The Final Shape, the final DLC for Destiny 2, was released on the 4th of June. After ten years spanning two games, this DLC promised to bring an end to the “Light and Darkness Saga” that has composed the entirety of Destiny’s story. Bungie has a lot to prove with The Final Shape: After a shaky response to the last DLC, Lightfall, fans hoped that this last chapter would elevate the series once again to finish on a high note.
Thankfully, Bungie stuck the landing. The ultimate villain, The Witness, drives the game towards its conclusion, emphasizing what sets Destiny 2 apart from the other top shooter games on the market: Its fantastic storytelling and worldbuilding (as showcased in The Final Shape trailer). It’s this difference that has pushed Destiny 2 up to 648M hours watched in its lifetime. It’s time to see if this final DLC lived up to the series’ expectations on live-streaming platforms.
Streamers Milk Dozens of Hours of Quality Content Out of Destiny 2’s New DLC
The Final Shape provided a massive boost to Destiny 2 viewership in the first week of its release, bringing in 16.1M hours watched. Perhaps even more impressively, this viewership came from a large number of creators as indicated by the high airtime of Destiny 2 content during this week: 687K hours. Much of this viewership stemmed not from the debut day, but from Friday the 7th of June, when Bungie unlocked access to the final spectacular boss fight with The Witness. This event was a 12-person raid (the highest party size ever allowed in Destiny 2) that brought together all of the various side characters in an Avengers: Endgame-style finale.
Naturally, this was the event that had viewers flocking to popular streamers’ channels. The top Destiny 2 streamer following the DLC’s release was Aztecross with 2.6M hours watched – that’s 16% of all viewership over this first week. The final raid against The Witness brought an incredible 6M total views to Aztecross’s stream. Bungie also supported the DLC’s release with some influencer marketing, including collabs with YouTubers like jackfrags. This combination of sponsored and non-sponsored coverage further spread the word that The Final Shape was some of Destiny 2’s best content yet.
Of course, the other news surrounding the DLC’s release seemed less positive, citing glitches on launch that would boot players out of the game mid-cutscene. But these issues were quickly addressed, with fans pardoning the launch day server issues. Most players instead heaped praise on the new Prismatic subclass, innovative puzzles and challenges not seen in previous content, and updates to the Legendary items sold by the vendor Xur.
Overall, Destiny 2 fans consider The FInal Shape to be a great ending to the current storyline that still leaves room open for a potential “Destiny 3”. Of course, there’s still more shelf life for the current game even beyond the release of The Final Shape, and it will be interesting to see what final pieces of content Bungie will turn out for the FPS title. Stream Hatchet will be watching their next move in the live-streaming space.
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