The online shooter Destiny 2 has currently hit a low point: not even the new season, which is unremarkably titled “Revenant: Act 3” and started on Tuesday, January 7, can change that. Although the number of players has doubled, the level is low, and the mood is poor.
This is what the player count of Destiny 2 looks like on Steam: Yesterday, January 7, the new season of Destiny 2 started. “Revenant: Act 3” was also welcomed with a stylish trailer.
The player numbers were previously at rock bottom, with Destiny 2 having about 17,000 players at the peak of the day on Steam. We reported on the bad situation on MeinMMO shortly before Christmas.
This number of players on Steam then shot up to a peak of 36,488 on the day of the new season, on Tuesday: a doubling of the player count.
But that is still below the peak the game reached during the poor December 2024 and far, far below the last peak: In June 2024, Destiny 2 had 314,000 maximum concurrent players on Steam.
Destiny 2 has to hear many bored remarks
So this is the reaction: Destiny 2 is currently being criticized everywhere.
On reddit it is being criticized that one hardly has to play the new season to obtain all the content that the new episode has to offer: You only need to check “Kell’s Fall” three times, and you already see the finale.
Another player adds: At least there are 3 different bosses.
The next one adds: Sounds great, in the 3 runs there is already more content than in the rest of the season combined.
Even the new weapons that the update brings do not seem to generate real enthusiasm.
20 minutes of dialogue and 1 minute of playing – in a month
Even the comments on the trailer on the actual hype platform YouTube seem noticeably more negative than before. People are writing things that sound sarcastic and biting:
- “I’ve seen a rocket launcher, so I am mildly excited.”
- “Finally, I’ve been waiting to log in once a month, listen to a 20-minute dialogue, and play for 1 minute.”
- “Can’t wait to be forced to play an exotic mission 4 times to complete a storyline in which Firkrul and Eramis escape.”
- “Hey, there’s 10 minutes of content.”
Here’s what it’s about: The mood among Destiny 2 players seems to be low. The idea of offering new content in the form of “episodes” seems to be fizzling out. Only those who have played the previous episodes will play a new season. Those who have been away for longer likely remain out. For these players, a new episode start does not serve as a point of entry to get back into the game.
The episodes do not generate anywhere near the hype that previous, paid expansions did. The structural circumstances for Bungie seem to be getting more difficult: Sony is now pulling the creative team of Destiny 2 to itself – needs Bungie’s experience for new MMOs on PS5
