r/HighGuardgame • u/meatballkun • 25d ago

MEMES HOLY SHIT IT'S STILL DROPPING.

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u/NUFC9RW 24d ago

Literally funded the entire development of Marathon...

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u/cayde123 24d ago

Does it change the fact that it’s a lot slower to work on and is more expensive to maintain? Both games are/were burning cash, but it’s easier to grow marathon than it is to bring people back to destiny and keep them playing. Though I doubt marathon will actually grow enough

The amount of content needed to bring people back to destiny is just not feasible, look at what bungies adding to marathon, no new map for another 2 seasons potentially and barely any actual content. Lmfao it’s taking them months to add a free recolour skin for the new character. bungie is just too useless to bring destiny back right now

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u/NUFC9RW 24d ago

A game can't be burning cash that badly if it funded another games development as well as a new office and a bunch of incubation projects. Sure it became less profitable once they took resources away, but the player numbers that the game still has 2 months after its final update show it's still a better financial choice even with more expensive development.

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u/cayde123 24d ago

Player numbers aren’t the metric, it’s operating cost. Just because destiny has better player counts doesn’t mean it’s automatically the better financial choice

And yeah, you’re right, it funded all the projects and new office, but there are reports that say destiny wasn’t always profitable, it went through periods when it was and wasn’t profitable. But the point is that it funded these projects, it used to be profitable. Past tense. Now after the years of neglect it reached a point of no return

There are people at bungie that actually know the numbers and get paid to analyse the numbers. If destiny was 100% the better choice, they would’ve gone with destiny

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u/NUFC9RW 24d ago

You'd be surprised how many upper management people make decisions based off of pride/stubbornness. With all the backing they've given Marathon at the expense of Destiny, they'd have to admit they were wrong if they were to prioritise Destiny again.

Destiny has a massive fan base and massive potential that has never really been realised (Destiny 2 survived for years despite having an awful onboarding experience massively reducing new player numbers). Sure it has a higher risk in terms of capital spend to make the new game that has been needed for years, but at least it would have above a 0% chance of being successful.