Post

Not sure why so many people need a conspiracy about why Destiny 2 shut down. It stopped making as much money, that's the drama. GaaS games require constant injections of money and that eventually dries up with competition or as tastes change. Every reinvention can fail or succeed...

It sucks. The game is still there for a while, probably going to pull in a million or two every month for a couple years, but that barely pays for the skeleton crew needed to keep it running and the infrastructure in the end.

Every couple months Bungie had a release that would compete in scope with most AAA games in quality and scope. It took almost a thousand people in two large teams constantly working on the next and next next seasons, leap frogging each other. They had to nail a banger each time and mostly did.

Covid brought this crazy bump in daily/monthly active users and people had some money to buy fun stuff while stuck at home. Covid settled down a lot and people put their money elsewhere. They didn't play games as much, spent money elsewhere, then inflation, this asshole POTUS, and AI, etc.