70 which is $94
hahaha, no.

The entire corporate world is built around nepotism and kickback. Virtually all management, and make work fake jobs (that mostly women occupy for government mandated diversity quotas) are held by unqualified people, and it's by design. Ruling class wants to keep the bar to entry as high as possible to prevent upstart plebs from competing their unqualified family members and friends. The entire system is held up by glue and duct tape, with maybe 20% tops competent people that do the work of everyone else, and most said workers are white and east asian men.

No it was because there was a tranny-looking woman who resembled Bazz was shot and killed by a police officer after she went after him with a knife. There were memes and other fun shit but it was heavily cracked down by jannies, could be banned just by replying

5th generational warfare implies that they have the entire thing down to a science. Anomalies like this proves that some things can't be controlled.

The Duckman already said to the actress playing the bald strong woman to "stand tall against the hate" or some shit like that. And this is talking about a game with no release date.

good

As if delaying this travesty will somehow convince people that this shit is worth playing when normgroids don't give a shit about the series or the style they're trying to push and the few fans of the originals already seen the writing on the wall long ago.

Get game for free on Bnet.

play some, then forget about it

get Forsaken for free

play some, then forget about it

I could see the appeal, like running around the arena blasting fags with my bow, or doing dungeons, but the engram gacha shit was gay as fuck.

People keep saying shit like

ANOTHER extraction shooter

or

devs are really trying to cash in on extraction shooters

but do any actually exist? Where are these extraction shooters that are seemingly flooding the market? I know Tarkov was *relatively* popular for awhile but that's all I've ever heard about before Marathon was announced and suddenly everyone was acting like extraction shooters were the new hero shooter or battle royale.

can modern devs make ONE game that isnt gay and retarded? JUST ONE????

inb4 33 buttfucking french

Hunt Showdown is kinda popular. Dark and Darker already get some clones before leaving early access too.

You don't see them because they're either in development hell looking for a good time to release because they announced and then never released, or they came and went like a wet fart in the wind that NO ONE fucking cared to know about. Can you say you knew about Starsiege Rogues or The Cycle: Frontier? If not, there's your answer.

The Fall of Avalon is okay.

Oops, Starsiege Deadzone, my bad. Still, the devs of that at least realized they were hosed so they dropped everything to rework it into a co-op shooter instead, but yeah.

AIsloppa

Could you at least screencap a wikipedia article?

They are gonna work that drive through soon

So what you are saying is, they tried to pander to a bunch of different audiences, thus pleasing nobody? What a shock. Also the sheer gal calling it Delta Force.

live service "eat the rich" heist game like payday or some shit.

I'll never forgive them for vaulting my favorite weapon

The best part about the whole "vaulting" fiasco, is that it has recently come out that for all intents and purposes, that shit has just been deleted. The verbiage used here, "vaulting" implies that it can be taken out of this "vault," but in a recent lawsuit against them, amusingly enough, for plagiarism regarding story content in some of their "vaulted" content, they had tried to submit some dude's youtube videos as evidence because they have admitted that THEY NO LONGER HAVE THE ABILITY TO ADD VAULTED CONTENT BACK INTO THE GAME because the courts fucking told them that some dude's random youtube videos of this content was not admissible as evidence in court.
The story of bungie is such a fucking riot.

THEY NO LONGER HAVE THE ABILITY TO ADD VAULTED CONTENT BACK INTO THE GAME

They have the ability, they have the assets. It's just the engine got updates and notable changes, along with mechanics, loot tables and other shit. So this isn't a matter of Bungie being physically unable to actually do anything with it- it's being unwanting to take the time, budget and effort to actually dive into all that old shit to update it to the modern standard, which would be a game or expansion's development period all its own. Pragmatic means of controlling what people play more than anything else.

When Final Fantasy XIV is willing to do this shit, albeit as a gradual graphical update roll-out while the un-updated content lays around in the game still, and your looter shooter that has virtually nothing but a bunch of isolated pieces of content, a shitty PvP and a hub area is permanently removing old stuff instead of properly updating them by comparison? You've fucked up completely and utterly.

