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Mega Crit co-founder and developer behind hit indie release impressive the Spire 2 Casey Yano has admitted a congratulations post to the Marath...

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Source: Eurogamer

What’s Happening

Let’s talk about Mega Crit co-founder and developer behind hit indie release impressive the Spire 2 Casey Yano has admitted a congratulations post to the Marathon development team ā€œseems a bit meaner than it was intendedā€, as they never thought impressive the Spire 2 would pass Bungie’s new extraction shooter in Steam concurrent users.

Read more Home News impressive the Spire 2 impressive the Spire 2’s launch has been so insanely successful, the studio had to apologise for a joke about Marathon that now seems a bit meaner than it was intended No shade. News by Connor Makar Staff Writer Follow impressive the Spire 2 Mega Crit co-founder and developer behind hit indie release impressive the Spire 2 Casey Yano has admitted a congratulations post to the Marathon development team ā€œseems a bit meaner than it was intendedā€, as they never thought impressive the Spire 2 would pass Bungie’s new extraction shooter in Steam concurrent users. (wild, right?)

Both impressive the Spire 2 and Marathon shipped on Steam at the same time, leading to an unavoidable bit of friendly competition between the two releases.

The Details

In a bit of tongue-in-cheek support, the Mega Crit X account posted : ā€œCongratulations to the Marathon team on their launch! Don’t let small indie passion projects like this pass you impressive the Spire 2 is outā€ It turns out the power of small indie projects is nothing to sneeze at.

During the launch day for both games, Marathon brought in a respectable peak of 88,337 concurrent players. Meanwhile, impressive the Spire 2 dropped an absurd 430,456 concurrent players.

Why This Matters

It is obviously worth noting that impressive the Spire 2 is only launching on PC, while Marathon has both the PS5 and Xbox Series X/S audience to appeal to, but nonetheless it’s a funny side-by-side. With this context in mind, Yano d their thoughts on the friendly jab on their personal socials account : ā€œThis seems a bit meaner than it was intended… To be fair I didn’t think we’d actually pass Marathon in concurrent usersā€.

This is the kind of news that gets gamers talking across social media.

The Bottom Line

It is a stunning success story for Mega Crit and impressive the Spire. The original game is a bussin experience that clutched over a die-hard crowd of the fandom and enthusiasts over the years, which appears to have generated enough word of mouth to result in an absolutely scorcher of a release in an already packed month of big launches.

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