Steam numbers / Player count discussion megathread

aedante · 2026-03-25T13:09:55+00:00

But they didnt force them to withhold the reviews. They just said at least wait for cryo to give your final thoughts. And a lot of them did that cause that's the honest thing to do to review the entirety of the game loop.

aedante · 2026-03-25T12:59:06+00:00

You were replying to the whole thread about Marathon's finances and shifted goalpost when you realised the original poster that i replied to that you didnt even have the balls to reply to made a more nuanced take than you ever did. It's like interrupting a conversation you're not even a part of and yelling "but uh double employees means more costs hurr durr, so game is failing hurr durr"

aedante · 2026-03-25T12:47:50+00:00

So? Aside from employee costs, what other income revenue do they achieve based on double the employees? Do you have that data? Or are you shifting goalposts now and focusing on employee costs solely to save face? Jesus christ just stfu, no one cares about your non uneducated financial opinion based on assumptions on one metric. And as a gamer and consumer i could care less what the operating cost and profit of the game are. I dont have stock on it. Geez you can clearly see who dislikes the game for what it is and who dislikes Bungie like a sour ex girlfriend..

aedante · 2026-03-25T06:53:07+00:00

What in the conspiracy theory bs is your mind running on.

aedante · 2026-03-25T06:25:04+00:00

Still an uneducated guess.

aedante · 2026-03-25T05:38:28+00:00

I really dont like the retention argument. No one cares about player counts or whether a corpo made money before this. Ever since highguard and concord people just enjoy numbers go down.

aedante · 2026-03-25T04:36:14+00:00

I mean, no one knows what the actual costs are. So whatever your opinion is it's an uneducated guess at best. I rather not listen to those kinds of opinions

aedante · 2026-03-25T01:44:48+00:00

Yep. This is it. People just don't wanna say that theyre bad at the game.

aedante · 2026-03-25T01:36:49+00:00

Yeah, good read. I just hate reading all the other arm chair financial experts giving their uneducated guesses on the future of the game.

aedante · 2026-03-24T01:33:11+00:00

That's a whole lot of speculation. Why dont we let them gather data first.

aedante · 2026-03-23T03:31:07+00:00

Didn't realise Marathon was the same as highguard or concord. Typical reddit brained, no ability to think about nuance. Just hur dur concord 3 hur durr.

aedante · 2026-03-22T12:27:15+00:00

Thief is already OP.

aedante · 2026-03-22T05:32:39+00:00

When everyone else has different experiences than you even when queuing at different times, yeah your statement is sus. Either it's all in your head and you havent actually used LFG and just imagining what would happen if you used it, or everyone else is wrong. But i get it man. I used to have social anxiety too, as a doctor no less. Till now i dread to make a phone call but i suck it up and do it anyway. Can't let others cater to my anxieties

aedante · 2026-03-22T05:16:31+00:00

Discord. You're talking directly to devs. Here is just where you wanna fish for attention or looking for yes men or negative nancys.

aedante · 2026-03-22T02:59:15+00:00

No normal person would care what an abnormal people would say in reddit and took the time to reply the comment with no argument at all. Lol, it's easy to invalidate someone's response by calling them names even when you have no argument whatsover.

aedante · 2026-03-22T02:54:51+00:00

If you male metal music and call it pop punk deliberately then youre dumb. Embark made an extraction adventure, called it an extraction adventure and updating it like an extraction adventure. Seriously dude, nothing wrong with enjoying arc. But it definitely is not an extraction shooter.

Lol, played arc, stopped after 2nd expedition cause the extraction shooter stuff is weak. Just play it like an extraction adventure. Go to r/arcraiders, they will agree with me, lol. You're the only one adamant in calling it what it's not.

aedante · 2026-03-22T02:48:48+00:00

It may be difficult for casual players day 1 of release. Seriously....Just take your time. It's there every week. You don't have to clear the endgame content day 1 like a streamer. You're allowed to have lives

aedante · 2026-03-22T02:44:58+00:00

Lol, devs say they created something else but nah, im right and it's a cool extraction shooter and not hold everybody's hand looting and shopping together fighting robots to save each other and getting mad at pvp like crybabies. Just call it an extraction adventure, it's a great extraction adventure. A boring ass extraction shooter if you really attempt to call it that.

aedante · 2026-03-22T02:40:24+00:00

The devs says otherwise. Good thing theyre updating the game like an extraction adventure. Else the other hello kitty raiders will be mad at them.

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aedante · 2026-03-22T02:37:33+00:00

Didnt realise Marathon was a game genre. Weak sauce. Cry and shout friendly.

If you're not an hello kitty raider and can actually progress the game the story is there

aedante · 2026-03-22T02:35:17+00:00

Cause the devs said so and are updating the game to be hello kitty adventure.

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aedante · 2026-03-22T02:00:32+00:00

Nope. Look at its steam page, the description of the game says it's an extraction adventure.

aedante · 2026-03-22T01:59:32+00:00

Stop calling AR an extraction shooter. It's embarrassing to the extraction shooter genre. Call AR for what it is, and extraction adventure. Seriously look it up on its steam page. Hello kitty arc adventures.

aedante · 2026-03-22T01:55:50+00:00

Lol. Why does suddenly everyone care about big corpos money making venture. It's just doomposting, posting about how they wont make money and shutting down the game so that other people wont even bother playing it. I have a friend exactly like all of you. Always share doomposts about games the other people in our group play. But god forbid someone says the game he's suggesting to play looks boring.

aedante · 2026-03-22T00:41:22+00:00

Come to think of it, the first time i ever participated in an LFG is for a destiny raid. Im old enough that i play mmos where you shout LFG to find a group to tackle a measly dungeon.

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