Will Marathon Survive?

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Trentonater said:

crissindahouse said:

Not surprising that people talk about the rather low player count of a game made by one of the biggest gaming studios (Bungie) and owned by one of the biggest gaming companies (Sony) on earth. A studio which released games like Halo 2, 3, Destiny and so on which are all part of the most successful shooters played online on consoles. Destiny made over 500m on the first day. The Bungie Halo games broke records as well and then people are surprised that there are many discussions about how successful Marathon is?

If Marathon would be very successful on consoles and would only have a low player count on Steam this would be totally different but it left the most played games on Xbox and Playstation even faster as on Steam. 

Marathon is the most searched game on steamdb. There are people who spend more time watcihng the green line than they do playing any games at all which is sad no matter how you try to frame it. it would be better for everyone if people just ignored games that didn't interest them. Also the active player rankings on console don't correlate very well to steam or to copies sold. As Mat Piscatella himself is quick to point out. A big problem on console is that the top consoles games by active users are evergreen games that are impossible to unseat even by the very best selling games of the year.

I doubt that is true. Also such a bizarre stance to have on a website for tracking and discussing videogame sales. Especially with a game that could have a big impact on how bungie is run in the future.