The Monument of Triumph update is the final content update for Destiny 2. When I first began playing the game a decade ago, I was instantly hooked. Over the years I’ve made friends, experienced the best long-running narrative in a game ever, and cleared all of my plans to be able to experience the newest raid, dungeon, or next story beat.
This time around it’s a little different. There is no race to be prepared for, and my clan hasn’t been frantically discussing the best builds or possible strategies. We’re all just going to log in one final time, see what Bungie has made for us, and enjoy it for what it is.
It seems we’re not alone in that sentiment, as the Destiny 2 player count on Steam alone has shot up to more than 160,000 and climbing (making it #7 on Steam’s most-played charts currently). Notably, the player count is peaking at almost double that of Marathon’s highest recorded on SteamDB. It’s not quite the lofty heights of the finale of The Final Shape, or the release of Lightfall, which saw 316,750 Guardians log in to discover what would happen after the Vanguard discovered the pyramid-shaped fleet of The Witness was approaching. Still, it’s a statement to Sony that people do still care about Destiny. A lot.
As the player count soared, the old Destiny 2 traditions began to return in the form of server queues, error codes, and randomly getting kicked from an instance. It wouldn’t be a Destiny 2 update without some technical issues, after all.
There is still a petition running to get Sony and Bungie to consider making Destiny 3, although the creator of that petition, Luckyy10p, says it’s been made to “send a message” rather than a genuine belief that this could turn the tide of the game’s future. But if any decision makers from those companies are reading this article, we do, in fact, really want Destiny 3.