Marathon Open Play Week: Free Dates, Crew Up Code and Rewards
Marathon is free to play from 8 to 15 December. What you can play, whether progress carries over, and how to redeem the Crew Up code for its rewards.
Bungie is opening Marathon to everyone for a week when its Symbiosis update arrives. From 8 to 15 December, anyone can download and play the full game without buying it, and a Crew Up event with its own redeem code rewards players who team up in the new PvE mode. Here's how both work, based on Bungie's announcement of 10 November.
Is Marathon free during Open Play Week?
Yes. During Open Play Week, from 8 to 15 December, everyone can download and play the full game without purchasing it, Bungie says. It's the second time: Bungie did the same at the start of Season 2.
Bungie hasn't given an exact end time for 15 December. On console, the PlayStation Blog notes that Marathon's online play needs a paid subscription, sold separately, and Bungie hasn't said whether that applies during the free week.
What can you play during Open Play Week?
Everything in Symbiosis, according to Bungie: the new Expedition PvE mode, the Bishop Runner shell, the updated Perimeter map and all the new gear and rewards. Extraction is open too. Our Symbiosis update overview covers what the update adds.
Do you keep your progress if you buy Marathon?
Yes. If you buy Marathon after Open Play Week, you keep all the items and progression you unlocked. Marathon costs $39.99 on Steam and the Xbox store, and is on PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S with cross-play and cross-save.
How do I get the Crew Up code?
The code is DMA-T7Y-XJL. Redeem it on Bungie.net's redeem page once Symbiosis is live on 8 December. That opens a new Events section in the in-game Codex with the Crew Up challenges.
Crew Up starts at 12pm PT on 8 December (8pm in the UK, 9pm in Paris and Madrid) and runs until 10am PT on 22 December (6pm UK, 7pm in Paris and Madrid).
What are the Crew Up rewards?
Completing consecutive challenges unlocks new Codex entries, and each member of the crew gets the cosmetics:
- Emblem: Queen's Nest
- Background: Queen's Dominion
- Weapon sticker: Queen's Maw
- Weapon charm: Cluster Bunch
- Destroyer skin: Arata Vectus
- Title: Exterminator
You also keep the gear you find on your runs.
Can you do Crew Up solo?
No. The challenges take place in Expedition and need a crew with at least one other player who has also redeemed the code. You don't need a full crew of friends: one friend is enough, and crew fill matchmaking can complete the team.
Bungie recommends adding your crewmates as Bungie friends. Progress also counts if you're on the same platform and have each other on that platform's friends list. You can start the challenges once you've finished the starting tutorial, and each player claims their own rewards.
What happens after Open Play Week ends?
Crew Up carries on for another week, until 22 December, but from 15 December you need to own Marathon to keep playing it. That gives friends who tried the game for free a week to decide whether to buy it before the event closes.
