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[Draugoth]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paulta...on-details-on-heroes-price-and-radio-silence/

• $40 price tag is legit
• Too late to go back to a pure F2P model
• No significant reveals until spring 2025, might get a shorter vid before then
• Hero/class system is most comparable to Apex, but with more customization. Abilities like double jump, fast revive, etc. Guns and gear can be customized a lot
• Barrett to Ziegler switch brought the "hero" concept. Barrett’s vision of a game with echoes of the mysteries of the Dreaming City or World’s First type races. Will still have puzzles and secrets but not at the same scale.
• Art direct and aesthetics haven't changed from the reveal trailer
• 2025 will be a tough target to hit. Sony wants it to come in 2025 and "if it doesn't = bad"
• Optimism is not exactly widespread at Bungie in the current situation, and among the Marathon team of 300 people (the majority of Bungie is still on Destiny 2)

 

[Bitstream]

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

sounds lame

 

[Holammer]

Very excited for this one.
Will they be able to top Concord?

 

[Evil Calvin]

They just don't learn do they?

 

[tmlDan]

if its more than a year away the $40 price point can still change, none of this is set in stone with that much time left till release

 

[KyoZz]

 

[Pop]

 

[TintoConCasera]

So it's nothing like Marathon, while also being 40$ while there are other F2P alternatives on the same genre.

Sounds like Concord 2.0

 

[Cyberpunkd]

Very excited for this one.
Will they be able to top Concord?

 

[Big Baller]

300 developers?

 

[Punished Miku]

• 2025 will be a tough target to hit. Sony wants it to come in 2025 and "if it doesn't = bad"
• Optimism is not exactly widespread at Bungie in the current situation, and among the Marathon team of 300 people (the majority of Bungie is still on Destiny 2)

 

[Ammogeddon]

What’s with all these developers racing to the bottom.

 

[Hookshot]

I don't want to miss out on another classic so I'm fully in for early access. Don't PM me if you want in to my clan "The Gaasholes".

 

[Generic]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paulta...on-details-on-heroes-price-and-radio-silence/

Sounds good, but $40 pricetag is lame. Sony needs to put the game day-1 on the PS+.

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

Let me recycle my Concord GIF

 

[Mayar]

Forbes: New Exclusive Details on Marathon - Spring 2025, Hero Shooter, 300 developers - closed Spring 2025, 300 developers fired

 

[Spyxos]

Hmm, I was expecting something else somehow. Doesn't exactly sound interesting.

 

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[Mownoc]

Oh yes. Heroes is exactly what I thought was missing from shooters.

 

[SlimySnake]

(the majority of Bungie is still on Destiny 2)

WTF. let it die.

 

[tmlDan]

Oh yes. Heroes is exactly what I thought was missing from shooters.

how would they monetize it otherwise?

the biggest issue is having a premium price AND a battlepass, not characters with abilities. Thats in every game now.

 

[lughnasadh123]

So you just tripped over the lifeless corpse of Concord yet decide to keep going down the same path? GL with that.

 

[SJRB]

Wait it’s a hero shooter?

No fucking way

 

[MayauMiao]

I think majority will have no idea what Marathon is about and why would they spent $40 on another hero shooter.

 

[Imtjnotu]

So Concord with a new name?

 

[SEGAvangelist]

Hero shooter?

 

[Loomy]

if its more than a year away the $40 price point can still change, none of this is set in stone with that much time left till release

This is honestly the biggest pain point. A lot of people will choose not to try this because of the $40 price tag. F2P means you get more people giving it a chance. Still time to change that.

 

[Generic]

Oh yes. Heroes is exactly what I thought was missing from shooters.

The only popular hero shooter in the market is Overwarch 2.

 

[tmlDan]

This is honestly the biggest pain point. A lot of people will choose not to try this because of the $40 price tag. F2P means you get more people giving it a chance. Still time to change that.

if they're already planning a BP and paid cosmetics they shouldn't make it pay to play, thats insane

The only popular hero shooter in the market is Overwarch 2.

apex, even Fortnite is at this point, Rivals will be too

 

[Flabagast]

sounds super lame, except maybe for the art style

 

[Mossybrew]

Wasn't there just some other recent article that said no, it was not a hero shooter?

 

[GHG]

This gets worse every time I read some new info on it.

It's now a hero shooter instead of extraction?

Just fucking cancel it already.

 

[HogIsland]

i'm in for the aesthetics of the trailer and bungie gun feel.

$40 is fine if the game is good

apex legends is one of the better models to copy.

sounds like a 2026 game, which doesn't help playstation's immediate problem, which is lack of strong first party content

this generation sucks ass. time to abandon generations entirely.

 

[PatientGamer]

Concord 2.0.

 

[Gamer_By_Proxy]

Sweet! Hero Shooter! About time we got one of those!

 

[Z O N E]

A hero shooter? Wasn't this supposed to be an extraction game?

I guess they knew Concord was going to crash land and decided to take its place.

 

[Loomy]

This gets worse every time I read some new info on it.

It's now a hero shooter instead of extraction?

Just fucking cancel it already.

Sounds like both? Extraction shooter where you pick a hero to play as. Here's hoping they clarify soon and start beta testing.

 

[Seyken]

Disaster in the making. They should just go for Destiny 3 at this point.

 

[Jigsaah]

300 people for a game like this isn't sufficient? I was really hopeful after this first got announced. I hope they can figure this out.

 

[Fake]

Nah. Another leason to learn.

 

[Zacfoldor]

I just want to crawl up into a ball and cry.

Bungie, what is this, what are you doing. You were the best.

Can someone just put Bungie on a real game please? How about a new first person shooter with an optional multiplayer mode and a large single player campaign?

 

[tmlDan]

This gets worse every time I read some new info on it.

It's now a hero shooter instead of extraction?

Just fucking cancel it already.

its still extraction, read the article

 

[FUBARx89]

Oh dear. Concord 2.0. Even the Bungie name won't make a 40 dollar hero shooter popular. Spesh if its like Apex which is dropping players as far as I know.

Bungie deal already looked awful. But it just keeps getting worse and worse.

Sony really are going to shit.

 

[DeepEnigma]

 

[pasterpl]

Will they kill it after 2 wks as well?

 

[Katatonic]

The memo is out to bash every multiplayer game in order to protect the 80 billion COD investment.

 

[Eesha]

Aww yeah, another catastrophic flop is inbound, lemme just grab some popcorn and a large soda.

 

[kaizenkko]

Things don't look any good for this game or Bungie at all. Jimbo let Sony with this mess in their hands (or because this mess, lol).