Marathon reportedly flopped amongst playtesters amid Bungie chaos BungieDestiny 2 streamer Aztecross has revealed that Marathon performed poorly with Escape from Tarkov playtesters with them telling Bungie if Marathon was released tomorrow they wouldn\u2019t play it. Bungie has had a chaotic week after the Destiny publisher laid off a large chunk of its staff leaving the games industry devastated. Furthermore, both The Final Shape and Marathon are believed to be delayed although Bungie has yet to confirm so. Fans were quick to speculate as to what triggered such a strong reaction with some blaming Lightfall\u2019s shortcomings and others pointing the finger at the looter shooter\u2019s DLC model for scaring off new players. Speculation from players is one thing but now one of Destiny\u2019s biggest content creators has disclosed information that looks to explain why Bungie switched up its game plan. Marathon didn\u2019t click with Escape from Tarkov playtesters Speaking on the situation surrounding Bungie, Destiny, and Marathon, streamer Aztecross shared some information about why the Destiny developer had taken such extreme measures. Passing on information from an anonymous trusted source, Aztecross opened: \u201cMarathon was originally a battle royale because battle royales were blowing up. it only swapped swapped lanes to become an extraction looter shooter because of the success of Tarkov.\u201d Timestamp: 8:16 \u201cBungie actually held an event earlier this year where they brought in a ton of Tarkov streamers, they got to play Marathon. To my knowledge, no Destiny 2 content creator, PvP player, or community member attended this,\u201d the streamer continued. Delivering the bombshell, Aztecross stated: \u201cIt was also disclosed that at the end of this event \u2013 after playing Marathon \u2013 Bungie asked these Tarkov streamers the question \u2018Would you play Marathon if it came out tomorrow?\u2019. No one raised their hand. Hence why Marathon is being delayed to 2025.\u201d Offering further clarification Aztecross went on to explain the following via his video\u2019s comment section: Marathon was always an Extraction Looter Shooter, and Bungie only briefly entertained making a BR. However, Marathon was always an Extraction Shooter with its first playable build in January 2020. – Bungie\u2019s original goal was to have 4 games: \u2018Marathon, Destiny, Matter, & another one that would come from the incubation team\u2019. – Matter got canned in December 2020. – Most people working on Marathon are folks who were burnt out on Destiny 2. – \u2018Upper Management\u2019 is full of folks you\u2019ve never seen. – With both Destiny 2\u2019s The Final Shape expansion and Marathon reportedly delayed, all fans can do is pray Bungie turns things around and manages to meet their expectations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Marathon reportedly flopped amongst playtesters amid Bungie chaos BungieDestiny 2 streamer Aztecross has revealed that Marathon performed poorly with Escape from Tarkov playtesters with them telling Bungie if Marathon was released tomorrow they wouldn\u2019t play it. Bungie has had a chaotic week after the Destiny publisher laid off a large chunk of its staff leaving […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}