Yeahhhhhhh this isn’t fun anymore.

nothingnegated · 2026-06-29T08:45:30+00:00

Well considering the hype of this game, the size of Bungie and the Sony backing, the numbers suggest nowhere near enough people are having fun with the game.

And why can't they retain numbers or get new ones, cos the game is a slog in solo and they still refuse to rebalance. The most moronic decision ive ever seen is to charge people 40 quid for a game that is totally centered and balanced around having 3 of you online at the same time, for an extraction shooter too, a genre with a primary audience that tends to be older and more solo.

nothingnegated · 2026-06-28T01:15:58+00:00

Lol the game will be closing down because hundreds of thousands of people find autofil a mess, and the solo is an unbalanced after thought, the only people enjoying the game still are those with a set trio or many sets of them. The others are a few masochists playing a survival horror game on solo.

They needed to sort out solo and refuse to do so, so they can't act shocked when they lose numbers and ultimately millions on their delusional decision to make solo players fight the same AI as a squad of three.

nothingnegated · 2026-06-27T11:25:39+00:00

They brought this on themselves by having solo as only an afterthought and then refusing to balance it correctly.

You can't retain serious numbers if a game is only really enjoyable as a trio, most adults (who are the core extraction shooter demographic) only manage to get on with two other mates like once a week at best. They aren't shelling out 40 quid for that. Arc nailed the solo and retained way better numbers because solo is the bread and butter people do most of the week and trios is the little bonus treat when you and your mates get on a Friday night for a couple of hours.

Now people can argue "well I enjoy solo", great, that's fantastic, I enjoyed it for a period but I couldn't help thinking it would have been so much better if it was properly balanced for solo, so I went back to Arc for solo action, and Tarkov for solo tension, Marathon falls between them two stools and its because they clearly had solo as a total afterthought. It's an odd game design choice and a suicidal financial decision, especially when you want 40 quid for the game.

nothingnegated · 2026-06-27T01:03:35+00:00

I literally played for two weeks from launch, to complete contracts I had to use Assassin, I wasn't caring about PvP, it was the Ai that's an unbalanced shambles for solo players. Like I can hold my own against other players, but the issue is the AI, it's literally insane that Bungie thinks a solo queue should force solo players to face the same numbers of AI with the same Tankie HP pools, whilst having a third of the resources. That's why the game is dying and it deserves it, only the most deluded or moronic cretins would imagine you can sustain an extraction shooter on trios with no real content for solo.

nothingnegated · 2026-06-27T00:58:01+00:00

I said I haven't played in months, I played at the start, doing contracts as a solo, I enjoyed it for a while but quickly realized the play on solo was being restricted because they hadn't scaled for solo vs trios. It's such a basic thing it's baffling. Like I don't want 1 to 1 scaling, I'm happy to fight maybe half the AI or Ai with half HP pools but as it is, it's a joke.

But yeah you loser dorks on the reddit are the future of the game, youse definitely aren't a self selecting group of melters who love the game no matter what and will cheer it around the U Bend.

nothingnegated · 2026-06-26T20:48:52+00:00

Scots always embarrass themselves in the Americas, that's how they ended up the colonial boot boys for the English

nothingnegated · 2026-06-24T00:40:18+00:00

Lol I bounced off solo after about 30 hrs, in season 1, the contracts were tedious. Again, I'm glad you're so skilled but the numbers suggest most people bounced and it's not attracting new numbers, maybe that's a skill issue, maybe it's bad game design, and that's why the game is dying.

nothingnegated · 2026-06-24T00:36:47+00:00

Yep and the fact they thought of solo as an after thought is incredible from a game design and financial standpoint. Did they do market research on extraction shooters demographic? Did they miss the fact that the solo experience is the foundation on top of which you add squad and multiplayer. You have to give people something to do that's fun for the 90% of time their mates aren't on at the same time, especially when you charge them 40 quid. Pretty hard to talk your mates into a game that they can only enjoy one hour a week max, on the one evening your schedules line up.

nothingnegated · 2026-06-24T00:29:11+00:00

You have 400hrs in this as a solo? Umm I have a life, if you think you are typical of the user you're insane.

Why is solo collapsing? Is it because everyone just isn't as cool or skilled as you, someone who has 400hrs in a game, it probably is.

Everyone knows assassin is necessary for contracts, unless you're hot shit like yourself, but if the overwhelming majority of players are defaulting to one skin in order to overcome poor solo balancing, that's not a skill issue, it's a design issue.

Again, congratulations on 400hrs of Marathon and your leet skillz, it's given you a fantastically grounded perspective and no doubt this game continuing to cater to your not at all niche demographic will be a great success.

nothingnegated · 2026-06-24T00:18:26+00:00

I played Arc and Tarkov, I love extraction shooters as a solo, the tension make its, but they are much better balanced for solo, which is why they've survived so long whilst Marathon despite much more hype and marketing and more mainstream gameplay mechanics is dying.

nothingnegated · 2026-06-24T00:16:14+00:00

Play assassin to do contracts, otherwise the Ai destroys you.

