

Loopie
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@Loopie333
Gamer, Nerd, Dick! In progress. Sober for the first time in many years.






The "popularity" of Marathon may have been astroturfed. Evidence from the leaked Discord thread shows they were allegedly paid $5 per main Reddit post and $3 per comment/reply. There is no confirmation yet whether this is true or not, but it could signal Bungie's desperation to combat the negative press the game is getting... because 19K off peak and barely over 40k on peak hours is not gonna be enough to sustain this game long term, due to the costs and budget of the game. Steam review manipulations have also occurred in the past with games like SKIBIDI BACKROOMS, Monsters Domain, Lonely Knight, and Blue Archive. But the disconnect between high steam reviews and the rapidly vanishing playerbase is real... and some people are saying that the positive Marathon reviews are allegedly coming from low-playtime accounts. Even recently, Bungie was accused of scrubbing negative feedback on the Xbox store, where the ratings jumped from ~2.5 to 4+ stars after negatives vanished...







CONFIRMED: There really is 'Twitter task' content farm for Marathon. Here's a post from their Discord:





Bungie gives us the best extraction game to date, one of the best art directions in a MP game ever, insanely tight gunplay and amazing end-game maps. Everyone who plays Marathon is having fun. Sad, broken man cries instead of enjoying what he enjoys (probably nothing)


A ‘Marathon’ Reality Check: It’s A Good Game, But It’s Not A Hit via @forbes forbes.com/sites/paultass…




A ‘Marathon’ Reality Check: It’s A Good Game, But It’s Not A Hit via @forbes forbes.com/sites/paultass…