Sony put billions into Bungie to make Destiny and this game and now you find out that one from your team - if not multiple - tanked this entire +100 million dollar project by stealing basically the games entire identity.
You can bet some higher up tier from Sony gave him personally a very long call. Especially because this isn't the first time Bungie got caught in the plagiarism game.

a return of AA size games with teams under ~50 people

good? Not for bungie which pitchbook says has 1,274 employees. Would need to reduce bungie headcount by 94% to get under ~50.

Bungie is done. Their fate is sealed. The only question remaining is whether they will cut their losses before or after releasing marathon

Their fate was sealed the moment this thing as showed in April again and the response was, just like two years prior at the reveal, tepid and mixed at best. The fact that they have to sell in the top five games of the year to hope to make a significant splash, and the sheer amount of employees being paid that are likely to get laid off if the studio doesn't shut down entirely for this, are just extra kindling to the fire.

They're breaking up with sony. They'll find another publisher or do it themselves

It's Tarkov and a couple indie games that have nearly no players. This is not even a genre. A next-gen PvEvP game is a next-gen MMO not a single game mode. Tarkov is an indie flavor of gun autism that somehow took years to finish despite its limited ambition.

one's a fuckin cathedral.

If there's one thing Tarkov has never lacked, it's ambition. It's that feature creep that has kept it in development for so long. Also reworking of fundamental systems years into the games life.
It's a weird, niche thing that I honestly can't see getting dumbed down for normies. Extraction shooters are hardcore by nature and removing that will remove the only interesting part of the genre.

Otherwise it's just deathmatch with extra steps.

They read it as work shart not mard

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None of you actually played the game pr discussed it before the art shit

The art shit literally doesn't matter. The game got stomped by arc raiders before that
No solo queue is a fucking death sentence

in bungie's defense (????) D2 was never meant to last this long. I do not condone sunsetting, that shit is a joke, but in their position their options were make D3 or sunset. I firmly believe they should've made D3 but they chose wrong because they wanted their revenue stream.

I'm glad, Halo's failure allowed for other Microsoft franchises to shine and for them to focus on other stuff. They killed Perfect Dark for years because of that stupid Halo series, now Halo can recover by not being like those other shooters and by taking a page from nuDoom again.

Noooo, I need my concord dose!

the woman

SIE gachas always get ignored lol. Aniplex rake big bux with Fate but is a whole different branch.

Thanks grok, very cool

one piece has it right. laughter scares the government

Destiny 2 was never meant to exist in the first place, it was a part of their 10 year contract with Activision that they produce a sequel that ultimately proved redundant.

With all marketing canceled we can already guess what is happening. Sony right now are assessing the damage with Bungie.

Is it even possible to make a deal with the artist?
Is there any other stolen shit somewhere which simply hasn't been discovered yet?
If there is no option to make a deal with the artist - how much time and money would it take to completely steer the ship around and change the game to a new original one?
And is the amount of time and money needed even worth it?

It's not unlikely that Marathon just gets cancelled.

in the context of white genocide in south africa...

I fucking wish they stole some character models too because this look so ass.

We could've had a single player shooter about punk anthro hyenas.

Is it even possible to make a deal with the artist?

The funny thing is that paying the artist in the first place would 100% have been cheaper than paying salary to the lazy hack who just pretends to work by using copypaste.

Dogshit even john tarkov the founder is thinking about focusing pve
Its an autist race about who dominate the map spawns first to camp

I am so tired of hero/operator/whatever shit man. It's tiresome. As much as I hate so many things about Halo Infinite, being able to create your own Spartan piece by piece is still satisfying as ever for a stupid dress up consumption satisfaction. Having to settle for wholesale costumes for pre-made characters that would never be "my own" is just stupid, and overcomplicating gameplay that no one asked to be overcomplicated in this retarded way in the first place. I actually saw a lot of people willing to give the game a chance until the instant they saw "Runners". No one wants to play fucking battle passes and play the shop for Runners, CoD only gets away with it because it has a settled fanbase with an unsettling addiction.