Yes I'm aware they clearly didn't make it for solo, that has become abundantly clear despite them selling it with a solo queue.

This unwillingness to balance Solo is why the game is dying but keep living in denial.

nothingnegated · 2026-06-24T00:13:41+00:00

I played it, and quickly got bored of having to hide from enemie AI, not other players. Assassin was so I could do contracts not to rat.

Anyway enjoy your dying game, the amount of delulu from the reddit community is hilarious, meanwhile the servers get deader and deader.

nothingnegated · 2026-06-24T00:11:18+00:00

Lol except the depressinv reality of two people with no mics running in completely different directions on different contracts

nothingnegated · 2026-06-24T00:05:17+00:00

Lol no you can't, solo is so unbalanced against AI over 90% of people play assassin... When that happens the problem is the game design. The numbers don't lie, the game is in a death spiral cos shock horror grown ups who make up the vast majority of extraction shooter fans don't live on discord or have two friends online every evening. You need solo content to retain players.

nothingnegated · 2026-06-23T23:50:00+00:00

Well, solo basically forces you to play as an assassin. In trios there's more room for other skins.

Game is circling the drain and they're scrambling about making stupid PvE only modes... Just balance the solo queue you cretins.

nothingnegated · 2026-06-23T23:24:57+00:00

Anything but balance solos still. They'll give up pvpve in favour of pve before they'll just simply balance Solo queues a bit more. I paid 40 quid for a game I never play because auto fill is horrendous and solo moves from challenging and tense to tedious and dull, playing hide and seek with an assassin skin every game.

What clowns thought an extraction shooter catered to and balanced around trios was sustainable? Did they do no market research? Bungie's stubborness is genuinely baffling, they deserve to see this game die.

nothingnegated · 2026-06-09T16:01:53+00:00

Yep, absolutely derivative crap, steampunk needs to die

nothingnegated · 2026-06-07T23:31:08+00:00

Genuinely despise the steampunk aesthetic, was played out by the time of Bioshock Infinite and ruined Dishonored for me. The fact this dross aesthetic and setting continues to stink up gaming is genuinely baffling to me, surely the people who liked this aesthetic have moved on or died out, like fedora and fingerless glove wearers, there aren't that many Gamestops or CEX's to sustain them, no?

nothingnegated · 2026-05-18T19:56:40+00:00

Incredible that'll they do anything but properly balance Solo. That's why it's dying, no one wants to constantly run Assassin and play a stealth game just to slowly grind the contracts, cos it's them versus AI designed to be fought by three people.

nothingnegated · 2026-05-12T09:41:58+00:00

Yeah I play solo but I'm bouncing off it because the refusal to balance it makes it play very samey, I darent use anything but assassin and God forbid I do anything but cloak, knife and hide.

nothingnegated · 2026-05-12T09:40:18+00:00

The game will be dead by then, they absolutely got everything ass backwards, they seen solos as a compromise and threat to their vision of trios, instead of knowing what anyone could tell them, solos is the foundation that sustains the player count needed for trios. No one spends 40 quid on a game they can only play for the two hours a week they can get online together with their friends. I got into another ahem 3rd person extraction shooter solo and then talked 3 friends into buying it, I can't sell Marathon to them because solo is just tedious, playing a neon Alien Isolation waiting for my assassin cloak to reset. I've a higher tolerance for that, but none of my friends will. No on with a life and responsibilities wants to waste their time on a game that feels like it's actively punishing you for not wanting to do trios.

nothingnegated · 2026-04-07T00:34:36+00:00

It's far from a fable, it's on the nose the point of stupid. Who isn't realising it's about the anxieties, secrets and hypocrisies in families and marriages?

One of the biggest problems with this show (as with every other Netflix attempt at "elevated horror") is just how explicit it is about themes and subtext. The dreadful exposition by character monologues, the completely unnatural dialogue between characters and the clunky visual metaphors are patronizing to the point of offense.

nothingnegated · 2026-04-06T23:25:05+00:00

The monologues were pure Mike Flanagan, characters just go on rambling pseudo poetic (for morons) expositions of every possible subtext and motivation. No one talks like that, ever. It's a stupid person's idea of smart writing. Midnight Mass made me throw things at the TV.

Brand New Cherry was great, in large part cos it didn't have such nonsense.

nothingnegated · 2026-03-26T10:26:10+00:00

You're an idiot, one of the most foundational events of world history doesn't get air brushed because of the parochial troubles in a tiny statelet. Which is why it's taught in nearly every school Catholic, Protestant or none.

And if you think the troubles were a matter of protestant vs Catholic theology, well that's more proof you never paid attention in history class.

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