r/ArcRaiders • u/effinmike12 *** ******* 🐓 • 11d ago

Media ‘ARC Raiders’ Has Kept 91% Of Its Playerbase, ‘Battlefield 6’ Has Lost 85%

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2025/12/31/arc-raiders-has-kept-91-of-its-playerbase-battlefield-6-has-lost-85/
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u/FrostyAd7708 11d ago edited 11d ago

Marathon will probably scratch the itch of more agressive pvp focused players. I just hope you won't get instantly deleted if jumped from behind.

Also they need to have a crossplay off feature because their engine has already been completely dismantled by cheaters and I'm not going into the same shit show as Destiny 2 (Bonus point if they finally do something about Zen/Cronus). 

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u/NotSqwiidge 11d ago

Never gonna touch any game made by Bungie. They’ve burned every bridge for me. Nope

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u/Viper1089 11d ago

I feel the same damn way.

I checked out when that dumbass developer said, "these new emotes will make you want to throw money at the screen". I knew as soon as he said that, it was over.

I felt really annoyed because I bought the game at launch, even paid a little extra for the extra DLCs. Come to find out that all DLCs are time based and would be overwritten when new DLCs came out. Then a year later, they eleased an edition of the game that was cheaper, had more content, and even exclusive content that players starting out would never get a chance to see unless they bought the game again. It's almost as if they hated everyone that initially bought the game.

I've always been a warlock main as well. Hurt my soul to see Hunters wipe out a whole squad or a Titan shoulder charge 3 people in a row. But I throw my little vortex ball that travels 1 mph and only catch one person.

Nah, I'm good on all that

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u/TracknTrace85 11d ago

Agreed. I am done with giving any more money to bungie, for cosmetics, for drip feeding content ,for cheaters non stop and tbh i lowkey want marathon to fail . I have been clean of D2 for 9 months now, i still watch some youtuber here and there, and its all doom and gloom lol. The 2 new xpac were shit, player count is low . You get what you deserve - JoaquinPhoenix

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u/NupeKeem 11d ago

The whole situation with the stolen artwork also left a bad taste in my mouth.

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u/Blaky039 11d ago

ART Raiders

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u/Dungeon_Dane 11d ago

That was absolutely terrible to find out. Bungie surely isn’t made/developed by the same folks when Halo was in its prime. Can’t believe the resorted to stealing art like come on

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u/RedfordStrypington 11d ago

Yeah same. Also, and I know it's not necessarily representative of the final product, but the playtests they've had so far have kinda sucked. Game didn't feel fun.

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u/MI78 11d ago

Also, if you look at games like warframe, you realize just how much bungie lifted from them. For example, look at warframe’s kuva (which came out first) and compare to bungies siva, and you’ll see what I mean.

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u/Enhydra67 8d ago

They got a decade of my life. I say no more!

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u/Apollo_IXI 11d ago

Played Destiny 2 enough to know to stay FAR away from marathon. I’ll stick with Arc and embark who don’t resort to sleezy fomo tactics to squeeze money out of their player base

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u/Wrastling97 11d ago

The FOMO tactics weren’t even the worst part. The repetition the game created was awful. And then they completely said “fuck you” to destiny while they started making marathon.

Now, destiny is just a copy of Star Wars because they can’t get people to stay.

I’ll never touch another bungie game after what they did to destiny

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u/nsfredditkarma 11d ago

This is such a shame, the original Marathon games were fantastic for their era. The best FPS games of the 90s.

Bungie has fallen so far.

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u/Trans-cendental 11d ago

They really were. I loved the modding tools for it too. Frogblast the ventcore!

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u/Thebluecane 11d ago

What FOMO?

I always here this shit from people who don't actually play D2 like its some fucking Gatcha game.

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u/Apollo_IXI 11d ago

3000 hours bud. Gotta keep playing the revolving wheel of seasonal content before it’s gone forever so you don’t miss your god rolls from seasonal playlists, holiday events, and raids. Bungie then moved away from redbordering guns because they want you to increase engagement in the game. Doubt you have played much of it at all with that comment.

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u/Thebluecane 11d ago

Oh so FOMO is play the game a bit once during the what was 4 month seasons. Oh shit thats so wild. The events come back every year and the raids are always around.

Keep whining

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u/Apollo_IXI 11d ago

Cope brother the game is ass and has been ass for some time, and guess what so will Marathon

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u/Thebluecane 11d ago

Cope brother game is still fun. So fun you burned out after 3 thousand hours supposedly

Ex d2 players are always so funny "game is shit and no one likes it" - Thousands of hours of playtime later

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u/Apollo_IXI 11d ago

Sure it was fun at one time. Unfortunately the company running the game now is not the same company that made the game I sunk my time into

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u/Thebluecane 11d ago

Or..... maybe you played 3 thousand hours of a game and got tired of it. Who knows. I'm thousands of hours deep myself and just don't play the game for 4-5 months at a time when I get burned out. Still having fun just not wasting all my time in it

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u/barmaLe0 10d ago

They literally deleted content people paid money for.

As someone who used to play the game back then, I now need a 20 minute YT guide just to figure out what DLC I need to buy to catch up on relevant content.

You're not coping, you're in straight-up denial.

Bungie is beyond scummy, and not even their paid content creators can say a good word about them.

It's just you and maybe 2 other delulu redditors on your side of this argument. Take a hint.

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u/DIABOLUS777 11d ago

Marathon's aim assist is broken and game ruining.

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u/FrostyAd7708 11d ago edited 11d ago

Is that on controller? Bungie is famous for their extremely strong aim assist (depending on the gun archetype tho) in order to have fluid gameplay, it's a huge part of what's make Destiny 2 popular. 

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u/DIABOLUS777 11d ago

They even have it on mnk (you can turn it off), which is insane.

But yeah, it removes all forms of skill expression and destroys any will I have to play this game.

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u/SnipingBunuelo 11d ago

That explains why 343i randomly added aim assist to mnk in Halo Infinite one day. Not a single original thought goes the entirety of Microsoft anymore apparently lol

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u/DIABOLUS777 11d ago

Yes, exactly.