Worse. It's up against the Steam Spring Sale.
Okay, but how does people buying steam games change their availability to play Marathon? Surely you don't think they're going to be playing the games they bought on sale, do you?
I was seriously considering buying the game before they announced Denuvo, and I don't want that shit. I'm far from the only one, so while numbers are assuredly going to be yuge, they could've been yuger.
It's already past 200k ccu, it has 500k easy.
They announced the 'end game' zone and ranked. Both of which are being locked to their 'weekend' system like Trials from Destiny, which is definitely a choice of all time. They will have streamer/viewer bumps but I do not think it will translate to higher player counts if that makes sense.
Halo 3 was a better game because it was a finished product on release, which was the style at the time. Developers had to plan, build and deliver a finished product by a set deadline and once it left their hands they had to stand by it as it was. This dictated scope and scale and ambition and tone and gave practical benchmarks for progress and priorities.
Sorry to spoil it for you, but this is the situation. It's fucked.
Is this some sort of secret Bungo retardation I'm not privy to? What's the point of these asinine requirements for what I think is a story drop?
they did it in Destiny, they love to gatelock content.
It's like suicidal ideation, but on a corporate level.
It took them 10 years to show us Savathun in Destiny, a character so critical to the backstory and plot of the setting its unreal, they can tease out story beats to a length some would call unnatural.
>Marathon's pinnacle experience is just Trials with a different coat of paint
I was halfway through typing out some variant of 'do a nightfall while other fireteams shoot at you' and then I realized it is just fucking Gambit
But you see, it's not appealing to money people at these companies. You can only sell singleplayer game only once (and maybe some DLC), but service game you can sell forever.
While this is true, they typically haven't made the raid content necessary for the conclusion of a particular expansion's story, with raids usually being something of a side story or coda to the main campaign. That way, you still get the epic finale boss fight to cap off the campaign, and then get with your buddies and go kill something else in the raid. That mostly started after complaints about needing to do King's Fall to finish off Oryx; I can't remember for sure, but it might have also been necessary for post-campaign stuff. Even the Witness wasn't defeated in the raid, where the first clear unlocked the true final mission that people could matchmake to complete.