The other way to read this is that they cancelled the marketing so that they're not throwing good money after bad, like with Concord.

And just shit in my cereal…

Sorry, but it is a possibility.

Is anyone excited about this game? Feels like the only thing going for it is the Bungie name recognition, but it seems like not even that is enough.

At this pace Sony will have one Concord situation per year.

I really enjoyed it when I played it in 1998?

I loved the animated shorts, but that's about it. The game needs a serious overhaul so it doesn't look like a very generic shooter.

Pve mode or don't fucking bother

Marathon was born a PVE game.

I’m gonna be very surprised if this game doesn‘t crash and burn

Maybe they can find another artist to rip off for a fresh new style.

It would be wonderful if they also cancelled all live service plans.

Tha shareholders won't allow it. They demand that the profits get back to covid 2020 levels immediately.

I have a sneaking suspicion that a lot of people will dismiss it simply because it looks cheap. It's like a a tech demo without textures. Although based on their multiple instances of stolen art, calling it an asset-flip is probably more accurate.

I would have been if Bungie hadn't completely fucked up Destiny 2, as it stands they'll never get another dime from me.

Personally I think the visual style looks messy. It’s an incoherent vomit of colors to my eyes. Almost like they made all assets in isolation and pray it will work out somehow. I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s how they did.

Oh no…not another online only multiplayer game. /s

That's where I stand on it. Unless Pete Parsons and the rest of c-suite bite the curb and put the actual devs in charge, I'm not touching anything by that studio.

It took 12k hours but I finally stopped clinging on to some sliver of hope that they'd fix the major issues with D2. Quit last November, logged in one time since to check out the new season after hearing good things, logged out as soon as it was glaringly obvious the core issues haven't changed.

Every single time I check in on friends still playing I just see more slot machines, more power creep, more dogshit ruining pvp, and more bugs. The core changes coming up in their next year look atrocious. Why would I trust them to handle a new game when they've been consistently fucking up their only title for years?

What sucks with the entire situation is that the devs themselves are great people who can make some cool shit when given the reigns to do so. But they're almost never given that chance. Hoping that team branched off to Sony to continue that "gummy bears" thing is given more freedom to cook.

EDIT: I'll also add on here for anyone feeling the sunk cost fallacy like I did and has put a ton of time into D2 but isn't happy with the state of things and disappointment after disappointment. Like I said I had 12k hours at the time I quit. Solo GMs, solo Nez, bunch of lowman raids, every weapon that mattered in my vault, 200+ trials cards, etc. I was a small content creator in this space too. I legitimately feel like that game becomes an addiction so fast, I continued to play through both waves of layoffs despite my issues with the studio execs. I wasn't happy with the state of the game either but kept telling myself "next season will be better" "next dlc will be better" etc. It's never true. If you're not happy with the game, take ONE season off, and if you're the kind of player I was, missing the seasonal offerings and various events will be enough to make you feel like you've fallen too far behind to catch back up, and from there the rest of the facade falls apart. Just gotta let it go cold turkey.

The entire visual style is also blatantly stolen from an artist who's been doing it for a decade or more, right down to their artwork and their logo being used in-game.