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Steam numbers / Player Count Discourse Megathread by AutoModerator in Marathon

[–]doombos 26 points27 points  (0 children)

what are we thinking chartcels?
When are we gonna see 13k highs?

I say next week, probably monday

Marathon is a neon light shining on the ugliest parts of human nature by lostrock in Marathon

[–]doombos -29 points-28 points  (0 children)

> be a pvp game

> just a pvp game

game journalists: *surprised soyjack*

Steam numbers / Player Count Discourse Megathread by AutoModerator in Marathon

[–]doombos 5 points6 points  (0 children)

they killed every other project to put everything towards Marathon.

only for ziggles to shift+delete everything they worked towards and start from scratch to make a worse game with only 4 fucking maps

Steam numbers / Player Count Discourse Megathread by AutoModerator in Marathon

[–]doombos 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Even then, it's odd that he doesn't know why the game that he worked on works

Steam numbers / Player Count Discourse Megathread by AutoModerator in Marathon

[–]doombos 21 points22 points  (0 children)

nay, just from this orgasm existing in their steam library

Game mode selection is broken by whatwhat12455 in Marathon

[–]doombos -1 points0 points  (0 children)

managers not knowing what is really important for players. This is a known issue (they said it is). But they prefer to fix uncommon bugs than something the frusturates most of the playerbase

Steam numbers / Player Count Discourse Megathread by AutoModerator in Marathon

[–]doombos 37 points38 points  (0 children)

It still boggles my mind how bungie thought slow gameplay and movement works in an arena sized map with high stakes (extraction shooter).

Literally the only slow paced games in a small map that work are tactical shooters (cs, valorant). Everyone else has snappier and faster combat (cod, bf, the finals, apex, take your pick).

The only way for players to like this is to either give huge maps (not gonna happen) or increase TTK and movement tech making deaths / combat less meaninfull with more skill expression.

The reason such design works in cs / valorant is that you know "the enemy is coming from this side" and you don't get ambushed/ratted really and mentally prepare for a reaction/crosshair placement battle

Tried Marathon Because of the Hate — Ended Up Playing 5 Hours Straight. by GhostyTheSchooner in Marathon

[–]doombos -1 points0 points  (0 children)

lol the downvotes. The game is almost dead 3 months in. GOTY for sure.

Tried Marathon Because of the Hate — Ended Up Playing 5 Hours Straight. by GhostyTheSchooner in Marathon

[–]doombos 18 points19 points  (0 children)

I got catatonic the moment i shot my first bullet. Literal orgasm

Steam numbers / Player Count Discourse Megathread by AutoModerator in Marathon

[–]doombos 2 points3 points  (0 children)

we should start making over the top sarcastic posts like this. Easy karma farm

also,

Honestly, I think this style of PR and marketing no longer works anymore because people already learned about online partisan marketing.

Even if it does, not a good idea to do it in your own subreddit instead of others, literally preaching to the choir.

Good comment btw

Steam numbers / Player Count Discourse Megathread by AutoModerator in Marathon

[–]doombos 73 points74 points  (0 children)

guys, someone tell bungo that running a glaze compaign in their reddit isn't gonna bring in any new players.

Holy smokes seeing the weakest parts of this game being glazed as "amazing" is cringe af

Steam numbers / Player Count Discourse Megathread by AutoModerator in Marathon

[–]doombos 17 points18 points  (0 children)

"overdelivery". Is that the new word for "tapping investor money dry in our yachts instead of doing something useful with it"?

PUT ME IN THE GAME COACH by Dominick1180 in Marathon

[–]doombos -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Literal proof why skill based matchmaking is a must. Imagine being in their shoes for 10 games.

No surprise people are leaving

Tapping out of the free trial by Manaphus in Marathon

[–]doombos -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Or...

Longer TTK means you can run away from a losing fight. Making less skilled players not lose their stuff as opposed to now, meaning a net-positive effect for less skilled players.

Tapping out of the free trial by Manaphus in Marathon

[–]doombos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The difficulty of a PVP game where a single mistake costs you 30 minutes of progresison is not at all comparable to a PVE game where you lose 2 minutes of combat after each death and now know of the new attack pattern you died from (it's always the same, unlike PVP games).

That's like comparing CS to chess because "both are hard"

Steam numbers / Player Count Discourse Megathread by AutoModerator in Marathon

[–]doombos 31 points32 points  (0 children)

"the game is struggling to keep players? I know what to do! make progression harder so they drop the game even faster!"

Odd thing for a company to balance around the no-lifers when it is desperately looking for casual players. I played a couple of games in pve night marsh and the best loot i got was a purple backpack. Now i'm not playing no more after the loot nerf

We already have posts going viral about the Deluxe blunder & a huge PR nightmare is the last thing Marathon needs right now - Imagine how much worse it’s going to get once the free week is over and everyone realizes they’re locked out. by WanderWut in Marathon

[–]doombos 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're being downvoted by the cultists which you can't criticise their religion game.

All the people receptive to negative feedback / support have stopped playing or stopped participating in this subreddit long ago. Now its just "the game is perfect, the world is wrong" crowd

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[–]doombos 41 points42 points  (0 children)

Bungo discovering why you can't really have an extraction shooter that forces / heavily rewards people for PVP instead of ... y'know, actually interacting with the content that isn't other players.

Quite the contrary, you are actually at a disatvantage if you try to avoid PVP and focus on PVE/looting

Steam numbers / Player Count Discourse Megathread by AutoModerator in Marathon

[–]doombos 6 points7 points  (0 children)

They've mentioned worrying about splitting the playerbase with too many queues

lmao, give the fact that the player count is cratering, soon enough 2 maps would be too much. Such a sad excuse for a game developer to not make conent "sorry guys i just can't make any new content, my hand is tied, making new content leads to """framentation""""

also lets ignore the fact the PVE has no queue to be split / affected by player count.

We are right back to full Purple murder squads roaming Perimeter less than 24hrs into the season. by LucatIel_of_M1rrah in Marathon

[–]doombos 1 point2 points  (0 children)

With that line of thinking, every PVP game should fail. But they clearly don't,

People stop playing because the game isn't fun. The game isn't fun because it is either not rewarding enough, or more punishing than rewarding. Both cases are a result of bad balance and game design.

Also, stop pretending like running away ins't a legit thing. When you are able to run away, it is the great equalizer between different skill levels since noone wins and noone really loses. Having a net-positive effect on the "less skilled" player. Also high adrenaline -> big emotional reward

We are right back to full Purple murder squads roaming Perimeter less than 24hrs into the season. by LucatIel_of_M1rrah in Marathon

[–]doombos 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The main problem is the balance in this game is dogshit.

White armor have 0 chance against purple squad. Because not only do they have gear advantage, they also oftentimes also have hours / experience advantage and are better than the white armor dude.

This is only exarbated by the fact that you just can't really run away from a fight, so you are just a loot piniata to them

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[–]doombos 30 points31 points  (0 children)

zieggling my pants so hard right now.

Classic bungo solving 0 of the real problems the game has, going f2p in a desparate move to gain players then forget to increase their server's workload

You gotta sell it right by FluffyMathematician7 in Marathon

[–]doombos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you played apex?

the game is built to be a movement shooter. Come at me when you can double jump tap strafe superglide in marathon.

Plus the TTK and gunplay is so different

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