PlayStation’s decision to shut down Bluepoint Games went over very poorly with fans. Unfortunately, the bad vibes are coming right as Bungie is getting ready to launch Marathon. Frustrated comments are now clogging up the PlayStation social feeds as some PS5 players threaten to boycott the extraction shooter and any future live-service games from Sony.
On February 19, Sony confirmed it was shutting down Bluepoint Games, a studio that has become well respected for its high-quality remakes and remasters of older games. The studio was caught up in Sony’s live-service shuffle after the God of War online spin-off it was reportedly working on was shelved, and none of its other pitches were approved. The news upset a lot of people, including developers and fans. And now, Marathon, a live-service shooter from Bungie and Sony, is set to release in two weeks and has become a target for frustrated players tired of Sony’s online game push.
Two weeks to go.
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— PlayStation (@PlayStation) February 19, 2026
On Thursday, the official PlayStation account on Twitter posted a boring marketing tweet hyping up players by reminding them that Marathon was just two weeks away and a free beta was launching even sooner. But if you check the replies, people aren’t hyped. They are the opposite of hyped. Mad players still reeling from the Bluepoint news are claiming that they will boycott Marathon entirely, while others are simply hoping it will flop or calling it the next Concord.
“Refunded! Im not going to support any GaaS from PlayStation after closing down BluePoint Games,” said one user with a screenshot claiming to show the return.
“This game will be a major flop for you guys! Watch us not buy this trash and destroy it with reviews. I will never forget what you did to Bluepoint,” posted another fan.
“I’m thinking not to support this game, after today’s disappointing announcement,” said someone else on Twitter.
“I’m definitely not playing this out of spite. Bluepoint doesn’t deserve to get shut down. If it weren’t for Demon’s Souls, I wouldn’t have bought a PS5 at launch,” claimed one player.
“I hope everyone boycotts Marathon for you closing Bluepoint,” shared a different user.
And it goes on. As of 1:30 p.m. EST on February 20, the tweet has over 1,900 replies, and many of them are from fans angry with Sony and the Bluepoint news. Over on YouTube, the comments aren’t nearly as aggressively anti-Marathon, but you can find plenty of newer replies claiming they will boycott the game or wishing for Marathon to flop. It also seems like PlayStation has stopped posting on social media due to the backlash, as pointed out by Push Square.
Will any of this actually hurt Marathon? Probably not. Angry gamers claiming they intend to boycott a popular game and then playing it anyway is a common trend, as seen in this classic image of Call of Duty players in a boycott MW2 group playing the game on launch day.
So yeah, I find it hard to believe that most offline gamers who aren’t scanning sites like Kotaku and Reddit daily for news and leaks even know Bluepoint is closing up or could even name the studio if asked. Still, games like Marathon need a dedicated playerbase that will stick around through all the updates, and often those players are the terminally online sickos out there following game accounts on Twitter and keeping up with the news. It seems that for many of these gamers, Marathon is exactly what they don’t want more of, and Bluepoint’s death has only galvanized them against Sony’s live-service push.
