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I fully understand the economy concern and issue. Probably would be able to get a lot of prestige salvage. Rich get richer for the best players and streamers who can play all the time. BUT I’ve been seeing those same people run Prestige Key carries all week

I haven't really been worried about Marathon's population. But if Bungie is going to lock their very cool sounding pinnacle activity that is the NAMESAKE OF THE GAME behind weekends? That's a barrier to entry that is going to take people from "I'll check it out" to "no thanks"

@Ziegler_Dev @Ziegler_Dev yeah but the issue right now is people with weekend schedules literally CANT participate. So what if I spend all week preparing, I can’t enter because I work all weekend.

Cryo and Ranked are coming and we're excited to see players battle it out over Tau Ceti and traverse into the big scary moon-like ship in the sky. We've put out a few posts about Cryo, poured through the variety of comments and feedback we've seen so far, and wanted to take some time to explain some of the initial decisions we've made around Cryo and Ranked with regards to weekend scheduling. So without further ado, here's what we have been thinking: We are of course always iterating and are open to looking at other options in the future, but the Ranked/Cryo Archive weekend decision is really built around three points: - Preparing: We acknowledge that players will lose a lot of gear on Cryo and Ranked because it is intended to challenge you to your limits. As a result of that, it's important that Cryo and Ranked feel like an event you can schedule towards, grind gear up to do, etc. The loop of spend time grinding gear to spend it in Cryo or Ranked is reflected in this choice as a weekly cycle. - Economy Talk: We have some great rewards on Cryo that kind of break the bank when it comes to economy and power gain. If we were to look at having it open all the time, we'd probably have to adjust how frequently you can earn these rewards so that we don't flood the game with amazing loot all of a sudden. - Logistics Time: Cryo and Ranked both have entry requirements (gear ante) that are built around the idea of you matching with other players on an equal investment level. They also both have a high level requirement to ensure you've experienced enough of the game to understand the challenges inherent to the game. This inherently makes the amount of people in that queue at any time unpredictable. Both of these experiences also need a consistent flow of players in the queue to make sure matches are full to retain the challenge. To reduce the match times and allow players to find matches quicker, making it a scheduled event means more players will show up during that window and feed the queue pool better. We also acknowledge that there are likely some who cannot participate on the weekend or are excited about the experience and want to no-life it for weeks, and we appreciate that. We'll be looking into what we can do to retain these considerations and potentially accommodate this in the future. Things we may iterate on in the future: - Staggering Ranked and Cryo queues more so they overlap less - Looking at changing the days we do either Cryo or Ranked - Changing the ante values of Cryo or Ranked - Looking at any other conditions (solo experience, crew fill experience, etc.) and iterating on it! Marathon is an evolving game and part of evolving is seeing how this initial launch plays out and adjusting as we go =). Thanks for the feedback, keep it coming and we'll update you when we figure out the next evolution.

wait Ranked AND Cryo are weekend only? That seems...not great

@BKirby112 @sTYLz2021 @MarathonMedia01 I really do get it :(

@SadDaysFriends @sTYLz2021 @MarathonMedia01 Yea idk. I bought deluxe, spent money on skins. I’m IN LOVE with this game, I don’t wanna stop playing, don’t wanna refund. But I just can’t really justify playing anymore if they don’t make some changes. It’d be the equivalent of me never getting to play a new raid in D2

‼️CONFIRMED: CRYO ARCHIVE IS WEEKEND ONLY This isn’t always available. 🔓 Opens on weekends 📅 First run: March 20 Miss your window… and you’ll have to wait #Marathon | #MarathonGame

@WhySoDolo @Link455 @MarathonMedia01 I agree man I’m just bummed. I was so excited for ranked and cryo.

@SadDaysFriends @Link455 @MarathonMedia01 I get it and you’re allowed to be upset. Im not happy about it either but i also can see it from the devs point of view. They’ve been listening to the fan base so far so lets just see what happens after this first weekend.

