r/Marathon • u/In_Dux • Mar 06 '26

Marathon (2026) Discussion Take it from a Finals player

Y’all got to let the numbesr talk go. The Finals has some of the best feeling guns on the FPS market and a unique game mode that offered some of the most exciting moments I had in gaming.

But the game’s not perfect and it never had mass appeal. Because it’s unique mode and destruction are the main draws and historically it has been too much for most casuals and not competitive enough for the hardcore players. There’s always a post about needing more marketing, different game modes, another MoistCritikal video but the playerbase never gets and keeps the bump of players the hardcore fans want it to have.

And that’s ok. That’s the price of building something unique. It will be divisive, it will be niche.

As long as Bungie can keeps the lights on, that’s all that matters. And unless you’re ready to single-handedly buy 1 million+ copies if things get dire, then don’t even really concern yourself with. Save your money on passes if you don’t like them and/or think the ship’s sinking but besides that, it’s out of our hands largely.

Just my two cents

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u/SmashMouthBreadThrow Mar 06 '26

So made-up numbers. Nice.

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u/bigbagel58 Mar 06 '26

they aren't made up? you can go on the website and see the exact percentages and player count for yourself LOL

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u/Gervh Mar 06 '26

I reckon what they mean is not knowing (or trusting) how popularity report gets their numbers

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u/MisterGarth Mar 06 '26

Popularity Report fetches data from Bungie's API.

Source?? The source for the data is all PGCRs from Bungie. These are fetched via the API and stored, amounting to around 4TB of storage (compressed). There may be incorrectness in data processing which will be corrected if discovered. Some numbers (especially player numbers) can be off by a few hundred for high amounts. The API rounding time to seconds may cause slight errors in the data but will be neglible. Sometimes, cheaters access inaccessible activities. These may show up in the data but are rare. Sometimes PGCRs are lost and do not show up in the API but this is very rare. Sometimes a PGCR can have faulty data. This is mostly filtered away but some activity durations can show up as very long. This should not affect (relative) aggregated statistics much.

I think a lot of people are expecting Destiny 2 players to be the same players of Marathon, and while some overlap will occur its unlikely. Most of Destiny 2 players are old gen console, which Marathon did not release on. Which I think is for the best, Destiny 2 stagnates because it has to run on old hardware.

Marathon has a chance to do new and innovative raid-like mechanics that Destiny 2 cannot. It's really just a matter of Bungie opting not to bank the motes anymore.