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“We need additional time to complete Marathon maintenance and deploy the patch,” Bungie wrote around 9:00 p.m. ET, when servers were originally supposed to come back online. “We appreciate your patience and will provide additional updates when they are ready.” At the time of writing it’s not immediately clear when things will be resolved.
“It sucks how good the new season felt within those couple matches I got to play,” wrote Twitch streamer Knitehawk. “Hopefully the next update fixes everything and we can really see what the team cooked up.”
What makes the timing especially unfortunate is that it comes at the same time when hundreds of thousands were tuning into Sony’s big PlayStation State of Play summer showcase and caught the promo for Marathon mid-way through. Since the game is currently free, there was no barrier to entry. It was the perfect time for people curious about the game to actually download it and check it out.
If season 2 really knocks it out of the park, the initial stumble right out of the gate might not end up being a big deal. But with Destiny 2 being sunset and significant layoffs reportedly hitting Bungie in the months ahead, Marathon needs all the help it can get.