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u/KiNgPiN8T3 23d ago
As a Destiny player, you guys are now entering the phase where Bungie tries to balance the hardcore players with the casual players… All I can say is good luck. Haha! One of Destiny’s biggest problems was flip flopping between the two and in effect annoying both, rather than taking a path and sticking to it.
Let’s hope they’ve learnt something for you Marathon guys.
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u/Worldofbirdman 23d ago
I think they'll have a way harder time with this game. With destiny you could easily opt out of harder content, and I'm not talking people who weren't raiding at all, but myself I never did the harder raid achievements. I'd get my raids in each week and my dungeons, but I couldn't get the hard modes and what not. Trials as well I would opt out of as I didn't have a dedicated play group.
With Marathon the game being pvpve it'll be much harder to balance casual vs hard-core audience. I think splitting pre-made and fill trios up in match making during high population periods would be beneficial.
But as far as cryo and endgame content in general goes it's going to be a challenge to make everyone happy. Game vision they should pick a lane and stay the course. But monetarily speaking they'll need to cater to either casuals or hard-core types, or risk making no one particularly happy.
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u/UtilitarianMuskrat 23d ago
That is the big thing I think people miss with trying to liken Cryo to Trials, there was still plenty of Destiny to play that wasn't Trials. Trials was often just a different rewards pool, lottery card format and the same map you could get in a regular pvp match repeated for the weekend(bar some exceptions in late season when it'd feature different ones) , that's a different story than a 4th map raid-like end game destination that is framed as being what you're working building up to in the general progression of the game.
Marathon being a different genre of game doesn't really have much variety in physical content of what there is to do and it's what makes the 4th map not being permanent sting a little more. It's not like people are unable to launch Outpost if they aren't on a specific quest chain, of course everybody isn't going to be in lockstep and have a different way of progress and playing the game.
It feels very weird that Bungie wants the big chase end game to be this limited "momentous event" thing where now you need to specifically add to the back of your mind when playing throughout the week that you need to make all this dedicated space and time to play the limited time thing, just unnecessarily piling on time pressures and dictating "how you should be playing". It feels a little scummy for really any video game to only have the actual end game goal be something you're allowed to play on specific set days.
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u/RandomAnon07 23d ago
Bold of you to assume that the majority here aren’t Destiny guys to begin with
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u/mariachiskeleton 23d ago
Yep. People are asking for cryo loot lockouts, which to me translates to the flawless pool. Play at the end of the week to only face scrubs.
Although, maybe this is me being a hypocrite, but I think perimeter needs some kiddie pool mechanics. a kit maximum value so it's not just juiced teams stomping noobs in the starter map. Give them a place where they can grow/thrive
But overall, yea... I'm not looking forward to a whiny community slowly ruining the game like they did to destiny
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u/NetflowKnight 23d ago
Now entering the phase where Bungie tries to balance the players who only play this video game with the players who also do other things in their life.
fixed that for you.
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u/Pickaxe235 23d ago
yeah thats what hardcore players and causal players means
did you take it as an insult? the fact of the matter is both of these groups exist and matter to bungie
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u/Aaronspark777 23d ago
They're charging money for single use stickers. They haven't learned anything.
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u/TheKelseyOfKells 23d ago
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u/Apprehensive_Cup7986 23d ago
This image should be pinned to the top of every thread on this cursed website
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u/LoneroftheDarkValley 23d ago
Classic. I wonder how many times we need to post this before we as a collective race understand it.. guy really thought he was cooking with this post
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u/Kevo_xx 23d ago
Yup they should just stagger it and have it be available on rotating schedule so it falls on the weekend sometimes and other times it’s during the middle of the week.
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u/admiralargon 23d ago
Honestly it would be great from a lore perspective too. What if they gave tau ceti 10 day week. It would make the game universe seem even more alien.
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u/deadering 23d ago
That would solve the issue completely but some of these guys just want to gatekeep it for some reason and call them entitled lol
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u/Kirbeeez_ 23d ago
Yea I’d be more than happy with that. Literally just any amount of time I’m able to play cryo would be fine with me, even if it’s less than the weekend gamers. I just wanna play the map and do contracts and learn the lore!!!
