Future Gamers Evaluate Bombing Marathon Face Countercampaign from Bungie Followers

Future gamers have taken to the Marathon Steam web page to voice their frustrations with unfavourable critiques, however Bungie followers have already began combating again with their very own countercampaign.

What seems to be the makings of a small review-bombing marketing campaign follows yesterday’s information that developer Bungie would launch the ultimate Future 2 content material replace this June. With no Future 3 in sight, many suspected the Future universe would come to an abrupt finish after 12 years so the studio may shift its assets to its lately launched extraction-shooter revival, Marathon.

Disappointment crept into the Marathon Steam web page immediately, resulting in an inflow of unfavourable critiques from customers explicitly mentioning Future in some vogue. Most of those similar critiques come from gamers with Marathon playtimes that vary from lower than one hour to round 50 hours, with some going so far as accountable Bungie’s new shooter for the “loss of life” of Future 2.

“You killed my favourite sport for this…” one well-liked evaluation from an sad fan stated. “My solely remorse was supporting this trash within the hope that Future would proceed. RIP D2.”

Steam isn’t any stranger to review-bombing campaigns. Disgruntled PC customers typically take to Valve’s digital storefront to air their considerations in a approach they really feel could also be acknowledged by the builders of the video games they’re focusing on, so it was no shock to see a bunch of die-hard Future followers take to the Marathon web page to do the identical.

It was so predictable that Marathon gamers rapidly organized with their very own countercampaign of optimistic critiques. A graph shared by Steam (under) reveals that optimistic critiques from immediately alone far outweigh any injury performed by the unfavourable critiques. Of the 531 Marathon critiques printed immediately, Could 22, 2026, 374 (70%) are optimistic, and 157 (30%) are unfavourable. For comparability, Could 20, the day earlier than the Future announcement was made, Marathon introduced in 49 optimistic critiques and solely six unfavourable critiques.

A preferred Reddit submit printed on the Marathon subreddit confirmed up yesterday within the aftermath of the tip of Future assist. “Unhappy however true,” the submit’s writer stated, calling on followers to go away optimistic critiques after they predicted that Future 2 gamers would proceed leaving unfavourable Steam critiques. Many replied with their assist, with others sharing their perception that Future 3 can solely be dropped at life if Marathon manages to outlive.

“It is ironic as a result of the one highway to seeing a D3 is that if [Marathon] manages to outlive,” one Reddit person replied. “If Marathon dies an early loss of life, so does Bungie.”

“As somebody who loves each video games,” one other added, “it’s simply unhappy to see how spiteful individuals will be. I’ll by no means perceive.”

Marathon Screenshots 2026 and 2025

Future initially launched in 2014 earlier than Future 2 arrived in 2017. Till Bungie has extra to share, it appears the collection’ ultimate main replace will arrive this June.

Marathon launched as a distinct tackle sci-fi taking pictures on March 5, 2026. Regardless of robust critiques from critics (IGN gave it a 9/10) and followers, it reportedly failed to fulfill expectations. For now, Bungie says it nonetheless has plans for Marathon’s future to be vivid, with current updates together with the promise of extra PvE content material and a long-term concept for its story.

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