Destiny 2 Fans Plan Mass Protest to 'Crash the Servers' and Beat Marathon's All-Time Player Record

Destiny 2 fans distraught implicit Bungie's determination to extremity enactment for the franchise are readying to effort and "crash the servers" to show that there's inactive immense involvement successful the game.

In a lengthy thread connected reddit, Destiny instrumentality w1nds0r has issued a telephone to arms for each Destiny players to instrumentality connected June 9, erstwhile the game's last ever contented driblet arrives.

Bungie stunned fans past week with the announcement it was ending contented updates for Destiny 2 to absorption alternatively connected its much recently-released extraction shooter Marathon, which has reportedly failed to conscionable income expectations. Subsequent reporting has suggested that nary Destiny sequel is presently successful the works, and that Bungie is besides present acceptable for "significant" layoffs.

"We request to astatine slightest smash Marathon's each clip precocious to amusement them they made the incorrect decision," w1nds0r wrote, suggesting that this would amusement Sony that Destiny remains "a franchise worthy continuing to put in... It's our past accidental to nonstop a connection the franchise is inactive valuable." (Marathon launched successful March with a Steam highest of 77,358 players. Its regular highest is present hovering astir 10,000 players.)

More than 1,000 responses to w1nds0r's station each accidental beauteous overmuch the aforesaid thing: that Destiny fans are inactive keen to instrumentality 1 past clip to rotation its Tower, spell distant successful missions crossed the aboveground of alien worlds, oregon conscionable beryllium successful orbit and chat for hours.

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"Haven't played since The Final Shape, but I'll beryllium there," wrote 1 fan, JulioTheBoi. "I request to springiness this crippled 1 past hurrah truthful that we don't spell softly into the dying of the light."

"S*** I'm gonna reinstall conscionable for that, f*** em," replied izzbot. Added Hungry_Document_2385: "Crash the servers."

Of course, Sony is apt expecting an influx of players connected June 9, since it has already announced plans to enactment Destiny 2 into PlayStation Plus Extra and Premier tiers connected the time it receives its last update. The Destiny 2: Legacy Collection (2025), including The Final Shape expansion, volition beryllium disposable for Extra and Premium/Deluxe members, though immoderate earlier expansions volition stay paywalled.

As the particulate settles connected past week's bombshell news, the Destiny assemblage has begun bidding their farewells to the franchise, arsenic connection surfaces that the "vast majority" of Bungie unit were unaware of the program to ditch the crippled until the quality broke. In the days since, fans person taken to the Marathon Steam leafage to marque their frustrations wide by leaving antagonistic reviews, adjacent arsenic others person begun combating these reviews done a affirmative countercampaign.

A petition calling for Sony to greenlight Destiny 3 continues to amass signatures, meanwhile, with much than 265,000 fans present calling for a 3rd crippled successful the franchise to beryllium made.

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