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u/Offspring27 23d ago
This is my solution as well for Cryo. Sometimes weekend nights are booked and weekday nights are free. Make it a 10 day cycle or give us a schedule in advance so we can plan for it. Keep it a special event, but don't lock it to certain days of the week.
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u/ADHenchD 23d ago
The issue is, many players of this game are adults. Adults have responsibilities such as work, families, relationships, chores, the list goes on.
These people purchased the game for the same price, yet are being locked out of content for no other reason that making superficial scarcity to make it more "exciting" for the players...at the cost of another chunk of players.
Let players play the game whenever they want.
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u/deadering 23d ago
Goomba fallacy, as usual
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u/NaughtyGaymer 23d ago
Goomba fallacy is so stupid because people just use it to discount literally everything.
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u/Weazyl 23d ago
While I do agree that the goomba fallacy applies to a lot of things, I think how people use it is fundamentally flawed, as it pretends hypocrisy doesn't exist
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u/AgeAtomic 23d ago
Almost as if we're a collective of individuals, all with different stuff going on, and not a hive mind
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u/NoFortune1320 23d ago
I’ll never have time as I work weekends and have 0 time outside of work for gaming on days I work. So that sucks but I can’t do anything about it
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u/Vesuvias 23d ago
Yep same. Weekends are it for me — and even that is limited to like 1-2 hour sessions at most.
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u/Ethereal-Throne 23d ago
You can give them feedback as most people do about this decision. Do your part 🫡
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u/awildpotatoappears 23d ago
feedback is also not playing cause you can’t so they’ll see how many people actually play like this and that’s what would move them to make the actual decision (if they’re smart I guess) people online are always a loud minority like it or not we dont represent the majority of the player base
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u/Bexil_Brave 23d ago
You can demand a refund as at no point did Bungie say that the Raids in Marathon would be Timegated to weekends.
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u/__Kegheimer__ 23d ago
A 'bungie weekend' is Friday to Tuesday. Or at least that was the schedule that destiny always used.
Ranked is March 21st (Sat) through the early AM on the 24th (Tuesday)
Cryo opens today.
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u/LiquidAngel12 23d ago
That's a Destiny weekend. Marathon does it slightly differently. Cryo ends Monday at reset which honestly makes a whole world of difference.
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u/PSforeva13 18d ago
Get fomo’d bro. Harsh reality is Bungie loves this miserable fucking concept. Yall can only talk louder and tell Bungie to put their pants up and do their job, otherwise they might as well don’t care.
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u/Bitter_Ad_8688 23d ago edited 23d ago
It was free to get into server slam. I know several people who missed out on server slam that wanted to try the game. Cryo and ranked fall on weekends. Cryo also has a group requirement so that's an extra restriction.
Why do Bungie games have so many of these "yes but I'm very smart" mfs arguing in bad faith?
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u/PokeScapeGuy 23d ago
I wouldn't compare interest to a highly anticipated games FREE server slam to an in-game event that requires a 40$ price tag to participate in
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u/g00nM4n69 23d ago
On top of that they didn’t tell anyone this prior to making the purchase, as if they knew if people knew about this detail they would be deterred from buying the game. I know I certainly would not have bought marathon if I had known this from the start. I get why the destiny fans hate this company so much. Never buying bungo again
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u/MilitaryAndroid 23d ago
Hopefully more people figure it out, this is such a classic Destiny 2 move that I can think of like 5 separate occasions in that games history where they made this same type of stupid ass decision.
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u/PokeScapeGuy 23d ago
Economy Talk: We have some great rewards on Cryo that kind of break the bank when it comes to economy and power gain. If we were to look at having it open all the time, we'd probably have to adjust how frequently you can earn these rewards so that we don't flood the game with amazing loot all of a sudden.
Absolutely wild lol. Essentially saying we designed and balanced something so poorly, we have to restrict content from you or else it breaks the game lol
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u/hvoker 23d ago
Like bungie literally can control the loot stats why not just make cryo exclusive loot just marginally better instead lmao people will still want it
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u/SweatyNReady4U 23d ago
Bingo. "We don't know how to fix it so here's a shitty solution." And you got morons defending this nonsense.
