Bungie's latest FPS title Marathon is now out, and despite strong launch day numbers on Steam, player counts are already in a slight decline. Leading up to launch, Marathon easily broke into the Top Sellers chart on Steam, passing rival extraction shooter ARC Raiders and the recently released Resident Evil Requiem.
However, just one day after launching, Marathon has already been dethroned from Steam's number one spot by rouge like deck builder Slay the Spire 2, a game that saw more than 400k concurrent players on Steam, while Marathon had a CCU that couldn't quite reach 100k. There are several factors that play into this, such as the lower price of StS2 and the more niche appeal of both the art style of Marathon and of extraction shooters as a whole.
Now Bungie has reportedly asked reviewers and journalists to hold off on giving final scores to their game, as there is still work being done on endgame content. While it is not unusual among the mainstream press to wait on final scores for a working review, it does raise eyebrows among many who are already skeptical of Bungie.
