170,000 Signatures and Counting
Harley Casto put up a Change.org petition asking Sony Interactive to greenlight Destiny 3 and it blew past 170,000 signatures in days. Going straight to Sony rather than Bungie was a deliberate choice fans know where the actual decision sits. The comments filled up fast with people who have been playing since 2014 and are not ready to let the universe go.
Screenshot: Change.org
What Set Everything Off
Bungie put June 9 on the calendar as the day Destiny 2 stops getting new content. Nothing about what comes next for the IP came with that date. Just a shutdown. Players who stayed through Light and Darkness, through The Final Shape, through every controversial patch and every vault controversy came back for more right up until now. Getting an end date with no next chapter attached hit differently than most game shutdowns do.
The petition asks Sony to give Bungie enough time and support to make a proper sequel. One commenter put it simply there are still stories to tell and memories to make in this universe if the studio gets the chance. That comment got a lot of traction and it reflects what most of the signatures are actually about. People are not just asking for a new game. They are asking for the world to keep existing.
Marathon Is Taking the Heat
A lot of players are pointing at Marathon as the reason Destiny got wound down. Bungie shifted toward a new extraction shooter while Destiny 2 was quietly running out of runway, and the community noticed. Bungie never officially linked the two. But the layoffs, the timing, and the silence around Destiny’s future made it easy to draw that line without any help from the studio.
Bungie is cutting jobs right now, not hiring for a new project. A Bloomberg report flagged how significant the workforce reductions tied to the Sony transition actually are. Destiny 3 would need a studio that is building back up, not one that is still figuring out how many people it has left. Sony has said nothing about the petition and given no indication that silence is going to break anytime soon.
Final Thoughts
170,000 signatures in a few days is a real number and it proves the fanbase is still there. But Sony moves on Sony’s timeline and a Change.org campaign has never been the thing that flips a publisher decision at this scale. June 9 is locked in. What the Destiny IP looks like after that date is genuinely unknown, and fans signing the petition are betting on a company that has not given them much to work with lately.
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