Despite the constant hate campaigns they managed to shift the vibes and turn the tables!
>>738320410How much Sony paid for bungee?
I really hate how we can't just have a thread without the OP pretending to be retarded.Anyways, the Marathon subreddit officially removed their containment thread for criticism and discussion over player numbers and are outright banning people to the applause of the "good vibes only" crowd.
>>738320410uh oh.. something is missing here!https://blog.playstation.com/2026/05/06/playstation-store-april-2026s-top-downloads/
>>738320574>subredditgo back
I have no strong opinions about this information. Tell your manager I said hello.
>>738320683Marasisters… not like this…
>>738320410"Not being shut down immediately" is the bar, huh?
>>738320683IIRC, didn't Marathon lose a 'Players Choice Vote' for Best Game in March to Arc Raiders? (The same month Marathon came out, lmaooo)>>738322046The shilling has gone through the stages of grief, for real>Denial: It didn't flop. 88k is really good for a niche extraction shooter!>Anger: Fuck you! Your negativity and the hate campaign is holding Marathon back!>Bargaining: Ok, maybe it's not perfect, but you should still give a try. Look, it's on sale and everything!>Depression: I love Marathon and it's sad that the game isn't more popular. It deserved better.>Acceptance: Ok, fine. It has flaws. But it DIDN'T get shut down yet like Concord or Highguard, so chuds lost. /v/ lost.It's been pretty entertaining
>>738320683Marathon must be in the top 30Also, it's not a sprint. Marathon is here to stay for 10+ years
>>738320410Why do you keep making the same exact threads?.
>>738322608What else am I meant to do until concord 4?
its eu afternoon and it can't break 7k concurrent, also seems like with the maintenance bungie loosened up matchmaking, can now spot people with 200 level differences in same lobbies, it's a fucking bloodbath, all the same names every game
>>738320683>https://blog.playstation.com/2026/04/03/playstation-store-march-2026s-top-downloads/>US: 6th>EU: 11th (behind Arc Raiders, LOL)Didn't do too good even in its launch month.
>>738322608Shillmyname wants you to play xis ugly watchable tranny game
>>738320683
I don't want to alarm the Marabros but it lost 2,000 players today. I had to recheck the numbers because they were so bad. The bottom may be falling out.
>>738323471You should measure peak to peak. Each day it loses something like 2-4%, but week to week it's a 15-20% loss.Or just visit https://flopathon.cc/game/marathon
>>738323471>>738323686How can this happen? Are they really running out of money for their daily bots? It can’t be real people, the daily loss it’s too constant and steady for it
>>738324217I think it's just a natural decay. Marathon only ever attracted a core audience of people who like the niche extraction hardcore PVP game type, and those people have just been leaving the game as they get their fill/get bored/move to other stuff. There hasn't been any kind of big patch or change to the game that would cause a spike in players dropping off, either.The bigger story it tells is that Marathon is not attracting any new players at all. Basically, everyone who was interested in it bought it back at release, and that's probably all the game is going to get unless Bungie really changes the gameplay around.
>>738320410>A game being alive for two months is an achievement nowGrim.
>>738324673>The bigger story it tells is that Marathon is not attracting any new players at allThat's because playing Marathon when behind is dogshit. You need to lfg if you even want a chance to survive a run and no ones going to run with a new player so you're forced to play solo, a mode the game clearly wasn't designed with and was only added because players asked for it.
>>738326043Yeah, Bungie only added solo after enough players said 'are you retarded,' and they were still butthurt about it. The game director seems like he wants to die on the hill of '3v3 is the game, and if you don't like it, play something else.'
>>738326043>the same problems back from destiny 1Ohhhhh noooooo who could've seen that coming?
>>738320410Slowly dying like an old man
>>738320410>under 15k daily players on steam>lots of posts on the marathon sub complaining about queue timesit's been "live" for two months, idk if i'd go as far as saying "alive" tho
>>738320410>aliveGood. Sony will lose money every single day until they shut it down.
