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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...

If one or two seasons don't hit their numbers, the game is done with very little chance of coming back. No conspiracy.

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.

Money is gone for a lot of people now.