The long overdue death of Destiny 2

It was about time something like this happened for a title of this size. There is really no surprise that Sony is officially gutting Destiny 2. Between the plummeted playerbase and the post-The Final Shape directionless story mess, the writing has been on the wall for ages. Bungie scraped the bottom of the barrel with that Star Wars crossover garbage, plugging holes on a sinking ship. Add in the content vaulting, and it makes total sense why they are literally not making enough revenue to sustain their massive, bloated studio. Most normal people stopped caring what happened to this game the second Bungie started sunsetting the content they actually paid for.

The perfect $3.6 billion irony:

The irony of this entire situation is perfect, isn't it? Sony paid $3.6 billion for live-service experts. Look at them now. Those supposed experts are currently sitting on one completely dead service, while their other project, Marathon, cannot even make back its own development costs. To make matters worse, they have absolutely nothing else in the oven.

Corporate tactics and the $765 million write-off:

Do not forget the timing of this announcement either. Just look at how cynically this entire cancellation was executed:

Keeping devs in the dark: The majority of developers had no idea the game was being axed and were actively working on new content right up until the public announcement went live.

Burying the financial hit: Sony officially takes a massive $765 million impairment write-off for Bungie during their yearly financial report, neatly categorising the disaster as last year's problem.

The ruthless restructure: With the books cleared, Sony now has an open runway to clean up Bungie and restructure the studio down to its actual, diminished worth.

There was no chance Sony would have let Bungie say a single word before those financial reports were finalised. Suddenly, by the end of this upcoming yearly report, the studio is going to look a hell of a lot healthier on paper. Some developers are expected to be moved over to Marathon, but you should expect huge firings to follow. After all, Marathon is a joke of an extraction shooter and does not justify keeping a massive team on the payroll.

Copium, boycotts, and the content creator meltdown:

The funniest things to come out of this whole mess are the community reactions. The playerbase has completely lost the plot:

The Destiny 3 copium: We have players huffing pure delusion, convinced that a Destiny 3 announcement is right around the corner. It isn't happening.

The Marathon boycott: Then there is the out-of-touch melodrama from Reddit users trying to organise a boycott of Marathon, genuinely believing that refusing to play a different game will magically fix anything.

The content creator meltdowns: Best of all, the exact same streamers who spent the last three years farming views by crying about how Destiny 2 is bad or dead are now furiously pissed off that their personal content mines have finally been shut down for good.