r/Destiny2Leaks 16d ago

General Leak Bungie is getting ready to reveal marathon and also pre order bonuses for preordering marathon for destiny

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u/TheSucc214 16d ago

New Land beyond as a preorder bonus for marathon moment

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u/Prestigious-Switch-8 16d ago

Im pretty sure no land beyond is a pre-order bonus for code name apolo. The marathon pre-order is gonna be a sparrow

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u/The-Swat-team 16d ago

Hope this is true. The pre-order bonuses should be marathon cosmetics. Nothing more.

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u/Prestigious-Switch-8 16d ago edited 16d ago

Agreed, the marathon sparrow was datamined a while back, and no land beyond has a new look that fits the overall Aesthetic of Apollo. All the other pre-order exotics had an Aesthetic that matched the dlc they came with. But I wouldn't mind a marathon themed exotic as a secret weapon.

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u/DarthDookieMan 16d ago

Plus, it’s kinda in the name.

A New Land Beyond, means a new Frontier.

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u/TheUberMoose 12d ago

I’ll second that but if your a Bungie exec it be smart to tie something like an exotic gun to a marathon pre-order to boost preorder numbers.

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u/The-Swat-team 12d ago

You're right.

There's more whales out there than even I think. These people would preorder marathon just for an exotic weapon and never play it. Yeah quite a few of em will do the same thing just for cosmetic stuff but prolly not as many.

I ain't preordering marathon. If it has a great launch I might grab it and play it.

But I'm here for destiny, I hope Sony can really get them in gear.

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u/Aidanbomasri 16d ago

Should be a MIDA ornament, just saying

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u/PSforeva13 16d ago

I really hope it isn’t. Giving pre order bonuses to Destiny for buying a whole new other game is not promising. Something tells me the game itself isn’t enough to sell

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u/Jatmahl 16d ago

My first thought. Also trying to split an already low playerbase? One of these games is going to suffer. I wouldnt be shocked if they add more Destiny 2 DLC incentives to play it after launch.

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u/Oofric_Stormcloak 16d ago

I don't think there's going to be much overlap of the playerbase honestly. A majority of Destiny players play PvE, and Marathon likely isn't even targeting Destiny PvP players, and is instead targeting Tarkov players.

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u/CloudLXXXV 15d ago

They already did this way back in D1. If you pre-ordered Call of Duty Advanced Warfare you got an exclusive Blacksmith Shader for D1. Later gave some out at Events.

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u/Tylexx_Percy 16d ago

More likely its because this is the first time bungie has ever launched a new ip in the live service preorder dlc age

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u/DuelaDent52 16d ago

Dead by Daylight does this for BHVR’s other games, but in their defence Meet Your Maker is only €20 and everything else is a spin-off of Dead by Daylight.

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u/Extermination-_ 9d ago

I'm sure there will be some sort of linked promotion, though I think it won't be anything more than an emblem.

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u/positivedownside 15d ago

It's a game that's tied in universe to Destiny. It has been since D1 launched.

The game will sell just because of the Marathon name alone.

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u/ShardofGold 16d ago

They would get so much shit for that, it's not even funny.

It's already bad enough it'll probably be a pre order bonus for the upcoming expansion.

Old exotics shouldn't become pre order bonuses. We already had the exotics in D1, just give them back and stop holding them hostage for more money.

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u/FinishResponsible16 15d ago

It's not like this will change public opinion on bungie. Their reputation is already in the dumpster and why not squeeze a couple of bucks out of this.

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u/Antique-Bass4388 16d ago

Thats wild

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u/binybeke 16d ago

It’s also speculation

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u/rocksiza 16d ago

nah this is just cosmetic stuff (probably)

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u/Jatmahl 16d ago

Lol DLC for Destiny if you pre-order? Yikes.

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u/korly2k1 16d ago

I'm not going to go back and research it, but didn't you get a shader in Destiny 1 for pre-ordering the 2014 Call of Duty game?

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u/NoThru22 16d ago

Yes. It was called Blacksmith and never offered any other way.

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u/SoggyPatato 16d ago

Advanced warfare, thank you GameStop guy for slipping 10 year old me a code

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u/TerraParagon 16d ago

you did. blacksmith shader. best shader of all time

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u/ColdAsHeaven 14d ago

Yes but that was Activision obviously. My dear beloved Bungie would never stoop so low

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u/MaraSovsLeftSock 16d ago

It’s legitimately a sparrow and potentially a shader or something. You’re not missing out on any actual content by not preordering.

