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Destiny 2 player numbers have been plummeting for a while, ever since the release of The Final Shape. While new story content has completely failed to bring gamers back into the live-service fold, one last-ditch effort has worked wonders: a Star Wars crossover.
While the recent announcement does have some fans wondering if the future of Destiny 2 will turn the game into a crossover hotpot like Fortnite or CoD, the intended effect has occurred. D2 is back, albeit only slightly.
Destiny 2 Star Wars crossover brings back players
Prior to the announcement of the Star Wars crossover, Destiny 2 hit its lowest ever concurrent player count on Steam. While the release of new cosmetics from the galaxy far, far away hasn’t suddenly brough the looter-shooter back up to its peak, it is steadily gaining more players again.
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Destiny 2’s Star Wars collaboration hasn’t even released yet, but the new collaboration announcement has already seen a wave of players booting back into Bungie’s game. Perhaps getting ready for the release of the new Star Wars cosmetics on February 4th (couldn’t wait for May 5th?), players are jumping into the sci-fi MMOFPS game.
Since the announcement, a small jump in player numbers has occurred—via Steam Charts—that show some life is being kicked back into Destiny 2. It doesn’t seem that any form of collaboration will bring back the hordes of players the game had before. Only a Destiny 3 would do that, and that ain’t happening.
Nevertheless, it’s interesting to see just what is “saving” Destiny 2 this late into the game. As rival looter shooters like The First Descendant are also failing to keep players, maybe the looter-shooter genre is simply struggling. After all people have things to do.