{"id":1951675,"date":"2026-05-23T19:16:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T16:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1951675"},"modified":"2026-05-23T19:16:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T16:16:04","slug":"destiny-2-players-share-their-memories-and-reviews-positive-and-negative-as-bungie-calls-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1951675","title":{"rendered":"Destiny 2 players share their memories and reviews &#8211; positive and negative &#8211; as Bungie calls time"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"article \" data-ads=\"true\" data-article-type=\"news\" data-article-group=\"news\" data-paywalled=\"false\" data-premium=\"false\" data-sponsored=\"false\" data-type=\"article\">\n<header class=\"article_header\" data-component=\"article-header\">\n<div class=\"breadcrumbs\">\n<nav class=\"nav_breadcrumbs\" data-component=\"nav-breadcrumbs\" aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\">\n<ul class=\"nav-links\">\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      Home<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/news\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      News<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/destiny-2-the-final-shape\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      Destiny 2: The Final Shape<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/nav><\/div>\n<div class=\"headline_details\" id=\"main-content\">\n<h1 class=\"title\">Destiny 2 players share their memories and reviews &#8211; positive and negative &#8211; as Bungie calls time<\/h1>\n<p class=\"strapline\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve became legend.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"headline_asset\">\n<figure class=\"headline_image_wrapper\">\n<p>        <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"headline_image\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/destiny-2-final-shape-(1).png?width=570&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;dpr=3&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"Destiny 2 artwork showing multiple characters holding pistols over a misty planet\" loading=\"eager\" data-uri=\"destiny-2-final-shape-(1).png\" data-lightbox width=\"570\" height=\"321\"><figcaption>\n          <span class=\"attribution\">Image credit: <cite>Bungie<\/cite><\/span><br \/>\n        <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"metadata\">\n<div class=\"avatar\">\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Vikki Blake avatar\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/1533038852.jpg?width=2048&amp;height=2048&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"180\" height=\"179\"><\/p>\n<p>  <img alt=\"Vikki Blake avatar\" data-autosize=\"crop_lossy\" data-uri=\"1533038852.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"180\" height=\"179\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text\">\n<div class=\"byline\">\n                  <span class=\"article_type\" data-slug=\"news\"><br \/>\n                    News<br \/>\n                  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"by\">by<\/span> <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/authors\/vikki-blake\">Vikki Blake<\/a><\/span>                    <span class=\"job_title\"><br \/>\n                      Contributor<br \/>\n                    <\/span>\n            <\/div>\n<div class=\"published_at\">\nPublished on <time datetime=\"2026-05-23T19:16:04+00:00\">May 23, 2026<\/time>              <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mypop-header-wrapper\">\n<p><button class=\"mypop-button button wide\" data-state=\"follow\" data-type=\"tag\" data-uuid=\"80634a14-d614-4076-8555-714be611a916\" data-name=\"Destiny 2: The Final Shape\" data-follow-text=\"Follow Destiny 2: The Final Shape\" data-unfollow-text=\"Following Destiny 2: The Final Shape\" data-aria-follow-text=\"Follow Destiny 2: The Final Shape\" data-aria-unfollow-text=\"Following Destiny 2: The Final Shape\" data-popup=\"true\" data-force-login=\"true\" aria-label=\"Follow Destiny 2: The Final Shape\" title=\"Follow Destiny 2: The Final Shape\"><br \/>\n  Follow Destiny 2: The Final Shape<br \/>\n<\/button>          <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article_body\" data-component=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"article_body_content article-styling\">\n<p>Bungie fans are battling it out on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/destiny-2\">Destiny 2<\/a>&#8216;s Steam page, where unhappy fans are mounting a negative review campaign, and supporters are doing their best to mitigate it.<\/p>\n<p>During the week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/destiny-2-live-service-layoffs-destiny-3\">Halo and Destiny developer Bungie announced the end of content updates for live service shooter Destiny 2<\/a>. Nearly nine years after launch, and after a myriad of content updates and monetisation changes, the developer has called a day on the storied MMOFPS, announcing that the final content drop for the game will land on 9th June, 2026.