I honestly wish nothing but the best for the Marathon community but sadly you can't just crrate a game and expect that game to be for everyone, not in todqy's market, not in today's industry, this is 2026 and competision is relentless. I play games I enjoy. Its actually partly the reason Destiny declined, it lost its direction, one moment we are all in hardcore with grinding and prepping for day 1 raids and the next, day 1s are just outright given to you (Root of Nightmares). A game should target an audience, not target everyone.
Half the community is going to hate me for saying this, but the only way to keep Bungie alive right now is to support Marathon. People keep comparing Marathon numbers to Destiny and frankly, that's ignorant. Marathon was never designed to do Bungie numbers. The conversations about that were very upfront early. It's more aligned with Tarkov than Destiny. Completely different target markets that just so happen to have a wide intersection with Destiny target markets since it uniquely has so many.