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As Destiny 2 fans grapple with the news that the live game, part of a series that has run for 11 years, will no longer get new updates<\/a> after two weeks from now, many players are going through various stages of grief. And now, a number have hit \u201canger,\u201d directed toward one game, and sometimes one community in particular, Marathon.<\/p>\n This escalated yesterday when Aztecross, the streamer and YouTuber who has been the biggest content creator in Destiny 2 for quite some time now, published a video<\/a> expressing extreme anger about the situation, saying that he will no longer play the new Marathon season and even potentially turn down lucrative brand deals from Sony for its part in this. The refrain is simply that he doesn\u2019t want Marathon, he wants more Destiny, and it appears like he\u2019s going to use his platform to reinforce that point repeatedly, saying he doesn\u2019t care if he\u2019s going to be petty about it the rest of the year.<\/p>\n It is a noteworthy moment, given that Aztecross is a significant public face for the game and again, its largest creator. Naturally, this explosive video has divided fans further, with some sympathizing or encouraging his anger, as it reflects their own, while others say that this is making everything worse and comes off as sour grapes, to say the least. But it\u2019s not just him; his views are widely held, as are the opposite. (And hello Cross if you\u2019re reading this in a video).<\/p>\n I\u2019ll break this into two parts, the facts about Marathon\u2019s past and present regarding Destiny 2, and my own take on all this:<\/p>\n So, with those facts, you may be able to understand the anger of the Destiny community about Marathon being \u201cchosen\u201d over Destiny 2 to live, or at least to be invested in, as whether or not Marathon survives past a few seasons or a year remains to be seen. But given that this has happened and the current reality, there are really two not-great options here.<\/p>\n Some people want that. They want Bungie to be \u201cpunished\u201d both for how the game has been neglected in favor of Marathon since The Final Shape, especially, and for the fact that Marathon now has Sony\u2019s favor while their favorite game is dead.<\/p>\n I\u2019m not telling anyone what to feel. I too have that anger, as this is the most significant game of my entire career, my life, really, and losing it is devastating. But trying to be pragmatic, I don\u2019t think that wishing death upon Marathon helps the situation at this point.<\/p>\n I do not, however, think that these players need to all go buy and play Marathon. That\u2019s not a reasonable demand if people simply don\u2019t like the game, and they don\u2019t \u201cowe\u201d it to Bungie to do that. But I think there\u2019s a difference between that and supporting the game in terms of at least not publicly lighting it on fire. Hoping it doesn\u2019t fail for the above reasons doesn\u2019t seem like a bridge too far.<\/p>\n Still, I get the anger. I feel it too. I just don\u2019t want it to burn the whole forest down.<\/p>\n Follow me <\/strong>on Twitter<\/strong><\/a>, <\/strong>YouTube<\/strong><\/a>,<\/strong><\/a> and <\/strong>Instagram<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n Pick up my sci-fi novels the <\/strong>Herokiller series<\/strong><\/a> and <\/strong>The Earthborn Trilogy<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n
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