If I was Bungie, I would start immediately (if they haven't already) on Destiny 3 and take everything from Marathon and merge it into the next Destiny and call it Destiny 3: Marathon.
It's obvious from all the reviews Marathon is going to basically flop and flop hard. Bungie can save face here if they can just admit this was a big mistake to develop Marathon and those people/assets should have been used for Destiny 3 development.
Then Bungie should say that all this Marathon development will not go to waste and we're going to pull the Marathon 'idea/concept' into Destiny as a new PvE/PvP permanent aspect of Destiny from the engine, to effects, to models, etc. Either port Destiny assets to Marathon engine or vice versa (not sure what Marathon is entirely built on.)
Take the Marathon storyline with it's colony/world/maps and elements and turn it into the next Destination outside of Sol/outskirts of the solar system or through a warp portal or something like we had for Pale Heart. The current Destiny story continues with this added into it.
All the current Destiny 2 stuff and next pacs continue until D3 launch. Then Bungie does the same thing they did from D1 to D2 and sorta cleans out the destinations/weapons/etc and we start on the next adventures with whatever they keep from D2. So again, this is Destiny. Destiny universe, Destiny story, just with 'Marathon' being the next part of the Destiny story.
Take the PvP Aspects of Marathon and create a new play mode, maps, etc. with the current play modes.
Take the weapons and models and obviously turn into the next xpac/weapons/armor sets.
IMO this is the ONLY way Bungie is going to survive this absolute fiasco that is occurring with Marathon.
Thoughts?
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Making a new game isn't going to fix literally anything. Management is the problem, and until the rot is torn away, the game and studio will continue to rot.
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👆 This. I think Destin Legarie’s video in which he spoke about what former devs had to say about Marathon, the state of Destiny 2 and how Bungie does business has made it absolutely clear. The problem is upper management. It has been so since before D1 launched.