Destiny 2 Playerbase Dwindles Despite Epic Raid Launch
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Key points
- Destiny 2’s concurrent player stat analysis indicates an overall drop in players.
- The Epic Raid launch brought some players back, but the numbers still fall short of the previous peaks.
- As of writing, Steam’s recent reviews are “Mostly Negative” for Destiny 2.
Destiny 2’s player base is dwindling despite receiving a regular stream of updates. The latest update brought the very first Epic Raid feature, resulting in a moderate increase in concurrent players for the game, according to SteamDB. On Steam alone, the Destiny 2 Epic Raid event prompted 28,150 players to log into the game. For comparison, the Steam iteration of the game peaked at 108,535 players in July of 2025.
Though the game has “Mostly Positive” overall reviews, the latest user input is overwhelmingly negative, with upset fans turning to Reddit to vent their frustrations regarding Destiny 2’s poor state. In a post that has amassed 5.1 thousand upvotes, a Redditor complains that the latest season is full of “empty” content.
“Only 1 Activity+Epic raid+ Exotic mission. And then? Literally, you can do the last two in less than a week(triumphs for the title),” the player states, expressing discontent regarding the recent updates. The post is titled “I think this game is dying.”
The post has since been edited after the Sept. 27 launch of the Epic Raid feature; the user claims the update adds far too little until December, and that the events are all recycled. The latest DLC for Destiny 2 saw a mass wave of refunds because the Edge of Fate and Year of Prophecy became restricted in some regions.
A large portion of the community migrated to Destiny: Rising, a gacha mobile title published by NetEase with free-to-play-friendly competitive events that is rumored to be adding four new characters to its roster.
Destiny 2 initially released Sept. 6, 2017; it was not always a free-to-play game. The shift to its current pay model occurred in 2019, two years after its initial launch.