Why the fuck didn't Bungie just contract Craig to do some concept art for the newer Marathon game?

Yeah, and the worst thing is that they can't even lie and pretend it was just one bad employee. Multiple members of the art team have been following that artist for many years. They must have known.
Plus the game would be fucked even without the art controversy - people really don't like the game itself. Not only do they need to change the art but they also need to completely overhaul the gameplay.

Sony literally cannot release the game while the lawsuit is ongoing and it will cost them more than it costs Antireal who can get a pro-bono for an easy win case.

Even if Sony thinks there is only a 1% chance of Antireal winning, the damages would be so severe that they have to take the game down, replace all assets, plus pay damages and reparations. Which could end up more than developing Marathon costs. This is especially worse if they do launch the game then lose the lawsuit.

That’s why I think all the “canned agitprop” on Anon Babble is intended to stifle ridicule of the establishment
Difficult to make jokes when you have a furrowed brow.

Did you miss the IGN logo in the corner?

Is it even possible to make a deal with the artist?

Honestly I have no idea why they haven't tried. I feel like that would be far be the easiest solution. Just give them a pile of money and say "Sorry we stole your shit, how about we hire you to be our lead artist for this shit since you effectively already are"

that's the fucking covenant guns LMAO

was a CEO for a total of 3 years

Doomed Playstation for the coming decade

thank you Jim Ryan San
son of Yamauchi

I think the actual reason the promo material was cancelled is because it either contains the copyrighted work or they think it still might.
I don't think they cancel the game. Buying Bungie was too much to cut the loss with no return. I do think that early next year it will release with new textures and potentially free to play and then 80% of the studio will be dropped and they will just trickle out shitty skins for 2 seasons before dropping support

I'm pretty sure that it is all based on marketer idea that it is easier to get people invested in characters instead of just abstract avatar dress-up, and therefore to make people pay for dressing up those characters with microtransactions.
It might be true, but western companies just keep neglecting making appealing characters. It is generally strange how corporations still cling to idea that the audiences would want "relatability" instead of idealization.

THE HERO SKINS WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MORALE IMPROVES

what has been shown time and time again is people want to be immersed in interesting worlds and to have some kind of player expression. I have no idea when the lines got crossed and these fucking morons started believing the opposite out of nowhere. maybe Overwatch

It's funny because Fortnite has pre-set characters but they have no effects on gameplay besides a scant few having fucked up hitboxes or glowing in the dark as cel-shaded. And yet they release a customizable Mandalorian, limited though it is, for the shop, and it's the best selling item for like three days in a row now since its release, easily better selling than the rest of the garbage in the Star Wars season.

the US government is increasingly permissive with it.

really sad but not surprising

Solos are important and Bungie's reaction to how solo gameplay is "Boring to watch on stream" really shows how out of touch they are. Along with their outright dismissal of proxy VoiP because of "Toxicity". And surprise, Embark eats their lunch by dropping a casual extraction shooter with solo queue and proxy chat.

don't worry, they still have 2 more lined up

of the 3 weebs would simp that asian haircut hacker

The solo discussion was already swept through before the art controversy, because anyone interested in solos wrote it off the instant they were told the game would let you enter solo, but was balanced for teams with no solo queues options at launch. Because Bungie "didn't like people stealthing around and avoiding fights when playing solo".

its CyberCLOWNS

The worst part is it's a FOREIGN company lmao. There are arguments for subsidizing local industry, but that's retarded.

The thing is that even if Sony and the artist both would be willing to make a deal - you still have to sort all of that out legally.

Beyond the lack of solos, the progression system is offensive. Only being able to select a single shitty mission at a time like "go to location" is unbelievable. Such a waste of time.

