| Greykun said: "and the blame lies on people talking about it?" Talking about it woudln't be a problem. It's propably biggest hate train I've ever seen in gaming (maybe on pair with DA: The Veilguard). On every post, every video, every twitt about Marathon there is always dozens of steam chart warriors who, tbh, quite efficiently discourage new people from trying Marathon. No new players equals player count going down (it's not only Marathon problem, every game looses players, look at Arc) cos even HC fans of the game is not enough. Funny thing is most of them didn't even play Marathon, they just want it become Concord 3 and will do everything they can to destroy it. |
Why are people discouraged? That makes no sense to me? I play games because I want to play them, regardless of what others say. And I like plenty of obscure or onpopular games. But more importantly: how does it discourage you, once you already played the game? Beforehand makes at least some sense, but after? If you experienced the game then you fall off the game because you are disinterested, not because of stuff said online.
How much effect online hate has shows Hogwarts Legacy. There were a lot of people who wanted you to discourage from playing it. But did it work? It sits as one very successful release.
And if only the online hate would discourage people, when the ones playing it would still love it and it would morph into a cult niche game. But did that happen with Veilguard for instance? No, because players were more lukewarm about it. If they cared, the hate train would be nullified. But they don't care. And that probably spells a bad future for a game, with or without online haters.
