Destiny 2 is a little over half a year out from its most recent expansion, The Edge of Fate. We'd witnessed quite the steep drop in player count since the prior expansion, the heavily-anticipated The Final Shape. But things have gotten worse for Bungie's long-running live-service shooter. Much worse.
To put things in perspective, over nine-tenths of all active players on Steam have dropped the game in the seven-and-change months since The Edge of Fate's big launch. A whopping 91 percent drop is the average look, and with Bungie placing so much attention on Marathon, it seems like updates' release cadence will only wither even more so than it already has. In short, this is probably the end stretch.
As Forbes' Paul Tassi reports, things are grim for the game. It's dropped to 172nd place for Steam's most-played titles, and its current CCU is just under 10k. This is relative to 316,750 at its apex, and even when the diminished-hype The Edge of Fate dropped, it climbed a bit 108,000. Not even the latest update, The Dawning, could get it anywhere near that number.
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