Is PVE Enough To Save Marathon?

Marathon is now three months old, which feels like both a huge amount of time for a live-service game and the blink of an eye for normal people. Player numbers have settled at around 10,000 concurrents on Steam, which is not a scratch on Bungie’s previous success with Destiny 2, but it is a number that the studio has called a “strong core playerbase” in a new community post. This caused quite a stir in the community, not because of the confirmation that we’ll be getting more quality of life changes and new maps and modes, but because it mentions upcoming PVE content as part of the game’s next season.