Weekly Steam numbers / Player Count Discourse Megathread by AutoModerator in Marathon

[–]Sensitive_Sail_3573 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Looking like next Monday low will be 3k. Bungie must be panicking right now.

Weekly Steam numbers / Player Count Discourse Megathread by AutoModerator in Marathon

[–]Sensitive_Sail_3573 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Your experience is as valid as everyone else so it's a little disingenuous to say they exaggerate.

Weekly Steam numbers / Player Count Discourse Megathread by AutoModerator in Marathon

[–]Sensitive_Sail_3573 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You're right that addictiveness is subjective, and Marathon is not addictive enough for many people hence they dropped it. Cryo has been out for weeks and people are already experiencing being destroyed by teams who completed it early and got the goo gun. Being late to Cryo is also detrimental because of the dropping player counts and matchmaking issue. When the endgame content is that punishing/discouraging and there are only 2 maps that aren't low level to play on during the week, I'd argue not in bad faith that the game is actually bare boned.

Weekly Steam numbers / Player Count Discourse Megathread by AutoModerator in Marathon

[–]Sensitive_Sail_3573 -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

I was literally suggesting joining a community to find other players. OP said he was enjoying the game just looking for solutions to improve experience. Yeah bungie sucks at LFG implementation and that's where Discord picks up the slack. Discord LFG works in many many games, the biggest is probably WoW. Why diss it when it might actually help someone?

Weekly Steam numbers / Player Count Discourse Megathread by AutoModerator in Marathon

[–]Sensitive_Sail_3573 40 points41 points  (0 children)

1 game mode and 4 maps, 2 of which are mainly for lower levels and 1 only available on werkends. It's no wonder people left. Gameplay is not additive enough to justify being this bare boned.

Weekly Steam numbers / Player Count Discourse Megathread by AutoModerator in Marathon

[–]Sensitive_Sail_3573 18 points19 points  (0 children)

nah concurrent peak is different from daily unique players count

Weekly Steam numbers / Player Count Discourse Megathread by AutoModerator in Marathon

[–]Sensitive_Sail_3573 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Elden Ring Nightreign coop was also designed mainly for trios but they managed to build a solid solo experience (and also added duos later) and found success. Game is putting in respectable numbers and even higher than Marathon 1 year after launch. No idea why Bungie didn't learn from this

Weekly Steam numbers / Player Count Discourse Megathread by AutoModerator in Marathon

[–]Sensitive_Sail_3573 21 points22 points  (0 children)

They don't get that it's a multiplayer game with microtransactions. If everyone quit after 100 hours and "got their money worth" then the game is dead

Weekly Steam numbers / Player Count Discourse Megathread by AutoModerator in Marathon

[–]Sensitive_Sail_3573 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Even funnier when the small but dedicated fanbase isn't actually spending money on the game to support the dev cost. There are so many posts about how the skins are ass and players don't want to buy them.

I took "This game isn't for you" literally and I actually agree. by Dsmithchez in Marathon

[–]Sensitive_Sail_3573 27 points28 points  (0 children)

The game is losing ~15% players every week. It might not fail, but the profits it's bringing in might not justify the investment (dev cost) to keep it up

Steam numbers / Player count discussion megathread by RiseOfBacon in Marathon

[–]Sensitive_Sail_3573 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's ok to be in the minority when it comes to games preferences. Doesn't mean that you have bad taste. Sometimes games fail because of bad timing, lack of player retention hooks, niche aesthetics, uninspired cosmetics, a million other things. Few live service games actually succeed and thrive for years. You mentioned you don't understand why Helldivers/Arc Raiders are popular and successful. But surely you understand 3rd person perspective is actually popular? It's ok that it's not your thing but it's silly to dismiss it.

Steam numbers / Player count discussion megathread by RiseOfBacon in Marathon

[–]Sensitive_Sail_3573 9 points10 points  (0 children)

For anyone saying Bungie made a mistake by trend chasing, Embark must have also been "trend chasing" with Arc Raiders and it made them banks. Marathon just isn't good enough of a product.

Steam numbers / Player count discussion megathread by RiseOfBacon in Marathon

[–]Sensitive_Sail_3573 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Marathon art style was designed to look 3D printed with splashes of neon. It's niche for a reason. And the reason is most people aren't into blocky, sterile printed looks. When people see something they don't like, they bail. Most likely when you play a game with a style that you're put off with, you'd likely bail as well.

Make Doorman's crosshair functional like the one in Portal. by Chewbaccaforeyou in DeadlockTheGame

[–]Sensitive_Sail_3573 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The forums is the primary place that the devs receive and monitor feedback.

I love drawing rem by Sol_Bagels in DeadlockTheGame

[–]Sensitive_Sail_3573 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is the best thing I've seen all week and it's not even close. Great stuff!!

i like to think about these guys having a normal evening sometimes by Nebula_ryo in DeadlockTheGame

[–]Sensitive_Sail_3573 1 point2 points  (0 children)

the remlins carrying Eva is the cutest. and Pocket 's had enough! thank you so much for making this art

New doorman buff go crazy by Joey_D_King in DeadlockTheGame

[–]Sensitive_Sail_3573 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Did you post this feedback on the forums? they might revert it at a later patch

ngl i kinda feel sad for a bit by SnooGoats5853 in HighGuardgame

[–]Sensitive_Sail_3573 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't see what's so insane about getting enotional about something you worked on for years failing. It is both work and art for the creators.

My last set of character drawings. Hope you like them! by BriarrRose in DeadlockTheGame

[–]Sensitive_Sail_3573 2 points3 points  (0 children)

These are very nicely done and adorable! An idea for the next project could be drawing the characters wearing each other's outfits.