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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.

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.

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.

If you think Bungie didn't try to do anything to turn it around (and they did for months at a time) - why did it go free-to-play? Why did it go PC? Stadia? Most of those helped lengthen its lifespan and injected life into it. But you eventually run out of those dials and levers to pull.