A Petition Calling on Sony to Greenlight Destiny 3 Has Over 120,000 Signatures Already — and It's Rising Fast

An online petition calling connected Sony to greenlight the improvement of Destiny 3 has seen implicit 120,000 signatures, but it seems improbable that the crippled volition beryllium made.

Developer Bungie shocked the gaming satellite this week erstwhile it announced the past update for Destiny 2 was acceptable for June, efficaciously bringing to an extremity the Destiny epoch that began with specified fanfare backmost successful 2014. There has been overmuch manus wringing since, with immoderate expressing interest for the aboriginal of Bungie itself amid impending layoffs and the nonaccomplishment of Marathon — Bungie’s precocious released ultra hardcore extraction shooter — to interruption out.

All the while, determination is simply a increasing telephone for Bungie to make Destiny 3, with 1 online petition calling connected Bungie genitor institution Sony to o.k. improvement of the game. With implicit 120,000 signatures and rising, the petition’s creator, Harley Casto, said “the tendency for caller adventures, caller storylines, and innovative gameplay features is palpable among players everywhere.”

“We judge successful the imaginable of Destiny 3 to animate caller generations of gamers and to support the occurrence of the Guardian tone alive,” Casto continued. “Join america successful petitioning Sony to instrumentality this leap forward. Sign the petition to amusement your enactment for Destiny 3 and assistance america bring our emotion for this bid to the adjacent level. Together, let's marque Destiny 3 a reality.”

Is it apt that Destiny 3 volition beryllium made? According to Bloomberg, Bungie volition endure "significant" layoffs successful the adjacent aboriginal arsenic a effect of the extremity of Destiny 2 support, and Destiny 3 is not actively successful the works. Bungie reportedly plans to proceed pitching ideas successful the Destiny universe, but there’s nary proposition Destiny 3 is among them.

But why? For galore Destiny fans, Destiny 3 ever sounded similar an evident adjacent task for Bungie aft the story-ending The Final Shape enlargement was released successful June 2024. So wherefore didn’t Bungie person a squad enactment connected Destiny 3 2 years ago? The answer, Bloomberg newsman Jason Schreier said successful a station connected societal media, had to bash with “how overmuch wealth it would take.”

Triple-A improvement costs person ballooned implicit the people of Destiny’s life, to the constituent wherever it tin outgo hundreds of millions of dollars to nutrient a video game. Indeed, Marathon reportedly had a fund of implicit $250 million. The archetypal improvement woody for Sony’s ill-fated live-service shooter Concord was astir $200 million, according to a study by Kotaku. In 2023, caller documents submitted arsenic portion of the Xbox Federal Trade Commission lawsuit accidentally revealed The Last of Us: Part II and Horizon Forbidden West each outgo much than $200 cardinal to develop. Last year, the astronomical improvement budgets of the Call of Duty games were revealed for the archetypal clip aft a tribunal papers confirmed Activision pumped $700 cardinal into Black Ops Cold War alone, though that was implicit the shooter's beingness cycle.

So, astatine a clip erstwhile the video crippled manufacture is struggling, PlayStation is cutting costs and hiking the terms of its consoles, and the unrecorded work graveyard welcomes a caller imperishable nonmigratory each period oregon so, it feels improbable that Sony volition stake large connected Destiny 3.

All of which means that this whitethorn precise good beryllium the extremity of Destiny, which is wherefore you’ve astir apt seen assorted societal media posts from fans waving goodbye and reminiscing astir each the bully times they had with the franchise. Meanwhile, Sony is backing further enactment connected Marathon, which volition spot caller contented released arsenic Bungie works to amended subordinate numbers.

Destiny 3, though... well, contempt hundreds of thousands of fans signing an online petition hoping to volition it into existence, it whitethorn good stay conscionable a dream.

Wesley is Director, News astatine IGN. Find him connected Twitter astatine @wyp100. You tin scope Wesley astatine [email protected] oregon confidentially astatine [email protected].