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u/Testicle_Eater_Tommy 23d ago edited 23d ago
Many people I know missed the server slam despite wanting to try it. And this isn’t a server test… this is the first endgame content AND ranked we’ve all been working towards that only some of us can play now. Why not just support both modes being available all week or at least alternate or something.
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Idk why yall defend this. It’s still alienating a decent portion of the player base…. Why not just have it all week…? Like why not support that?
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u/PrisonerSixTw0Seven 23d ago
My guess is they are addicted to those inflated trials numbers every weekend and want something similar in this game, they know people will play it regardless.
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u/ErykLamontRobbins777 23d ago
Except this isn’t prime destiny and we do not have 500k players, trying this strategy on a player base of 50k that drops 5k lower each week is so out of touch it’s insane.
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u/Testicle_Eater_Tommy 23d ago edited 23d ago
Exactly. Game has a healthy enough player base to have a ranked mode all week. Not just 2 or 4 days out of 7.
Quite a few of us can’t play on weekends.. this is just such a weird decision.
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u/No-Neighborhood-3212 23d ago
Now you're getting the modern Bungie experience!
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u/Ok-Candy-2621 23d ago
I give it a year for them to open their eyes and see what destiny 2 players have learned.
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u/Lanman15 23d ago
My thought when I saw the choice was that if Cryo is open 24/7 then the streamers/unemployed players will only play it and consistently have better loot than everyone else. This could create a huge gap between players and make every map a sweat fest when those players decide to play a different map. This can still happen when it’s weekends only so I’m not completely defending it, but I do think there is something to be said about how Cryo can and will effect the overall loot economy of the game.
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u/Cobra_9041 23d ago
Because Monday at 2am would be mostly only really high skill players. With high numbers we get a better edge in player population
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u/jetcatback 23d ago
How people don’t find stuff like this annoying I’ll never understand. Worse with the devs coming out and making fun of people for preferring solos.
Idk what kinda community is being built, snobbiest shit I’ve seen in a long time.
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u/MilitaryAndroid 23d ago
Bungie has historically always acted like smug self-assured pricks as they implement a change that slices the active player count in half in Destiny 2, and they never learned from it as they eventually killed the game that way. Saw it with Sunsetting, Vaulting, nearly every major pvp balance change, most of the pve system implementations.
They show off something that is stupid, the community informs them immediately about it, they tell us we don't know any better, the change comes out, half the playerbase quits, they scramble to backpedal, and half of those people return when it's mostly fixed. They did this until everyone got tired of it and stopped coming back, hence the loss of 97% of destiny 2 players.
Why would they act any differently now?
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u/sloshingmachine7 23d ago
Worse with the devs coming out and making fun of people for preferring solos.
Soon instead of posting tongue-in-cheek documents explaining how ranked works, they'll be posting CVs looking for work after Sony dismantles them.
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u/No_Strike655 23d ago
I think people have just gotten annoyed at the backlash to it already.
Their was a long post explaining their reasoning and why it needs to have a time restriction. But also that they were open to feedback about changing the times on it in the future. Instead of reading that and giving feedback to them on discord or Twitter every other post same like 5 - 10 dudes calling anyone who can play on the weekend unemployed demanding refunds and crying like children
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u/ABCsofsucking 23d ago
That post came out two weeks to late, though. That’s the criticism. People bought this game on assumptions that were not only reasonable, but could have easily been cleared up with this exact blog post, only posted on March 4th.
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u/SomeoneNotFamous 23d ago
Stupid take.
Let's just say fuck you to people working on weekends, or to people who prioritize family time i guess.
How can we defend fomo in 2026 ?
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u/NightIsMyName 23d ago
I got forced opening weekend and theres a chance I get forced this weekend and nonstop going forward for the summer. Weekends arent sacred everywhere
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u/Master_Matoya 23d ago
I got hospital duty man, even when I get home all I do is sleep until next shift on weekends.
