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[MMaRsu]

This isn't correct. The falloff is huge, sure, but at 19:00 UTC was the overall peak. At 19:00 UTC the following day it was 69,355. Not 43k. That low was at 10:00 UTC. I'm all for shitting on the game, but that person is straight up lying.

Grifters be grifting

 

[clarky]

what's the gaf consensus?

Any good? My interest at initial reveal was high, then plummeted after the full reveal, but mildly curious after the more recent trailers where it looked far better.

Great if you like these types of games, but the onboarding is horrific.

 

[Calverz]

what's the gaf consensus?

Any good? My interest at initial reveal was high, then plummeted after the full reveal, but mildly curious after the more recent trailers where it looked far better.

It's the sort of game where if you put the time in to understand wtf is going on, have two friends who can regularly play with you, and willing to chat to randoms, then yea probably great.

If you can't manage or be bothered with one of those aspects, it's an uphill struggle and one I can't recommend.

The whole intro video was cool and I just kept thinking how cool a single player game would have been with the setting, story, aesthetics etc

 

[phant0m]

This isn't correct. The falloff is huge, sure, but at 19:00 UTC was the overall peak. At 19:00 UTC the following day it was 69,355. Not 43k. That low was at 10:00 UTC. I'm all for shitting on the game, but that person is straight up lying.

B-b-b-but muh narrative

what's the gaf consensus?

Any good? My interest at initial reveal was high, then plummeted after the full reveal, but mildly curious after the more recent trailers where it looked far better.

2 camps: either embarrassing trash that will be the next Highguard/Concord

OR

Actually pretty fun, and gets better and better as you keep playing

My bet is most of the former camp got ranked trying to extract and ragequit

 

[Hero_Select]

what's the gaf consensus?

Any good? My interest at initial reveal was high, then plummeted after the full reveal, but mildly curious after the more recent trailers where it looked far better.

mid.

 

[Signalis]

when you lost Men_in_Boxes ...

He'll be back later explaining why single-player is dead and no one buys single-player games anymore, and Marathon is the next big thing as Highguard was

 

[Hollywood Hitman]

He'll be back later explaining why single-player is dead and no one buys single-player games anymore, and Marathon is the next big thing as Highguard was

Please tell me he didn't say single player games are dead

 

[mckmas8808]

To be fair people loved the original trailer. It is later the game went off rails.

I doubt it will reach 1m copies though. The server slam is free right? So those numbers in Highguard league.

This game will 100% sell 1 million copies. That's a guarantee.

 

[mckmas8808]

Not neccesarily. I am not saying it is great, but nothing in the beta carries over to the launch. A lot gamers dont want to build up gear and play contracts that will be wiped in a couple days

Hmmmm..... Interesting.

 

[Peroroncino]

It's actually higher than I thought. I'll still root for it flopping.

 

[mckmas8808]

Why doesn't she do a 1 to 1 comparison? Feels like she's picking and choosing what stats to compare.

 

[phant0m]

Why doesn't she do a 1 to 1 comparison? Feels like she's picking and choosing what stats to compare.

This your first time with twitter grifters?

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

what's the gaf consensus?

First 5 - 10 hours will shed a lot of players. After that, GOTY.

 

[LordOcidax]

40-80K for a BUNGIE multiplayer game on a FREE trial… Sony should consider to keep the full game free because this is a really really bad sign.

 

[Tarnpanzer]

I don´t see much reason to play the Serverslam more than a few hours, since everything you earn gets wiped and the full version is coming next week. So this may be a reason for the somewhat low numbers.

I played till rank 10 and I am good for now. Will play more next week when the full version arrives.

 

[I collect VHS tapes]

First 5 - 10 hours will shed a lot of players. After that, GOTY.

I tried this game, but I didn't have the patience to put that much time in it

If they want this to succeed, they should really address that given this is a live service game.

 

[Bojji]

He'll be back later explaining why single-player is dead and no one buys single-player games anymore, and Marathon is the next big thing as Highguard was

 

[RafterXL]

B-b-b-but muh narrative



2 camps: either embarrassing trash that will be the next Highguard/Concord

OR

Actually pretty fun, and gets better and better as you keep playing

My bet is most of the former camp got ranked trying to extract and ragequit

Is this a Highguard thread?...because the exact same shit was being said in those. It's always you didn't play it enough for it to grow on you, or you suck...lol.

 

[PeteBull]

First 5 - 10 hours will shed a lot of players. After that, GOTY.

What do u think should be considered good 24h peak ccu for marathon after a month, 30k? More? Less?
Coz since its gaas it doesnt matter that much how many players it attracts but rather how many players it can retain longterm.

Its like with a woman, if she is decently attractive or even avg looking she can easily get sex from 80 maybe even 90% of men(yes, including married ones if they wouldnt suffer any fallback aka angry wifey divorce and take his kids and more than half his assets on top of putting him on childsupport and allymoney ), but success for a woman is if she gets a ring/house/name from desirable guy.

 

[Fake]

 

[ByWatterson]

Great if you like these types of games, but the onboarding is horrific.

which is weird because Destiny is so good at that

 

[clarky]

which is weird because Destiny is so good at that

It's like jumping in on Season 17 of Destiny 3 or some shit. Anyone who isn't that interested in it will drop it after a couple of hours.

You'd have thought they would have figured this out by now, especially with a clean slate.

POE2 is a pretty complex game but it does a pretty good job at teaching you the basics in the first few hours.

This basically shows you fuck all. That said Im having a great time with it, bit you have to put in the effort. Most won't.

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

I tried this game, but I didn't have the patience to put that much time in it

If they want this to succeed, they should really address that given this is a live service game.

I put my last remaining testicle on the betMGM app that Marathon will succeed. I doubted for 24 hours, but I have seen the light. I literally find myself shedding tears of joy going looking though all the upgrade trees. We are welcoming a retention God.

What do u think should be considered good 24h peak ccu for marathon after a month, 30k? More? Less?
Coz since its gaas it doesnt matter that much how many players it attracts but rather how many players it can retain longterm.

North of 30k on Steam. On-boarding is a lot worse than I imagined but again...this game will retain. I think this will hit its floor relatively quickly.

 

[RoboFu]

You can't really judge anything off a free test. Either people just tried it because it was free and didn't like it or people tried it and liked up and decided to wait for the real release.

 

[RoboEight]

I'm surprised they didn't release the third map in this test because it's the most interesting one. Lots of moving from in and outside and it has weather storms that can hurt you.

 

[PeteBull]

I put my last remaining testicle on the betMGM app that Marathon will succeed. I doubted for 24 hours, but I have seen the light. I literally find myself shedding tears of joy going looking though all the upgrade trees. We are welcoming a retention God.

North of 30k on Steam. On-boarding is a lot worse than I imagined but again...this game will retain. I think this will hit its floor relatively quickly.

Looking forward to check how it will go

 

[KimDongHwan]

what's the gaf consensus?

Any good? My interest at initial reveal was high, then plummeted after the full reveal, but mildly curious after the more recent trailers where it looked far better.

It wasn't for me, I could barely understand what was going on and those cutscenes with some random text and voice lines didn't help

 

[RafterXL]

Can't say they aren't trying, they are paying almost every streamer on the planet to play it today. Every single streamer on Twitch has #ad or #MarathonPartner on their screen or in their description.