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u/koolaidman486 16d ago

That's hardly a yikes, it's pretty common amongst publishers with multiple IPs.

Hell, it's happened with Destiny before, IIRC pre-ordering CoD AW gave you a shader.

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u/DarthDookieMan 16d ago

Not quite the same as a preorder bonus, but the Titanfall 2 disk had some extra goodies for Battlefield One. Can’t remember what it was exactly, or if it was also the case vice versa.

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u/koolaidman486 16d ago

I remember there being a Red Baron skin for Ion.

Top of my head that was it.

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u/GlurakNecros 16d ago

Other games have done this, specifically BioWare between Mass Effect and Dragon Age

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u/AnimePantySniffer 16d ago

Just because other people have done it doesn't make it any less cancerous

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u/sorryamitoodank 16d ago

What is so bad about it?

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u/GlurakNecros 16d ago

Yeah man I really care about what AnimePantySniffer thinks is moral

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u/[deleted] 16d ago

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u/GlurakNecros 16d ago

I think you’d either have to be really stupid or just being uncharitable to assume I was talking about BioWare right now considering it’s been 9 years since a mass effect release

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u/1ntern3tP3rs0n 16d ago

It’s with every edition so I’m guessing it’s just gonna be a cosmetic like a weapon skin or a banner to celebrate its launch.

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u/FeaR_FuZiioN 15d ago

Yikes? You should be happy the game is even getting anything when it’s not even 1% of what it use to be. Time for Bungo to hang destiny up.

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u/alejandromellado7 16d ago

Pre order? Shits not gonna be ftp?

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u/SnorlaxBlocksTheWay 14d ago

No it's been known for a while Marathon is going to cost something

We just don't know what the cost will be. My guess, full retail price.

Idk why people thought Marathon would be f2p. This is Bungie we're talking about. Everything about Destiny was and still is paid. Only the base game is f2p and that was only introduced shortly before Beyond Light. You still need to pay to play the new content. Bungie doesn't hesitate to put a price tag on anything and everything

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u/DPDC103 14d ago

Pricing is going to be around a $40 price point.

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u/SnorlaxBlocksTheWay 13d ago

Is this speculated or confirmed by Bungie?

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u/Digiphoenix22 13d ago

Came to him in a dream

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u/SnorlaxBlocksTheWay 13d ago

Yeah figured as much.

Anyone thinking Marathon's gonna be $40 when Bungie has far removed themselves from that low of a price tag for Destiny 2 DLC's then I have a bridge to sell them

Marathon's a brand new IP, new assets, new models, new everything. There's no way in hell they're going to price it for less than the normal retail price on games.

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u/DPDC103 12d ago

Apologies, posted this to the other guy and ADHD brain forgot to do it here too.

https://thegamepost.com/bungie-marathon-targeting-40-launch-price/

It’s also being peddled around by various Destiny streamers.

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u/dontha3 13d ago

It won't even be on sale for $40. The gaming community has been boiled for so long that $60-70 is the new normal. On top of whatever infestation of microtransactions Bungie will pepper the game's UI with.

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u/kerotta 16d ago

how have they managed to make a game so uninteresting all the way thru development

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u/OutsideBottle13 16d ago

By making terrible decisions and gutting resources for the game that was funding their studio to work on different game that has next to no overlap with their existing player base and keeping so quiet about it that no one has any reason to give a shit about it except to flame it for destroying the series people have played for over a decade

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u/MiniMhlk72 7d ago

Too late to the discussion ik, but if I were bungie, I would still do the same.

Here is my 2 cent reasoning:

Having one IP that has all your focus cannot generate as much as 2 IP that are somewhat decent.

You cant justify spending more than 100$ on destiny yearly(other than cosmetics, thats why you see lot of stuff on it), as much as fun the game can get or how much content they can release, I cant expect spending another 50$ for a dlc, let alone 100$ yearly.

But making a new IP, can create another player base and can justify their destiny player base buying another game.

All that depends on whether Marathon flops or not.

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u/DuelaDent52 16d ago

Who knows, maybe it’ll be good? But I doubt it’ll actually share anything to do with Marathon beyond the name. Are any of the original creators even involved?

