NGL, Bungie shutting down support for D2 was probably the worst thing that could've happened to Marathon

I truly believe that Bungie shutting down support for D2 made a comeback for Marathon 10 times harder to achieve.

Before D2 was cut, marathon was being called the game that took resources away from destiny, a situation that could be fixed is if after Marathon got a healthy player count, D2 would start getting better content again.

After D2 was cut, Marathon is the game that killed D2 and there's not much you can fix from that.

It's not just the D2 players that are mad, its the players who love the game but stopped due to various reasons like waiting for a Destiny 3 or being done after a big expansion.

As long as D2 was alive, Marathon had a potential player base that couldve been interested in the game as time went on. However now that D2 is done, almost no D2 player will try marathon and even some D2 vets that switched to Marathon probably stopped playing the game.

Now, Marathon has to mostly get players who have almost no connection to the Destiny franchise, which is a lot harder considering how big Destiny 2 was at one point in time.