Destiny 2 is almost at the end of its long live-service run. Bungie has confirmed that the game’s final live-service content update will arrive on June 9, 2026, closing out nearly nine years of regular updates, expansions, seasonal stories, raids, events, and balance changes.
The game will not disappear when active development ends. Bungie says Destiny 2 will remain playable, much like the original Destiny, but the studio is now turning toward a new phase built around incubating future games and supporting Marathon.
The June 9 update is being framed as a final sendoff rather than a normal patch. Bungie says many of the changes are aimed at making Destiny 2 easier to return to, which matters for a game with years of systems, menus, quests, currencies, and expansion history layered on top of each other.
The update will include a “collection of love letters to players” based on long-running community requests. Bungie has pointed to the return of the director, other modes, and smaller character moments that leave the story and cast in a better place before regular content support ends.
That makes this more than a technical wrap-up. Destiny 2 has been part shooter, part MMO, and part weekly ritual for a huge number of players. A cleaner final version gives returning Guardians a better chance to revisit the Tower without feeling lost.
Destiny 2 launched in 2017, three years after the original Destiny introduced Bungie’s shared-world shooter model. The sequel became the studio’s main identity after Halo, growing through expansions like Forsaken, The Witch Queen, Lightfall, and The Final Shape.
Players lived through content vaulting, balance swings, pricing complaints, uneven seasons, and major changes to how the story was delivered. Even then, Destiny 2 kept its community through raids, dungeon races, buildcrafting, PvP, exotic hunts, and the simple feeling of logging in with a fireteam.
That history is why the final update feels bigger than a normal live-service slowdown. It marks the end of Bungie’s main decade-long experiment with one constantly evolving game.
Bungie says the end of active development will let the studio focus on new projects. Marathon is the most visible one, but Bungie also says it will begin incubating other games as part of its next chapter.
The shift comes after a difficult few years for the studio. Sony acquired Bungie in 2022, and the company has since gone through layoffs, leadership changes, delays, and pressure around its future slate.
For players, the next few weeks are the important part. Destiny 2 gets its final live-service content update on June 9, and Bungie says weekly communication around the game will pause after that as the studio moves into its next phase.
