Destiny 2 shipped its final content update on June 9, 2026, and the game promptly posted its biggest player numbers in two years.
Monument of Triumph (Update 9.7.0) hit a 24-hour concurrent Steam peak of 167,867 on June 9. That's the highest count since The Final Shape in June 2024, cross-referenced by Shacknews, PC Gamer, Dot Esports, and GamesRadar.
We covered the update shipping and the log-in rally as it formed yesterday, when the count had passed 152,000 mid-day. The final number landed higher. This piece is the morning-after scoreboard.
We said this thread wouldn't move on a press release. It would move the day the lights actually dim. They dimmed, and the building lit up instead.
A Free Update Beat a Paid Expansion
Put June 9 in context and the number gets louder.
Destiny 2's all-time Steam peak is 316,750, set by Lightfall in February 2023. The Final Shape hit 314,634 in June 2024. Last year's Edge of Fate expansion peaked around 99,193 in July 2025, the lowest expansion launch on record.
So a free farewell update outdrew the franchise's most recent paid expansion by roughly 69%. Players don't show up like that for a goodbye they don't care about.
It also nearly doubled Marathon's all-time Steam peak of 88,337, set on March 6, 2026.
The Servers Couldn't Take It
Fans had organized a "server slam" send-off, and they delivered. The surge overwhelmed Bungie's servers on launch, per Massively Overpowered.
The Destiny 2 subreddit went, in the outlet's words, awash with praise. Recent Steam reviews lifted to "mostly positive."
Massively Overpowered clocked the patch notes at about 71 pages. Vice reported 808,842 active players across all platforms on June 9, though Bungie publishes no official concurrent figures, so treat that as a single-source claim.
What Actually Shipped
Sparrow Racing League is back, permanently this time.
There's a new exotic hand cannon, Turncoat. It's a Void weapon that fires from the hip with Anti-Barrier built in, free through the Triumphant Rewards Pass. That's the final season pass, and it has no end date.
The Tower got a new Monument with "Tenet" vendors. There's a fresh currency, Legendary Marks, earned through Triumphs spanning nine years of the game and spent on previously vaulted items. A closed set, rewarding the people who stayed.
The Secret Weapon Players Dug Up Day One
The headline grab was hidden. Cull's Shadow is a fusion rifle classed as a Weapon of Sorrow, buried behind a Moon quest chain.
The path runs through the Scarlet Keep strike, Moon patrol steps, and a secret mission called "Oblation: Bloodline" in Sorrow's Harbor. The community cracked it on launch day, with guide creators like KackisHD walking players through the steps.
Community guides also list additional secret missions and four catalysts. Those names are community-sourced, not Bungie-official, so hold them loosely.
Meanwhile, Marathon Was Begging Players Back
We covered the Marathon side of this in our State of Play piece. The timing only got sharper.
Marathon ran an Open Play Week from June 2 to 9, with a 30% discount through June 16. The free week lifted it to roughly 40,000 concurrents, up from sub-11K daily.
That's still less than half its launch peak. And in the same week, the maintenance-mode game Marathon was built to replace pulled 167,867 for a funeral.
Two Numbers Sony Can't Misread
Back in May we argued the Destiny collectibles market wouldn't react to the maintenance-mode announcement. It would react when the property pulled casual eyes back. June 9 was that day, and the eyes came back loud.
The fan demand is now legible in two figures. The launch peak: 167,867. And the Destiny 3 Change.org petition, started May 22, which reads 376,757 as of June 10. It was roughly 338,556 in our June 3 piece and 373,132 when yesterday's article went up. It has not stopped.
Neither Sony nor Bungie has responded. Destiny 3 is not in development. We're not predicting one. We're noting the silence.
As of around noon ET on June 10, Steam concurrents were still elevated at 85,857 and climbing, per a live SteamDB reading.
The Funkos and the Numskull statues are a closed set now, finished growing. The set just got the one thing collectors couldn't manufacture: a loud ending, with receipts.
