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Mega Crit co-founder and developer behind hit indie release Slay the Spire 2 Casey Yano has admitted a congratulations post to the Marathon development team “seems a bit meaner than it was intended”, as they never thought Slay the Spire 2 would pass Bungie’s new extraction shooter in Steam concurrent users.<\/p>\n
Both Slay the Spire 2 and Marathon launched on Steam at the same time, leading to an unavoidable bit of friendly competition between the two releases. In a bit of tongue-in-cheek support, the Mega Crit X account posted: “Congratulations to the Marathon team on their launch! Don’t let small indie passion projects like this pass you by just because Slay the Spire 2 is out”<\/p>\n
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, Slay the Spire 2 dropped an absurd 430,456 concurrent players. It is obviously worth noting that Slay 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.<\/p>\n
With this context in mind, Yano shared their thoughts on the friendly jab on their personal social media account: “This seems a bit meaner than it was intended…. To be fair I didn’t think we’d actually pass Marathon in concurrent users”.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n It is a stunning success story for Mega Crit and Slay the Spire. The original game is a fantastic experience that won over a die-hard crowd of fans 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. It remains enormously tough out there for developers these days – but when they hit, indies in particular do seem to keep hitting incredibly hard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mega Crit co-founder and developer behind hit indie release Slay the Spire 2 Casey Yano has admitted a congratulations post to the Marathon development team “seems a bit meaner than it was intended”, as they never thought Slay the Spire 2 would pass Bungie’s new extraction shooter in Steam concurrent users. Both Slay the Spire<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[5310,4731,5308,5313,5311,4135,943,5312,5137,5138,1212,5309],"class_list":{"0":"post-5369","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-releases","8":"tag-apologise","9":"tag-bit","10":"tag-incredibly","11":"tag-intended","12":"tag-joke","13":"tag-launch","14":"tag-marathon","15":"tag-meaner","16":"tag-slay","17":"tag-spire","18":"tag-studio","19":"tag-successful"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}