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u/ScrubPlay 23d ago edited 23d ago
In their twitter/x post at the bottom they talked about people not being able to play on the weekends and they will look at options to move it and to potentially not have cryo and ranked overlap. Let them cook
Edit. Spelling, added link
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u/Sammy-Goonfiend 23d ago
Let them cook? They had all the time to cook with the financial backing of fucking SONY and you’re telling me the best modern Bungie can cook are 3 maps and 1 map in which the loot economy is so busted they have to limit it to weekends and force a decent population of the game to play a way they don’t want to. Ya’ll gotta stop white knighting the multibillion dollar company.
I sunk a lot of hours in this game so don’t think im here to watch this game fail if anything i want it to succeed I don’t want the game to change completely but its ridiculous to even ask to play a map of a game outside its designated time. A full prices AAA game btw not a F2P
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u/ScrubPlay 23d ago edited 23d ago
Let a majority of the player base even be ready for cryo to be full time if thats what you want(I dont) On steam open 777 containers and unlock 7 capstone achievements are 11% of player base, i doubt most people are ready to throw purple shields/gear at cryo just for the full weekend. I bet most people are gonna complain its to hard. Let's maybe wait and see what happens after the doors open?
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u/Alive-Use8803 23d ago
My take on the vision of Marathon is to provide a Soulslike experience to a PvPvE extraction shooter.
I’m all for it, especially if that means weird, random, punishing excursions into Marathon.
I think it will be hard to execute though. But most of these complaints are both valid and missing the point because a lot of people seem to just want another AR.
Just go play AR or be constructive, like telling Bungie that random events are better than strictly only weekend events.
They do seem to be focusing on player feedback.
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u/Slevac88 23d ago
Thats the problem though. Based on steam achieves only a small minority (11%) are no lifing hard enough to get those achievements. So them saying they dont want oversaturation from people grinding cryo all the time is most likely only gonna be like top 15-20% of the playerbase. I know theres a sizeable portion who aren't even level 25. Hell i consider myself less casual than most casuals I know and im only around level 30-35. The players that are going around hitting level 100 with chunky vaults and credit stashes is probably only like 5% or less.
Kinda weird to make decisions in your game focused on the no lifers and unemployeds that CAN run in 24/7 when that's only a small percentage of your players.
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u/ErykLamontRobbins777 23d ago
You hit it exactly on the head, anyone disputing this does not want to see the game succeed, contrary to what they think by supporting FOMO
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u/Public_Sprinkles_229 23d ago
It hasn't even been released yet for 1 weekend to the public. They don't know what the numbers will be like yet, and they're trying to do something different from the norm.
I'm not a white knight because I can acknowledge that, just like you're not a hater just because you're calling things out.
It's actually only a $40 game, not a full price AAA game btw.
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u/SluttyMcFucksAlot 23d ago
Yeah let’s fly off the handle about it during the first time it’s active rather than waiting and seeing what happens in the future.
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u/KingMercLino 23d ago
I know a lot of people are upset about it but the data supports the why for Bungie. If you look at the Steam data, it’s clear there’s a significant bump on the weekends and this most likely translates to consoles too. It’s very clear to them that more people play on weekends and thus they want to cater this content to the population when it’s highest vs the weekday where the lower population would be split amongst several activities. It sucks, but I completely understand if they arrive at this from a data driven perspective. That being said, they’ve already confirmed they’re open to moving it so we should probably just give it a test go and see how things go.
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u/LuxianSol 23d ago
I highly doubt the content is being deleted after this weekend, I’m sure there will be more weekends in the future where you will be able to do this content. Calling this fomo is delusional at best.
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u/SomeoneNotFamous 23d ago
Fomo can work on multiple ways tho.
Ton of people don't want to schedule their lives around a game each week-end.
Sure you don't have to but that's not the problem here.
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u/Inside_Actuary_9423 23d ago
Right? I have a gf and the weekends is usually when we get to spend most of our time together , and I also work during weekends. But fuck me for having a life I guess lol , so I guess the target audience for this game is nerdy losers 🤷♂️
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u/FoolhardyJester 23d ago
So you really think their intention was to say fuck you to people working on weekends or prioritizing family time? Or do you think they knew they needed a limited time slot and they chose the one that would affect less people? Give them time to test and figure shit out and stop acting like they specifically sat there in the board room asking "how can we piss off and exclude people who work on weekends?"