>>738320410limping along =/= alive
>>738324217>>738324673it's obvious at this point why casuals dropped it, but i think even the ride or die "fuck you i'm having a blast" types are probably dropping off since they've run through all of the content. season 2 will definitely get some sort of bump in player count from these people coming back but i expect that to fall off very quickly if the vendor upgrade trees/quests are exactly the same as season 1, just with dire marsh being dark
>>738326772Supposedly night marsh is adding a compiler like fight as well but still it’s only one new map set up for another three months. We still haven’t been given any info about season 3 yet either.
>>738326772The blast havers are probably in one of two groups at this point:>the rapists>the rapedThe Cryo spawn rush situation got so bad that Bungie just put some stuff in this week's patch that made it harder for premade rape squads to rush your spawn and have their way with you.And being a slightly above average player that goes from killing casuals and feeling good to getting gaped by the hardcore players over and over is sure to make you think 'I'll play something else (where I can do the raping)'
Trannies told me that it stabilized at 25k playersso why is it at 13k now?
>>738327256the whole existence of trannies hinges on them lying to themselves. hope this helps
>>738327256The content has mostly ran dry. And there wasn't a lot of it in the first place. I'll probably also check out once I finish all the contracts.
>>738328431I can already foresee bungie finally releasing a new map eventually and trannies celebrating it as the game saverthen it will gain like 5k players for a week and go back down
>>738327256The whole stabilized thing is a shill narrative. The game has been losing about 17% of its players every week since launch
>>738328512That new map is what happens in a few weeks at the start of Season 2 but it's just one of the current maps except it's night time>>738328561Ironically, the attrition rate has been very stable.
>>738328512I personally expect at least a 50k bump, and then the quality of changes will determine the staying power.
This game is lightning in a bottle. I trust Bungee wholeheartedly. If there's one project nobody in the industry is worried will fail, it's Marathon. It has mainstream hit written all over it. There's no way this will flop. I could play Marathon all day,
>>738328607>but it's just one of the current maps except it's night timeThe roadmap says "UESC occupation", so I expect that there will be some structural changes. Maybe we'll even get to access the top floor of the Complex.
I don’t get the ironic shitposting because people have fun playing the game. I did too. It’s an easy shoe in for multiplayer GOTY which will again cause you lot to collectively seethe harder. Why do people like you all try to conflate playerbase with quality btw? Is it something unique to having a particular skin color?
Don't ever forget thisDon't ever stop rubbing this woke failure on trannies facesDon't let them memory hole concord and it's spiritual successors like marathon
>>738328781'UESC occupation' sounds like Division 2's 'invasions' where it just means there's a different flavor of NPC standing there today.>>738328881Weak bait. Do better.
>>738328881>It’s an easy shoe in for multiplayer GOTY>In a year where Marvel Tokon is coming out>In a year where Forza Horizon is coming out>In a year where Splatoon is coming out>In a year where From’s extraction shooter is coming out>In a year where GTAVI online is coming outMarashills are in for a rude awakening
>I don’t get the ironic shitposting because people have fun playing the game. I did too. It’s an easy shoe in for multiplayer GOTY which will again cause you lot to collectively seethe harder.>Why do people like you all try to conflate playerbase with quality btw? Is it something unique to having a particular skin color?
>>738328881>people have fun playing the game90% of day 1 players already abandoned the game
>>738329998Critics have been having a lot of fun with it and it reflects in the reviews in the end it’s their opinion that counts. I mean there are literal articles saying the same thing that I did - multiplayer GOTY is Marathon’s to lose. Personally for me it wins but we’ll see, lots to come in the year as you say. Not sure why they removed the Dire Marsh sponsored queue without any fanfare though, I’d bet it was the most popular queue. Maybe they have something cooking?
>>738330203I stopped playing Deep Rock Galactic and Helldivers 2, but that doesn't mean that I didn't have fun with them.
