Destiny 2 Player Count: How Many People Play Destiny 2 in 2024?

Destiny 2 MMO video game, released on September 6, 2017, has an average player count of 1.6 million monthly players.

Find out:

• How many players play Destiny 2? (Daily, monthly, and cumulative player count)
• How much is Bungie earning from Destiny 2?
• How popular is Destiny 2 among PC, Xbox, and PlayStation gamers?

How Many People Play Destiny 2?

• An average of 1.6 million people still play Destiny 2 monthly, with an average of 788,098 daily players in February 2023.
• PC has the biggest Destiny 2 player base, with a 40% share.
• More than 42 million players have already registered for Destiny 2 by February 2023.
• Sony bought Bungie for $3.7 billion despite the latter earning “only” between $100 to $500 million per year.
• Destiny 2 is the 14th most-played video game on PC.

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How Many People Play Destiny 2 in 2023?

• On average, Destiny 2 had 1.6 million monthly active players in February 2023.

Here’s how many average monthly Destiny 2 player count had throughout recent years:

Compare that to Valorant players and Among Us.

What was Destiny 2 max concurrent players in the beginning?

• At the opening weekend, Destiny 2 had over 1.2 million concurrent players.

Two days before that, on September 7, Bungie released the game on PS4 and Xbox One. The PC version was launched almost 2 months later, on October 24.

(Twitter)

• Destiny 2 had an average of 809 thousand daily players on all gaming platforms in February 2023.

(MMO-Populations)

• On average, 65,452 is the daily Destiny 2 player count on Steam in 2022.

More players played Destiny 2 in 2022 than in 2021. Even though the game had the lowest average player count in November 2022.

Destiny 2 average daily players on Steam

• In January 2024, Destiny 2 had 41,926 average daily players on Steam, the lowest count in the last couple of years.

Here’s the full list of Destiny 2 average daily players on Steam:

Which Platform Has the Most Destiny 2 Players?

• Destiny 2 has the strongest player base on PC, with 40% of players using Steam or Epic to play the game.

Despite the delayed release on PC and the first Destiny being available only on consoles.

Here’s the table showing player distribution based on a gaming platform:

• Twitch streams on Destiny 2 are currently viewed by an average of 4,375 concurrent people per day.

Which is a far cry from 470,915 peak daily viewers of the original Destiny 1 on May 18, 2017.

(TwitchTracker)

Destiny 2 Average Monthly Players per Year

• On average, Destiny 2 had 1,531,939 monthly active players in 2022.

Here are more details on monthly active Destiny 2 players throughout recent years:

Destiny 2 Peak Player Count

• Steam had an average of 145,559 peak concurrent players in 2022.

The highest daily peak number was 289,895 concurrent players in February 2022.

Here are the average peak concurrent Destiny 2 players per year on Steam:

• Destiny 2 had 96,428 peak concurrent players on Steam in January 2023.

Destiny 2 had one of the lowest peak concurrent players on Steam in November 2022, when the number 60,854 represented the lowest player count in at least 3 years.

That is almost half less compared to October 2022, with 102,690 peak concurrent players.

The game still had the most peak concurrent players in October 2019 when it became free-to-play.

Destiny 2 Total Player Count per Year

• So far, 42,431,765 people have registered in the Destiny 2 video game by February 2023.

That’s 182,565 more than in January 2023 and 3,576,486 more since the beginning of the year.

Here’s the growth of the number of registered Destiny 2 player population from November 2021 to February 2023:

Destiny 2 Revenue

• According to analyst Michael Pachter, Bungie brings around $200 million in annual revenue. Bungie is the company behind Destiny 2.

(Yahoo)

Some other sources claim that the game alone brings in anywhere between $100 to $500 million per year.

(Pro Game Guides)

While the exact company’s revenue remains unknown, it’s a reason Sony bought Bungie for $3.7 billion in 2022.

(IGN)

Destiny 2 Rankings

• Destiny 2 ranks the highest on PC, holding 14th place as the most-played video game.

Elsewhere, the game is currently ranked 24th on Steam, 17th on Xbox, and 18th on PlayStation.

• Based on the currently active player numbers, Destiny 2 is the fifth most popular MMO game of 2023.

(MMO-Populations 2)

• Destiny 2 is currently the 52nd most-watched video game on Twitch.

(TwitchTracker)

• Destiny 2 players play the game for an average of 201 minutes daily.

(Newzoo 4)

• Up to 43% of gamers who stopped playing Halo: Infinite switched to playing Destiny 2 in December 2021.

The second biggest transition of players came from Fortnite (31%) and Minecraft (23%).

Here’s a table for easier visualization:

• Destiny 2 got nominated by people for the “Game of the Year” Steam Award in 2019.

Other games nominated were:

• Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
• Resident Evil 2
• Jedi: Fallen Order
• Devil May Cry 5

(Steam)

• Player “PureChilly” currently has the most wins and rounds played in Destiny 2.

The data is collected on December 6, 2022.

Here are 10 best Destiny 2 players across all platforms:

• Bungie is letting the original Destiny 1 go, announcing they will no longer update the game.

The game will remain available for PlayStation 4, and Xbox One consoles.

(Bungie)

More data on popular games:

• League of Legends
• Rocket League
• World of Warcraft
• Video Game Addiction Facts
• Xbox Game Pass subscribers

Conclusion

Despite a rough start in 2017, Destiny 2 is currently the 14th most-played PC game. It has more than 1.6 million players playing each month, and the numbers keep growing.

Do you play Destiny 2, or did you play it? Do you prefer the original Destiny, or is Destiny 2 equally as good or better?

Let us know in the comments.

Sources: MMO-Populations, MMO-Populations 2, Twitter, Warmind, SteamCharts, Yahoo, Pro Game Guides, IGN, Steam 250, Newzoo, Newzoo 2, Newzoo 3, Newzoo 4, TwitchTracker, Steam, TRN, Bungie