Former Destiny 2 CM: Bungie was 'very close to shutting its doors' before Sony buyout

It’s a bittersweet moment for Destiny fans as Destiny 2 enters stasis after its final update, and This Week In Destiny, a weekly ritual for over a decade, is coming to an end. Many have blamed Sony for pulling the plug on Bungie’s looter shooter after its $3.6 billion acquisition in 2022 and for backing Marathon in its place, but the situation is not entirely black and white.

"This fight was pre-Sony," explained ex-community manager Liana Ruppert on social media. "Bungie was below the red line before the Sony acquisition. If it wasn’t acquired right then, the studio was very close to shutting its doors at the very least on Destiny. It was an emergency acquisition." Bungie had split from Activision in 2019 to self-publish Destiny 2 and later faced shakeups to content delivery, microtransactions and pricing, a declining playerbase, and layoffs that left the studio hunting for a partner.

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