{"id":79447,"date":"2026-05-21T18:39:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T22:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=79447"},"modified":"2026-05-21T20:36:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T00:36:29","slug":"destiny-2-fans-react-to-bungie-ending-support-for-the-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=79447","title":{"rendered":"Destiny 2 Fans React to Bungie Ending Support for the Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>Bungie announced earlier today that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/destiny-2\">Destiny 2<\/a> support is coming to an end as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/bungie-walks-away-from-destiny-2-final-content-update-coming-in-june\">its next update will be its last<\/a>. Naturally, fans are pretty upset. <\/p>\n<p>The news come after a tumultuous few years for Bungie. In 2022,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/playstation-sony-buys-bungie\"> Sony acquired Bungie for $3.6 billion<\/a> and ever since then, things have been rocky. Last year, Sony noted that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/sony-says-bungie-hasnt-brought-in-as-much-money-as-it-thought-it-would-when-it-bought-the-developer-as-destiny-2-falls-off-a-cliff\">Bungie was failing to meet expectations<\/a> when it came to Destiny 2&#8217;s performance, resulting in a $204 million impairment loss. The losses have continued to pile up, as Sony recently noted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/sony-reports-765-million-impairment-loss-due-to-underperformance-of-marathon-developer-bungie\">a $765 impariment loss following the release of Marathon<\/a> earlier this year. Now, Bungie is shifting away from Destiny 2 while promising <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/marathon-reveals-new-pve-mode-and-big-plans-for-the-future\">big changes for Marathon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Fans have responded to the Destiny 2 news with great sadness, fearing this may be the beginning of the end for Bungie. &#8220;It\u2019s over for Bungie,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/locust9\/status\/2057514094832345110?s=20\">speculated a user on X<\/a>. &#8220;Destiny 2 died so Marathon could die a little bit later,&#8221; said <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DANNYonPC\/status\/2057523569978921050?s=20\">another user<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Others are more hopeful, taking it to possibly mean that Destiny 3 is on the way and Bungie is ending support for an older game in favor of supporting a new one. &#8220;This is the correct call. It should&#8217;ve ended years<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bungie announced earlier today that Destiny 2 support is coming to an end as its next update will be its last. Naturally, fans are pretty upset. The news come after a tumultuous few years for Bungie. In 2022, Sony acquired Bungie for $3.6 billion and ever since then, things have been rocky. Last year, Sony&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":194,"featured_media":79449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-ign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79447"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/194"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79447"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79451,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79447\/revisions\/79451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/79449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}