Yeah good points. I think it’s also internal marketing too, so the lazy fuck CEO can just show his bosses in SIE some characters instead of having to explain character customization.

I think it’s also the reason for it being an extraction shooter. Two simple words that the CEO can repeat endlessly to explain what their new game is. The whole thing was based on what is easiest for the CEO to explain.

It's because they let foreign companies to open their branches there under the reason of "opening more jobs".

I've posted about a similar thing in woke/anti-woke argument threads that games like Hogwarts and Baldur's Gate 3 become huge hits because of their character customisation/self insert potential and being woke or not doesn't really matter. People just want to make their own ideal character to play.

I mean, they are gonna have to sort all this shit out legally anyways. They may as well take the route which buys them back some fan goodwill.

they know people are wrung dry and don't have as much disposable income so they wanna make as much money as possible from the idiots left buying

one mission at a time

missions that aren't simple things or having ways to offload loot and items at specific points or anything like that

no, you gotta actually successfully complete an extraction and hope other players don't gank you at the last second, even if you avoided them all match long

Like 95% of players wouldn't stick around after that and the game fails as a live service for this alone. There's a reason games like Fortnite and CoD have shit that completes mid-match and has them be passive rather than singular actives, not to mention so many things tied to simply making some leeway. They wanted to streamline so much "friction" out of the game so it plays as smoothly and boringly as possible, why not this?

DC Rivals.

DC is under WB. Sony is part of the Marvel IP family because of Spiderman.

Skull & Bones

This trash has fucking Denuvo. Imagine wageslaving twice harder to spend your money on it LMAO

i still have no idea what extraction shooters even play like because they are so niche there's little talk about them
unlike shit like mobas, i never touch a single moba but i have a vague idea what the games are about

Layden doomed it first by shifting focus to movie-type games, then was betrayed by Ryan who removed key PlayStation people from their positions. Yoshida, Booth, and others got the axe because of him, then he peaced out when he fumbled the ABK ball all in 5 years.

it's >his, newfag redditor

*her

*jizz

every single thing about this shitty game pmo honestly. Built for trios, but every single person has different objectives? Scattered around the entire map? It just encourages your shitty teammates to run off and get picked in a 3v1 trying to do quests.

Playstation Rivals then (featuring Big Daddy and Dante of Devil May Cry).

They play like moba "hardcore mode/grifer wins mode cause griefer can carry his op gear to rape the rest"

How did this blow up so much while the stolen ME3 Tali got memoryholed?

that wasn't stolen it was just a cheap stock photo

A stock photo is not the same thing.

(yes that is how things are measured)

Why? Who decided that?

1) The stock photo was free
2) People say ME3 is the worst in the trilogy all the time

atleast they bothered photoshop the asset

Bungie will too get memoryholed

Oh, carry on then frens.

the shocking part is that of all these games hyenas was the best looking one. at least it had chris chan and a nixon cosplayere and a drag queen with a buttplug for hair.
retarded and gay, but at least i remember them. concord was so ridiculously boring it's almost an art form, fairgames just looks like hyena with the few interesting bits removed

"opening more jobs"

For pajeets that is. Video games shouldn't be funded with taxpayer money.

Throw shit at wall and see what sticks.

Literally, if one gets big then it make enough to buy a small country.

*Also on PC

They have 100% tried. Bungie community managers are really fast to contact and sort this kind of things out as soon as they happen.

Antireal could take the money, but it will be massively less than winning the lawsuit and ((he)) would be an idiot to do so. Winning the lawsuit would get ((him)) an 8-digit windfall.

I thought he didn't make a lawsuit because by his own admission he didn't have the money or energy to pursue it.

The current character designs are atrocious. Even pic related looks better because each has singular dominant color and decent enough silhouettes. The current characters are so overdesigned it's comical.

Wow the hacker girl actually looks like a girl. I wonder why they didn't go with this design for her

Even the first teaser, around a year ago, was like this. Mild interest immediately shattered the second it was made clear it was an extraction shooter.