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/after-concord-and-a-string-of-delays-and-cancellations-sony-admits-playstations-live-service-strategy-is-not-entirely-going-smoothly\">Unlike Concord<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/yet-another-live-service-game-announces-shut-down-just-three-months-after-early-access-launch\">Steel Hunters<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/highguard-will-shut-down-permanently-next-week-because-it-doesnt-have-enough-revenue-to-keep-anyone-employed-to-work-on-it\">Highguard<\/a>, the studio stressed that the game will remain online and playable in the same way that the original Destiny still remains alive with a small community to this day.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"primis_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"primis_video\">\n<p><span class=\"embed_placeholder\" data-type=\"targeting\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"message\">To see this content please enable targeting cookies.<\/span><br \/>\n<button class=\"optanon-show-settings link\"><br \/>\nManage cookie settings<\/button><\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption>\n<div class=\"primis_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"primis_video\">\n<p><span class=\"embed_placeholder\" data-type=\"targeting\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"message\">To see this content please enable targeting cookies.<\/span><br \/>\n<button class=\"optanon-show-settings link\"><br \/>\nManage cookie settings<\/button><\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a class=\"button video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WyAMFVYx-Qo\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WyAMFVYx-Qo\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Since then, over 2500 people have left a review on the shooter&#8217;s Steam page, with hundreds of players leaving negative comments like &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/steamcommunity.com\/profiles\/76561198146574017\/recommended\/1085660\">f**k this game<\/a>&#8220;, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/steamcommunity.com\/id\/BasherHitman\/recommended\/1085660\">dropped one of my favourite games<\/a> for another game that will last one year. GOOD JOB BUNGIE!!!&#8221;, and &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/steamcommunity.com\/profiles\/76561199022855812\/recommended\/1085660\">Just very sad to see that this did go the way it did<\/a>. So many directional mistakes over the years that made players leave the game, including myself (e.g. unplayable campaigns etc). I was a big fan overall, from gameplay to story and many more things. The potential was always there but only really used in the first couple of years. Really liked the game though&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Others, however, are much more reflective.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/steamcommunity.com\/id\/varowisme\/recommended\/1085660\">Well this is it<\/a>. I have many great memories for the game and this is my final goodbye. And remember our Guardian forever live in our heart even the journey has ended,&#8221; wrote one bittersweet message. Another said: &#8220;I have never left a review or anything similar on any other game, but I think that this one deserves one.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have played this game for almost half of my life and I will tell everyone I talk to that if I had to pick my favourite game of all time, I would pick Destiny no matter what state the game was in.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/steamcommunity.com\/profiles\/76561199588807304\/recommended\/1085660\">Thank you, Bungie<\/a>, for giving me the best memories of my life and letting me meet my now best friends of seven years on this game. It devastates me that this game is coming to an end but I wouldn&#8217;t ask for anything else.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Another player, with over 1300 hours clocked up in the game, simply <a href=\"https:\/\/steamcommunity.com\/profiles\/76561199353145687\/recommended\/1085660\">wrote<\/a>: &#8220;We&#8217;ve became legend&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Following the announcement <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-05-21\/bungie-plans-layoffs-after-ending-destiny-2-development\">Bloomberg published a new report<\/a> that claims Bungie is set to suffer &#8220;significant&#8221; layoffs in the near future, and that a follow-up to Destiny 2 is <em>not<\/em> actively in the works.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"preferred-source\" data-component=\"preferred-source\">\nLove Eurogamer.net? Make us a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\">Preferred Source on Google<\/a> and catch more of our coverage in your feeds.  <\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"article_body\" data-component=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"article_body_content article-styling\">\n<p>Bungie fans are battling it out on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/destiny-2\">Destiny 2<\/a>&#8216;s Steam page, where unhappy fans are mounting a negative review campaign, and supporters are doing their best to mitigate it.<\/p>\n<p>During the week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/destiny-2-live-service-layoffs-destiny-3\">Halo and Destiny developer Bungie announced the end of content updates for live service shooter Destiny 2<\/a>. Nearly nine years after launch, and after a myriad of content updates and monetisation changes, the developer has called a day on the storied MMOFPS, announcing that the final content drop for the game will land on 9th June, 2026.