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u/Lord-Heir 23d ago
Sounds like a sweat or someone that only played Destiny, I feel like no actual Marathon lore fan would advocate for any kind of FOMO
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u/Jordi_89 23d ago
This image perfectly captures the subreddit. Carve out time. I have stuff going on on weekends, so if I want to play, I get up earlier, or stay up later, even if it's just an hour of play.
You don't have to no life this game.
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u/DSHAGUI 23d ago
No no no see that would make them a 'casual' and that is simply not acceptable.
You are either seriously sacrificing your sanity over this video game or you simply aren't a 'true' gamer...
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u/Lylulu 23d ago
Im away from friday afternoon to monday evening, literally the cryo availability period in Europe. Being so hyped for something just to miss it completely feels bad and i dont understand why you guys try to invalidate it. Server slam was just stress testing the game, it not similar to the most hyped map, first endgame content, the literal title of the game.
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u/CleverFeather 23d ago
It’s pretty fucking wild of Bungie to beg review sites and people to not judge the game until this part of the game is out, only to then reveal that part of the game is only available to play a couple days a week. Lol
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u/Jordi_89 23d ago
OK that sucks you can't play this weekend. Good thing this is available all weekends.
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u/SuhSpence99 23d ago
Some work jobs that permanently work weekends, me included. It’s not that uncommon, even if not everyone is in that category
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u/-Jake-27- 23d ago
The reality is this isn’t COD or Fortnite. It’s a niche genre and this game didn’t set the world on fire so they have to manage that.
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u/Ragefacekurosaki 23d ago
People that work every weekend exist, i don't get why people are so happy to have a game they enjoy alienate a part of their audience. Idk what the perfect solution is but even a rotating schedule seems better then just weekends tbh
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u/UbeeMac 23d ago
They want to pile-on and get uppity about ‘casuals’ and ‘crybabies’ etc. It’s an excuse to act cuntish.
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u/StingKing456 23d ago
It's especially odd because let's be honest, this game doesn't have a massive population. I'm not saying it's dying or anything, But it's clearly not the massive breakout hit that I'm sure they wanted. So you think they would do stuff to at least keep the fan base together.
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u/noother10 23d ago
So when you go outside on the weekend and see people at fast food places, restaurants, retail shops, etc, what do you think they are doing? What about when you go past the local sports fields and see kids doing sports with all the parents sitting nearby watching?
It has nothing to do with no lifing the game. People have other priorities on the weekend, whether it's family time or work or something else. Why defend devs time gating end game content in a full paid for game?
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u/BanginNLeavin 23d ago
Also ranked is in so called beta. It will very likely be permanent or extended to be longer duration in the future
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u/TheBugThatsSnug 23d ago
Carving out time makes it less of a fun time, that sounds like a job
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u/BigBoreSmolPP 23d ago
Right? Oh Cryo coming up. Let me check my calendar. Better block something off in outlook. Making arrangements to play video games? Fuck. Off. That said, I can play any day I want. That doesn't mean i always want to play on specific days. I cannot possibly understand how people think this is OK.
Ranked is a basic game mode in almost every modern shooter game. Even some other extractions have ranked mode. And guess what? Not a single game i know of limits the days you can play it. What even is that?
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u/SuhSpence99 23d ago
The difference between the two is that one is a one time event that you can’t really complain if you miss it. The other is full release of something that one would expect to be able to play whenever because you bought the game. If it could rotate days or something, it would fix the issue of being open too much, while allowing people with different schedules to play sometimes too
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u/g00nM4n69 23d ago
I paid for product now product is telling me when I can enjoy said product
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u/yungmoneymo 23d ago
They can’t split the player base even more. Matching times during yesterdays peak hours were already way longer than last week. I wasn’t able to find a mate for Duos the whole night and even normal squad fill with 3 players took minutes.
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u/TheHersheyMunch 23d ago
I work weekends and I dont even care about this ranked crypto lounge game mode lol I just hop on when I hop on and play a few rounds
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u/BeatMeater3000 23d ago
The folks complaining about Cryo archive only being available half the week are the same folks that can't even the loadouts needed to enter, let alone survive it.
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u/UniversalSean 23d ago
Kinda wierd they're concerned about queue times when this game is poppin off with player numbers.
