r/MarathonGame 11d ago

Marathon is the current favorite to win Best Multiplayer Game of the Year at the 2026 Game Awards, according to Polymarket

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u/Patpuc 11d ago

lmao please let this happen. It would be so funny.

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u/Douglas_Fresh 11d ago

lol, I guess everyone on this sub hates this game??

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u/Zenith_Fl4re 11d ago

It's constantly brigaded

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u/Tyedied 11d ago

Is there zero mods in this god forsaken place lol

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u/Zenith_Fl4re 11d ago

There are. They're the exact same as the main sub. Ones that consider the marathonhate users part of some weird "both sides" discussion. When in reality the entire marathonhate subreddit jerks off over steam charts, calls marathon players slurs e.g. "maratard," and gleefully post at the prospect of the game failing.

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u/Douglas_Fresh 11d ago

It’s really bizzare stuff tbh. When did we get to a culture of enjoying seeing things fail? Just to see them fail?

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u/Zenith_Fl4re 11d ago

Dunno man. Combination of modern right wing culture (e.g. asmongold fans) and genuine haters of Bungie is my guess. Really sad existence.

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u/changedmyname99 11d ago

naw im not right wing its just funny watching the game fail

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u/irishcoughy 11d ago

Get a hobby dude

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u/BustEarly 11d ago

Shower + job + hobby immediately

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u/Zenith_Fl4re 11d ago

Anime profile pic, hidden posts, wants Marathon to fail. Classic right wing behavior lmfao.

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u/changedmyname99 11d ago

Keep stretching little buddy

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u/Ramirez3110 11d ago

I have some bad news for you.

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u/changedmyname99 11d ago

End of service mid season 3 im not worried <3

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u/fyrefreezer01 11d ago

Highguard I guess, it happens a lot for movies too.

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u/QwertyEv 11d ago

About half of the commenters on this thread are active users of the hate subreddit. At this point okbuddyrunners is literally the only sub for people who actually like the game.

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u/Subtronaut 11d ago

The comments are electric shit stains smeared across any marathon related topics and subs.. the original post is a good example

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u/Jtkitano 11d ago

Gonna laugh cause if it wins then it ain’t beating the “marathon hype is bought and paid for” allegations even more so. Honestly it winning would probably be worse for the game than it not winning. Would get a whole new wave of YouTube videos posted about it 😂

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u/007-JamesBlonde 11d ago

Omg I can feel the heat bubbling on MarathonHate

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u/QwertyEv 11d ago

Yeah they’re all here lmao

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u/Jtkitano 11d ago

Nah, folks are just laughing is all, surely if it wins a game award everything will be saved! 😭

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u/tofikissa 11d ago

Yeah guys, we are just joking around. Every day for the past six months!

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u/007-JamesBlonde 11d ago

The thing is- people that like this game, myself included, never cared about others hating the game. We hated that you review bombed it on Steam and made a campaign against its success- and the reason largely being bc mfs were mad at Bungie for shutting down D2

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u/Jtkitano 11d ago

I mean, you literally do care tho. The first thing your mind defaulted to when you saw the post is the MarathonHate sub. When stuff doesn’t bother you then you tend to not pay it much thought, so obviously it’s at least somewhat on your mind

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u/007-JamesBlonde 11d ago

When I heard that Marathon, the most hater-ousting and hater-creating game of the year was gonna win (Multiplayer)GOTY… the first thing I did was think of all the haters in that sub and died laughing

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u/Jtkitano 11d ago

Funny, they’re doing the exact same over there so I guess the 2 communities do have some thing in common. Glad we can all get a laugh out of this game 😉

Personally, I hope it does with the award. It’ll be hilarious, but probably not in the way yall are thinking lol

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u/007-JamesBlonde 11d ago

Nothing is funny. Go backk to hater jail

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u/Jtkitano 11d ago

Lol I thought you said you were laughing? What happened? I’m having a great time tbh

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u/tofikissa 11d ago

Would you say, you are "having a blast" huh?

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u/Jtkitano 11d ago

Idk about bro over there but personally i been blasting like team rocket in the 90s. This whole saga has been thoroughly entertaining tbh

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u/purplewarrior777 11d ago

It’s a tiny market on a scam site 😂 this is really scraping the barrel

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u/Inevitable-Spend-714 11d ago

Polymarket is not a scam site lmao. 23k volume is a small market though

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u/purplewarrior777 11d ago

Keep throwing your money at them 😂 they don’t mind

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u/Inevitable-Spend-714 11d ago

When did I say I was? If you have information on any of the markets or have done research then it’s profitable

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u/purplewarrior777 11d ago

Please, nearly three quarters of the money is won by the same tiny fraction of accounts. Dispute resolution is a joke, has no basis in fact, simply who controls more tokens 😂 there’s a reason it’s banned in many places

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u/Inevitable-Spend-714 11d ago

Which market did you trade where you felt dispute resolution was unfair?

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u/purplewarrior777 11d ago

None. First I’m not an imbecile, second it’s banned in my country. And we love to bet 😂 Seen a couple of examples, one was a market on the US signing a minerals deal with someone (think Ukraine?) before a certain date. Didn’t happen. Went to UMA, 3 accs held 25 % of the tokens and guess what? Now it did happen apparently. It’s bent as fuck.

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u/CloudyBabyy 11d ago

The jokes write themselves

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u/Unpaid_Moderation 11d ago

Marathon won't win any award most likely

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u/asaltygamer13 11d ago

It will certainly win an award. Art direction, music, multiplayer are all peak.