>check the subreddit >glazing the file size being 21gb>”i want to say thank you to the devs”>”i hope marathon survives”it’s dead jim
>>738329998With how hard every journo has been shilling for this game i dont expect it to win "best MP" but it will definitely get a pitty award like>Best Ongoing Game>Best Art Direction >Labor of Love
>>738330591Another anon said the subreddit mods have started aggressively banning any kind of negative posts about the game.
>>738330591>>”i hope marathon survives”I've been saying this since March.
>>738330591It’s hilarious how every sub copes the same way.
Sub 10k peak soon.
>>738320410SORRY FOR MARATHONING
>>738330591Why glaze the file size, it’s so small because it has no content. No cinematic, barely any maps
>>738320410you lost pajeet you retarded turd
>>738330881>No cinematichttps://youtu.be/MdZrZNogaY0https://youtu.be/MR7P-jcoQukhttps://youtu.be/BtcT_aF_KcAhttps://youtu.be/hdDIPNQdsaohttps://youtu.be/ZW3fIcz6qP8https://youtu.be/cS7nnSTTMRchttps://youtu.be/BBuwOeYRw5Qhttps://youtu.be/4mQYrf-EzCc
>>738331610can you tl;dr? i ain't watching all the cartoons
I don't know what people consider a failure anymore anyways. Even at its lowest overwatch 2 had 30k players on steam. That was a huge downgrade from overwatch 1. Now that they've rebranded the game sits at like 60k players every day. Those are just steam numbers. Meanwhile marathon sits at 13k.
>>738320410I'm not that great at math. How many Concords is 2 months?
>>738331762The thing is we know Overwatch has a huge console share and Marathon doesn’t>inb4 muh Paul TranniWe just got Sony’s most downloaded games of April and Marathon isn’t even ranked, everyone is on PC
>>738331762>13k PEAK>as low as 3k players are waiting 10 mins cuesit's getting dire
low effort Marathon post need to be banned.
>>738331878I brought up overwatch because they saw 30k concurrent players as such a threat that they relaunched the entire game, so I assume internally they considered it a failure. No idea how bungie considers marathon.
>>738331752The first one is the cinematic you see on the first game launch. The next 6 are the faction intros, all less than a minute. The last one plays when you reach season level 25, allowing you to access Cryo Archive. It's actually pretty cool to encounter it yourself since it plays shortly after you return to the lobby, after locking the controls for a bit.
>>738331879>players are waiting 10 mins cuesOnly if they are on console only crossplay. I player today and the queue times are still faster than in Deadlock.
>>738331752thanks bud
>>738331970>>738332047i was distracted by the charts again..
>>738332027No, I've heard it's anyone outside of North America. If you're in EU or Asia, the queue is absolutely fucked during your normal hours.
>>738332152matchmaking got loosened up after maintenance, now they let anyone play with anyone so it's faster, but as a downside you will see level 150s+ as a level 50
>>738332152I'm in Russia, and this is from like 2 hours ago. A bit over a minute. Obviously, I can only speak for myself, but it's clearly not "anyone".
>>738332236Letting anyone play with anyone is Bungie admitting 'matchmaking is so bad we have to drop all of the filters', which is funny.
>>738332108That webm is extra funny because it's been a month since Marathon fell beneath 30k CCU on Steam and will never get back there.
>>738333129>and will never get back there.It will go above that at the start of season 2, pretty much guaranteed. Whether it'll stay there for a while or plummet to the previous state depends entirely on Bungie.
>>738333360>pretty much guaranteedI've seen shills post similar absurd copes for the launch of Cryo (which got a measely 1-2k CCU pop that quickly faded), the first big balance patch (which had a baby pop on patch day but lower numbers on the weekend), and then when it went on 20% sale (which had no pop at all).I could see it maybe popping to 20k at the start of Season 2, but not much beyond that because it's already on track to be beneath 10k before Memorial Day.