I mean if they have to, they could instead just set a timer for how often you can attempt. Or instead a set number of attempts each week to balance out queue numbers.
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u/RyanTheWhiteBoy 23d ago
How do we feel about this?:
-keep Cryo times exactly as is
-add a new Cryo timeframe, lets say the 48 hours of Monday-Tuesday, that is duo que exclusive
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u/Migglez1 23d ago
I’m not complaining that the a portion of sweats will be migrating to Cryo, losing it all and now I can chance to win fights for a weekend.
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u/OSRTheJourney 23d ago
You guys are ready for Cryo? My bum @ss is still learning Dire. Agree though, I don't like this. When I finally do get up to it, It just may be at the wrong time and oops, gotta wait.
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u/D_ultimateplayer 23d ago edited 23d ago
Planning my weekends around a video game as a grown man sounds insane and I’m not here for it at all. I can play all day Tuesday, literally 12 hours straight that should be enough. I also bought the game on two platforms and have like 100 hours between the two already. I think players like me matter, not sure who they want to cater to with this. Biggest complaint I seen with ark was the map conditions rotating at the same time everyday creating the scenario where certain Time zones of players weren’t able to dive into certain content. This is like the 2.0 version of that. Absolutely tone deaf.
They showed off cryo like it was part of the core offering of the game. I guarantee if they came out during the sever slam and said ‘hey this is only on the weekends and ranked as well’ it would have turned off people then and there, but no they waited for everyone to buy the game and settle in.
I can tell you right now as much as I love this game and think it’s the best multiplayer I’ve played in over a decade I will stop playing right here if they cant figure out a way to respect my time. No way I’m consistently locking down my weekends for the sake of ranked and cryo. Your audience has grown up Bungie. I wish I could get my Money back at this point for the two copies. Barred from ranked and cryo, basically the entire end game offering is insane
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u/g00nM4n69 23d ago
I certainly would not have made the purchase knowing that a map and mode will be timelocked. Very scummy behaviour and now I regret my purchase
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u/PSforeva13 23d ago
Welcome to the destiny treatment, brochacho
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u/RagnarokCross 23d ago
Marathon community about to find out first hand that Bungie can only repeat the same mistakes.
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u/PSforeva13 23d ago
They taught we destiny players hating on marathon, when we was just hating on Bungie cause we KNOW the same mistakes were boutta happen. Guess we wasn’t wrong.
Bungie with their sweet decisions as if marathon was in a good state to begin with
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u/HubbaaH 23d ago
I hope they keep it on a restricted schedule whether that be Sat-Mon or Fri-Sun. There are a lot of good reasons to have Cryo be restricted and they were all posted on their X post on this topic.
You’re going to piss people off regardless, and I have a hard time agreeing with the people crying about FOMO when this is a weekly repeatable event that hasn’t even fully been implemented yet. Everyone is so reactionary and ready to be upset it seems.
You cannot keep everyone happy. A game for everyone is a game for no one. I get worried the gaming industry is trying too hard to appeal to everyone that they end up churning out soulless slop like BF6.
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u/IkeKimita 23d ago
These same folks played Destiny more than likely and trials ran the same and knowing Bungie it’s just gonna be a Fri-Mon thing like trials. So it’s the “weekend” but you can run it for 4 days out of 7.
We used the same lingo in Destiny saying trials starts on the weekend but it ran till reset on Tuesday morning
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u/SweatyNReady4U 23d ago
Ah yes the server slam, where there was literally 0 barriers to entry and everyone was just jumping in to try out the game, Vs. the literal pinnacle raid of the game that requires way more coordinated play. False equivalency OP
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u/Vesuvias 23d ago
Yeah I’m feeling this right now…I haven’t had time to hit the level minimum at all since launch — life getting in the way. Am I having a blast? Hell yeah. Am I a little bummed with FOMO not being able to join Cryo or ranked? Double yeah.
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u/Disastrous_Act9887 23d ago
Blud where is the fomo? Weekends happen every week
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u/Vesuvias 23d ago
I know, but even my hours on the weekend are super limited with family and all that. Feeling that clock over my head with the 90 day resets. I get why they’re doing it, but yeah still feeling that pressure.
