I was doing a dancer run and was apparently to slow in getting the dances. I then figured I had a Tarentallist with a pretty portrait and would like the dancing club so I sent her an invite. I then either didn't go on enough dates or missed too many passion opportunities (since it is a small pop up and I missed it) so she starts to resent me. She then goes rouge and I figure I can take her out with a snare. Snares don't last long and it is hard to know when you need then, so I mess up and she gets to level 6. I finally get a snare and figure this will knock her down or I will be able to finish the last dance before she gets back to where she was before the trap. The trap fails. I didn't even know it could fail. As I am galivanting to the last dance she ascends. I literally did not need to have a girlfriend and it screwed my at least 10 hour run. Very accurate game, 10/10.

"With your Coworker" appears to be beating Marathon, with a daily peak that is about as high as Marathon (around 4000), nearly 80% player retention after 2 months, and more users during non peak hours. Is there something that this small indie studio has done to capture a player base more active than Bungie's player base? In response, should bungie pivot to pornographic desktop companions to increase player count?

https://steamdb.info/app/3065800/charts/

https://steamdb.info/app/4564320/charts/

So there is a low player count issue now and lots of people have lots of ideas on how to solve it. However, most of these are gambles, require resources that may not exist, or are hard to implement. However, due to the large size of the bungie development team I believe that there is a solution that is easy, attainable, and would be more effective than other solutions. Just have the developers stop developing the game and play the game at least 8 hours a day. This would raise player counts by at least 300 players during peak times and about 50 at non peak times. Unlike other methods this is guaranteed to drive player counts, and could increase confidence in the game. We have seen stuff like Vault breakers and night marsh did not result in more players playing, so is getting the devs to play their game instead of developing it the easiest way to ensure they get more players?

I got marathon with my friends and recently he mentioned that he liked marathon more than he thought he would! He said it showed that he was a fan of extraction shooters and was looking to play more extraction shooters. That is why he told me to request access to the new extraction shooter "Hunger". marathon has made him excited to play extraction shooters that are not Marathon, because he owns Marathon and doesn't want to play it. Does anyone else have success stories of Marathon getting people to play extraction shooters (that are not Marathon)!

I will list a bunch of games by their genres without listing the game's name, see if you can catch the "niche" one.

I recently have been told to uninstall the game by people in game. Should I uninstall the game and reduce the player count of this game even further? Is there any point to continuing to play this game? What should I do to get people to stop telling me to uninstall the game?

Edit: This lasted 10 minutes on r/Marathon The mods are really working overtime to save their game.

I don't get why nobody seems to be willing to give Marathon a chance just because it is an extraction shooter! Even my friend group is unwilling to stop playing Hunt Showdown to play Marathon, even though they own both games. Just because extraction shooter will never be in the top 50 most played games on steam doesn't mean they are an inherently bad game design. I mean, except for Arc Raiders, but that doesn't count because it is easy. I wish more people would give this game as much of a chance as they give Escape From Tarkov, which based on the fact that it has double the player count of Marathon I assume means that it is not an extraction shooter. Extraction shooters are so niche that a parody game of Escape from Tarkov called "Escape From Duckov" has 4k peak players, over a third of the players Marathon has. The narrative against Marathon has become so strong that after the free week that Marahton only has 9% of the total players of all extraction shooters between: Arc Radiers (52k), Hunt Showdown(36k), and Escape From Tarkov(25k) Escape From Duckov(4k) and Marathon(11k).

Can anyone explain why people seem to be so against Marathon and not any of these other games?

https://www.reddit.com/r/PsycheOrSike/comments/1szimkg/due_to_the_amount_of_rape_apologists_and_future/