Overview
- Bungie announced on May 22 that Destiny 2 will receive a single final content update, “Monument of Triumph,” scheduled for June 9 to bring the game's story to a close.
- The update will add the Sparrow Racing League, modernized raid and dungeon loot, new class abilities, and a central Director menu, and Bungie says the game will stay online and playable after the release.
- Bloomberg reported, citing studio insiders, that substantial job cuts are expected as active development ends, though Bungie has not publicly confirmed the scale of any layoffs.
- Reporters say the Destiny 2 team currently has no approved follow-up project and that Bungie is concentrating on its extraction shooter Marathon, which has so far fallen short of the studio's expectations.
- The decision follows earlier staff reductions and comes after Sony's 2022 acquisition of Bungie for $3.6 billion, a deal that later required a $765 million impairment and heightened scrutiny of Bungie's live-service economics.