It's been a difficult few weeks for fans of Bungie's long-running live-service looter shooter Destiny 2 like myself, with the studio announcing last month that development on the nearly decade-old title would end with its final content update, Monument of Triumph, that released on June 9.

Since then, Bungie has continued to patch the game while it prepares to eventually go largely hands off and focus solely on server maintenance so that Destiny 2 remains playable. Sadly, however, I'd say it sounds like any live-service support for the space fantasy FPS beyond that will soon come to an end.

Addressing the community on social media, Destiny 2 comms manager Dylan "dmg04" Gafner explained that Bungie is getting "into our last string of hotfixes," and that the studio is "nearing the final delivery of patch notes" as it works on final adjustments and bug fixes for the game.

"As we get into our last string of hotfixes, the team is trying to squash as many bugs as possible," he wrote. "You’ll see some ability bug fixes next week, and a slew of other things touched in a later update, but we are nearing the final delivery of patch notes."

Gafner then went on to note that "some issues may not be addressed due to 'risk'" or because of "triage" priorities before Bungie steps away from Destiny 2. For example, fixes for issues that may cause further problems, low-priority balance changes, fixes for visual glitches with gear, or PvP playlist adjustments are the kinds of things the studio plans to forego as its support winds down.

Much bigger problems, though — such as a tech with the new portable Titan Ward of Dawn that lets you push raid bosses off the map and other broken strategies across PvE and PvP — are things that Bungie is focusing on taking care of.

He added that after the game's final update (the timing of which is to be determined), any further patches "will be restricted to severe issues like widespread crashes." Should major issues arise after that, Gafner says "we’ll likely lean on disabling items, abilities, or whatever the culprit is for the problem at hand."

"The finality of all this is a bit rough to get into, but wanted to set expectations appropriately. We aren’t going to turn a blind eye to your reports. May be limited with what we can do, but we’ll still try," he continued. "Appreciate you, always. See you out there."

While I'm glad that Bungie will still, in some capacity, tackle large issues that crop up after its full support for Destiny 2 ends, hearing that it will have to be incredibly selective with what it works on is quite sobering.

It hammers home that this is truly the end of a game so many of us have played and loved for years and years now — and based on recent reports about potential layoffs, I fear that it will be the end of Destiny and Bungie as we know it, as well.

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Brendan Lowry is a Windows Central writer and Oakland University graduate with a burning passion for video games, of which he's been an avid fan since childhood. He's been writing for Team WC since the summer of 2017, and you'll find him doing news, editorials, reviews, and general coverage on everything gaming, Xbox, and Windows PC. His favorite game of all time is probably NieR: Automata, though Elden Ring, Fallout: New Vegas, and Team Fortress 2 are in the running, too. When he's not writing or gaming, there's a good chance he's either watching an interesting new movie or TV show or actually going outside for once. Follow him on X (Twitter).