Developer Bungie’s decision to give priority to their new extraction shooter Marathon over Destiny 2 had led to serious backlash from a large part of it’s player base who are highly critical of this decision and have voiced their frustrations online in various ways. And veteran video game voice actor Elias Toufexis, who had also voiced Adam Jensen in Deus Ex, has recently remarked on all the vitriolic hate directed at the title which is just unfair in every way.
“I understand Bungie made a game, Destiny 2, that people loved, and then they kind of were like, ‘We’re gonna put that on hold and we’re gonna work on Marathon,'” Toufexis said. “People got upset about that. Cool, don’t play Marathon. That’s fine, speak with your wallet, that’s fine.”
“Life is so short, man. Just stop tweeting memes under things for six hours,” Toufexis said. “Critique the game? Critique my work? Totally acceptable. But there’s people that go on Twitter and post memes: ‘This is Concord 2, this is Concord 2.’ Why are you spending hours doing this… How do you hope something fails?”
He also revealed that he once ended up engaging with some of the rage-fueled comments on Marathon:
“I was working on Marathon yesterday, and I was like, ‘Guys, tell me to stop engaging on X,’ because I keep engaging and I really shouldn’t,'” he said. “I saw some guy, I don’t want to get into specifics, but they’re just like, ‘I hope Bungie fails because of the woke leftist ideology.’ And I’m like, ‘I’m working with four white guys and two white women. I don’t understand this. Where are you getting this?’
“People just want to hate,” he concluded. “I don’t really understand it. It’s sad more than anything.”
Back in April, it was confirmed that even though Marathon didn’t quite make the splash the developers had hoped for, the game won’t be facing any imminent shutdowns like Highguard and Concord and new contents and updates will continue to enrich the game in different ways.
