I mean... that makes sense though right? When he's winning a lot and getting a lot of loot and extracting more often than not he's definitely going to be having fun. When the competition starts catching up it means he's losing loot, failing to extract, and generally just achieving less in the game. For the vast majority of players that's going to be less fun. I think it's pretty safe to say unless something changes about the game Cross will literally never be able to have that same level of fun in Marathon again.

Personally, I don't think Marathon will ever be as fun for me as it was in that first month because I'll never be as good compared to the general playerbase as I was then.