‘Destiny 2’ Players Try To Break Playercount Records To Send Sony A Message

InnovationGaming‘Destiny 2’ Players Try To Break Playercount Records To Send Sony A MessageByPaul Tassi,Senior Contributor.Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. News and opinion about video games, television, movies and the internet.Follow AuthorJun 02, 2026, 10:05am EDT--:-- / --:--This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more.This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more.Destiny 2BungieDestiny 2 players are not letting go after the recent news that Bungie/Sony will no longer support the game after next week’s sizable June 9 update. Given the 11-year history of the series, it’s hard to blame them, but how they can express their displeasure can only manifest in so many ways.I’m hearing about plans to spam the chat of today’s huge Sony State of Play with “We want Destiny 3” messaging, but past that, there’s a larger movement to get as many current and lapsed Destiny 2 players into the game on June 9 with the goal of hitting high playercount watermarks.Some goals are lofty, others seem more reachable. It is already very impressive to see that since the expansive, “dream checklist” June 9 reveal, concurrent Destiny 2 Steam players have more than doubled, almost tripled, with overall players doing at least somewhat similar. The game has gone from around a 10,000 baseline to now 28,000 being the recent high on Steam, and this is before literally anything in the actual game has changed, with that patch still a full week away today, arriving next Tuesday.Destiny 2BungieThe big “goal” here is to try to break the concurrent playercount record of 316,000, which happened during Lightfall (The Final Shape would have beaten it were there not some launch day technical problems). Is that doable?MORE FOR YOUMy guess is no. So, so many players have departed in the last six month void that it would be hard to wrangle that many, especially when that actual record was set two years ago, and that was the final content update of a ten-year sa...