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Bungie laid out its plans to bring more PvE to Marathon over the next six months.
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"Launch didn't go how we wanted it to. We all built a game that we believed would resonate, but I think when you're so to something, it's hard to see the bigger picture objectively. So we made a game that was overly difficult for a lot of folks.
"That constant loop of failure didn't speak to as many people was we hoped it would. While death is the first step, for many players, death was the only step.
"We all thought we were gonna bring extraction to the masses, and we didn't. We built very much an extraction shooter as you've ever seen one."
"It's a really solid PvPvE experience, but that's not what a Bungie game is. A Bungie game needs to be more than that. We need more modes. We need a PvE mode. We need a PvP mode.
"There's components of the Bungie DNA, and [Marathon] has a lot of them missing. It's our job over the next year to weave those strands back in to create a holistic player experience that people recognize as being truly Bungie."
A few illustrative quotes from the "Future of Marathon Part 1" video that Bungie published today. The team (recently reduced by Sony layoffs) were candid in their plans to transform Marathon from purely an extraction shooter to something more Destiny-shaped: Easier onboarding, dedicated PvE options, a wider variety of PvP (Including a team deathmatch mode), and a greater emphasis on story. This upcoming vision for Marathon sounds less hardcore and, ideally, more broad in its appeal.
The two major milestones for Marathon's future will be the December Symbiosis update and a March 2027 update. Here's what Bungie's laid out for those:
2026 games: All the upcoming gamesBest PC games: Our all-time favoritesFree PC games: Freebie festBest FPS games: Finest gunplayBest RPGs: Grand adventuresBest co-op games: Better together
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Morgan has been writing for PC Gamer since 2018, first as a freelancer and currently as a staff writer. He has also appeared on Polygon, Kotaku, Fanbyte, and PCGamesN. Before freelancing, he spent most of high school and all of college writing at small gaming sites that didn't pay him. He's very happy to have a real job now. Morgan is a beat writer following the latest and greatest shooters and the communities that play them. He also writes general news, reviews, features, the occasional guide, and bad jokes in Slack. Twist his arm, and he'll even write about a boring strategy game. Please don't, though.
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"Launch didn't go how we wanted it to. We all built a game that we believed would resonate, but I think when you're so to something, it's hard to see the bigger picture objectively. So we made a game that was overly difficult for a lot of folks.
"That constant loop of failure didn't speak to as many people was we hoped it would. While death is the first step, for many players, death was the only step.
"We all thought we were gonna bring extraction to the masses, and we didn't. We built very much an extraction shooter as you've ever seen one."
"It's a really solid PvPvE experience, but that's not what a Bungie game is. A Bungie game needs to be more than that. We need more modes. We need a PvE mode. We need a PvP mode.
"There's components of the Bungie DNA, and [Marathon] has a lot of them missing. It's our job over the next year to weave those strands back in to create a holistic player experience that people recognize as being truly Bungie."
A few illustrative quotes from the "Future of Marathon Part 1" video that Bungie published today. The team (recently reduced by Sony layoffs) were candid in their plans to transform Marathon from purely an extraction shooter to something more Destiny-shaped: Easier onboarding, dedicated PvE options, a wider variety of PvP (Including a team deathmatch mode), and a greater emphasis on story. This upcoming vision for Marathon sounds less hardcore and, ideally, more broad in its appeal.
The two major milestones for Marathon's future will be the December Symbiosis update and a March 2027 update. Here's what Bungie's laid out for those:
2026 games: All the upcoming gamesBest PC games: Our all-time favoritesFree PC games: Freebie festBest FPS games: Finest gunplayBest RPGs: Grand adventuresBest co-op games: Better together
Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team.
Morgan has been writing for PC Gamer since 2018, first as a freelancer and currently as a staff writer. He has also appeared on Polygon, Kotaku, Fanbyte, and PCGamesN. Before freelancing, he spent most of high school and all of college writing at small gaming sites that didn't pay him. He's very happy to have a real job now. Morgan is a beat writer following the latest and greatest shooters and the communities that play them. He also writes general news, reviews, features, the occasional guide, and bad jokes in Slack. Twist his arm, and he'll even write about a boring strategy game. Please don't, though.
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