New Destiny 2 update doubles player count on Steam, but it’s still terrible

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The online shooter Destiny 2 has currently reached a low point: The new season, which is unspectacularly called “Revenant: Act 3” and started on Tuesday, January 7th, cannot change that. The number of players has doubled, but the standard is low and the atmosphere is bad.

This is what Destiny 2 player count looks like on Steam: Yesterday, January 7th, the new season of Destiny 2 started. “Revenant: Act 3” was also greeted with a stylish trailer.

The number of players was previously completely at rock bottom; Destiny 2 still had around 17,000 players on Steam at its peak for the day. We reported on the bad situation on MeinMMO shortly before Christmas.

This number of players on Steam then shot up to a high of 36,488 on the day of the new season, Tuesday: a doubling of the number of players.

But that’s still below the peak that the game reached in December 2024 and far, far below the last peak: In June 2024, Destiny 2 still had 314,000 maximum simultaneous players on Steam.

Act III of Destiny 2: Revenant in the trailer

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Destiny 2 has to listen to a lot of boring sayings

That’s the reaction: Destiny 2 is currently being trashed everywhere.

On reddit, for example, there is criticism that you hardly have to play the new season to get all the content the new episode has to offer: you only have to look at “Kell’s Fall” three times and you’ll see the finale.

Another player adds: There are at least 3 different bosses.

The next one adds: Sounds great, there’s already more content in the 3 runs than in the rest of the season combined.

The new weapons that the update brings don’t seem to cause any real enthusiasm either.

20 minutes of dialogue and 1 minute of play – per month

Even the comments on the trailer on the actual hype platform YouTube seem significantly more negative than before. People write things that sound sarcastic and bitingly mocking:

  • “I saw a rocket launcher, so I’m mildly excited.”
  • “Finally, I’ve been waiting to log in once a month, listen to 20 minutes of dialogue and play for 1 minute.”
  • “Can’t wait to be forced to play an exotic mission 4 times so I can complete a story line where Firkrul and Eramis escape.”
  • “Hey, there’s 10 minutes of content.”

    • That’s what’s behind it: The mood in Destiny 2 seems to be down. The idea of ​​offering new content in the form of “episodes” seems to be falling apart. Only those who have played the last episodes will then play a new season. Anyone who is out longer will probably stay out. For these players, starting a new episode is not a good starting point to get back into the game.

    The episodes don’t generate nearly the hype that previous paid expansions have. In any case, the structural circumstances seem to be becoming increasingly difficult for Bungie: Sony is now bringing in the Destiny 2 creative team – needs Bungie’s experience for new MMOs on PS5

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