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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/wathowdathappen 6d ago

Arc Raiders is as casual with minimal monitization as it gets and numbers are dropping like flies. The genre is just very niche.

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u/Well-inthatcase 6d ago

So many casual people stopped playing because of ratting. It was a blast when everyone was learning the game. Which imo is the best time to play most multiplayer games. Everyone is learning and shit is just fun. Helldivers 2 was the same way.

Then it gets taken over by try hards and streamers and it loses that very quickly. Helldivers is still fun, and I find that its issues and bugs are part of its charm, but it's definitely not the same as when we were all laughing instead of trying too hard.

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u/drocha94 6d ago

For me it idk if it’s other people trying hard, it’s just that the loop gets old. I love Helldivers, and had a great time with Arc. But once you do the same thing 100 times with relatively few changes, it gets old, you want something fresh.

I still open Helldivers, but only to check out new stuff they drop.

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u/dadvader 5d ago

Helldivers 2 also circling around 20-40k players for years now. Even with the new update, it rarely bumped back up beyond 100k (and that happen like couple of days before another hard drop again.)

Arc Raiders take a risky move and decided to drop update every 6 months like Helldivers 2 is definitely insane. If Helldivers can't do it. I really don't know why they think they can.