{"id":82376,"date":"2026-05-27T11:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T15:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=82376"},"modified":"2026-05-27T14:37:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T18:37:19","slug":"destiny-2-fans-plan-mass-protest-to-crash-the-servers-and-beat-marathons-all-time-player-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=82376","title":{"rendered":"Destiny 2 Fans Plan Mass Protest to ‘Crash the Servers’ and Beat Marathon’s All-Time Player Record"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Destiny 2<\/a> fans distraught over Bungie’s decision to end support for the franchise are planning to try and “crash the servers” to demonstrate that there’s still huge interest in the game.<\/p>\n

In a lengthy thread on reddit<\/a>, Destiny fan w1nds0r has issued a call to arms for all Destiny players to return on June 9, when the game’s final ever content drop arrives. <\/p>\n

Bungie stunned fans last week with the announcement it was ending content updates for Destiny 2<\/a> to focus instead on its more recently-released extraction shooter Marathon, which has reportedly failed to meet sales expectations. Subsequent reporting has suggested that no Destiny sequel is currently in the works, and that Bungie is also now set for “significant” layoffs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“We need to at least smash Marathon’s all time high to show them they made the wrong decision,” w1nds0r wrote, suggesting that this would show Sony that Destiny remains “a franchise worth continuing to invest in… It’s our last chance to send a message the franchise is still valuable.” (Marathon launched in March with a Steam peak of 77,358 players. Its daily peak is now hovering around 10,000 players.)<\/p>\n

More than 1,000 responses to w1nds0r’s post all say pretty much the same<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Destiny 2 fans distraught over Bungie’s decision to end support for the franchise are planning to try and “crash the servers” to demonstrate that there’s still huge interest in the game. In a lengthy thread on reddit, Destiny fan w1nds0r has issued a call to arms for all Destiny players to return on June 9,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":82378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82376","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\/82376"}],"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\/140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82376"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82380,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82376\/revisions\/82380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/82378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}