Bungie signals end for Destiny 2 with 'Per Audacia ad astra' message
Bungie announced with the Latin line "Per Audacia ad astra" that Destiny 2 will wind down after nearly 12 years and thanked players for their support. The studio said it will keep live servers running while concluding active development and ending major new content for the game. The move closes one of the longest-running live-service shooters and lets Bungie reallocate resources to future projects, while many players mark the finale as the end of a defining shared-world era.
NEW: Bungie is planning a significant layoff following the end of Destiny 2's development. Destiny 3 is NOT in active production. Some Bungie staff are pitching and prototyping new ideas including Destiny games, but none are yet greenlit. Story: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Jason Schreier443A lot of people have wondered why Bungie didn't immediately start working on Destiny 3 after The Final Shape two years ago. The answer (as it usually is) is how much money it would take
ENGINEEEEER71Say what you will about Destiny but there's so much talent there for making killer gameplay and worlds. They've already thrown away so much talent and it sucks it's going to get even worse.
bareknuckle91.bsky.social50I don't even follow how they're still around. Other companies have lost significantly less money and shut down. Marathon isn't likely to save them.
wawahoagiefest.bsky.social39Marathon going all in on such a niche subgenre was such a bad gamble. I'd gladly buy that game if it had traditional FPS modes
Nicholas Payne28Not the Schreierbomb I was hoping for, but the one I was expecting
Mr.M | [REDACTED]24Oh, so it's OVER over... RIP Bungie, the devs worked hard to make a game for the community, yet it was affected from higher up decisions that was out of their hands.
theketchinator.bsky.social22Destiny 3 should have started production the day Final Shape shipped. Pete Parsons and his leadership team’s incompetency truly had no bounds. As a day one Destiny player, I will forever resent them.
unable vin22damn, Bungie won't survive 2026 it seems
Amans21Fuck Pete Parsons, fuck upper management. D3 should've been in dev after Final Shape. Such wasted potential.
dabiscuit.bsky.social18Never thought id see the day 343 Industries (now Halo Studios) would outlast Bungie.
BlueAizu 青16It's a shame, because Marathon is one of the most miserable experiences I've ever had the misfortune of playing and THAT'S the basket Bungie is deciding to put all of their eggs in I think Bungie's days are officially numbered, and that isn't something I say lightly.
Emmy11The state of marathon 2026 discourse is about to get ten times more toxic which is something I never would've thought possible
Saleem Noorali8The death of video game consoles will be the result of both Sony and Microsoft being bad at making decisions.
Ryan Schaefer7This is both horrific and somehow not surprising. Some real sad shit.
Cadreinth7Make a FPS game with an epic campaign. Like in the gold Halo days.
GreenZombie6I wish they never stopped with Halo. Both things went bad after that breakup.
Just some dude being a bro6Just one shitty news message after another. It's bleak how the game (and the devs!) that kept the studio relevant for a decade get treated. Just because Management kept chasing that infinity money dream in the form of Live Service Trends like Extraction or Hero Shooters.
Snow5feels like its literal managment upset they wont get their golden paracuits because of marathon not hiting goals so they would rather kill destiny here and now while fiering devs for what little extra cash they can steal from the people keeping everythign afloat all these years -.-
Rer4Yea that's about the Jason update that I think we all knew was coming.
Humantofu4The decision to allegedly make Marathon from some "Dark Age of Camelot" inspired game to an extraction shooter, and work on Project Payback + Gummy Bears over a D3 or D1 PC port just doomed this studio.
ODU Monarch '034Marathon should've been developed as their next Halo-like IP, with a fleshed out campaign (could have been a new trilogy), along with multiplayer (the extraction shooter we got could have been a single mode that would provided opportunities to earn weapons for use in other MP modes). Such a waste.
Peaches von Strangle4How much money it would’ve taken is BULLSHIT. They were ROLLING in coin after Sony came in. Greed and mismanagement killed Destiny and to say anything else is wildly disingenuous.
Nate4Wow, so Destiny is just dead then. It’s amazing in the same year Overwatch successfully reboots Bungie just throws in the towel. I can’t believe Sony spent an entire generation trying to grow a GaaS from scratch when they had a perfectly fine one right in front of them they made no attempt to save.
DreemurrBoi023I can hear Tom Christie’s Skeletor already… “HE-MAN! HE-MAN-“
Robert the Battletoad3After their significant loss from Marathon I’m shocked they’re still open.
Andy Gilleand3They're done for. I wish they hadn't come in and screwed up Sony's plans for the last of us online. Sony should never have bought them.
TheForceWorks3So basically Sony is now where studios go to die. I remember when that was Xbox's thing. I guess its on brand, since Sony basically adopts other's ideas and perfect them. Now Sony wants to perfect failing strategies.
Wallace MacDuich3Because they thought they didn't have to make a third one. Because they didn't want to. They are morons. I have been a loyal Bungie fan for almost 20 years but now I think Sony should just dismantle what's left of it. And find a way to get rid of Jones and Parsons without paying them anything.
Kerma2It feels like those who were passionate about making creative choices moved on to marathon, destiny has kind of felt like a shambling corpse since marathon's been in development. I don't wish layoffs on anyone but I do wonder if they should just stick to one game for now
cuck yrself into christ 2well this is fucking bleak “it’s costly because the employees are well paid and happy with a lot of institutional knowledge”
Stay Humble2yeah they're beyond screwed. I smell another impairment coming.
fresco777.bsky.social2Devastated My fave franchise gone
Noetic2I applied for a job at bungie, didn't get it, but got some feedback. applied again, but by then, all of the people I had encountered had been laid off and I got a rejection with no human contact at the application stage. wild, but unsurprising that the layoffs ain't done
Impale ❌👑2Need more Destiny. There is no other game like it.
Bluey2D2 ending active development because of Marathon and the start of D3? Makes logical sense. D3 not even in the cards AT FUCKING ALL is terrifying, Marathon will now be massively changed to attract a wider audience and dozens if not hundreds of talented devs are going to lose their jobs...
Bummer as a Destiny 2 fan, exciting as a Marathon fan, just for the feeble hope that a game I love will get the support it deserves. Full Bungie blog here: t.co/1PmLuyR3aD
Sarah D6I LOVED that game. I have a Ghost tattoo, the Nerf Gjallerhorn, CEs, a bunch of the seal pins etc, but I stopped playing when I completed the Final Shape campaign. It’s been sad to watch the downhill slope the game’s been on and this really sucks for the community still playing.
EliDeeer4Can they at least turn the old campaigns back on before they leave it? I paid $60 for the game and can't even play the launch content
on one hand this sucks and might legit be the end of bungie which is really sad. on the other hand it's kind of insane that the one major thing i know about destiny 2 is "they quadrupled down on the same temporary content model that was infamously bad in the mmo I play"
Mir12sucks because a proper shooter mmo is a really neat idea but then the main thing i know about it is "what if the entire game was living world season one"
Female Boynecologist6wait wait why's bungie ending, wtf they just released my favorite shooter!!!
Orchestructive2Especially when games like Final Fantasy XIV have thrived over the idea that "there's years of stuff in here for you" instead of just deleting old stuff. Like there's a huge, proven industry model showing that people will even pay a monthly sub for access to all the content. Wild.