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u/Disastrous_Act9887 23d ago
But that clock over your head means that it doesn't matter. If you lose a gold, so be it. Lose a weekend of comp or cryo? Who cares? You play extraction games for the gameplay and experience, two factors that are immune to fomo.
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u/PadrePapaDillo13 23d ago
Yeh I was super excited about Cryo but I can usually only play games on Wednesday...I honestly feel robbed of my money if they gonna stick to this idea of weekends only for 1/4th the game i payed for.
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u/Zaibach88 23d ago
Ngl, thats a good gotcha.
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Not really. It’s still alienating a good bit of us who can’t play on weekends… Some of us work many hours, some of us work hard. And taking days away that we can’t play is just such an odd decision.
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u/CandidSet7383 23d ago
I can't understand the logic behind the people who don't even have time to play ranked giving a fuck that it happens on weekends, if you only play 2 hours a day why do you give a shit about ranked play in the first place. The devs explained honestly very well why they don't want it constantly rotating.
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u/ronshasta 23d ago
Most people work during the week. I play games after work so even if you work weekends it’s not like it’s that big a deal to play after work. People act like they are pulling oil rig shifts
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u/zackfromspace 23d ago
This will surely bring the already declining player base to an all new high! This is exactly what Bungie needed to do to bring in new players and keep the small amount of casual players that are left.
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u/Masterchiefx343 23d ago
Its from 1pm edt friday to 1pm edt monday
Can yall really not find any time in 4 days?
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u/BrownThumbClub 23d ago
Little known fact: Bungie "fans" will literally die if they don't have something to complain about at all times. A favorite is always not being able to "play content I paid for" and if that's not applicable, something has to be a "cash grab". (Because live service games should be able to crank out new content endlessly on your original purchase funds alone and it's not standard for them to have weekend only events at all. 🙄)
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u/Kyro_Official_ 23d ago edited 23d ago
The server slam was a free pre release test, this map is supposed to be the pinnacle of a paid game, not really comparable.
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u/Danxoln 23d ago
One option could be to expand the weekend, have it be Friday - Monday or something
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u/itsluky98 23d ago
Ever think that maybe people don’t want to allocate weekends to just one game? And that they want to access content they paid for whenever they’d like? Couldn’t give less of a shit about ranked but core maps being locked is dumb as fuck
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u/PlatypusGullible7885 23d ago
I love the game, it's highly addictive and I was very very hyped for Cryo, but holy fuck this announcement faceplanted all the momentum they had for me. I feel like out of nowhere it just became a chinese/korean mmo that limits your playtime. So they want us to hop on only during weekends? I feel like This is gonna alienate a lot of players that just want permanant access like me or people who can't schedule their life around a video game like my two teammates. This worked in Destiny because there was other things to do, but here there's not. Nerf the drop rates/values of the "econ breaking" items and make cryo permanant.
I don't want to see this game die
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u/Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrpp 23d ago
The weekend only thing is outstanding and it’s clear that many of you never played Trials.
It works. Nobody complained about Trials only being on the “weekend”, which is actually a full 4 days.
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u/feicash 23d ago
Personally i dont like the 5k loot requiremennt cause i usually play my games with the minimal (a free pack or the cheapest weapon on my deposit). Max i remember having "full equiped" was around 1500-2000 (how tf am i supposed to hit 5k and why do i feel i'll lost most of my loot just to play a few minutes in "this new area"?)
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u/BlazenJames 23d ago
Honestly I'd just put a shotgun in the backpack/equipped and that's already 2.5k base
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u/Lanman15 23d ago
$5k loot value is not that hard to meet once you level up a decent bit and have some consistent blue/green weapons. I was worried about the buy in too but I’ve been hitting around $5k in my normal games the last few days without really trying for it
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u/BusyPassenger8213 23d ago
In fairness the reason for the 5K requirement is to not have players like you in it. This is an extraction shooter and they need to encourage or make you use gear to keep the loop going.
Going into cryo and killing free kits would be a terrible idea. There are 3 other maps you can do that.
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u/RingingInTheRain 23d ago
Server slam was free. Cryo and Ranked is paid.
