Marathon is fun, but it's a niche market that Bungie should not have put all of their spoons into. I like playing it with friends, and the playerbase that's left is very dedicated.
this post was submitted on 10 May 2026
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When I think of what drew me to Halo, it was the amazing single-player campaign. The multiplayer was always a secondary that happened to be really fun.
When I think of everything Bungie has made since, it's all live service multiplayer-oriented stuff that hasn't hit the same.
Isn't that a picture of Revan from KOTOR?
Destiny should die. The story has no where left to go and there literally no plan on how to fix PvP so it doesn’t suck.
Marathon is not great, but it has room to grow. I don’t know why the article thinks it’s a smarter idea for Bungie to “pause D2” and spend years thinking up, funding and implementing a currently nonexistent “Destiny 3”. Instead of just addressing user feedback in Marathon.
Then again, this is Forbes. These guys are a cancer on the creative industries. The basic strategy is to keep milking IP and never create anything new(ish). (I know i know. Marathon is existing IP. Sigh. Will we ever get anything new?)
Destiny has very broad appeal, has printed money before, and certainly could be popular again if they just stopped making all the worst decisions.
Marathon has a very very particular niche it’s targeting and I think it does that well, but I don’t it’s going to grow at all without some changes to its fundamental ideas.
Paul hates Marathon because its existence is killing Destiny. I love Marathon, but killing your cash cowin order to gamble on a niche game format is just a dumb thing to do. They should have made a D3 instead.