To call the state of the games industry “turbulent” is a drastic understatement in July 2026, with layoffs, studio closures, and game cancelations showing no signs of slowing down, but even in that dire context, Destiny 2 and Marathon developer Bungie is having a rough go of it lately.
After seemingly putting all of its eggs into Marathon’s basket, Bungie’s new sci-fi FPS – although critically well-received – hasn’t reached the commercial success needed to supplant the enduring popularity of Destiny 2, which ended active development last month. Meanwhile, massive layoffs at Bungie have impacted “most” of the Destiny team as well as a portion of the Marathon crew, with the studio admitting the MMO “fell short of expectations these past several years.”
That said, Destiny 2 is still playable and presumably will be for the foreseeable future – and in fact experienced a post-mortem surge in players last month – which of course means players continue to report issues with performance and bugs. Although the feedback isn’t falling on deaf ears, the skeleton crew at Bungie working on Destiny is scrambling to push out updates at a comparable cadence to before the mass layoffs.
Shortly after news of Bungie’s downsizing broke last week, the developer took to Twitter to announce the delay of Destiny 2’s new patch, originally scheduled to go live this week. “We will provide more information when we can,” the studio said. The Destiny community reacted with skepticism on Reddit, with the top comment reading: “I have a rather unfortunate suspicion that this will be one of those ‘delays’ that last forever.”
However, in a response from the official Destiny 2 Team Reddit account, Bungie assures the patch will eventually be released and asks for grace as some members of the dev team who were working on it have since been laid off.
“Not a forever delay. We will get this out when possible. Handful of fixes in this delayed patch were from impacted team members.
“When this ships, please show love to the team, past and present,” the studio implores fans.
In a separate Reddit thread reporting issues with PC performance, the Destiny account responds by requesting “videos or examples” of specific problems, adding, “While we can’t promise a fix, we’ll see what we can do.”
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