Bungie officially ends active development for Destiny 2 with the release of a final content update on June 9, 2026

Bungie is releasing the last content update for Destiny 2 on June 9, 2026, officially ending active development for the game and effectively sunsetting the original franchise after a 12-year run that began in September 2014. The June 9 update, stylized Destiny 2: Moment of Triumph as a nod to the annual Moments of Triumph in-game event meant to celebrate each passing year of Destiny and Destiny 2, is effectively taking the place of the previously planned Shadow and Order content update originally slated for a release in March 2026 before it was delayed to June 2026. This Week in Destiny, a (usually) weekly blogpost authored by various members of the Destiny 2 team that detail upcoming events and changes will also stop as the Moment of Triumph update enters its post-launch window, though members of the team may still communicate on low-stakes in-game occurrences.

This announcement invokes strong feelings and serious questions about the Destiny franchise, ones that we’ve done our best to answer.

What does this mean for Destiny 2 and what can players expect after the June 9 release?

The content coming in the June 9 Moment of Triumph update is meant to leave Destiny 2 in a state that players can return to any time they wish and have a variety of fulfilling and rewarding activities to play whenever they choose to do so, according the Destiny 2 team. On the story front, there will be “small character beats” meant to position the game’s characters in interesting places across the universe in a way that touches upon the persistent themes present in the game.

Every single PVE activity, PVP activity, and destination in the game is having its associated loot pool refreshed meaning updated weapons and armor to chase, the Pantheon raid activity is making a permanent return, weapons and cosmetics from past seasonal holiday events will be obtainable, and the rewards pass from the previously planned Shadow and Order update will be available giving players those planned rewards as they play. It should go without saying but Eververse, the micro-transaction store built into the game, will also continue accepting your real-world currency in exchange for Silver and cosmetics.

Once the Destiny 2: Moment of Triumph update is live and rolls out all of its content, Destiny 2 itself will essentially go into maintenance mode: there will be no new playable story expansion content, no new seasonal activities, and no more soulless cosmetic crossovers with other IPs. Servers will remain online and the game itself playable for the foreseeable future and all released expansions will be bundled together as a single purchase for anyone interested in acquiring the game or its expansions. There may be some small maintenance windows and hotfixes that happen occassionally but nothing more than making sure the game is in a playable state.

There is no timetable for how long Sony allows Bungie to keep the Destiny 2 servers online but if the still-running Destiny 1 servers are any indication, it could stick around for a while.

What will Bungie do now?

Immediately following the announcement to end live-service operations of Destiny 2, most fans began to speculate that Destiny 3 would finally come to life but shortly after learning about the fate of the game itself, Jason Schreier broke further news about the future of the franchise: Marathon will be the sole focus of Bungie for the time being, Destiny 3 is not in production and has not been greenlit, no other type of Destiny-related game or sequel has been approved, and once the Moment of Triumph update is out, Bungie will reportedly layoff a “significant number” of its staff. The exact number affected of the current 850 employees at Bungie is not publicly known.

So far, no news has been reported about this affecting the Destiny Rising mobile game but that’s because development is handled by NetEase with the Destiny license being the only thing connecting the two companies.

A large part of the decision to not move forward into Destiny 3 is because it would cost too much money to develop it and they have instead chosen Marathon as their flagship game, despite the mixed reviews and similar overall player count to Destiny 2 since release. In their most recent earnings report, Sony revealed $565 million dollars in impairment losses attributed to Bungie assets, aka their games. After their bringing their previous $200 million dollar reporting, Sony’s total impairment losses since their 2022 $3.6 billion dollar acquistion of Bungie has reached $765 million dollars.

Poor leadership at Bungie is one of the main factors in Destiny 2’s decline over the last few years and it’s unclear how much of an effect Marathon had on Destiny 2’s development, so laying the blame there isn’t entirely fair, but it’s reasonable to believe it did have a negative impact on Destiny 2 overall. Now, there’s nothing else to be impacted, as Marathon is Bungie’s last game standing — at least, publicly.