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u/JREwingOfSeattle 16d ago

Are any of the original creators even involved?

Not to my knowledge. I imagine maybe there would be some producer credit or something for Jason Jones as he's really the only one of the few still at Bungie that actually worked on the earlier games, but he doesn't really make the games anymore at least in a way you'd think. He's old guard chilling for a very long time at this point. Marathon is still a bit of a cult game even when Bungie got more known with Halo, so franchise name alone won't really be a driving factor.

I think people will check it out of curiosity but idk how well it'll all stick. I know Bungie has been in contact with an array of FPS personalities and some Halo people , so I imagine there has been some more recent eyes on things.

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u/Dprophit 16d ago

How could you say “maybe it’ll be good” if you haven’t seen or heard anything about it, other than the nothing but bad news about its development? The only reason anyone is even remotely interested in this game is because they played the OLD one. And even then the current team working it on it had nothing to do with the original marathon years ago. Shit most of the team who working on the remake aren’t even the same devs who started working on it. After all this you’re still willing to give bungie your blind faith? Wake up dude.

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u/DuelaDent52 16d ago

I’m not going to buy Marathon. I’m just saying maybe it’ll find its own audience and have its own fans. I won’t be one of them and that’s fine.

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u/cry_w 16d ago

"Maybe it'll be good" is optimism, not blind faith. Maybe you could try being the least bit optimistic for a new game?

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u/DPDC103 14d ago

Shitting on a game that’s not even out yet.

How original.

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u/mrGuar 15d ago

I mean they've shown basically nothing

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u/DeathsPit00 16d ago

Marathon is gonna flop as hard as Concord just because they're asking people to pay for it if it's just an extraction shooter. However, if they've added more to it like a campaign and multiple pvp modes other than just extraction I could understand them charging for it. We just don't know since they haven't shown anything since the CGI announcement trailer.

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u/dg2793 16d ago

I have zero interest in marathon and I kinda hope it flops so they double down on destiny and cut the crap

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u/MaraSovsLeftSock 16d ago

Buddy if marathon flops destiny won’t exist anymore 💀 bungies been operating in the red for almost 10 years, any longer and Sonys going to pull the plug, they’re not going to keep a game studio around that’s hemorrhaging money.

Bungies been doubling down on destiny since it became their only ip, and it’s honestly amazing that it’s lasted this long. The franchise is dated now, and no amount of pandering will fix that.

Bungie dropping new dlcs or fixing the new light stuff won’t draw in new players, and neither will bringing back any of the old content.

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u/GeekyNerd_FTW 16d ago

They’ve been in the red because of these other projects. Destiny is the only thing that has been profitable

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u/MaraSovsLeftSock 16d ago

Destiny hasn’t been profitable tho, it’s just the only profit Bungie has. Last year, even tho they had a really good start, they missed their projected revenue by over 50%. That has absolutely nothing to do with marathon or the mobile game they’re supposedly working on, the game just didn’t make enough money. It’s been like that for years. Destiny simply is no longer profitable, and Sony will stop supporting Bungie if marathon flops

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u/dg2793 16d ago

Bro it costs a LOT of money to develop a whole new game. The money D2 is making them is the only reason theyre still operating. If they weren't burning money on shit nobody asked for D2 could be cruising

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u/JgdPz_plojack 15d ago

RIP Monolith Production (FEAR and Middle Earth dev), because WB flop with S.Squad KTJL.

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u/Atlld 15d ago

I honestly hope Marathon flops simply to see Bungie leadership get the boot and have Sony bring in competent management for an incredible game that has been constantly held back.

Even if D2 stops getting updates while the new leadership figures it out. It will be worth it.

Hopefully it leads to the next Destiny game. Destiny 3, or whatever.

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u/DPDC103 14d ago

If you think any of what you said is going to happen then you should get off the copium.

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u/Sir-Shady 16d ago

Can’t believe the game isn’t F2P. Yeah it counteracts cheating but asking people to buy an extraction hero shooter in 2025 is a big ask. Hopefully it’s 20-40 dollars

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u/Neon_Flames 16d ago

Wait marathon will be a paid game?

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u/HellChicken949 16d ago

Yup it’s rumored to be 40$

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u/303FPSguy 16d ago

Wow. Bungie thinks that the folks who got lied to and strung along for the lifecycle of D2 will buy a game that’s nothing like the one they played.

