Destiny 2 Holds 30,000 Nightly Players as ARC Raiders Falls to Similar Level
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Updated · Forbes · Aug 18
Destiny 2 Holds 30,000 Nightly Players as ARC Raiders Falls to Similar Level
1 articles · Updated · Forbes · Aug 18
Summary
Around 30,000 players are still logging into Destiny 2 each night, leaving the discontinued shooter roughly level with ARC Raiders despite Destiny 2 ending new content after nine years.
That parity reflects both Destiny 2’s resilience and ARC Raiders’ steep drop from a 481,000 concurrent peak near launch; no ARC update has yet reversed the slide ahead of a bigger October content release.
Destiny 2’s baseline is its strongest since 2025 even after Sony and Bungie halted future content and laid off most of the game’s developers, with no sign of a reversal.
Marathon, another Bungie-linked comparison point, is peaking at about 4,000 nightly Steam players five months after release, underscoring fan frustration over Destiny 2’s shutdown.
Players are now trying to revive vaulted Destiny material through the fan effort Project Sunrise, showing demand persists even as the official game winds down.