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

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fans distraught over Bungie's decision to end support for the franchise are planning to try and "****** the servers" to demonstrate that there's still huge interest in the game.

In a lengthy thread on

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, Destiny fan w1nds0r has issued a call to arms for all Destiny players to return on June 9, when the game's final ever content drop arrives.

Bungie stunned fans last week with the announcement it was

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to focus instead on its more recently-released extraction shooter Marathon, which has reportedly failed to meet sales expectations. Subsequent reporting has suggested that

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"We need to at least smash Marathon's all time high to show them they made the wrong decision," w1nds0r wrote, suggesting that this would show Sony that Destiny remains "a franchise worth continuing to invest in... It's our last chance to send a message the franchise is still valuable." (Marathon launched in March with a Steam peak of 77,358 players. Its daily peak is now hovering around 10,000 players.)

More than 1,000 responses to w1nds0r's post all say pretty much the same thing: that Destiny fans are still keen to return one last time to wander its Tower, go forth in missions across the surface of alien worlds, or just sit in orbit and chat for hours.

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"Haven't played since The Final Shape, but I'll be there," wrote one fan, JulioTheBoi. "I need to give this game one last hurrah so that we don't go quietly into the dying of the light."

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

Of course, Sony is likely expecting an influx of players on June 9, since it has already announced

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. The Destiny 2: Legacy Collection (2025), including The Final Shape expansion, will be available for Extra and Premium/Deluxe members, though some earlier expansions will remain paywalled.

As the dust settles on last week's bombshell news,

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, as word surfaces that

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. In the days since,

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, even as others have begun combating these reviews through a positive countercampaign.

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continues to amass signatures, meanwhile, with more than 265,000 fans now calling for a third game in the franchise to be made.

Tom Phillips is IGN's News Editor. You can reach Tom at [email protected] or find him on Bluesky

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