Looks like Marathon is still releasing right on schedule (oh no).
Over the weekend, a rumor sprouted up from Colin Moriarty in the Sacred Symbols podcast about Marathon’s marketing. However, it looks like Moriarty’s story was entirely misquoted, as Sony’s plans for Marathon may not have changed that much after all.
Moriarty made this statement on Twitter:
During an hour-long discussion about Marathon on Sacred Symbols Episode 360, I said, verbatim: “I was told by someone familiar with marketing plans in a key overseas market that there are now no plans to do paid marketing for Marathon at all.
I don’t know if those plans were affected by what has recently happened or if that was always the plan or whatever, but it is considered a fairly unusual move for a game of this high profile.”
Me talking about immediately-known plans in a single territory doesn’t equate to “Sony has cancelled all its paid marketing plans …