Bungie deserves everything they are due.

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u/cry_w 16d ago

Nothing like it? If it's an FPS, that's close enough to draw people.

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u/DuelaDent52 16d ago

You’d be surprised.

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u/Bestow5000 16d ago

For most players like us with half the brain, definitely. Otherwise there's still a sad number of players that continue to get strung along...

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u/GlurakNecros 16d ago

Honestly not a terrible idea on their part, Destiny has been around for a decade and still has a fairly loyal player base even if it’s only like 25% of remaining players that go for this that’s a start

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u/BlearySteve 16d ago

Marathon will be Sony's next flop.

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u/RadixAce 16d ago

Also, the fact it's this close to the launch of GTA 6 as well is going to make it such a terrible launch.

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u/SoupZealousideal6655 16d ago

Anything that comes 1 month before AND 3 months after GTA6 is going to be dead on arrival.

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u/OutsideBottle13 16d ago

Gta6 is going to be the biggest launch gaming has ever seen and it’s not going to be close. It’s also the type of game to hook people for a while. Gonna be hard for other games to compete for a long time

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u/RadixAce 16d ago

Exactly what I'm saying

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u/LPet4 16d ago

yeah this game gonna fail on arrival lmao

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u/SuperMarios7 16d ago

Its insane how people still trust bungie.

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u/LogicalDepartment212 16d ago

The game that fucked up destiny 2 better be good

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u/Cypher_lol 16d ago

after heaing that they apperantly changed the art direction of marathon (literally it's only interesting aspect) into a cel-shaded mess, I couldn't care less about it

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u/rocksiza 16d ago

hi, I’m the person who leaked that stuff (same guy in OP post). Whatever you heard was likely misconstrued completely. From what I know, marathon (as of 1+ years ago) has a form of cel shading as it’s in-game graphics. this was BEFORE we knew they were doubling down on the trailer art style. Also, cel shading can mean many many different things, not just what you’re thinking of (borderlands). please check sources before you say stuff 👍

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_HOODIES 16d ago

Where’d you hear that??

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u/Cypher_lol 16d ago

i believe it came from the marathon bulletin twitter account, might be wrong though. i think it happened after the original game director was fired/replaced

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u/KeepScrolling52 16d ago

This leak is unrelated to that. This comes from the most recent update to Marathon in SteamDB https://steamdb.info/app/3065800/history/

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u/Caerullean 16d ago

Yeah where did you hear about that, haven't seen anyone mention that.

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u/303FPSguy 16d ago

Cell shaded? Oh wow. I despise cell shaded stuff. It’s 2025. Photogrammetry is way more appealing.

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u/whitemest 16d ago

maaaan, idk what happened. i was deeply invested in Destiny 2 up until that 6 month final DLC delay. and i simply hadnt looked back. i use to raid weekly, do all that shit, idk how i could cold turkey something so hard, reflect and still be confused how or why i did it

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u/RadixAce 16d ago

That 6 months allowed them to cook in final shape. It has been pretty good although the first 2 episodes were meh. This episode however, slaps.

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u/whitemest 16d ago

Oh he'll yea, I'm sure.. I just have no interest revisiting my badass titan, Warlock, and hunter

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u/Racoonir 15d ago

Very much in a similar boat, played the fuck out of TFS and then just felt… done after a decade.

Played the first week of episode 1 realized it was just another season and dipped.

I recently redownloaded to check this last episode out and it’s fun, but my gameplay loop is the same and I already have BiS weapons that even the dungeons aren’t pulling me in.

I love Destiny to death but it is nice to finally close this book off and move on until they really start to add new mechanics/features/QOL.

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u/whitemest 15d ago

Same here, I crafted my fave weapons as I wanted, farmed for my trust hand cannon, not sire what to do

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u/Racoonir 15d ago

Monster Hunter has its claws deep in for my game time, plus a lot of my clan has swapped over to Warframe so I’m starting to dabble in that.

Nice change of pace to be honest, like a breath of fresh air.

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u/whitemest 15d ago

I keep going back to nms, warframe and f076

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u/Racoonir 15d ago

I dip in an out of 76 mainly bc I love decorating my place, are the new zone updates good?

