Destiny Players Review Bomb Marathon Only to Be Met With Countercampaign from Bungie Fans

Destiny players person taken to the Marathon Steam leafage to dependable their frustrations with antagonistic reviews, but Bungie fans person already started warring backmost with their ain countercampaign.

What appears to beryllium the makings of a tiny review-bombing run follows yesterday's quality that developer Bungie would motorboat the last Destiny 2 contented update this June. With nary Destiny 3 successful sight, galore suspected the Destiny beingness would travel to an abrupt extremity aft 12 years truthful the workplace could displacement its resources to its precocious launched extraction-shooter revival, Marathon.

Disappointment crept into the Marathon Steam leafage today, starring to an influx of antagonistic reviews from users explicitly mentioning Destiny successful immoderate fashion. Most of these aforesaid reviews travel from players with Marathon playtimes that scope from little than 1 hr to astir 50 hours, with immoderate going arsenic acold arsenic to blasted Bungie's caller shooter for the "death" of Destiny 2.

"You killed my favourite crippled for this..." 1 fashionable reappraisal from an unhappy instrumentality said. "My lone regret was supporting this trash successful the anticipation that Destiny would continue. RIP D2."

Steam is nary alien to review-bombing campaigns. Disgruntled PC users often instrumentality to Valve's integer storefront to aerial their concerns successful a mode they consciousness whitethorn beryllium recognized by the developers of the games they're targeting, truthful it was nary astonishment to spot a radical of die-hard Destiny fans instrumentality to the Marathon leafage to bash the same.

It was truthful predictable that Marathon players rapidly organized with their ain countercampaign of affirmative reviews. A graph shared by Steam (below) shows that affirmative reviews from contiguous unsocial acold outweigh immoderate harm done by the antagonistic reviews. Of the 531 Marathon reviews published today, May 22, 2026, 374 (70%) are positive, and 157 (30%) are negative. For comparison, May 20, the time earlier the Destiny announcement was made, Marathon brought successful 49 affirmative reviews and lone six antagonistic reviews.

Marathon Steam Reviews 5/22/2026. Image courtesy of Valve.

A fashionable Reddit station published connected the Marathon subreddit showed up yesterday successful the aftermath of the extremity of Destiny support. "Sad but true," the post's writer said, calling connected fans to permission affirmative reviews aft they predicted that Destiny 2 players would proceed leaving antagonistic Steam reviews. Many replied with their support, with others sharing their content that Destiny 3 tin lone beryllium brought to beingness if Marathon manages to survive.

"It's ironic due to the fact that the lone roadworthy to seeing a D3 is if [Marathon] manages to survive," 1 Reddit idiosyncratic replied. "If Marathon dies an aboriginal death, truthful does Bungie."

"As idiosyncratic who loves some games," different added, "it’s conscionable bittersweet to spot however spiteful radical tin be. I’ll ne'er understand."

Destiny primitively launched successful 2014 earlier Destiny 2 arrived successful 2017. Until Bungie has much to share, it seems the series' last large update volition get this June.

Marathon launched arsenic a antithetic instrumentality connected sci-fi shooting connected March 5, 2026. Despite beardown reviews from critics (IGN gave it a 9/10) and fans, it reportedly failed to conscionable expectations. For now, Bungie says it inactive has plans for Marathon's aboriginal to beryllium bright, with caller updates including the committedness of much PvE contented and a semipermanent thought for its story.

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