Destiny 2‘s big final update before it goes into a zombie state is now out across all platforms. But if you want to actually play the sci-fi MMO shooter, well, you might run into some problems. The servers crashed minutes after the update went live. Players aren’t mad, though. Instead, they’re cheering. This was all part of the plan to prove how much people still love the game.
On June 9, Destiny 2‘s previously announced last patch arrived on consoles and PC. But in the days leading up to the patch, fans online had started rallying to get as many players as possible to log in on Tuesday in an effort to crash the servers and rack up a huge concurrent player number on SteamDB.
For many, this is a way to prove to Sony and Bungie leadership that Destiny 2 and the franchise shouldn’t be left behind. It’s a way to prove there’s still a big audience for the online live-service shooter that launched back in 2017 as a sequel to 2014’s Destiny, published by Activision. And then, at around 1:45 p.m. EST, fans succeeded and killed the servers for Destiny 2.
Normally when Destiny 2 servers collapse, people complain. But this time, people were sharing images of the error messages and posting victoriously online. For many, this was their big response to those in charge of Sony and Bungie who decided that Destiny 2 shouldn’t be put on the back burner. And for others, it was a way to send off Destiny 2, which will remain online for the foreseeable future but which won’t get any big new updates or expansions.
“I never thought I’d say this, but as a community, we just made the Destiny 2 servers crash, and I am so happy about it,” said online content creator Mactics. Others posted the error messages and demanded Destiny 3, a game that is unlikely to be made anytime soon.
Within the first 30 minutes of the update, we crashed the Destiny 2 servers.
WE WANT DESTINY 3#Sony #Bungie #Destiny #Destiny2 pic.twitter.com/3tuAmdoujt
— Protomario (@Protomario) June 9, 2026
Tha servers have been SLAMMED😳🔥
We ain’t fucking around😳#SaveDestiny pic.twitter.com/VmxtP5oc6X— ♠️𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐱♠️ (@QueenOfSpadesD2) June 9, 2026
Over on Twitter, the official Bungie support account posted about the server login issues, and the replies were almost entirely people cheering and begging for Destiny 3 or more updates for Destiny 2. Around 1:55 p.m. EST, the servers started coming back online. According to SteamDB, over 130,000 Destiny 2 players logged in on Steam to check out the new update and slam the servers.
While it seems unlikely at this point that Sony and Bungie will reverse course on the decision to end Destiny 2, at least fans got to take the online shooter out with a bang and bring the servers down one last time.