It’s one of the most unprecedented things I’ve seen in the video game industry: just three months after Bungie announced that Destiny 2 was ending its live updates for good , that decision has been reversed in a few different ways with a blockbuster announcement.

In a new video, Bungie shares that the next move for Destiny 2 is something that players have wanted since Beyond Light in 2020: All content is being unvaulted years after Destiny 2 started packing it away due to technical challenges. That includes the Red War and Forsaken campaigns and zones and more past that like Curse of Osiris and Warmind DLCs, with further details to follow.

Content vaulting is widely considered one of the worst decisions Destiny 2 ever made – cutting out the vanilla campaign, which was meant to set the stage for the entire run of the game, and also one of its best expansions, Forsaken .

Rather, the game then started with one of its worst expansions, Shadowkeep , but now it’s all being returned. This serves both to give players back the content they paid for and to provide an on-ramp for new players, with the game now effectively “complete.”

The video also says this news is not the end. No, something as enormous as Destiny 3 was not announced today, but it’s clear that Destiny as a universe will now survive going forward in some form.

When new Destiny 2 content ended, that was not followed up by any announcements at all of new projects to keep the world alive, one that had been built over the course of nearly 12 years.

Now, that is changing, though no named concrete projects were announced today. It stands to reason that will follow later, based on the clear message from Bungie, and by proxy, Sony, that they are not done with Destiny after all. They confirm this includes new stories and new games, yes, new games . And while Marathon will continue, it will not and was never intended to replace Destiny .

The blowback and passion from players really did make a difference here, Bungie said. Destiny fans have been mocked for refusing to accept that the game and its universe were dead, but many persisted. As recently as this month, players were still spamming demands for Destiny resurrection across social media and Sony livestreams. Past that, however, Bungie says it was significant just how many players showed up for the Monument of Triumph final update, one that did not even have any new content, but still surpassed the player count of its last two expansions. That was a key moment in all this, though these plans were even starting to take shape before that as fan anger about end-of-service blazed.

I previously said that it was exceedingly rare to have a live series that had run for over a decade summarily killed with no future updates or next moves announced for the IP. Sony has had a painful time attracting live-service audiences to its new projects, while the Destiny community was still more expansive than any of them, including Bungie’s own big new game, Marathon , a fact that persists to this day. Now, it seems Sony suddenly may value that again.

What’s happening now is equally unprecedented. While many games over the years have shut down, this is not Anthem or Marvel’s Avengers we’re talking about. I cannot think of any games this big, this long-running, and with such an abrupt ending that had an end-of-service decision reversed almost immediately just a few months later. It really is a historic moment for the industry, and a celebratory event for the Destiny community, to say the least.

I imagine there will be some who say “well they didn’t say Destiny 3 ” or “it’s not seasons and expansions starting up again,” but compared to the hopeless situation the community has been enduring the past few months, it’s a huge shot in the arm, as is the idea that there is more Destiny to come after this, even if we don’t know the exact projects or the timeline yet. And speaking of timelines, this unvaulting isn’t immediate, as you might guess, given how recent the shutdown was and that this wasn’t originally planned.

Bungie says we will hear more about its features and release period in the coming months. Big questions remain about exactly how this is rolling out after layoffs that affected almost the entire Destiny 2 team. That has not been made clear as of yet.

There is plenty more to say about what’s happened and how we got here, but today Destiny fans can breathe a sigh of relief that no, the series has not seen its last update, and there is hope for the future, so to speak.

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