crissindahouse said:
I'm not saying that Marathon is a big failure and we have to watch how the player numbers will develop over time (the average can also increase again with updates) but this is a bad comparison. Grounded 2: that's a "small" project worked on by a much smaller team and the costs to let the game run on the servers will need much less people as a competitive pvp game like Marathon. It's also a Game Pass title so Game Pass users don't need to buy it. Sea of Thieves: that game is very old now and it's already above Marathon in the weekly most played Xbox charts. Marathon not even in the top 40 anymore. Not sure about PS because both aren't in the top 40 anymore. Halo Infinite: also old now, not really considered as a success for MS but still a very important franchise for MS so that they won't let it fall. It's also already above Marathon in the most played Xbox charts. The Finals: well, that was never considered a real success. Seems to make enough money not to stop the support but maybe it's much more cost efficient as Marathon with probably some of the best paid game devs in the whole industry working on it. |
Thats exactly what im trying to say, just wait and see instead of doom posting every time steam charts for a game goes up or down. Steam player numbers don't guarantee if a game will keep going or not.
Sea of theives is younger than a lot of live service games that has over 100k player so that's hardly an excuse. It also has less all time peak players than marathon during launch day. Halo infinite also promised a 10 year support yet its been cut and dropped already only after 4 years....old or not that sounds more like a failure to me than where marathon is at. Halo is a flag ship franchise that used to sell 10m and push console sales now it has less than 3k players daily on steam vs marathon an IP that has been dormant and not touched from the 90s.
4 years into its ’10-year plan’, Halo Infinite is officially ending major updates | VGC
And do you have a link to show what exact player numbers xbox has for these games? Do you think theres some 100k players comming from xbox just because its on the weekly most played list? xbox has the smallest install base of any platform for all we know being in the top weekly played means a whooping 5k players and on top of that its also being thrown in subscription service giving easier access to play compared to paying $40 to get access like marathon. Like I said a lot of these post sounds like a bunch of hunch and feelings with no official confirmation.
