Destiny 2, a supposedly “dead game”, has been a bestseller on Steam for 3 years

Over the past few years and months, Destiny 2 has received harsh criticism. And yet the “dead game” that “nobody is playing anymore” has been stable in the bestseller charts on Steam for three years and is thus securing itself platinum status.

Destiny 2 has been predicted to end more than once in the past few months. The content vault removes paid content and Bungie only recycles. The dungeons will be chargeable in the future, and the season pass and the timegate story content will allegedly no longer offer players any incentive to play this game at all.

There are also a lot of negative comments on MeinMMO. The players let their displeasure run wild. The content vault, for example, was a reason for Marc to stop with Destiny 2 and instead to turn to games, albeit worse.

• “Reason more why I stopped doing it … Unfortunately, there is nothing comparable in my eyes, but there are enough other games where I don’t feel so lost.” Marc writes on MeinMMO.
• MeinMMO reader Malo no longer plays either: “Although I haven’t played Destiny for a long time, it just became too monotonous for me and I was then really scared off with contentless € 30 DLCs at the time […]“

Destiny 2 should be dead by now: Many players shared similar opinions on MeinMMO in the comments over the past year. Even the latest expansions, such as the “30 Years of Bungie” package or the next big DLC ​​in February 2022 “The Witch Queen” would not be content that the players would believe to be, if only the comments were made would be worth continuing to spend money on.

And yet Destiny 2 is stable in the Steam bestseller charts as one of the best-selling games. In the current publication “THE BEST OF 2021”, Steam gives a review of the top sellers and most played games. Destiny 2 is still one of the best games here and has been quite stable for three years now.

We’d also like to highlight Destiny 2, which has reached the platinum category for the third year in a row since its Steam release in 2019. “

via steampowered.com

Increasing number of players on Steam: With every new season that hardly anyone wants to play, the number of players even increases in some cases. The seasonal content and the season pass of Destiny 2 are apparently not as unpopular as some would have you believe. The anniversary, which came as a paid expansion, also lured players to the action MMO again, albeit not quite as many.

The Steam stats speak for Destiny 2:

• 154,358 players gambled the “30 years Bungie” anniversary in December 2021.
• 177,734 played the new season of the lost at the top in August 2021.
• 157,679 concurrent players were online at the start of the Splicer’s Season in May 2021.
• 132,225 Guardians started the season of the Chosen in February 2021 as the highest value.

For the past three years, the numbers have been fairly constant on average and are not decreasing as quickly, so that a short-term high is out of the question. The data also suggests that each of the final, regular seasons this year started stronger than the previous one. A snowball effect that shows that Destiny 2 is still doing great.

Despite the content drought, still in the Steam Top 20: When Bungie announced that it would postpone “The Witch Queen”, this of course also had an impact on the overall statistics. While Destiny 2 landed in the top 10 in 9th place in August, it has now slipped to 15th place in the top 20. But even with that, it is still very solidly one of the most played titles on Steam.

Destiny 2 is trusted by gamers: In February 2022, Destiny 2 expects another rush of players and with it an increase in the number of players.

At the start of the pre-order phase on Steam in August 2021, the 100 Euro DLC of “The Witch Queen” Destiny 2 catapulted to the top of the Steam sales charts. (via GameStar). 10th place went to the Legendary Edition of the DLC. The action MMO has enjoyed the trust of players for 4 years now, so that they don’t wait long and pre-order right away.

What makes Destiny 2 so interesting?

• The content of Destiny 2 has been free-to-play since 2019, which makes it very easy to get started.
• In addition to the new content, Destiny 2 is also bringing back its popular classics, such as the cult raid “Glass Chamber”. Regular raids and dungeons will continue to expand the repeatable game content and season quests for players in the future.
• Destiny 2 offers players a dynamic story that can easily compete with a popular TV show. It is now more of a “shooter adventure” than a pure shooting game.
• And thanks to crossplay, Guardians can save the universe across platforms.

What do you think? Why is Destiny 2 still so successful even though nobody is playing it anymore? Does the action MMO enjoy a leap of faith in “The Witch Queen” with you too? Let us know in the comments.