Bungie’s call to end new Destiny 2 content hit the game’s biggest creators hard. The shooter has been building a community for nearly a decade, and the news landed as a mix of shock, grief, and, for some, a little relief because the deadline is finally clear.
Datto, who has built a large audience around Destiny 2 commentary and has 1.2 million YouTube subscribers, reacted on stream by saying he was surprised the news hit him as hard as it did. He later talked through how much of his life has been tied to the game, from college to television work to the YouTube channel that took off in 2014, and said Destiny 2 has shaped most of the people and friendships in his life.
As Bungie’s decision settles in, Datto also said the clear end point matters because it gives him something concrete to plan around, even if the game’s future now feels far less certain than it did a week ago.
Fallout, another long-time Destiny 2 creator, framed the news as a very personal turning point. On stream, he asked what it meant for him and said he and others had already been expanding into other games, which gives him some runway while he keeps making Destiny content for as long as he can.
He also said his outside-game content has been performing well, which makes the transition easier to handle, even if the end of Destiny 2’s update cycle still changes a lot about his day-to-day work.
My Name is Byf, who has made a career out of digging into Destiny’s lore, took a broader view. He said he supports Bungie developers who care about games as art, a social space, and a job, but he also warned that publishers and management often care more about the bottom line than the people making the work. He pointed to the broader Stop Killing Games campaign as part of the push to keep games playable after their official support ends.
For Cool Guy, the end of Destiny 2’s content pipeline brought a different kind of reaction. In a post on X, he said Destiny was the only game that ever made him want to create content, not for views or a career, but to share something he loved with other people.
Bungie has said Destiny 2 will remain online for now, and the studio has left the door open to future games in the Destiny universe. Even so, the people who built audiences, careers, and friendships around this one shooter are now doing the same thing the rest of the player base is doing: trying to figure out what comes next.
Destiny 2 has clearly meant something different to every creator in this story, and that mix of grief and relief says a lot about where the game is right now. Tell us what you think in the comments, and follow us on X, Bluesky, YouTube, Instagram.
Destiny 2: The Edge of Fate
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