@BKirby112 @sTYLz2021 @MarathonMedia01 That’s how I feel exactly, I feel steam should make a special exception for refunds if the developers decide to time lock gamemodes with no thought for anyone’s schedules.

@SadDaysFriends @sTYLz2021 @MarathonMedia01 With this schedule I get NO cryo and only Monday night of ranked. Literally could not be worse for me. If I can’t go cryo why even keep playing?

@ChefGeeky @Ziegler_Dev I work at a skin and tissue center and have the same complaint. Somebody HAS to work weekends, so every weekend I work 12 hours on both Saturday and Sunday

@Ziegler_Dev I think having the other way around would be way better, I dont really care for ranked but I am excited for Cryo but at the same time I work in restaurants and means weekends are 10-12 hour shifts that leave me exhausted to even play games after work.

FYI: Here's the current schedule for Cryo/Ranked. Cryo: Unlocks at 10 AM PT on Friday (first opens on Friday 3/20) Closes at 10 AM PT on Monday (first closes on Monday 3/23) Ranked: Unlocks at 10 AM PT on Saturday (first opens on Saturday 3/21) Closes at 10 AM PT on Tuesday (first closes on Tuesday 3/24) Once again, as we see and learn more we're open to iterating on the schedule in future updates. Good luck you brave souls.

@BKirby112 @sTYLz2021 @MarathonMedia01 I mean so with this schedule I miss 2/3rds of cryo working weekends and I miss 1/2 ranked days. It just sucks. The weekend is the only time I have a hard time gaming due to work.

@SadDaysFriends @sTYLz2021 @MarathonMedia01

i rly dont like this ngl

Making this weekends only punsihes people like me: Fathers who want to hang out with their wife and kid They should reconsider this idea

@Onepeg It just kills all my excitement, I work 12s on Saturday/Sunday. Meaning I’ll miss the whole thing, unless it’s open Friday-Monday in which I will miss half of it

Cryo opens tomorrow. However: I had said in a prior tweet that it looked to be only on weekends. Not a fan of this idea.

@WhySoDolo @Link455 @MarathonMedia01 I mean I get it, but choosing between running ranks or cryo is already going to be tough, and losing out on Saturday and Sunday as somebody who works 12s is ROUGH. I just wanna play the new content I the game I paid for.

@Link455 @SadDaysFriends @MarathonMedia01 We don’t know if this is a dumb decision till we see how it affects the economy and queues this weekend. Am I happy about weekends only no. But i definitely get the initial decision because those are two major things to think about when introducing endgame high stakes content

@sTYLz2021 @BKirby112 @MarathonMedia01 I really and mean REALLY hope so.

@BKirby112 @SadDaysFriends @MarathonMedia01 I think it will be open on Monday and Tuesday too, like trials in Destiny. Don't take my word for it though.

@WholesomeRaf @MarathonMedia01 @MarathonDevTeam Yeah @MarathonDevTeam the way this content is being handled is a huge fumble to your players, please reconsider.

@SadDaysFriends @MarathonMedia01 👆🏻@MarathonDevTeam Time locked is cool, but open it on random days or something like that

@WhySoDolo @MarathonMedia01 Yeah but people who work Saturday/Sunday all day have no valid way to even participate anymore with this news

@MarathonMedia01 I kinda understand. Because a lot of people especially at first are gonna be losing quite a few kits. So they got all week to grind back up

The news for @MarathTheGame only releasing ranked game modes and crypto labs on weekends only is incredibly disheartening. As somebody who works all weekend every weekend there’s now a core experience in the game I paid for that I can no longer participate in #marathon #bungie

@JaegerDeus @KryDotExe The issue for me is I work primarily on weekends so now I and stuck unable to experience any of this in a game Ive paid for and content I was excited to do :(

@KryDotExe It kinda makes sense. Both require an upfront investment. You build up your gear over the week, you 'spend' it in ranked or Cryo. Having both all weak just spreads the audience over separate playlists. Better to focus everybody interested in the endgame together.

This is super cool obviously, but no offense Weekends only? The same time period as Ranked? Are we serious?

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