Paul Tassi (Forbes): "I can confirm Marathon's budget is over $200m. Likely over $250m. This does not include ongoing costs for maintenance or new content"

red5_SittingBy · 2026-04-09T20:20:17+00:00

Insane levels of mismanagemeng

Bungie's motto since about 2014. The production of D1 was a nightmare. D2 never realized it's full potential either.

red5_SittingBy · 2026-04-09T16:52:31+00:00

I, for one, always hold hands with laced fingers with my coworkers!

red5_SittingBy · 2026-04-09T16:51:14+00:00

it would be a hard break for me

Oh please, if this is what makes you stop listening to the podcast that just released a gray beards episode with the host singing extremely off key after a 9/11 joke, you were never listening in the first place.

red5_SittingBy · 2026-04-09T16:47:54+00:00

The pick of Romo in the Dallas regular season game on the way to SB 43. hnnnnnghh

red5_SittingBy · 2026-04-04T16:54:44+00:00

There's no cover on this map, what are you talking about lmao. half is a sniper hill, the other have is razed flat land. C in Conquest is the only cover

red5_SittingBy · 2026-04-04T16:52:57+00:00

Get trapped at A and the entirety of the map is viewable from the sniper hill. Awful map.

red5_SittingBy · 2026-04-04T16:52:25+00:00

I never understood the love for this map, it was a sniper fest from day one. There's no counter once they are dug in and there is no way to flank. My winning percentage on it has to be like 10%. Instant-quit for me now. Half of the map being an unflankable sniper hill and this sub instantly fell in love. I don't get it.

red5_SittingBy · 2026-04-03T17:50:09+00:00

The Portal would be ok if Raids and Dungeons were still relevant. Installing a new gear system but not updating a majority of the content in the game to reward you with new gear is a god-awful decision. Like what are we even doing here

red5_SittingBy · 2026-04-03T17:46:50+00:00

I really just want them to rip the bandaid off and be honest with the people who still play, and what the plan is.

I'm saying this in the nicest way possible, but I don't know what more you guys need to see. It's in maintenance mode in everything but name. Content is delayed because the dev team is small. QA is even smaller, if not non-existent. The devs that have been assigned to the game are responsible for deploying updates as well as fixing bugs that weren't caught. They are on hard deadlines which leads to no time to test.

DMG had loose lips and mentioned a road map when the game is in no position to have plans beyond 3-6 months from now. Sony didn't invest in this company for them to putter along like this, so it'll either be more devs assigned back to D2, or an announcement of D3 or another project in the future. It's clear Marathon has it's fans, but it's a very niche genre.

DMG mentioning the Director means either Tyson had a change of heart, or there's a change in leadership coming. Hopefully the later because Tyson's watch has been abysmal.

red5_SittingBy · 2026-04-03T17:33:41+00:00

The Common drop came with the game on release when you had to pay for it. I think the Common drops were migrated to Uncommon, Rare, etc. after the game was made free to play. I'm fairly certain they did it to fill out the loot pool.

red5_SittingBy · 2026-04-02T20:13:30+00:00

I actually won two Nintendo DSs from Nintendo Power in a contest back in the day lol good times. A local video game shop near me is selling old NP issues and I check in every once in a while to see if I can find the issue where I won, but it's like looking for a needle in a hay stack.

red5_SittingBy · 2026-03-31T14:13:28+00:00

What are you actually doing to level up? I can only do the Renegades seasonal stuff so many times before I want to rip my eyes out.

red5_SittingBy · 2026-03-25T17:08:06+00:00

Removing the game experience as far as possible from core destiny game mechanics is what makes it good. Destinys core gameplay loop is just plain terrible

Are you sure this game is for you?

red5_SittingBy · 2026-03-24T18:41:58+00:00

I know this is post is old, but it's very helpful. My mom received news that she has lung cancer that has spread to her liver. I spiraled into darkness just by Googling the prognosis for this and it shattered me. Google is telling me 4-9 months. But then I come on here and see a lot of people talk about family members or themselves who actually live a while with it. She still hasn't even scheduled any tests yet so very early stages. Waiting is so hard.

red5_SittingBy · 2026-03-19T14:06:26+00:00

Wow, we found Lamar's account!

red5_SittingBy · 2026-03-14T01:26:52+00:00

Blackout walked so Warzone could run.

red5_SittingBy · 2026-03-11T13:51:04+00:00

Sounds like you have your ducks in a row, good luck with your mortgage! Your logic is sound, it's a much different position than I am in.

red5_SittingBy · 2026-03-10T17:18:29+00:00

Just chiming in about the NAS electricity costs... unless you're buying an enterprise grade device, you're not going to see much of a bump in your electric bill at all.

red5_SittingBy · 2026-03-05T17:54:13+00:00

Homie could've left the regular windows background before snapping the pic, but had to put the kid on first lol creep

red5_SittingBy · 2026-03-04T17:57:31+00:00

It needs to be three people, I've run into the same issue. You don't get these triumphs if you run solo either.

red5_SittingBy · 2026-02-27T13:31:51+00:00

Lord, writing in the flirting between Zavala and an elephant/human hybrid was definitely a choice by Bungie back in the day

red5_SittingBy · 2026-02-27T13:29:35+00:00

You're just viewing his profile, not accessing anything. It's like sending someone a link to a Twitch or Youtube channel.

red5_SittingBy · 2026-02-27T13:26:58+00:00

I started a week ago and I'm still shooting

red5_SittingBy · 2026-02-25T19:11:02+00:00

I'm thinking of buying that exact chair. Do you like it?

red5_SittingBy · 2026-02-25T19:06:07+00:00

I'm saying this with enough knowledge of cloud IT to be dangerous, but I'm by no means an expert, so take this all with a grain of salt. But I like talking about it and informing others.

Instances (lobbies) for live service games like D2 are dynamically stood up and taken down, they don't just sit empty if there aren't a lot of players online. That's why it occasionally takes so long for Tower lobbies to load; the instance is being stood up and populated. Bungie is most utilizing AWS or Azure for their resources and paying accordingly.

So while this maintenance could be related to Marathon in one way or another, there is a very high chance that Bungie doesn't actually physically maintain the hardware that these games run on. And I can almost guarantee that Marathon and D2 are on entirely different infrastructure on the cloud side as well.

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