Destiny 2 followers distraught over Bungie’s resolution to finish assist for the franchise are planning to strive and “crash the servers” to display that there is nonetheless big curiosity in the sport.
In a prolonged thread on (*2*), Destiny fan w1nds0r has issued a name to arms for all Destiny gamers to return on June 9, when the sport’s ultimate ever content material drop arrives.
Bungie shocked followers final week with the announcement it was ending content material updates for Destiny 2 to focus as a substitute on its extra recently-released extraction shooter Marathon, which has reportedly failed to meet gross sales expectations. Subsequent reporting has instructed that no Destiny sequel is at the moment in the works, and that Bungie can be now set for “important” layoffs.
“We want to at the least smash Marathon’s all time excessive to present them they made the fallacious resolution,” w1nds0r wrote, suggesting that this could present Sony that Destiny stays “a franchise price persevering with to spend money on… It is our final likelihood to ship a message the franchise continues to be beneficial.” (Marathon launched in March with a Steam peak of 77,358 gamers. Its every day peak is now hovering round 10,000 gamers.)
Greater than 1,000 responses to w1nds0r’s publish all say just about the similar factor: that Destiny followers are nonetheless eager to return one final time to wander its Tower, go forth in missions throughout the floor of alien worlds, or simply sit in orbit and chat for hours.
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— Kaine Richardson (@KaineRich2555) May 25, 2026
“Have not performed since The Remaining Form, however I will be there,” wrote one fan, JulioTheBoi. “I would like to give this sport one final hurrah in order that we do not go quietly into the dying of the gentle.”
“S*** I am gonna reinstall only for that, f*** em,” replied izzbot. Added Hungry_Document_2385: “Crash the servers.”
In fact, Sony is probably going anticipating an inflow of gamers on June 9, because it has already introduced plans to put Destiny 2 into PlayStation Plus Further and Premier tiers on the day it receives its ultimate replace. The Destiny 2: Legacy Assortment (2025), together with The Remaining Form growth, will likely be out there for Further and Premium/Deluxe members, although some earlier expansions will stay paywalled.
As the mud settles on final week’s bombshell information, the Destiny neighborhood has begun bidding their farewells to the franchise, as phrase surfaces that the “overwhelming majority” of Bungie employees have been unaware of the plan to ditch the sport till the information broke. In the days since, followers have taken to the Marathon Steam web page to make their frustrations clear by leaving unfavorable opinions, whilst others have begun combating these opinions via a constructive countercampaign.
A petition calling for Sony to greenlight Destiny 3 continues to amass signatures, in the meantime, with greater than 265,000 followers now calling for a 3rd sport in the franchise to be made.
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