Destiny 2 Fans Plan to Crash Servers on Final Day

The goal is simple: log in on June 9, crash the servers, and make Sony notice. Destiny 2 players across Reddit, Facebook, Instagram, and X are organizing what they're calling a "server slam party" to coincide with the game's final update, Monument of Triumph. As one Reddit thread put it, the aim is to "at least smash Marathon's all-time high to show them they made the wrong decision."

A promotional poster has been circulating on Instagram encouraging players to "Fireteam up" and "play all night." Facebook fan pages are pushing the same message: "Let's slam those servers on June 9, so PlayStation realizes how big a mistake they made." The "mistake" in question is the widespread perception that Bungie chose to kill Destiny 2 in favour of Marathon, the extraction shooter that launched on March 5 and has struggled to hold its audience. According to Steam charts, Marathon's concurrent player count has dropped from an initial peak of around 80,000 to roughly 10,000.

This isn't the only pressure campaign. A petition calling on Sony to greenlight Destiny 3 has already gathered hundreds of thousands of signatures, with multiple Destiny voice actors backing the effort. But the server slam feels more pointed. It's not asking politely; it's trying to generate a data point Sony can't ignore. I think there's something defiant about it, even if the odds of it changing anything at the corporate level are slim.

The reality working against fans is bleak. Reports indicate Bungie is planning significant layoffs after Monument of Triumph ships, and Destiny 3 is reportedly not in active production. Bungie's principal communications manager Dylan Gafner thanked the community on X on May 26, saying he's "passing these along to the team as they roll in. Photos, videos, art pieces, everything." Meanwhile, Bungie is on Marathon, with Season 2 launching June 2 alongside a free "Open Play Week" from June 2 to June 9 designed to boost the game's flagging numbers.

So June 9 becomes a strange collision: Marathon's free week ends, and Destiny 2's final update arrives. If the server slam actually pulls massive concurrent numbers on a game Bungie is walking away from while Marathon bleeds players, it will be an uncomfortable look for everyone involved in the decision to end the franchise. Whether Sony reads that as a business case for Destiny 3 or just a sentimental farewell is another matter entirely, but after a six-month content drought, the fact that players are this organized says something about what Bungie is leaving behind.