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/after-concord-and-a-string-of-delays-and-cancellations-sony-admits-playstations-live-service-strategy-is-not-entirely-going-smoothly\">Unlike Concord<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/yet-another-live-service-game-announces-shut-down-just-three-months-after-early-access-launch\">Steel Hunters<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/highguard-will-shut-down-permanently-next-week-because-it-doesnt-have-enough-revenue-to-keep-anyone-employed-to-work-on-it\">Highguard<\/a>, the studio stressed that the game will remain online and playable in the same way that the original Destiny still remains alive with a small community to this day.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"primis_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"primis_video\">\n<p><span class=\"embed_placeholder\" data-type=\"targeting\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"message\">To see this content please enable targeting cookies.<\/span><br \/>\n<button class=\"optanon-show-settings link\"><br \/>\nManage cookie settings<\/button><\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption>\n<div class=\"primis_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"primis_video\">\n<p><span class=\"embed_placeholder\" data-type=\"targeting\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"message\">To see this content please enable targeting cookies.<\/span><br \/>\n<button class=\"optanon-show-settings link\"><br \/>\nManage cookie settings<\/button><\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a class=\"button video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WyAMFVYx-Qo\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WyAMFVYx-Qo\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Since then, over 2500 people have left a review on the shooter&#8217;s Steam page, with hundreds of players leaving negative comments like &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/steamcommunity.com\/profiles\/76561198146574017\/recommended\/1085660\">f**k this game<\/a>&#8220;, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/steamcommunity.com\/id\/BasherHitman\/recommended\/1085660\">dropped one of my favourite games<\/a> for another game that will last one year. GOOD JOB BUNGIE!!!&#8221;, and &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/steamcommunity.com\/profiles\/76561199022855812\/recommended\/1085660\">Just very sad to see that this did go the way it did<\/a>. So many directional mistakes over the years that made players leave the game, including myself (e.g. unplayable campaigns etc). I was a big fan overall, from gameplay to story and many more things. The potential was always there but only really used in the first couple of years. Really liked the game though&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Others, however, are much more reflective.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/steamcommunity.com\/id\/varowisme\/recommended\/1085660\">Well this is it<\/a>. I have many great memories for the game and this is my final goodbye. And remember our Guardian forever live in our heart even the journey has ended,&#8221; wrote one bittersweet message. Another said: &#8220;I have never left a review or anything similar on any other game, but I think that this one deserves one.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have played this game for almost half of my life and I will tell everyone I talk to that if I had to pick my favourite game of all time, I would pick Destiny no matter what state the game was in.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/steamcommunity.com\/profiles\/76561199588807304\/recommended\/1085660\">Thank you, Bungie<\/a>, for giving me the best memories of my life and letting me meet my now best friends of seven years on this game. It devastates me that this game is coming to an end but I wouldn&#8217;t ask for anything else.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Another player, with over 1300 hours clocked up in the game, simply <a href=\"https:\/\/steamcommunity.com\/profiles\/76561199353145687\/recommended\/1085660\">wrote<\/a>: &#8220;We&#8217;ve became legend&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Following the announcement <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-05-21\/bungie-plans-layoffs-after-ending-destiny-2-development\">Bloomberg published a new report<\/a> that claims Bungie is set to suffer &#8220;significant&#8221; layoffs in the near future, and that a follow-up to Destiny 2 is <em>not<\/em> actively in the works.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home News Destiny 2: The Final Shape Destiny 2 players share their memories and reviews &#8211; positive and negative &#8211; as Bungie calls time &#8220;We&#8217;ve became legend.&#8221; Image credit: Bungie News by Vikki Blake Contributor Published on May 23, 2026 Follow Destiny 2: The Final Shape Bungie fans are battling it out on Destiny 2&#8216;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,253],"class_list":["post-1951675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-eurogamer-net"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1951675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1951675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1951675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1951675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}