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I was poking around the other day, and you know how you start down one rabbit hole on the internet? Well, I ended up on this site called “Time Wasted on Destiny.” Sounds dramatic, right? Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t. But I guess Destiny 2 players might feel some kinda way about it, especially now with the game’s player count taking a nosedive. Yeah, I’m talking about its peak—way up there at 316,750 players—now somewhere lost in the past, as numbers dip under 20,000. Wild.
Destiny 2 made its grand entrance way back in 2017. I mean, 2017 feels like it was a different century, honestly. Over the years, it morphed and molded with all these updates and expansions Bungie cranked out—like candy on Halloween, just seemingly endless. New stories, tweaks, raids, you name it. Latest update, The Edge of Fate, landed on July 15 and, well, it dropped a bomb of new activities. The campaign caught some flak though—who saw that coming? But the real kicker has been watching the player numbers just … slip through Bungie’s fingers like sand.
Anyway—and don’t ask me why—players are checked into this unofficial site (wastedondestiny.com) to track hours they’ve sunk into Destiny 2. Just type in your name, and voilà, a ton of stats spill out, like clocking hours in a digital time warp.
The site’s got this gig where it even leaves out all that filler time—like when you’re hanging out in orbit or fiddling through loading screens. Makes those numbers feel kinda accurate, more than what consoles spit out at you anyway. So, there’s that.
There’s this whole leaderboard thing too, showing who’s really swimming deep down the Destiny rabbit hole. While some folks have probably spent more time in there than they’d like to admit (try over 37,000 hours—no joke), Destiny 2’s player saga trudges along. Steam numbers have hit low lows—around 12,379, if you can believe it.
Maybe Bungie pulls a magical rabbit out of their hat, or maybe this is it. Who’s to say? Guess we’ll just have to keep playing—or, you know, not—to find out.
