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Even Destiny 2’s demise won’t save Rising
📰 Ryan Gilliam
👤 Ryan Gilliam
🕒 2026-07-14 19:37:09
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Bungie宣布《Destiny 2》最后一次内容更新后，其移动衍生作《Destiny: Rising》收入持续低迷，从2023年9月至10月月均收入从600万美元骤降至300万美元，2024年3月后稳定在30万美元/月。Sony裁员《Destiny 2》团队后，Rising面临玩家迁移失败与收入困境。《Destiny: Rising》作为《Destiny》宇宙的移动版，虽复刻IP核心体验，但被玩家批评为过度依赖抽卡机制，缺乏原作的社交与团队玩法。其免费游玩模式虽吸引部分玩家，但内购收入持续下滑，导致IP声誉受损。
该案例揭示了跨平台IP移植的挑战：即使原作停更，衍生作仍需独立解决用户获取与留存问题。Rising的失败为游戏厂商提供警示——移动版需平衡IP忠诚度与创新玩法，避免过度依赖付费机制。
In May,
Bungie announced that Destiny 2’s next update would be its last
infusion of new content. The update would come with several new modes and a revamp of some of the content the team had spent the last decade building.
On June 9,
that patch finally came
, and saw Destiny 2 enter its end of service phase. Later last month,
Sony laid off nearly the entire Destiny 2 team
.
With the original gone, Destiny: Rising, the NetEase-made mobile spin-off that launched last year, has been the only Destiny game in town for a little over a month now.
And yet a glance at the AppMagic data suggests very few players have jumped over to mobile to get their Destiny fix. And Destiny 2’s death has not solved Rising’s money problems, either.
We’ve written before about Rising’s difficulty actually making money
. The game essentially took a nosedive just a month after release,
with spending dropping from over $6m to under $3m from September to October last year
.
The same AppMagic estimates now suggest Destiny: Rising has been pulling in around $300k per month since March this year. While the game does use an external web page when making purchases (at least on Android, as iOS differs from Apple Pay) it’s done that since launch, so it’s unlikely that the issue here is the data tracking.
All of this to say: Rising is very obviously struggling to pull Destiny 2 players to the game, even when they have no Destiny 2 to invest in.
As both a Destiny 2 and Rising player, the reason for this is fairly obvious. While Rising may exist in the Destiny universe (albeit another timeline), and does an admirable job mimicking the franchise’s unique feel, there is just no substitute for the real thing.
One of the great tragedies for the Destiny community is that truly nothing else out there is like Destiny 2, despite games like Anthem and Outriders giving it an honest shot over the years. Rising is a fun game to fill in gaps between Destiny 2 releases, but it’s just too much of a gacha game and not enough of a Destiny game.
But that’s not the only frustration with Rising. One Destiny 2 player recently lamented that
Rising’s financial failure actually makes the franchise look worse
. Even commenters who initially enjoyed the game and found it “fresh” compared to Destiny 2, have dropped it because of that gacha influence. Rising enjoyers giving advice to Destiny 2 players suggest they don’t spend money on NetEase’s title – it’s
fun enough as a free-to-play game
.
As for what’s next for Rising, things aren’t particularly encouraging there either. Season 5 just came out, and
players are saying there is “no new content,”
which is essentially true.
Almost everything outside of a new system addition and a more powerful version of the game’s main character is rehashed from a previous season. There isn’t even a flashy new character to play for – the main reason players spend money on the game.
There’s also little to no information about what could potentially come in future seasons for the game either, outside of a vague trailer from last year
suggesting Destiny 2’s main villain will come to Rising sooner than expected
.
It’s unclear if Destiny: Rising is just seeing a dip in new content before a larger update coming this year or if the game has entered a new kind of death spiral. Sadly, those spending estimates suggests it’s the latter.
Bungie announced that Destiny 2’s next update would be its last
infusion of new content. The update would come with several new modes and a revamp of some of the content the team had spent the last decade building.
On June 9,
that patch finally came
, and saw Destiny 2 enter its end of service phase. Later last month,
Sony laid off nearly the entire Destiny 2 team
.
With the original gone, Destiny: Rising, the NetEase-made mobile spin-off that launched last year, has been the only Destiny game in town for a little over a month now.
And yet a glance at the AppMagic data suggests very few players have jumped over to mobile to get their Destiny fix. And Destiny 2’s death has not solved Rising’s money problems, either.
We’ve written before about Rising’s difficulty actually making money
. The game essentially took a nosedive just a month after release,
with spending dropping from over $6m to under $3m from September to October last year
.
The same AppMagic estimates now suggest Destiny: Rising has been pulling in around $300k per month since March this year. While the game does use an external web page when making purchases (at least on Android, as iOS differs from Apple Pay) it’s done that since launch, so it’s unlikely that the issue here is the data tracking.
All of this to say: Rising is very obviously struggling to pull Destiny 2 players to the game, even when they have no Destiny 2 to invest in.
As both a Destiny 2 and Rising player, the reason for this is fairly obvious. While Rising may exist in the Destiny universe (albeit another timeline), and does an admirable job mimicking the franchise’s unique feel, there is just no substitute for the real thing.
One of the great tragedies for the Destiny community is that truly nothing else out there is like Destiny 2, despite games like Anthem and Outriders giving it an honest shot over the years. Rising is a fun game to fill in gaps between Destiny 2 releases, but it’s just too much of a gacha game and not enough of a Destiny game.
But that’s not the only frustration with Rising. One Destiny 2 player recently lamented that
Rising’s financial failure actually makes the franchise look worse
. Even commenters who initially enjoyed the game and found it “fresh” compared to Destiny 2, have dropped it because of that gacha influence. Rising enjoyers giving advice to Destiny 2 players suggest they don’t spend money on NetEase’s title – it’s
fun enough as a free-to-play game
.
As for what’s next for Rising, things aren’t particularly encouraging there either. Season 5 just came out, and
players are saying there is “no new content,”
which is essentially true.
Almost everything outside of a new system addition and a more powerful version of the game’s main character is rehashed from a previous season. There isn’t even a flashy new character to play for – the main reason players spend money on the game.
There’s also little to no information about what could potentially come in future seasons for the game either, outside of a vague trailer from last year
suggesting Destiny 2’s main villain will come to Rising sooner than expected
.
It’s unclear if Destiny: Rising is just seeing a dip in new content before a larger update coming this year or if the game has entered a new kind of death spiral. Sadly, those spending estimates suggests it’s the latter.