To all those on these forums that plaster it with topics like [i]“Bungie only caters to streamers” “You have ruined this game for casual players” “Difficulty has sucked the fun out of D2!” “Game is now just to hard and no fun” “God why not return everything as it was before this dlc”[/i] and my favorite - the one’s that make up % - [i]“90% of people just want to relax & not have to develop their skills for the game - I don’t want to GET GOOD!”[/i] From the article linked above: ‘Destiny 2’ Just Had Its Highest Monthly Playercount Since Its Free-to-Play Launch in Shadowkeep. What’s the opposite of a dead game? A live one, and Destiny 2 continues to be one of the only PvE-centric live games that has not just survived over time, but thrived. And if you need any evidence of that, just look at the latest post-Lightfall player numbers. This was highlighted by u/Merzats on reddit, as they followed up with the previous information we knew that Lightfall had brought the highest peak playercount for Destiny 2 on Steam…ever, with 316,000 players at Lightfall launch besting all previous expansions. Now, we have some similarly impressive, longer-term figures. With March having come and gone, we can now see that the game’s average players in March at 135,102 are higher than at any point in the game’s history except for 165,307 during the launch of Shadowkeep. Importantly, that’s not just the first moment the game came to Steam in the first place, but it was also the launch of the New Light free-to-play experience, back when the game still had loads of free content (Red War, both expansions, its first three seasons) for players to consume. So I’m not surprised it didn’t quite beat that out. So it would seem that the [b][u]majority[/u][/b] of the player base may have had some strong criticisms towards the story narritive & the amount of content that came with the expansion, but find the action game play super engaging, the game play fun, & the loot is interesting enough to continue logging on weeks after a “failed launch.” Interesting...