Marathon includes a $15 microtransaction that allows players to buy red balls. Credit: AngryJoeShow.

If it’s just cosmetics then who cares? As long as they don’t include pay to win crap then why even cry about it?

Man Angry Joe it's so cringe with the same jokes from 15 years ago.

Buying recolored skins in games has been an IQ test that gamers have failed for far too long.

Lucky, you’ve been anti-Marathon since before launch, yet you’re forcing yourself to “cover” it. I understand. Do what you have to do to pay the bills, but I assure you that there are better ways to spend your time, man

Almost like you control your wallet and having in game skins you don’t want or like saves you money 💰

The bundle is $15 the actual skin can be bought separately for $10, maybe if yall actually played the game you’d know this shit

Who’s forcing this manlet to buy any of this?

What a scam. Bungie needs to die. I'm so sick of business practices like this.

Grown man is complaining about optional cosmetics in big 2026

The slop eaters will come and defend the color swaps at $15.

Ok lets move the goalpost on Marathon since death on arrival failed. Since cosmetics its not a requirement to win games or to play a video game. @grok

It’s the Bungie way.

Bungie saw highguard try selling single-color reskins for 40 dollars and said do that but make it 15. Absolute cinema.

“Everything looks the same, are you serious?” - Devs make insane guns in shape of dragon with cool animations. “it's not even look like that gun and what is that reload animation? Are you serious??”

some people say that Marathon monetization is kinda D2 early monetization. Just wait until so many backlash then they will revert it. They want to test how far that they can go with this thing.

Awesome!!! 1/3rd the cost of the game for just one ugly skin!!! What a deal!!!

I see Joe still thinks loud = funny. It doesn't hit as hard when he looks like he was stung by a swarm of bees and his veneers are 2x too big.

There’s like 30 other character skins and atleast 28 weapon skins you can earn in game. But this is what we’re complaining about 😐

Nobody is forcing you to buy it lil pup.

It is just so ugly.

let them grab all the cash they can from fools while they can. they're going down

So they are selling shaders for 15$? I genuinely don’t know as I refuse to give them any money anymore

IM SO ANGRY THESE COMPLETELY OPTIONAL PURCHASES ARE IN VIDEO GAME RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Does he know it’s optional to buy these things? Oyy!

And people will still get angry for me not buying this slop Even AI could come up with something more meaningful and valuable

Bros mad about the color red 🫩

@Bungie @MarathonTheGame This is terrible.

OMG really? Wow, now I gotta get me Marathong! Sorry being sarcastic

"... to buy red balls." And we're supposed to take this game seriously. 🤦

mega washed

Because Marathon is 🐕💩

Bungie is EA tier in terms of scummy MTX practices but they pay streamers so they get them to run cover for it.

LMAO one of the skins I bought today 🤑🤑

I honestly dont know what hes crashing out about. Its like they know they have to be mad at something they just have to find what it is first and they keep picking apart absolutely anything and pretending to be mad about it. Its weird.