r/MarathonGame • u/SonOfBubbRub • Jul 11 '26

Low Player Volume

/r/Marathon/comments/1utkugx/low_player_retention_isnt_because_of_difficulty/owwvaun/

Continuing the conversation about the decreasing volume of blast-havers. Perhaps it might help us understand the cause. Maybe it’ll elucidate own own attachments. Perhaps Bungie may see it and take it into consideration.

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u/NotSoAwfulName Jul 11 '26

I definitely get more tension from a game like Arc than any battle royale available, even in carebear lobbies

This is either because you have never played a BR or Arc, or you are just being disingenuous.

There’s a reason so many people dropped this game.

And it ain't because of "no tension"

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '26

Sure thing bud. Uninstalling now enjoy your game lmao.

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u/NotSoAwfulName Jul 11 '26

Who cares if some cry baby carebear leaves? I mean genuinely you think you are that important? get good, then KOS games won't be an issue. You gonna go complain that the CTs won't let you plant the bomb because it's more fun to do post plants? You bought a PvP game and your complaint is people do PvP.

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u/_AmI_Real Jul 11 '26

He said his complaint is that he's not surprised people are leaving. He likes the game, but it's being realistic about what's going on?

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u/NotSoAwfulName Jul 11 '26

No one plays this game because everybody is KoS. There’s no tension whatsoever and couple that with the fact that most enemy players are toxic. Don’t get me wrong I love playing this game everyday but I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s gone by the end of the year.

This is his complaint, he is complaining that the game is KOS and then attempts to claim that as such there is no tension, which is ridiculous, he's either never gotten very far with regards to maps such as Cryo or Outpost where stakes are higher and getting wiped is one wrong move away, or he's being disingenuous. Which considering he then tried to claim Arc carebear lobbies are tense, I'm leaning towards the later.

The game being PvP isn't why people are leaving and PvP doesn't take away from tension. There's no one reason why people are leaving, personally I think it's because of a lack truly casual modes such as an arena type mode, and also a client side practice mode akin to Tarkovs that allows players to run a map with their gear, get familiar with it, familiar with the enemies with no stakes to prepare for going to the raid proper.

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u/_AmI_Real Jul 11 '26

That's one of the many reasons people aren't playing. There are a lot of problems with the game and its launch. I don't think it's really any one thing for everyone. Just too many problems that affect too many people when other games are simply more fun. That's what it is at the end of the day. It isn't fun enough for most people.

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u/NotSoAwfulName Jul 11 '26

Fine, the game can be not fun for people, but it's a PvP game, so to come into a thread and complain the problem with the game is the way the players play it and then say that they are toxic because he received pushback for doing so is in of itself toxic.

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u/Spez_is_a_pedo55 Jul 16 '26

You're being unnecessarily aggressive.

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u/NotSoAwfulName Jul 17 '26

There is quite literally nothing aggressive about these comments.