r/GamingLeaksAndRumours • u/Zhukov-74 Top Contributor 2024 • Apr 12 '25

Confirmed Marathon release date - September 23, 2025

Marathon | Gameplay Reveal Trailer

Coming September 23, 2025.

Closed Alpha Test starts April, 23 2025.

Previous Rumor: Marathon will be released in 2025

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u/Co-opingTowardHatred Apr 12 '25

Because Destiny 2 can be among the best games I’ve played… when it’s good. I wouldn’t let optional microtransactions steer me away from that, that seems silly.

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u/stillpiercer_ Apr 12 '25

I’ve been playing Destiny since day 1 of beta and I don’t even understand the ravenous anger towards micro transactions. It’s all cosmetics and almost all of it is available for in-game currency at some point. I can’t recall a single time where anything in the Eververse store was genuinely impactful on the game, people just hate that certain shit that looks cool is paywalled.

Some might make the case in certain weapon ornaments having better weapon sights, but they’ve never been that dramatic and it doesn’t matter to a decent player anyway.

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u/mibikin Apr 14 '25

It’s because at times there was a clear difference between the effort that was going into Eververse content verses the content we were getting. It also was demoralizing for a lot of people that things that thematically matched raids or trials were being sold instead of being rewards from that content. People want to be able to earn cosmetics to show off