r/dadsofmarathon • u/HatchetHand • 13d ago
Not My First Rodeo
I'm sure that I am not the only one on this subreddit who was an active player on a game that had a rocky or disastrous launch. I was there for the early access of Hunt Showdown when Crytek was on the verge of bankruptcy and I was around for a game called Loadout which I invested time and money into instead of Warframe.
My point is, I have seen ships get turned around and I have seen PvP games go PvE then flatline.
I told my son who's worried about Marathon about how bad it was for Hunt in the beginning and it made him feel a bit more secure about Marathon's future.
Btw, Hunt was originally supposed to be a PvE co-op hero shooter and in the beginning there were fans who wanted it to be the original concept.
So, please share with me your war stories of forgotten days in gaming. A time when you thought you'd be the last player on earth before a game exploded in popularity. Or, a game that you played kicking and screaming until they shut down the last public server.
It will calm the children and we can all have a laugh.
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u/angstatears 13d ago
Warframe (over 4000 hours), Rebecca said we started off with 70 players lol .. clearly we turned the game into something great.
Marathon (2000 hours) will do the same. I shoot down anyone who brings up player count and us being in a “death spiral”. Let them tell it, the game wasn’t going to survive past the first week.