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Brendan Lowry

"The only way to keep Bungie alive": As Destiny 2 ends, ex-Bungie dev says supporting Marathon will help keep the studio afloat

The official key art for Marathon Season 2, which recently went live on June 2.

The moment that Destiny 2 developer Bungie announced that the game's live service development was ending with the release of its final content update, there was immediate backlash from the looter shooter's community against the studio's new game Marathon.

Many Destiny fans angrily blamed Marathon for Destiny 2's end, claiming that the latter was abandoned by Bungie developers in favor of the new extraction shooter. This led to some nasty arguments between players of both games I was very frustrated to see, and ultimately detracted from the community coming together to celebrate Destiny's legacy (and push for a potential Destiny 3) somewhat.

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