Destiny 2 just got its official obituary today, and Bungie’s pulling the plug on live service after 12 goddamn years of raids, resets, and endless “is it dead yet?” discourse. Monument of Triumph drops June 9 as the final content drop—new Triumphs, Pantheon, Sparrow Racing League returns, and a big ol’ celebration of everything Guardians have clawed through since 2014. The game stays playable, servers running, but no more expansions, seasons, or fresh loot to chase. It’s like watching your favorite toxic ex finally move on while you’re still scrolling their old posts.

Bungie announced it back in May: after The Final Shape wrapped the saga, the studio’s shifting focus to new projects, leaving D2 in maintenance mode like the original Destiny. Player counts were actually climbing into the 400k+ range right before the update, and a Change.org petition for Destiny 3 already has hundreds of thousands of signatures. Community’s split between warm nostalgia and pure rage—some calling it a love letter, others screaming it’s Bungie killing their own baby. Polygon’s calling it the end of an era that taught the industry how to make games into lifelong hobbies.

We roasted this game for years—crunch memos, MTX bullshit, content droughts that made the Vault look generous—but it survived every “Destiny killer” thrown at it. Anthem, Avengers, whatever the fuck was next. Now it’s done evolving, and the real tragedy is how many Guardians built their schedules, friendships, and YouTube careers around weekly resets that just… stopped. Pour one out, or uninstall in protest. Either way, the Light’s out.