Ben Lindbergh

And it's just been sort of a slow and steady decline.

And I hate to play the Steam DB death spiral game, but that's kind of where we are just because we're always watching to see when they'll pull the plug on something.

And it has declined sort of slowly and steadily, at least from a high of 88,000 or so people playing on Steam.

And yes, there are other platforms to now.

being just under 2,000 as we speak, with a 15,000 peak in the past day.

So it has developed a core audience, and maybe that could be sustainable if it were just some startup with a low overhead or something.

But where I wonder is, what does this need in order to

keep it alive because you'd like to think that okay if there are 10,000 people playing something at one time on one platform that's viable just keep it playing keep it going right but because it's Sony because it's Bungie because it's big budget because you have aspirations to be the next Fortnite or Arc Raiders or whatever it is

If you're not getting that, then at some point do they just decide, well, this is not big enough.

It has to scale, which is sort of a sad way to look at it.

Because as we said when we talked about it, this is not High Guard.

This is not Concord.

This is not cratering.

This is not a disaster.

This is not an embarrassment.

But also, it's maybe not the big breakout mainstream hit that Sony and Bungie wanted and or needed.

So that's what I'm watching.

You know, I hate to do the, like, everyone eyeing the Steam DB numbers because we're all just paranoid about that.

And then it, it leads into sort of this self-fulfilling prophecy and it reinforces and then there's a narrative, oh, the game is declining.

And frankly, like, if we had these numbers, I'm almost on another mini rant here, but like,