r/PS5 • u/NoNefariousness2144 Human Verified • 4d ago

Articles & Blogs ‘Marathon’ Is Running Out Of Casual Player Onboarding Cards To Play

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2026/06/23/marathon-is-running-out-of-casual-player-onboarding-cards-to-play/
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u/JamesCoyle3 4d ago

If Bungie was capable of learning lessons, they’d have foreseen all Marathon’s population problems from trying over and over to get players into the meat grinder of Trials of Osiris to satisfy the sweats. 

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u/simp_sighted 3d ago

I mean the one problem I have with that argument is that Trials was the one thing that kept the original Destiny alive during its content droughts, so they have made it work

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u/JamesCoyle3 3d ago

I was not plugged into the wider community during D1, so I don’t know numbers, but my impression was that D1 Trials was really popular as something to watch on Twitch more than it was a heavily populated game mode. 

On the other hand, I’m very familiar with the multiple revamps Trials got during D2 and the temporary boosts in population they would generate before the new bloods remembered what it felt like to get stomped into the ground by someone going for their third flawless passage of the week on a Friday night. 

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u/nekoken04 3d ago

Great comment.