'So Far, Together' — Bungie Drops a Goodbye Trailer While Ex-Devs Spill That the Studio Was 'Very Close to Shutting Its Doors'
A sentimental farewell reel, two former employees going full tell-all, and a fandom that is absolutely not in the mood. Grab a chair, darlings.
The audacity of timing. While Destiny 2 fans were still recovering from Wednesday's coordinated server protest, Bungie quietly dropped a new trailer titled "So Far, Together" — a wistful, highlight-reel sendoff that, per GameGPU, appears to celebrate the game's journey. A journey. That is one word for it.
You want to release a nostalgia bomb into a fandom that just rage-crashed your servers? Bold.
But the trailer was practically background music to the real story exploding across gaming outlets today. Not one but two former Destiny 2 developers went on record to detail just how precarious Bungie's existence actually was. According to Windows Central, an ex-dev says the studio was "very close to shutting its doors" before Sony stepped in to acquire it. And if that wasn't enough — a separate former developer told the same outlet that supporting Marathon is, quote, "the only way to keep Bungie alive right now."
Now we're getting the receipts.
So let's recap the scoreboard, shall we? Bungie: nearly bankrupt pre-Sony, weekly community blog officially shuttered (per Tuesday's confirmation), and now pinning the entire survival of the studio on a game — Marathon — that the community has received with the warmth of a damp sock. The fans who spent a decade funding this operation via $20 ornament sets and annual expansions are learning, in real time, that the house was always closer to foreclosure than the press releases suggested.
And if this feels familiar, it's because the writing has been on the wall since the mass layoffs that preceded Sony's tightening grip — but hearing former employees say the quiet part into a microphone is a different category of devastating entirely.
Meanwhile, a GamesRadar piece surfaced today revealing that a former Destiny lead once fought internal battles just to add challenging enemies to the opening of the original game — inspired by Dark Souls, no less. We love a creator with vision. We wish that creative energy had translated into, say, a functioning live-service economy, but here we are.
The "So Far, Together" trailer, bless its heart, reads less like a celebration and more like the slideshow at a going-away party for someone who was let go. We wish Bungie strength in this trying time of their own making, my loves. Keep your Marathon pre-orders close and your refund policies closer.
Prediction: that trailer hits one million views carried entirely by people watching it through tears of rage.