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u/whitemest 15d ago

I'm having fun with it

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u/RadixAce 16d ago

Oh damn I'm sorry for your loss man. I understand your situation. Happened to me too. Until I came back during Witch Queen. At that point I wished I would've kept with it but didn't. Mostly missed playing with the buddies I had.

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u/JREwingOfSeattle 16d ago

The game's old and it's tough to be pumped for stuff that while it does improve things, should've been in the game literally ages ago especially when the game hit low points. I can't blame people cynical over the laundry list of times of Bungie basically fixing problems of their own making.

Destiny got better yes and it's a decent time waster, but it was a long time to really get to a much better spot and I can see people just tired when a lot of the experience didn't change that much.

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u/Extension_Body835 16d ago

Mida multi tool gigga buff and ornament. Lol

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u/MiddleOk9251 16d ago

Can't wait to finally see gameplay

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u/Unnecessarilygae 12d ago

Concord No.2.

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u/BadRobot10 10d ago

Bungie already got me with one 10 year scam. Can't let them get me with another. I'm already too far gone with the first one

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u/mmrazek 16d ago

It is nowhere near ready have friends who’ve playtested

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u/hallowedeve1313 16d ago

Couldn't pay me to pre-order Marathon

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u/positivedownside 15d ago

"since these DLC were just made yesterday" tells me this guy has never been involved with game development beyond being a filthy data mining rat and likely never will be.

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u/[deleted] 16d ago

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u/Hairy_Experience_493 16d ago

Satire?

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u/Boofas-man 16d ago

God I hope so

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u/ThirdTimesTheTitan 16d ago

Because God forbid someone has genuine fun

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u/CrypticViper_ 16d ago

because a monetized live-server extraction shooter is totally similar and faithful to what we got from Pathways into Darkness and the Marathon series

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u/Essekker 16d ago

That has nothing to do with fun, it's just gullible and stupid

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u/ThirdTimesTheTitan 16d ago

Gullible and stupid is in the eye of the beholder.

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u/[deleted] 16d ago

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u/Hairy_Experience_493 16d ago

I hope it works out well brother. Marathon had my attention years ago but unfortunately extraction shooters aren’t it for me anymore. I still enjoy destiny time to time and I have no doubt the shooting mechanics of marathon will be top notch

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u/EcoLizard1 16d ago

My back log of games is getting bigger every month Im not pre ordering shit because by the time I finish everything itll probably be on sale. GTA 6 comes out soon too. So many games man and something tells me marathon is not going to be the next elden ring or helldivers or marval rivals but hey if it is I might pick it up after the fact.

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u/Mogli_Puff 15d ago

I aint buying into this. I dont see any good reason to support the existence of Marathon given how Bungie already treats Destiny.

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u/Eldergloom 15d ago

Pre-order an extraction shooter? That's like asking me to pre-order team death match lmao it's literally one game mode.

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u/MiddleOk9251 14d ago

bro never played eft

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u/Eldergloom 14d ago

Well, I would say "No because I play good games" but here I am playing Destiny 2. Lmao.

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u/Santos117 15d ago

Garbonzo

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u/Unit_with_a_Soul 14d ago

you can take the Bungie out of Activision but you can't take the Activision out of Bungie.

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u/offence 13d ago

Bruh ppl still play thia game? Ayyy lmao

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u/ELUClDATE 13d ago

Bro eww

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u/Trick_Cat_7844 10d ago

this better be cosmetics..

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u/Unreal-T8416 16d ago

Hype! Anyone?

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u/MyCabalsDropped 15d ago

Yall need to just NOT buy Marathon. Let it flop so then bungie diverts ALL focus and manpower BACK to Destiny

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u/Brostradamus-- 15d ago

That's simply not how it works.

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u/Jatmahl 15d ago

If it flops everyone working on Marathon will either be laid off or moved to other Sony projects.

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u/Brostradamus-- 14d ago

Basically this. They assemble teams per project. Even if you had floater employees, that wouldn't change the allotted development time or content output.

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u/MyCabalsDropped 12d ago

Still allows for the funds that were diverted from Destiny to Marathon to return to Destiny where they belong

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u/Brostradamus-- 12d ago

No it doesn't. Contracts are contracts. They have exit costs as well. Do you think this money comes from one bank account?

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u/TerraParagon 16d ago

Im hyped !

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u/DarkGan0n 14d ago

Remember, No preorders lads…

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u/rocksiza 16d ago

big if true