Nine years after its launch, Bungie’s massively popular live-service shooter, Destiny 2, is coming to a sudden end, with the game set to receive its final content update on 9 June 2026.
In what is sure to be a major blow to the game community, the studio dropped the sudden announcement via a post on Bungie.net titled “Every end is a new beginning”, stating that “it has become clear that after The Final Shape, we have reached the time for our shared worlds, and Destiny, to live beyond Destiny 2… To that end, on June 9, 2026, we will release the final live-service content update for Destiny 2 to begin that new journey as a studio.”
The game’s final update, titled “Monument of Triumph”, will then be positioned as a celebration of sorts, delivering “a collection of love letters to players across all activity types within Destiny 2“. These include small additions to its story, like easter eggs and callbacks, the return of the Director system, a new Pantheon slate of challenges, various tweaks to its gameplay systems, and the addition of Sparrow Racing League from the original Destiny. While the update marks the game’s final content drop, the game will still remain playable, much like how the original title is today.
If the news of the end of Destiny 2’s support wasn’t tragic enough for fans, further reports by Bloomberg also suggest that Bungie might be leaving the entire franchise behind, at least for the near future, with insider Jason Schreier reporting that the studio doesn’t have plans to enter production on Destiny 3, and will instead focus on pitching and developing new projects, alongside shifting their efforts on its other live-service shooter, Marathon. With all this transitioning going on, the studio will also reportedly undergo another round of “significant” layoffs, which is a pretty scummy move considering the efforts the team put into building the long-running game.
In all, it’s a sad end of an era for what’s arguably one of the most successful live-service video games in recent memory. With no third chapter in sight, the future of the Destiny franchise remains uncertain, and it remains to be seen if Bungie’s current darling, Marathon, can live up to the same standards set by its predecessor.
Kevin is a reformed PC Master Race gamer with a penchant for franchise “duds” like Darksiders III and Dead Space 3. He has made it his life-long mission to play every single major game release – lest his wallet dies trying.
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