The player population reached a new low last night. The decline was noticeable when I watched Marathon on Twitch. The queue wait time was quite long. Interest in the game is fading. It would not be surprising if Marathon no longer reaches the 40K peak anymore. Bungie better do something quickly to attract new players, especially solo players, or the game will be dead in the near future.

IGN stated the same thing the game isn't doing too well.

Check out Flopathon. After this weekend its imploding. The paid glazers won't make a difference.,

yikes. EDIT: oh nice. They finally are letting old accounts post again without needing to play a certain amount of destiny 2.

Marathon is like that weird food combo that looks like it would suck until you take a bite of it. Once you’re chewing on it you just want to keep eating it cause it’s that good. I didn’t think I’d like extraction shooters cause I’m not the best at pvp and don’t like the prospect of losing all my loot but I was intrigued by the art style and lore of marathon so I tried the server slam. During that weekend I was 50/50 on it and couldn’t tell what I thought of the game. The following week though, I kept finding myself thinking about some aspect of it that had intrigued me and kept wishing I could play more. I decided to go ahead and buy it and got hooked within the first hour or so. A lot of people I’m sure are turned off by the genre, by bungies bad reputation in recent years, by marathons bad reputation from last summer, by all the trolls who have made it their personal vendetta to see it fail without even playing (I had a friend who tried the marathon server slam who told me he hated it because it sucked and arc raiders was way better and then he said he only tried the fist mission before deleting—first mission as in the tutorial), that being said, if you actually give it a chance and try a few games and try to learn it, it will hook you too. It can be pretty hard at times but I heard someone describe it as poker with guns and I think that’s a great way of looking at both it, and the broader extraction shooter genre. You can go all in and win it all, or lose everything on a bad hand. I just hope it actually gets the chance it needs by Sony to find its footing and try to recruit more players for its future health instead of them making a nejerk response of canning it and/or firing people working on it because it didn’t perform financially like the wanted out of the gate. It’s been very well made (glad I can at least say this since it’s development sucked the life out of Destiny) and if they let it go under by pulling the plug it will be such a shame.

Both things can be true. Marathon was (unfortunately) designed to be a game with limited appeal. But it can still be very good for what it is as a game. Now whether it will turn a profit is another story….

?????? Highest player count on Steam was a bit above 88k. 70% of Marathon players are on PC. Where are they? Did a bunch of people buy the collector’s edition then decide to NOT play?

I’ve noticed their advertising has been pretty lazy. Like I have seen trailers around and while they are cool they are also very stylish but perhaps confusing and don’t really say what the game is about. The main thing I noticed is that I didn’t even see a big banner for it on steam or anything on launch. I was surprised by that.

Not to mention platform like Steam take a cut, so they don’t make 40$ on each sales. And looking at player count Cryo seems to had the opposite effect of bringing people. It barely peaked above 40k yesterday. Just a correction though, the game can be good and be a commercial failure. This isn’t mutually exclusive

Pretty much concord situation, just the matter if marathon lasts longer than concord or not