It’s the day of Destiny 2’s final live service update, and players have swarmed into the shooter to celebrate the game and make their demands for Destiny 3 known.
With a peak of over 164,000 Steam concurrents so far today (via SteamDB), Destiny 2 is more active right now than it has been since Episode: Echoes launched in June 2024.
The biggest peak between then and now came with the launch of the Edge of Fate expansion in July 2025, which reached 108,000 Steam concurrents. That number quickly dissipated, and in April of this year, the shooter didn’t break 13,000.
While not as bad as the news that Destiny 2 content updates are over, The Edge of Fate was a real low point for the game. One of our resident Destiny 2 diehards, Phil Savage, wrote in his 54% Edge of Fate review that Destiny 2 had become “worse to play in almost every way.”
We didn’t know at the time that the expansion was the beginning of the end, but we did wonder. “I have never known a Destiny 2 expansion with as many problems as Edge of Fate, and I’m worried the game may not survive them,” Tim Clark wrote.
Ironically, the news of Destiny 2’s demise has injected the scene with new energy. Bungie clearly threw everything it could at today’s final update, which is called Monument of Triumph and came with an appropriately monumental list of patch notes.
And just as it takes its final live service breath before entering maintenance mode, Destiny 2 has become today’s top seller on Steam thanks to the whole game going on sale for $26/£22. Kind of makes you wonder if they should say “psych!” and announce another expansion, doesn’t it?
Plenty of fans would certainly like more Destiny. A petition asking Sony and Bungie to greenlight Destiny 3 has gathered over 370,000 signatures.
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