Concord was such an interesting failure. It wasn’t completely broken at launch and the few fans it attracted were initially sold on its Overwatch-esque hero shooter mechanics, but that brief interest couldn’t stop it from being dead on arrival. It was a disastrous failure that 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:shut down mere days after launch and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:caused Sony to 𝔉close the studio that made it.
Marathon is Sony’s next first-party premium multiplayer offering that, I assume, the company hopes doesn’t die a quick, painful death or 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:i💃s the sub✨ject of widespread morbid fascination. Despiteౠ not being very sim✅ilar to Concord, many have already written Marathon off and are expecting it to fail in the exact same way.
While I understand the hesitation that many are feeling about Sony launching another paid multiplayer game to compete against the sea of estꦺablished free-to-play titles, Marathon has a major leg up on Concord that gives it a much better chance at life. Why? Marathon is being ♒made by Bungie.
Where Did Concord Go Wrong?
Not to speak ill of the dead, but who was Firewalk Studios𝓀? It wasn’t an established developer. Firewalk boasted that it was composed of former Bungie and Activision developers, 🉐which certainly gave it some pedigree, but other than the fact that Sony was interested in the studio enough to purchase it, there wasn’t much momentum keeping Firewalk in the public eye.
If Concord had been a success, it would have likely put Firewalk on the map, but in the lead up to launch, players and press alike were skeptical about nearly everything it had to offer. There wasn’t much setting it apart from the rest of the mul💙tiplayer lan🤡dscape, and if not for the fact that it was a first-party PlayStation game, it likely wouldn’t have garnered much attention in th⭕e first place.
Now that we’ve gotten a proper look at Marathon, people are saying that it suffers from a lot of the same problems as Concord. That the shooting looks uninspired, the PvPvE extraction systems 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:seem very close to games liℱke🍷 Escape From Tarkov and other long-time established titles with huge fanbases, and that it seems to be a misstep on Sony’s part for charging money for the game when many of the mꦓost successful multiplayer shooters are completely free.
Bungie is Bungie
One thing I haཧven’t seen much discussion about, however, is that Marathon isn’t being developed by an untested studio. It’s being maꦓde by Bungie.
Bungie is one of the most successful studios of all time. In the early 2000s, 168澳ꦅ洲幸运5开奖网:it developed the original Halo trilogy, which established Xbox as a brand, and if Bungie hadn’t been around, Xbox might not exist as the indus꧋try giant it is today.
After it was done with Halo, Bungie split from Microsoft to create Destiny and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Destiny 2 with the questionable support of Activision, two of the most successful multiplayer shooters of the last decade. The studio has consistently delive𝕴red high-quality experiences and industry-defining shooters, so it’s natural to assume that Marathon is in very safe hands and that we should have more faith in it.
I don’t know if Marathon is going to completely redefine the multiplayer landscape or become PlayStation’s Halo, but I do know that I trust the studio that’s working on it. I’ve enjoyed Bungie’s ༒work over the years, and it’s not given me a single reason to think that, out of nowhere, it’s going to turn heel and make something completely bland and forgettable.
If someone is uninterested in what we’ve seen of Marathon so far, that’s completely fine, but I feel like I’m losing my mind watching people online saying that Marathon is exactly the same as Concord and will therefore suffer the exact same fate. Concord failed to grab audiences because it was a bland-looking game developed by a studio that no one had ever heard of before and was a $40 gamble for anyone looking tꦗo see if they were right about their judgments.
We haven’t received price confirmation for Marathon just yet, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:other than that it won’t be priced at 𒉰🍒$70, but I think people are much more likely to pay for a Bungie game given its long history of crafting excellence even if they 🅠aren’t entirely sold.
Marathon i🧸sn’t Concord. It’s not going to be a flash in the pan in the exact same way because there’s more at play here. That said, if Mara💃thon does shut down after a trainwreck launch, pretend like I never said anything.
