- Marathon will receive an Open Play Week with the launch of Season 2
- The free trial will take place from June 2 to 9.
- All progress made will carry over to the paid version of the game.
Like Bungie Axes Destiny 2the studio has announced a limited-time free trial for Marathon as part of the upcoming season 2 release.
Last week, the Sony-owned studio confirmed that after almost a decade it would end Destiny 2 development and canceling all future expansions. While the servers will remain online, final updates will be released in June, but the game is essentially dead.
This news comes in the middle MarathonBungie’s latest first-person shooter (FPS) game, continues to see a rapid decline in player numbers on Steam. At launch, the game had an all-time peak of 88,337 players and now sits at less than 15% of that, attracting just under 4,000 players at the time of writing, according to SteamDB.
As the game’s first season comes to a close, Bungie has confirmed that Marathon will offer its first Open Play Week launching alongside Season 2 on June 2, apparently in an effort to attract new players.
The free play period will be for the full game and will run from June 2 to June 9 on PS5, Xbox Series X and Series S, and PC. Any progress players make in the trial version will carry over to the paid version.
Season 2 will also introduce a new Night Marsh zone, a new Runne shell, weapons, and progression improvements.
Earlier this month, game director Joe Ziegler described Marathon‘s content roadmap and explained what Bungie will change in the future after the game’s first two months of release. This includes introducing new PvE experiences, making the game “less complicated and more rewarding”, improving UI/UX, matchmaking, solo and duo play, the endgame meta, and “smoothing onboarding.”
Beyond Season 2, which launches on June 2, Bungie will improve the process of onboarding new players, and Ziegler admitted that the game is “overwhelming to learn” and that the team is still “figuring out the endgame balance mix.”
In order to Destiny 2 and a Bloomberg report claiming that Bungie is not actively working on Destiny 3let’s hope that MarathonThe free trial will bring some much-needed numbers to keep the FPS afloat.
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