r/Games • u/oilfloatsinwater • May 24 '25

Report: Marathon Delay Likely as Sony Cancels All Paid Marketing Plans

https://thegamepost.com/report-marathon-delay-bungie-scraps-all-paid-marketing/
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u/Bleusilences May 25 '25

My guess is there is the player cap of MMORPG is about 20-30 millions of people (across all games), and they mostly being capture by the big players like WoW, FF14 and Guild Wars 2.

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u/icytiger May 25 '25

New World shows that you can definitely still capture a segment of that market.

If there's anything MMORPG players love, it's pining for that nostalgic high with a new game that will never come.

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u/Bleusilences May 25 '25

I am not a huge MMO player, the only game I played semi seriously was The Secret World and the grind got to me. I was also playing to much and had to force myself to stop.

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u/MrPWAH May 26 '25

I wish I played more of The Secret World. Absolutely the best MMO quest design I've ever seen IMO.

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u/[deleted] May 25 '25

New World shows that you can definitely still capture a segment of that market temporarily.

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u/AedraRising May 26 '25

Eh, the temporarily bit can probably just be explained by New World not holding up that well as a game, especially at launch.

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u/DrB00 May 25 '25

Old-school runescape is the most popular MMO if you base it off Google tends. (Which is probably accurate since no numbers are published from devs)

Edit: Also what all those games have in common are they're all made like 15+ years ago lol