Hours after the full reveal of Bungie’s new extraction shooter Marathon, I’ve already seen plenty of comparisons between the new release and the failed 2024 FPS Concord. It’s not especially surprising, as Concord has quickly come to embody just how poorly the launch of a paid live-service game can go. In this case, however, there are so many more interesting things to talk about, and dragging the discourse back to Concord turns what could be an exciting discussion into an exhausting one.