Marathon Cryo Archive limited to weekends, director explains

Marathon's Cryo Archive release time is now, at least for the time being. The endgame activity, alongside ranked mode, opens to players only on weekends, a decision that has drawn criticism from those whose lives don’t fit Bungie’s schedule.

Game director Joe Ziegler says the design intentionally risks players losing a lot of gear because Cryo and Ranked are meant to push you to your limits. That makes them feel like events worth scheduling for: you grind gear during the week in order to spend it in the weekend activities, and the team reflected that loop by making it a weekly cycle.

Ziegler says the team is open to changes and is considering staggering queues so they overlap less, changing the days Cryo and Ranked run, adjusting ante values, and iterating on other conditions such as solo or crew-fill experience. For now, players will have to log in this weekend to see how the theory works in practice.

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