Bungie has announced that its upcoming live-service shooter, Marathon, will not meet its September 23 release date, postponing it indefinitely. The decision follows player feedback gathered through social media and alpha testing. Bungie aims to refine Marathon to enhance gameplay and deliver a high-stakes experience. Planned improvements include enhancing AI encounters, loot rewards, combat strategy, visual fidelity, narrative depth, and social interactions within the game. The developers will be testing the game in a closed environment for the next few months and will share updates on progress and a new release date this fall.
Through every comment and real-time conversation on social media and Discord, your voice has been strong and clear. We've taken this to heart, and we know we need more time to craft Marathon into the game that truly reflects your passion. After much discussion within our Dev team, we've made the decision to delay the September 23rd release.
We're using this time to empower the team to create the intense, high-stakes experience that a title like Marathon is built around. This means deepening the relationship between the developers and the game's most important voices: our players.
Increased visual fidelity, more narrative and environmental storytelling to discover and interact with, and a darker tone that delivers on the themes of the original trilogy are key areas for improvement.
Bungie said it will circle back this fall and share the progress we've made. Also at this time, the developer said it will reveal the new release date.
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