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Destiny 2 fans are both celebrating and mourning the recent set of reveals<\/a> that show that the game\u2019s final update in June is shaping up to be its best in years,<\/a> bringing back loads of beloved loot, making huge changes to core systems and in general, granting fans wishes they\u2019d requested for ages.<\/p>\n And then, it\u2019s over.<\/p>\n Destiny players will get to experience these additions for the indefinite future. The servers of the game are not being shut off (and Destiny 1 still being online indicates they won\u2019t). But whether it\u2019s weeks or months, the game will inevitably dip below its current record-low playercounts with nothing at all on the way to potentially increase that.<\/p>\n Truly, nothing. Destiny 2\u2019s comms account confirmed that this is the last update in almost any sense. They said there will be small bug-fixing patches, but no one is even showing up for something as mild as a balance pass on the gear that\u2019s about to be buffed and nerfed, apparently for the final time.<\/p>\n While fine, we can acknowledge that large-scale support for Destiny 2 is ending, acting like this series is Anthem or Marvel\u2019s Avengers hitting a wall with absolutely zero support in the future is a mistake. This is an 11-year franchise, and even if it\u2019s time to wind Destiny 2 down in favor of other projects, cutting out the entire team, which will likely happen through large-scale layoffs or migration over to Marathon, is abandoning what remains a valuable IP which only peaked in attention and playercount a mere two years ago. And any significant declines since then were largely due to the drastic pulling of resources (bad decisions like The Portal would not have been made had there been the support for further seasons or episodes).<\/p>\n Some sort of team kept on to manage Destiny 2 in its \u201cmaintenance mode\u201d seems like the bare minimum Sony should be giving the game. A small update here and there. Some new loot. A new activity from time to time. Some story beats. We\u2019re not talking expansions, full seasons, cinematics here. But the game now moving to \u201cbug fixes,\u201d with players meant to be grateful they\u2019re leaving the servers still on is awful.<\/p>\n My hope is that there\u2019s some way Sony realizes this is what should be done. I\u2019m reminded of the not-live Cyberpunk 2077, where CDPR repeatedly said there would be no more updates for the game, but kept periodically sneaking them in regardless. Some have pointed to Terraria as another example. The difference there being that those games did not suffer hundreds of layoffs after they were \u201cfinished,\u201d and some like Cyberpunk were able to bring in support studios to help. Sony seems like it will offer Destiny none of that.<\/p>\n I\u2019ve said before that I think it\u2019s a mistake to throw what appear to be all Bungie\u2019s remaining eggs in the Marathon basket, especially so given what\u2019s coming in this new Destiny patch. But if we\u2019re acknowledging Destiny 2 is never going to receive the content updates it used to, giving it nothing seems pretty absurd in the context of the series and fanbase. But I do not expect Sony to change its mind, regardless of 300K signature petitions or mass movements to attempt to hit high playercounts on June 9. Which is a shame, and a mistake. <\/p>\n Follow me <\/strong>on Twitter<\/strong><\/a>, <\/strong>YouTube<\/strong><\/a>,<\/strong><\/a> and <\/strong>Instagram<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n Pick up my sci-fi novels the <\/strong>Herokiller series<\/strong><\/a> and <\/strong>The Earthborn Trilogy<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n