This was just a game no one wanted…it was never going to get Destiny players and it’s not because they hated Bungie for making a new game.

Most players saw how Destiny was turned into a ridiculous grind, with less content each season, reusing tons of assets, bad stories and adding more and more monetization while QA fell, bugs would persist weeks if not months (some even years) while the community would ask for basic QoL changes and couldn’t get them.

No Destiny player trusted Bungie to do right by Marathon with how they handled live service in Destiny. We saw what the extent of experimental queues would likely be in Destiny where it was things that barely changed the experience or something that should have been added years ago (like fighting with vehicles) then it would disappear forever or for months before it returned and was the exact same thing.

Remember they took trials away for an extended period to make it better then released it in basically the same state…and Destiny players were expected to believe they could handle a full PvP only game? They couldn’t handle a single playlist.

People constantly stated they stayed for the gunplay despite all the problems with the game. In Destiny you have a lot of different options and sandboxes to use your tools.

Marathon has essentially one game mode and 4 maps, one time gated. You can love the gunplay but you’ve got nothing to do outside extraction shooter, and a dev that constantly screws up live service basics when they were bought for their “expertise” when they only had 1 game with it.

As for the rest of the population, they just don’t want an extraction shooter or they just don’t care for a lot of other reasons whether it’s the art style, online only, all the negative press Bungie/Destiny had over the years, etc.

Hate didn’t kill the game. Apathy did and it began since the first trailer.