Ashlee
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They would 100% pull marathon if the player count got too low. They’d need to pay salaries and infrastructure. They’re not an indie studio, they’ve got to return money to investors
Pirat_Nation 🔴@Pirat_Nation
Shroud thinks Bungie won’t shut down Marathon if reach low player numbers "Even if they had five players, I don't think they would pull it. It's just the sunk cost fallacy, right? You're just too invested at that point."
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Sony's dynamic pricing now charges some accounts more money for logging in.
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this is blatantly anti-consumer design and needed to be banned yesterday
Wario64@Wario64
Sony's PlayStation Store has been testing dynamic pricing on games - varying prices displayed for the same product to different people A/B testing on about 139 games across 68 regions with price differences between 5.3% to 17.9% (the test only included price decreases, not price hikes) polygon.com/playstation-st…
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@bumbadum14 Honestly when a game like Arc Raiders exists it’s kinda hard to justify paying for Marathon. Maybe if it was free
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Marathon has literally dropped its playerbase by 50% in 3 days. It’s not being reviewbombed. It’s just bad
Pirat_Nation 🔴@Pirat_Nation
Marathon is being review-bombed on Metacritic by users.
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@JoweesaurusRex @Pirat_Nation I didn’t expect the playerbase to be Chinese lol
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@Pirat_Nation It's easy to see where the largest difference comes from if you look at the steam review breakdown, and when Slay the Spire hits it peak.
Slay the Spire has a large Asian audience, and Marathon has none.
First screenshot is Marathon, second is StS.
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Indie game Slay the Spire 2 has surpassed 524,000 concurrent players on Steam, now in the top 20 games with the highest all-time peaks on Steam.
Meanwhile, AAA game Marathon has lost almost half its players.
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@Pirat_Nation I’m really enjoying Slay the spire 2. I wish marathon had some sort of single player but… eh…
If I want to play an extraction shooter I’ll play Arc Raiders
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MegaCrit, devs of Slay the Spire 2, are now dunking on Bungie's Marathon.
The game has broken 400,000 concurrent players on Steam while Marathon didn't even reach 100k.
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