How many times did they "sunset" gear over the years?

4 or 5? I'm surprised they kept doing it with how much it seemed to alienate the player base every time

I miss when video game companies made video games and not "not live service models."

Man, I was hooked for a long time before I woke up and smelled the business model. I haven't touched it in years, but I do miss the lore. Always thought it was their strong suit. Maybe they can set a better, non-live-service game in the same universe, but this is Bungie. Not gonna happen...

I swore that Bungie was dead to me the moment they walked back their plans to carry player gear over from D1 to D2. Every single thing I've ever learned about D2 has been secondhand and it has all completely validated that decision.

Wait, there was a sequel to Destiny?

This is the game I put more time on my entire life. I ditched it back in 2022-2023. Greed ruins everyone's lives, that's all I can say.

Destiny 2 died a long time ago. Sure people were playing with its corpse but they’re finally getting bored with that too. Shame bc there’s a lot of fun stuff in there (especially the stuff they ripped away from their paying customers already) that will go away forever.

Thank goodness they didn't over deliver.

I am so spiteful that the upper/middle management destroyed a game with so much potential just to chase MTX and bonuses.

Now that they've given up on it they are going to open it up to Linux, right?

Warframe gonna get a shit ton of new players.

I bailed on Destiny 2 after Shadowkeep when they announced content vaulting and I never looked back. The writing was on the wall back then that the game will end up in a ditch. My experience with Destiny 2 is basically frozen as of Shadowkeep so it's relatively positive but I just can't understand how anyone could tolerate player hostile decisions Bungie has made over the years. Here is Aztecross' video explaining some of them including pay to win elements. His video is already two years old so I'm sure even more nonsense has been added to the game since. Destiny franchise started out as something special but it died as a horrific heap of anticonsumer garbage due to unchecked greed of a corporation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsIdPWB2_JA

Been dead to me since no Linux support.

I'd love if SKG was able to get some wins before they pull the plug entirely. Allow the community to keep it running, let them restore the lost content, unlock/add cosmetics, etc etc.

A guy can dream...of essentially what games were 15-20 years ago.

I've never really played Destiny. But I get the feeling that Bungie absolutely hates that game and the playerbase. I dont know why.

I am eager to hear Skeletor's opinion on this.

Wish I could care but I never got to play Destiny 2 since they never supported Linux. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I'll do a replay of the original Marathon in honor of old-Bungie. 🍷

I had 4000 hours in D1 and over 6,000 hours in D2 even though I haven't played either game since July of 2025. Edge of Fate just looked boring as hell, the portal and all the other changes they made totally turned me off from the game. I waited eagerly while they released Renegades but saw no relief to the things that bothered me. Not to mention the fact that renegades just made it look even more like Bungie had no concept of what the identity of Destiny should be. It once again just started copying other games or concepts. If I wanted to play a Star wars game, I'd play a Star wars game.

Marathon however does not appeal to me in any way. I don't give a rat's ass about extraction shooter games. Why they decided to pour so much time and energy into such a niche game makes no sense to me. We all know they're going to add PVE as an add-on game mode. But that's just it, it's going to be an add-on. Unless it's extremely robust and thought out and deep, it's not going to retain players. It may attract some new ones temporarily, but that won't last. If Bungie can't keep up with the pace of development needed to support Destiny 2, what makes people think they'll be able to do it for Marathon?

Marathon will never generate the revenue that Destiny 2 ever did simply because they chose such a niche game type. They can add whatever game modes they want but at the end of the day it's still an extraction shooter and it's primary focus will still be more on PVP in a world where there are plenty of other extraction shooter games out there that have far more players and are far more fleshed out and are far more inviting to new players of all skill ranges.

It's a sad day indeed and a shitty way to end a 12-year franchise.

I wouldn't a game that is still playable call "be dead". Destiny 2 enters the "retirement" stage.