Destiny 2 Players Get One Last Surprise from Bungie, Developer Reveals Limited Support Plans

Bungie has fixed Destiny 2 1 past astonishment arsenic a farewell acquisition and revealed its constricted enactment plans for the game.

The authoritative X / Twitter leafage for Destiny 2 quality and updates dropped a codification for a caller item: an emblem of the Destiny logo. Players tin redeem it connected Bungie's website and equip it in-game. It's not much, but it is simply a bully parting acquisition from Bungie.

Additionally, Bungie communications manager Dylan Gafner confirmed the squad volition proceed to instrumentality Destiny 2 offline periodically for server attraction and if an urgent concern calls for it, and they volition beryllium acceptable to hole large issues specified arsenic crippled crashes. Gafner added that Bungie volition effort to merchandise fixes if it gets the opportunity. Beyond that, don't expect immoderate notable updates for the game.

Last month, Bungie officially released the past update for Destiny 2. It was bittersweet, particularly since each signs suggest Destiny 2 wasn't truly meant to extremity yet. However, the determination was made aft the crippled failed to prolong the engagment needed to support going and Bungie felt that supporting Marathon, its latest title, was a amended investment. As a result, hundreds of Bungie employees were laid off, arsenic their roles connected Destiny were made redundant.

Some fans are hopeful that Bungie volition proceed with the Destiny universe, but it seems progressively improbable astatine this point. Reports bespeak that Destiny 3 is not successful the works, fixed the high-investment needed to marque it. The focus, astatine slightest for now, is connected extraction shooter Marathon.

Bungie has struggled financially for immoderate time, and reportedly was connected the brink of closure earlier Sony bought the workplace successful 2022 for $3.6 billion. Sony precocious reported a $765 cardinal impairment nonaccomplishment owed to underperformance of Bungie specifically.

Bungie's issues with Destiny 2 reportedly began astir the clip of past summer's Edge of Fate expansion, which was said to person underperformed. The determination to propulsion the plug was allegedly made "earlier this year" aft it was decided not to relaunch the franchise arsenic "Destiny Infinity."

Forbes reported that Bungie began discussing antithetic scenarios astir "what the aboriginal of Destiny 2 would look like" aft December's Renegades, its Star Wars-themed crossover expansion, "did adjacent worse [than Edge of Fate] and didn't alteration income oregon retention trajectory."

Destiny Infinity would person been a relaunch alongside a instrumentality to the 1 large enlargement exemplary Destiny utilized to have, but the thought fell by the wayside aft it was allegedly decided that the costs and risks were excessively high, particularly successful the discourse of enactment for Marathon.

Destiny 2 launched connected PlayStation 4 and Xbox One connected September 6, 2017, with a PC mentation pursuing a period later. Behind the scenes, however, hostility betwixt Bungie and Activision emerged, and the 2 companies officially parted ways successful January 2019, ending their 10-year publishing woody 5 years early.

With Destiny successful its ain hands, Bungie self-published the game, but it couldn't flight fiscal troubles and layoffs arsenic Destiny 2 expansions failed to deed the people and the subordinate basal dwindled. Extraction shooter Marathon launched aboriginal March, with a reported fund of much than $250 million. It too, according to analysts, has failed to conscionable income expectations.

Cade Onder is simply a freelancer for IGN's quality team. He covers each things entertainment, including gaming, film, and more. You tin find him connected Twitter @Cade_Onder.