Marathon is about to wrap up its first season. It’s a brilliant game with a dwindling player base. But Bungie has some ambitious ideas for turning that around. Game director Joe Ziegler outlined what the team has learned from the past two months and how that is informing where Marathon is headed in the future. The plan includes experiments with PVE-only modes as well as more casual PVP-lite experiences. But these are just the tip of the iceberg. “With the first season of Marathon we’ve created a strong core community,” Ziegler wrote in a new blog post on May 14 . “We’re embarking on a multi-season journey built around growing from the seed of this strong community.” He said the team is looking to solve various pain points like making the extraction shooter more rewarding and less grindy, improving new player onboarding, and deepening the endgame meta.…