{"id":81712,"date":"2026-05-26T07:29:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T11:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=81712"},"modified":"2026-05-26T09:36:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T13:36:32","slug":"marathon-voice-actor-hits-back-at-online-trolls-and-says-people-just-want-to-hate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=81712","title":{"rendered":"Marathon Voice Actor Hits Back at Online Trolls and Says ‘People Just Want to Hate’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Veteran video game voice actor Elias Toufexis has spoken out about the online “hate” directed at Marathon<\/a>, following developer Bungie’s decision to prioritize the game over Destiny 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Speaking to PC Gamer<\/a> before last week’s shock news that Destiny 2 support will be completely wound down<\/a>, Toufexis \u2014 who voices Marathon’s Assassin \u2014 acknowledged the perception among fans that Destiny 2 had suffered so Bungie’s extraction shooter could live.<\/p>\n

“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.”<\/p>\n

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However, Toufexis continued by saying he disagreed with those whose critiques of Bungie and Marathon had turn into hate, spread by social media accounts posting constant negative content.<\/p>\n

“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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Veteran video game voice actor Elias Toufexis has spoken out about the online “hate” directed at Marathon, following developer Bungie’s decision to prioritize the game over Destiny 2. Speaking to PC Gamer before last week’s shock news that Destiny 2 support will be completely wound down, Toufexis \u2014 who voices Marathon’s Assassin \u2014 acknowledged the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":81714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-ign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81712"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81712"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81716,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81712\/revisions\/81716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/81714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}