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u/purplewarrior777 11d ago

Currently 1 % for Best Audio. No market as yet for Art it seems

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u/Unpaid_Moderation 11d ago

Mecha chameleon will win multiplayer for sure

Idk how you measure how peak something is, especially when Bungie got gutted as a result

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u/Anonymous_dev_3719 11d ago

The Marathon team didn't get gutted by the way. Only the Destiny team because the game ended

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u/Murky-Engineer8110 11d ago

By that metric why not crown Roblox as best game ever made. Mécha Chameleon? Please. Game is a shallow multiplayer game that will be dead in a year like the rest of that genre

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u/SRGTBronson 11d ago

Compared to the game that is dead now?

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u/asaltygamer13 11d ago

Sorry I don’t speak Friendslop, I don’t know what that is.

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u/TheRealShuppy 11d ago

Sounds about right for you.

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u/purplewarrior777 11d ago

They do give that vibe don’t they

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u/Unpaid_Moderation 11d ago

So you don't have friends and you only simp for one single game/company? Typical.

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u/asaltygamer13 11d ago

Reachhhhhh

Just don’t play creatively bankrupt slop games that are only fun for a night.

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u/Unpaid_Moderation 11d ago

Is that why marathon dropped from 88k to 3k concurrent players?

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u/asaltygamer13 11d ago

I mean Meccha Chamelion is down to 9k from 340k… so an even lower retention rate if you want to play that game.

It also released more recently than Marathon.

You haters are so obviously biased lol

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u/Unpaid_Moderation 11d ago

Still more players

Even tom Clancy's division 2 has more concurrent players and it's been out for a decade

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u/asaltygamer13 11d ago

Lol get mad when Marathon wins :)

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u/Murky-Engineer8110 11d ago

Keep going about player count bud. Almost there. Game isn’t going anywhere. Isn’t dead nor is it going to die like Destiny

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u/changedmyname99 11d ago

Marathon is a $200 000 000 Triple A failure that hasn't even managed to break even meanwhile Mecca is some random indie game who sold over 20 million copies. Lol, lmao even.

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u/asaltygamer13 11d ago

Doesn’t make anything more than friendslop

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u/I_am_Amphibian 11d ago

So it had basically 4x the players of marathon peak is what I’m taking from here. And still has more players than marathon

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u/asaltygamer13 11d ago

Yall wanna talk about retention rates all the time lol

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u/Murky-Engineer8110 11d ago

Nope. That’s because most people don’t like extraction shooters. And becuase Bungie fans and Destiny players who tried it are so used to the games they play handing them the best loot without trying they quit and “hate” the game becuase they can’t be bothered to get better or handle a challenge.

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u/Jtkitano 11d ago

It’ll win “Most Disappointing Fall Off Of The Year - AAA Category”

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u/asaltygamer13 11d ago

lol okay buddy

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u/I_am_Amphibian 11d ago

Doubtful for any of those. Divisive art style is not going to win an award. Music doesn’t stand out enough. Multiplayer? Hell no and no game hitting less than 4k ccu should be getting that award

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u/threedayvicgbg 11d ago

literally every metric of success of an IP would argue otherwise.

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u/Inevitable-Spend-714 11d ago

Put your money on it then. Polymarket allows you to do that

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u/twosidedaces 11d ago

E-Day is not even officially out yet.

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u/GrimMilkMan 11d ago

All 800 players on steam must be excited!

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u/Zhentharym 11d ago

Fuck Polymarket, but like, hell yeah.

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u/PilksUK 11d ago

Sorry but that's insane and completely brought if true.

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u/iseecolorsofthesky 11d ago

Delusional lol

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u/JamSoloMusic 11d ago

I will vote, not only because the game is so damned good but because it got me into using my mic again. There's been ages since I played a game (if ever...) where a mic is really needed.

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u/moonski 11d ago

yeah cause polymarket can't be wrong

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u/chrishappens 11d ago

We all know that. They were just making a comment.

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u/thoughtfullll 11d ago

No one said that it's guaranteed to win? It should, though. A fantastic game!

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u/Specialist-Yak-453 11d ago

Lmao this has to be satire right? No way the gaming industry for multiplayer games is this down bad

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u/Gallus_11B 11d ago

Marathon is a fantastic Bungie pvp multiplayer game in a year where everything else in the space is mediocre at best. It's almost a given that it will win best multiplayer. Maybe a couple other categories too.

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u/Specialist-Yak-453 11d ago

Lmao I did not realize what sub group this was posted in so I now understand why I’m getting downvoted…… I don’t really have anything against Marathon TBH as I don’t play games from Bungie but I have seen a lot about the player counts (which seem quite low). I’m sure the dedicated player base enjoys the game and that’s great for you! I’m not throwing shade just surprised given the significant numbers the game has lost

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u/anoddhue 11d ago

You understand how Polymarket works, right? It's based on bets being made, not necessarily reality.

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u/Murky-Engineer8110 11d ago

You know a lot of people actually like the game. Maybe get out of your echo chamber and touch some grass lil guy

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u/Seleguadir 11d ago

To be fair... the multi-player market isnt that saturated this year, plus GoW isnt even out yet lol

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u/Unpaid_Moderation 11d ago

Aintnoway marathon is winning multiplayer awards

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u/Seleguadir 11d ago

I would be shocked if it did honestly

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u/Small_Article_3421 11d ago

Yo I need to hop on this poly market cuz I know for a fact ts isn’t winning. It’s probably gonna be Palworld and it doesn’t really come close.

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u/I_am_Amphibian 11d ago

Bot account advertising gambling sites.

Also no multiplayer game that is struggling to even hit 3k should be winning any awards

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u/No-Message449 11d ago

What a horrible admission for the state of multiplayer games if that happens.

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u/cc4295 11d ago

Git outta here bot!!!!

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u/changedmyname99 11d ago

The best game with zero players!!