Overview
- Bungie has ended active development on Destiny 2 and reallocated staff and resources to make Marathon its primary live game.
- Season 2 begins with a weeklong Open Play free trial that opens the full game to new players and is followed by a promotional sale meant to convert trial users into buyers.
- The update applies a full seasonal progress reset to put newcomers and veterans on equal footing and encourage a fresh start for the player base.
- New gameplay systems arriving in Season 2 include the defensive Runner Shell called Sentinel, passive skills such as Prey Tracker and Castle Doctrine, a progression hub called The Cradle with a Matter Converter, and a new playable zone named Dire Marsh.
- Bungie plans smaller, more frequent seasonal updates and quality‑of‑life tweaks to avoid the retention problems that hurt Destiny 2, but Marathon now faces heightened reputational and commercial risk because strong player gains during the free week are needed to justify the studio’s pivot.