Destiny 2 is getting its final update in June, and the team reportedly face "significant" layoffs as soon as it's out the door

Bungie person announced that they are putting unneurotic the last update for Destiny 2, bringing to an extremity the unrecorded work shooters 12-year run. The crippled itself volition proceed to beryllium for players to replay the contented that already exists but thing caller volition beryllium added.

Behind the announcement, arsenic told to Bloomberg by their sources, is the quality that Bungie look "significant" layoffs arsenic soon arsenic the update is retired the door.

Bungie made the announcement successful a connection connected the Destiny blog:

For astir 12 years, we person had the joyousness and grant to research the Destiny beingness with you all. Through each the ups and downs, surprises and triumphs, gathering Destiny alongside our players has been a monumental privilege. While our emotion for Destiny 2 has not changed, it has go wide that aft The Final Shape, we person reached the clip for our shared worlds, and Destiny, to unrecorded beyond Destiny 2.

As our absorption turns towards a caller opening for Bungie, we volition statesman enactment incubating our adjacent games. To that end, connected June 9, 2026, we volition merchandise the last live-service contented update for Destiny 2 to statesman that caller travel arsenic a studio.

Though progressive improvement whitethorn beryllium concluding, we volition guarantee that Destiny 2 remains playable, conscionable arsenic the archetypal Destiny is today. Many changes successful this last update volition purpose to guarantee that Destiny 2 is simply a welcoming spot for players to instrumentality to.

We're arrogant of Destiny 2, the places it took us, and the bequest it has created. Because of you all, our beingness is vast, built connected years of shared stories, adventures, and victories. From the Cosmodrome to the Pale Heart to the Lawless Frontier, we person forged life-long memories and friendships with you all.

We are incredibly grateful to everyone who made that travel with us.

From the deepest portion of our hearts, convey you, and we'll spot you successful the stars.

The last update, Monument of Triumph, is an enlargement of the Moments of Triumph events Bunge person tally successful Destiny each twelvemonth since the games launch. Normally the events lone propulsion from the erstwhile year, but Monument of Triumph volition scope backmost to the full game's lifespan.

There volition beryllium much details to come, but the update volition besides diagnostic slices of contented that was planned for the upcoming Shadowand Order expansion. That includes caller communicative beats, bosses, and abilities for the antithetic classes, determination volition besides beryllium an overhaul of raid weapons and armour, caller crippled modes for Crucible, and a caller rewards pass.

Just arsenic precocious arsenic February, Bungie planned to proceed Destiny 2. The squad were moving connected the adjacent expansion, Shadow and Order. Though it had been delayed to marque ample revisions. This apt didn't beryllium good with Sony who person reportedly been pushing Bungie to merchandise smaller updates to Destiny 2 much frequently. Unlike different unrecorded work games, which spot predominant smaller updates, Bungie focused connected ample yearly expansions. They admitted that players would come, play done everything caller connected offer, and past skedaddle until the adjacent contented drop. The astir caller expansion, The Final Shape, wrapped up the main storylines Bungie had been processing implicit the erstwhile decade, and that gave players a bully excuse to permission Destiny 2 behind.

Though it can't person helped that since being acquired by Sony backmost successful 2022, Bungie person faced rounds aft circular of layoffs. The astir brutal of which saw 220 unit fto spell successful a azygous day.

According to Bloomberg, portion Bungie accidental they program to "begin enactment incubating [their] adjacent games", they don't presently person immoderate acceptable to spell into accumulation and nary projects person been greenlit. As a result, Sony are readying a “significant fig of layoffs”, though Bloomberg doesn't study however galore radical that whitethorn be.

After acquiring Bungie for $3.6 cardinal successful 2022, it has been shocking to spot however accelerated and hard the cuts astatine the workplace person come. Despite that, the squad managed to merchandise an enlargement that capped disconnected a decennary agelong communicative successful Destiny and launched an fantabulous extraction shooter successful Marathon. To beryllium rewarded with further layoffs is profoundly saddening.