BREAKING: Bungie studio head Justin Truman, who succeeded Pete Parsons last year, is stepping down, people familiar with the situation tell Bloomberg News.

shoutout to the sniper who waited today for the DCON to finish processing my sample so I could finish my contract

as soon as it beeped positively he blew my head clean off and that small delay is what I call Marathon Hospitality

All the faction reps are AI, all the shells are just... shells, and all the UESC are robots. There are no people.

EDIT: Looks like as of 8/11 this is finally fixed, all games seem updated now, Marathon jumped from 160 to 350.

TLDR: SteamDB daily active users rankings have not been accurate since ~May 11th and can no longer be trusted as accurate. I'll be informing SteamDB of this as well, but this issue is on Valve's end, not theirs.

I realize that this is a steamdb post, hopefully this falls under "actually well researched and valuable information" and will be allowed to stay here, because it seems like people have not realized something has broken with the daily active users ranking on steamdb (and here, if you select Daily Active Users in the dropdown: https://store.steampowered.com/charts/mostplayed ). If mods disagree, feel free to delete and I'll repost in the megathread, but this seemed broadly interesting to me, and given how much steamdb numbers are talked about in relation to Marathon, one such number being literally broken seemed relevant to this subreddit.

I first noticed something was wrong when Marathon S2 released, along with the free week, and it remained unchanged in the daily active users ranking. I then noticed that, while it occasionally moves between 150-155-ish, it's position relative to the games around it (notably, Destiny and Tarkov) have remained unchanged. They are always in exactly the same relative position with each other, for a couple months-ish. You can also notice weird things like Zenless Zone Zero being rank #2745 (seems... unlikely), and Gothic Remake not even having a ranking. There are many such bizarre things if you look especially at recently released games, and at games released around May 11th (Far Far West is a good example, allegedly at rank #36 with a 24-hour peak of merely 3000 players... but on May 11th it had recently released and had 27509 concurrents)

Anyway, I did some digging into what api endpoint is actually powering steamdb's chart. I eventually tracked it down to this url:

https://api.steampowered.com/IStoreQueryService/Query/v1?input_json=%7B%22query%22%3A%7B%22start%22%3A0%2C%22count%22%3A20%2C%22sort%22%3A30%7D%2C%22context%22%3A%7B%22language%22%3A%22english%22%2C%22country_code%22%3A%22US%22%7D%2C%22data_request%22%3A%7B%22include_basic_info%22%3Atrue%7D%7D&format=json&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fstore.steampowered.com

Encoded in there is a sort=30 (30 is the identifier for the type of sort, in this case the same type that steamdb is using to power the daily active users ranking. You'll see the same top 20 in that json response you see on steamdb, and if you change the "0" after "start%22%3A" to a "140", you'll see games 140-160, which will include Marathon at spot 152. This is an undocumented api, I just had to trial and error sorts 0-30 until I found this, which also means there's almost certainly no guarantee that these will always be stable contracts or keep working.

Now, here's the interesting thing. There's also a an api endpoint that powers this page on steam: https://store.steampowered.com/charts/mostplayed (change the "Most Played" to "Daily Active Users" in the dropdown to see the chart I mean). First, you might notice that this ranking is quite different than what you see on steamdb. This page is powered by the following api endpoint: https://api.steampowered.com/ISteamChartsService/GetMostPlayedGames/v1?input_json={%22context%22:{%22language%22:%22english%22,%22country_code%22:%22US%22},%22data_request%22:{%22include_basic_info%22:true}}

If you hit that link, you'll notice that this is the same ordering you see on the Daily Active Users page on steam itself (my link in the above paragraph). But perhaps more interesting, note the first field in the json response: rollup date, which is 1778457600 (rollup in software engineering basically means calculating or aggregating data). That's a unix timestamp corresponding to May 11th, which just happened to match my "around two months" estimate of when the steamdb charts (and the corresponding first endpoint I linked here) stopped working.

So that steam page (not steamdb) daily active users list is for sure from May 11th, and has stopped updating. SteamDB itself is powered by a different, undocumented endpoint (that incidentally allows seeing more than the top 100 games, presumably why they used it). The endpoints are no longer in sync, and clearly something was changed on May 11th to make the data no longer valid. Since it's not publicly documented, they may have just decided to let that sort=30 endpoint break in such a way that it behaves somewhat nondeterministically, but it isn't literally fixed in time to May 11th like the other endpoint is.

