Bungie just admitted what half the playerbase already knew: Marathon Season 2 turned into a loot piñata and nobody knows who hit it with the bat. Week-two average wealth is already matching what Season 1 players scraped together by week eleven and twelve, vaults are choking on blues and purples, and the devs are still staring at their internal playtests going “this wasn’t supposed to happen.”

They patched the obvious garbage — guaranteed gold drops in the wrong spots, Sponsored Kits exploding everywhere, that one juicy chest in Complex Control getting milked dry by Sponsored Survival grinders — but the real culprit, some mysterious higher-rarity loot proliferation, is still a black box. Temporary band-aids like killing boosted containers and nerfing Cradle XP are in place while they keep digging, and they promise to undo the damage later. Cute.

Players are already calling for emergency wipes or just declaring the season cooked. Streamers sitting on mountains of top-tier gear while the rest of the lobby looks like a clearance rack isn’t the extraction-shooter fantasy anybody signed up for. Bungie wanted faster progression; they got a goddamn economy meltdown instead.