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.

Doesn't change that Marathon dropped on consoles like crazy. I'm not talking about how it's behind the big evergreens, I'm talking about how it dropped behind 50 other games already weeks ago and could be already behind 100 other games by now and that on Xbox where Bungie is still a well known and respected dev.