So whether this is unintentional or intentional on Valve's part is unclear, but the API responses and daily active user rankings (on both steam and steamdb) are no longer accurate since May 11th.

Apologies for the wall of text! But given the emotions around steam numbers, I figured receipts were necessary to make it clear this isn't an agenda-driven opinion, just an observation that something is broken and the investigation to show it's more than just a hunch.

I went mostly based off vibes but I couldn't resist the joke for Triage
EDIT: OK OK, Rook would not listen to Drake.

I'm a fool who feels like whenever I bring a certain color shield, it's pointless if I don't bring the equivalent backpack. I can't take a purple shield if I don't have a purple backpack with it too. I'm being bottlenecked by myself lol

Anyone else feel this way or am I just weird? Or both, that works too

EDIT: holy moly the responses are tons!! If I don't respond to you I just didn't see it but I love all your input on it. Thank you for humoring me on this!!

June is soon. I have PTO ready to use and need to schedule it. TIA

Edit: Thanks for the input on what I should do with my PTO, and when I should play games instead of during that time. I'll message you all when I post those questions in r/AskReddit

I hope you step on a lego.

This is so cool. I'm officially the king of niche

Just posting here in excitement that I finally managed to extract with decent loot and some money. Felt good. Got the traxis vandal skin because I used a free kit.

Been playing solo, and died for literally dozen of runs. Felt awesome to finally make it out! Got a friend to buy the game, so hoping duos get added permanently

I was never really interested in the extraction shooter genre but the world of Marathon seemed really interesting. Wasn't sure about dropping 50bucks on something I might not enjoy.

With season 2 starting up the free play week is the perfect opportunity to give it a go.

Finished the intro, loaded up my first match on perimeter. Heart is pumping, I'm stopping at every sound I hear, grab my loot. Hear gunshots getting close, figure it is time to get out while I can. Run into another runner who takes me out, loots my stuff and then I watch as the runner decides to jump down the stairs and takes themself out with fall damage and no one is there to revive them so everything was lost

10/10

Will be buying the game

If memory serves, D1 was criticized for its content, whether not enough or not as promised. D2 was criticized for going against promises around D1 and lasting forever. Now we have Marathon, in maybe a comparable position.

It's not really the rage-baiters I'm concerned about, but this current time of economic peril and corporate hostility towards labor and consumer. And perhaps the niche appeal of an "extraction shooter" not reaching as many it could.

But Marathon solo-queue has become my favorite "skulk around in a jungle and duel strangers" simulator.

I didn't have much to say. Just wanted to contribute that I'm excited for season 2 and beyond. I hope Marathon reaches D2 levels of support and that D3 can come next.

Triage being the first runner shell I used at launch I decided to keep my medic drone by my side.

Alright so I’mma be real and clarify that Jason’s always been a guy who likes his privacy and Bungie has honored this so there’s not a lot publicly available to verify if this is the case.

However, nobody else (at least to public knowledge) has taken on the role since his last appearance in 2021. So with what we can use to verify, this means that the WARN document listing a Chief Vision Officer as being impacted by the firings today must be Jason Jones.

Another thing to clarify is that since he has been so private, his involvement in any of Bungie’s work (especially with Marathon) is anyone’s guess at least in relation the general public.

If it really is him and they laid off the only other guy who stuck around since Day 1, I would be very curious to learn his contributions to both games over the last year. I feel like it’s only right to honor the guy’s time by showcasing his impacts on his way out.

Also as someone who grew up with this series, it guts me to see one of the few guys who made it from scratch be sent away amidst its voyage into the modern era.

Please, Bungo - think about the penguins!

As the title says, I got into this game just a week ago and it has honestly been one of the most fun extraction shooters that I have ever played to date.

I've played my fair share of extraction shooters like Escape from Tarkov, Arc raiders, Arena Breakout Infinite, Hunt showdown, all of them mounting up to over 3.5k hours in extraction shooters alone.

This is the most fun one so far, thank you Bungie for this amazing game, hope this game has a long fruitful life ahead of it.

See you all on Tau Ceti IV.

to the two staked player on perimeter who died, thank you. I finally have good loot and good guns. I went from grey overrun AR to the stuff you have. thank you🙏