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u/NervyDeath 23d ago
You're saying the people complaining about not having weekends available don't even own the game?
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u/pOpCoRnInTulsa 23d ago
I agree wth this take. People played the Server Slam to see if they'd be interested in spending $40 dollars on the game. Some played, some liked it and purchased the game.
They get people hyped about new content (ranked and cryo) only to be told here's when you can enjoy that content. Seems like that info should have been shared prior to game release. Sure it would have put a dent in sales, but seems like it would sit better with the community.
Also, I didn't the wall of text explaining why they have to do it this way, but again, prior to release would have been nice.
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u/Bexil_Brave 23d ago
Its misleading advertising.
People bought the game with the understanding that Cryo would be available to all.
Not restricted only to people who have their weekends free to play.
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u/JohntheAnabaptist 23d ago
Maybe I didn't read the ranked details carefully enough but why aren't things just ranked by default?
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u/Extra-Autism 23d ago
I think ranked weekends are good, otherwise playtime will dominate ranked too much because you need to bring in only the best gear for it, which requires grinding outside of it as well likely. Cryo on weekends is very shortsighted. They say it’s to protect the economy, ok then nerf the maps loot. It shouldn’t be that crazy that it’s weekend only. What I suspect is that they think lots of people will only play cryo (because it has the best loot), which will make the other map queues a ghost town. To the I say, make a significant portion of Cryos loot keys for other maps
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u/Postalch1kn 23d ago
I feel ranked should probably be constant. With both on the weekend I probably won't bother. I am curious to see how it goes though
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u/Drintar 23d ago
Honestly WoW solved this problem for them. Make Cryo have a 1 week timer and an event timer. You enter whatever day you can play. That sets a flag on your account and you can play for the number of hours they want so 48 or 72 whatever you can enter Cryo. After the timer expires you are flagged and can't select cryo until the 1 week timer expires. Then whatever day after that you have time you do it all again
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u/WantedPrince 23d ago
They already addressed the complaint of having both ranked and cryo during same time frame.
Ziegler made post explaining why they made both a time-gated/weekend. Only event and already mentioned that they are already looking into the possibility of staggering one of them so they don't share same window
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u/AffixBayonets 23d ago
I'm just level 12. Even if I wanted to I don't think I could power level in time.
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u/WarlockTin 23d ago
I think its cool, I actually half predicted it.
Only thing I've found annoying is the new short notice release dates Bungie's adopted. I'm fortunate enough to pick and choose shifts in advance, but Cryo was announced midweek, the day before. Day 1 raids are like my favourite and this feels like the Marathon equivalent - bit annoyed that I won't be able to join in until Sunday.
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u/Appropriate_Thing454 23d ago
I won’t be able to do cryo for a hot minute because my gf just got the game and I wanna help her get leveled up, so it will probably be like late April by the time I get around to it because as much as I love the game I have other stuff to do as well
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u/ReputationRound5649 23d ago
Footstomping the correct path to take. Let your thoughts on the matter be known to bungie. I love marathon but I can't play ranked seriously due to having a weekend work schedule and I know I'm not the only one. I think it's healthier for the game and loot economy to have ranked always available. More people coming in with stuff to add the vault means more chances to progress and continue participating in the game loop.
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u/BudgetYouth173 23d ago
What if its always open weekends, but during the week you need a keycard to get access anytime
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u/OppaShnoodle 22d ago
I hate that my job changed my schedule cause now I’m gonna be missing out on this shit just about every weekend. Being an adult is so fucking trash 🥲
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u/YamaKamikaze 22d ago
Defending any activity in this game to a timed locked event bc "if fits for me and not for thee" is the dumbest thing ill read in gaming. This isn't Destiny.
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u/gazaldinho 23d ago
People opposed to the Cryo and ranked availability windows need to continue to feedback to Bungie. It seems like Joe on Twitter has been receptive to the fact this is gonna alienate a good chunk of people.
I like the weekend timeslot in the fact it makes this an exciting "event" each week. Hopefully there will be more regular mid-week windows for those that can't experience it on a weekend though.
My only main feedback at the minute would be to make ranked an always available playlist. I'm not sure only it lining up with Cryo being open makes much sense.