Wild that folks are having to make up conspiracy theories to hate on a game. They can just hate on it for having kernel level anti-cheat and preventing linux players from giving it a go.
Hilarious that OP and the author are dismissing this as a conspiracy when the article even explicitly says that the author was able to join the discord in question and found exactly what it was described as, an astroturfing platform. Totally impossible that an announcement could have been deleted after it was leaked.
there’s plenty of reason to hate it but, to be absolutely clear, paid reddit posts are rarely conspiracy. that is a very popular method on reddit specifically. that isn’t to say that “marathon devs definitely paid people to post on reddit” etc. just to say, it’s a little difficult to immediately dismiss that as a concept when it’s so fucking common on reddit.
I’ll hate it because Bungie tried to pass off stolen art without crediting and paying the actual artist
Okay look, as much as I hate Nu-Marathon and NeoBungie, it was only a few in-game (most likely placeholder) textures in a beta build of the game. Anyone trying to claim the entire game was stolen has no idea what they are talking about. It’s wrong that it happened but in the bigger picture, it’s a very minor issue compared to other things with other games.
As a side note, and as an artist myself: Artists do not “own” an art style. Marathon’s art style is not stolen. Brutalism in graphic design existed since the late 1990s. Monet doesn’t “own” impressionism, Dali doesn’t “own” surrealism, Warhol doesn’t “own” pop-art. They never have. Anime and manga have been using that art style in their design and marketing for a very long time. Anime being a pretty big influence on Bungie during the time they were making old Marathon, Halo CE, and most obviously, Oni.
As a side note, and as an artist myself: Artists do not “own” an art style. Marathon’s art style is not stolen. Brutalism in graphic design existed since the late 1990s.
Maybe you should look up what happened.
AGAIN
and again, they fired the one guy responsible for that “mistake”
They fired the fall guy. More than half of the art team followed antireal on one platform or another, they all knew they were stealing
