While Bungie has revealed quite a few details about its upcoming PvPvE extraction shooter Marathon, the company has continued to remain silence about the game’s price. In an interview with streamer Dr.Lupo, assistant director Del Chaf has continued the company’s elusiveness on questions about price.
When originally asked about the price, Chafe pointed to the studio’s previous statements about how Marathon will not be priced like a full-priced game. DrLupo responded to this by saying, “Yeah, I saw that on Twitter.” Check out the whole interview below.
“I can’t go into details, but what I’ll say is – we’re not ready to talk about it right now,” continued Chafe, “but […] we’ll have conversations about this. When we’re ready, we’ll share some of the stuff we’re talking about. Like, you and a bunch of other people are going to have really good feedback about it.”
Chafe continues on, saying that when Bungie does finally unveil the price for Marathon, it is “definitely going to be a conversation.” According to Chafe, there are “big goals here – especially kicking this off with alpha – is to build this game and build a community around it. And so, we want to do that collaboratively. We want that perspective that helps us do what the players most care about.”
Previously, Marathon director Joe Ziegler also spoke about the game’s price without revealing any details. In an interview, Ziegler said that Bungie is committed to making Marathon “really awesome,” and that players might have their own ideas about what good value means when it comes to the price of a game.
“What we’re hoping everyone understands is that we’re focused on committing to making this a game that’s really awesome, and we think that starting point is really strong at this current time,” said Ziegler. “Everyone’s got their own definition of what is the right price.”
Rumours, meanwhile, have indicated that Bungie is looking at charging $40 for Marathon when it comes out on September 23. While not confirmed by Bungie or Sony, the price would be logical, putting it in line with other online shooters like Helldivers 2. The same rumours also indicate that Bungie is planning to have an open beta for Marathon where more players will get to try the game in August before its September launch.
This month, however, will see closed alpha tests of Marathon. Bungie recently revealed the system requirements needed for the closed alpha test, with the minimum specs indicating that Marathon will likely be highly scalable. At the lower end, the game needs players to have at least an Intel Core i5-6600 or AMD Ryzen 5 2600 CPU, 8 GB of RAM, and an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 Ti (4 GB), an Intel Arc A580 (8 GB), or an AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT (4 GB) graphics card.
Earlier this week, Bungie has also released a new trailer for Marathon. Dubbed the Alpha Intro Cinematic, the trailer gives us a look at the background story of the game, and reveals a few key details about the various Runners of the game. The trailer also revealed the existence of support AI ONI, which ties the upcoming extraction shooter in a small way back to the original Marathon trilogy.
Marathon is under development for PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S.
