A petition for Destiny 3 has crossed 338k signatures and fans are making their case directly to Sony
PlayStation’s State of Play showcase on June 2 arrived with the usual promise of new announcements and fresh reveals. What it did not anticipate was being overwhelmed, from the opening seconds, by a single demand from the Twitch chat: Destiny 3.
Not as a passing joke. Not as a minor thread buried under other commentary. The chat became a sustained, consistent flood of players calling for a sequel to a game whose live-service development Bungie had just announced was ending. The showcase kept going. The chat kept demanding.
The moment was captured and amplified by games media, with IGN’s coverage of the chat flooding drawing significant attention. The reaction confirmed something that had been building for months: the Destiny community’s desire for a sequel has moved well beyond online discussion and into open, public pressure aimed at Sony, the company that acquired Bungie in 2022.
The petition and what it represents
A Change.org petition calling on Sony to develop Destiny 3 had crossed 338,000 signatures at the time of the State of Play, and the number continued climbing through the weekend. The petition argues that players are ready for a clean slate, a new world built from the ground up rather than a continuation of a game that has been running since 2017.
Bungie has not confirmed Destiny 3. No announcement has been made. But the conversation has shifted meaningfully from whether a sequel would ever happen to whether enough community pressure could persuade Sony to greenlight one.
Fueling that hope is a series of posts from Destiny 2’s community lead, who on May 31 posted a phrase that longtime players recognized as text associated with a specific raid encounter. In context, fans interpreted it as a signal that player action could influence the franchise’s future. A follow-up rallying call to log in on June 9, the date of the final Destiny 2 content update, added to the interpretation. A subsequent post referencing the Dylan Thomas poem about fighting against endings completed a sequence that the community read as deliberate encouragement rather than coincidence.
Whether those posts constitute genuine encouragement or are simply the kind of emotionally resonant farewell messaging that marks the end of a major live-service game remains unclear. The community has chosen to treat them as the former.
What the State of Play actually showed
Beyond the Destiny 3 noise, the showcase produced reactions that ranged from enthusiasm to skepticism. A new God of War title was revealed, notable primarily for what it did not include: Kratos, the character around whom Santa Monica Studio built two critically acclaimed games. The reveal landed with a divided audience. Some viewers expressed openness to a new direction. Many others were vocal about their attachment to Kratos and their reluctance to follow the franchise without him.
Until Dawn 2 emerged as one of the stronger received announcements. The original was a horror game built around consequence, where player decisions determined who survived and who did not. A sequel carries genuine potential within that framework, and community reaction reflected more optimism toward it than toward most other reveals in the show.
Destiny 2’s final chapter
While fans demand what comes next, Bungie is still shipping content for what is ending. The Monument of Triumph update, dropping the week of June 11, represents Destiny 2’s final major content release. The update includes reworked weapons and armor, revamped activities, new Pantheon raid gauntlet challenges, and a final set of Bungie Rewards. Developer insight articles released throughout the week have detailed the changes to abilities, PvP, and the artifact system.
The servers will not go dark. Destiny 2 will remain playable after June 9, but active development ends. What players log into after that point is a preserved version of a game rather than a living one.
For the portion of the community still invested in what the game has left to offer, Monument of Triumph is described as a substantial farewell. For the portion of the community with their eyes on what comes next, June 9 is less an ending than a starting point for whatever pressure they believe can move Sony toward a sequel.
The petition will keep climbing. The chat will keep demanding. What Sony does with that pressure is the only question that actually matters now.