This Week's Meager Destiny 2 Update Leaves Fans Feeling Like the Franchise is at Its Lowest Ebb Yet, While Bungie Focuses on Trying to Make Marathon a Success

Destiny fans are lamenting the aboriginal of Bungie's sci-fi shooter franchise, pursuing a threadbare update this week, released portion the developer focuses connected supporting Marathon.

Destiny 2 Update 9.5.5.5 arrived connected Wednesday, and its afloat spot notes work arsenic follows:

And that's it. Now, to beryllium fair, determination was nary anticipation that this week would bring a immense good of caller Destiny 2 contented to support players occupied. Destiny players are besides good alert of the information Bungie is presently engaged trying to marque Marathon a success. But, arsenic 1 instrumentality enactment it successful response: "I expected thing and inactive got disappointed."

Last month, Bungie announced via societal media that it was delaying its adjacent large Destiny 2 crippled update, Shadow and Order, by a afloat 3 months — from March until June — thing it blamed connected the request to marque "large revisions" to its content.

At the clip it announced that delay, Bungie avoided mentioning its simultaneous motorboat of Marathon, which would person arrived wrong the aforesaid merchandise model — presumably to debar the proposition that 1 task was sapping resources from the other. But Destiny fans person recovered it hard to ideate a satellite where, had Bungie not been besides focused connected shipping Marathon, its revisions to Shadow and Order would not request to instrumentality arsenic long.

Indeed, successful its connection connected the delay, Bungie seemed to spell arsenic acold arsenic it could to awesome that things would beryllium quieter for Destiny implicit the coming months, with basal attraction and equilibrium updates apt the lone changes that players would see. The workplace past thanked fans for their "continued patience and support," earlier affirming that it would merchandise much accusation connected the update "closer to launch."

For galore players, the quality felt similar Bungie efficaciously moving its nationalist absorption connected Destiny to the backmost burner until the summertime months — thing this week's latest update has lone cemented successful fans' minds, resulting successful a premix of vexation and acheronian humor.

"Almost 3 hours of downtime for... this," noted 1 fan, successful a lengthy thread of complaints connected reddit. "A azygous fix."

"I'm funny - however galore patches person lone ever been 1 spot note?" questioned 1 fan. "Even dating backmost to Destiny 1, I consciousness similar that has to beryllium a uncommon sight. Not adjacent dogging connected the game/studio - genuine curiosity."

"There's virtually nary 1 moving connected this crippled anymore," wrote different fan. "Dev squad is genuinely 1 portion timer huh," added a second. "So efficaciously they've dropped Destiny wholly to enactment connected Marathon? Sigh, could of astatine slightest released the DLC you announced first," said a third.

"Next [blog] volition virtually conscionable accidental 'please play Marathon'," reads different comment. "You tin lone laughter astir it and past outcry astir what has go of the champion unrecorded work crippled ever," reads yet another.

IGN has contacted Bungie proprietor Sony for much item connected its contented plans and resources disposable to enactment connected Destiny, but did not person a response. In the meantime, it remains a pugnacious clip for the developer and the nine-year-old Destiny 2, portion determination person besides been mixed reports connected Marathon's archetypal motorboat show truthful far.

Last year, Sony said Bungie had failed to conscionable its income and idiosyncratic engagement expectations, pursuing a notable driblet successful Destiny 2 subordinate numbers. The harm was atrocious capable that Sony said it had been forced to grounds a 31.5 cardinal yen (around $204.2 million) impairment complaint arsenic a effect of Destiny 2’s underperformance. That was important capable to resistance down profits astatine Sony’s Game & Network Services Segment, which includes Sony Interactive Entertainment.

"For years now, Destiny has been connected this dependable hardening of the halfway [audience]," Destiny 2 crippled manager Tyson Green told IGN backmost successful November. "More and much halfway players are staying and playing the game, but comparatively fewer [new] radical travel into the game. There's a tightening and contraction, and this presents problems for a crippled that you're trying to support arsenic a unrecorded service, particularly erstwhile you privation to support serving those halfway players with great, compelling expansions." Exactly erstwhile these mightiness arrive, however, remains to beryllium seen.

Tom Phillips is IGN's News Editor. You tin scope Tom astatine [email protected] oregon find him connected Bluesky @tomphillipseg.bsky.social