Cosmetics will make me a god.
Players taking advantage of the free week announced by Bungie Marathon were offered what appeared to be the deluxe edition of the game for just $14, only to discover that what they had actually purchased was nothing more than a bundle of cosmetics. It’s yet another bump in the road for Bungie, which is betting on the farm Marathon as he ends his only other active title, Destiny 2. To add insult to injury, the error doesn’t appear to be Bungie’s fault.
The confusion appears to have been caused by the way Sony lists the different versions of the game on the PlayStation Store. When we look at the price of Deluxe Marathon Editionit appears discounted to $41.99. It’s still a nice discount from the usual price of $60, but nowhere near $14. However, once the free trial version of Marathon being offered during the free week was added to a PlayStation library, we saw the price of the deluxe version upgrade being only $14. What is really happening? Well, when a player adds the free trial to their library, the PlayStation Store considers them to own the full game. The player then sees the price difference compared to the base edition as if they had paid full price, but paying that $14 difference only gets you the additional cosmetic content. It’s easy to see how this could cause widespread confusion.
This is the second difficult point of the free week of Marathonwhich initially helped the game reach around 40,000 Steam players on June 2 before experiencing widespread server issues that forced Bungie to perform emergency maintenance. Whether this latest controversy is a problem with PlayStation probably won’t matter to those who are still hesitant to try. Marathon. The game has struggled to maintain its popularity despite rave reviews, and the free week accompanied the launch of its second season in an effort to bolster those numbers.
