With Bungie’s pending end of development for Destiny 2 approaching after the June 9 update, players are turning to pressure tactics: a petition with 340,000+ signatures, a planned large-scale login event, and a wave of Destiny 3 demands that overwhelmed State
By the time the next PlayStation State of Play segment started rolling, it was clear the message wasn’t going to stay inside the game.
Destiny 2 players. bracing for the game’s development to stop after next week’s sizable June 9 update. have been looking for ways to make their anger audible. A petition has now crossed 340,000 signatures urging Bungie to make Destiny 3 if Destiny 2 is shutting down. After the June 9 patch reveal. playercount peaks have nearly tripled. and fans have been organizing a huge-scale login event on the 9th itself.
Then yesterday, many of them found another lever.
Instead of only asking with signatures or hashtags. fans started spamming the mainstream broadcast and its offshoots with requests for Destiny 3—through written posts. hashtags. and even a series of emotes created for the occasion. The push landed directly in the comment sections. During the bulk of the State of Play coverage—segments tied to blockbuster features like Wolverine and God of War Laufey—the Destiny 3 demands showed up repeatedly. at a scale that became difficult to miss.
Moderation followed. Bans were doled out, but the overall effect was still visible: the stream of requests was overwhelming enough to reshape what viewers saw in real time.
The question hanging over all of it is brutally simple: will it do any good?
The biggest asks are the most immediate—Sony reversing course on ending development for Destiny 2, continuing instead of shutting down. The most ambitious demand is the one that sits farthest down the timeline: getting Sony to greenlight a third Destiny game. It would mean a full new entry in a market that treats big sequels as a high-stakes bet—though Destiny fans dispute that framing.
Still. there’s another possibility some supporters are aiming for that feels closer to the ground: not “everything stops. ” but “something stays.” The hope is that Sony and Bungie might look at the scale of the mass pushback and decide development shouldn’t be cut to absolute zero. leaving a small team to keep working on the franchise.
Even if that outcome sounds more realistic than Destiny 3 on the spot. it clashes with what’s already on Bungie’s plate. Bungie is currently heavily tied up with Marathon, and that kind of shift is rarely flexible at short notice. At the same time. fans keep pointing to the fact that Destiny projects could take smaller forms—games that don’t require the full weight of a major sequel.
There are multiple pitches that have circulated at Bungie for new games. including Destiny projects that are not as large as a full-on Destiny sequel. What those are, specifically, can’t be confirmed. Past iterations have included a shuttered adventure game called Payback. an idea for a PvP spinoff game in the vein of Trials. and the NetEase Destiny Rising mobile game. which actually came out.
For supporters, the logic is consistent: if the franchise is still valuable, the noise might force it back into production conversations—because petitions, chat spam, and a planned June 9 login day all signal that the community isn’t ready to treat Destiny as finished.
It all still seems unlikely. Petitions and mass spamming can be loud. but turning that into board-level decisions usually takes time—and right now the company’s attention is described as fixed on Marathon. What happens on June 9 may become the next measuring stick. After that update lands. fans will find out whether their megaphone approach created more than just a temporary flood of comments.
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