In a single day, Halo and Future developer Bungie introduced the tip of content material updates for dwell service shooter Future 2. Practically 9 years after launch, and after a myriad of content material updates and monetisation modifications, the developer has known as a day on the storied MMOFPS, asserting that the ultimate content material drop for the sport will land on ninth June, 2026.
The sport will, nonetheless, stay playable: this is not a case of the developer shifting away from the sport and shuttering it fully, as we have seen with titles like Harmony, Metal Hunters, and Highguard. Future 2 will stay on-line – and playable – in the identical means that the unique Future stays alive and lively with a small neighborhood to this very day.
Bungie issued the next assertion on social media final evening:
For nearly 12 years, we’ve had the enjoyment and honor to discover the Future universe with you all. By way of all of the ups and downs, surprises and triumphs, constructing Future alongside our gamers has been a monumental privilege. Whereas our love for Future 2 has not modified, it has change into clear that after The Ultimate Form, we’ve reached the time for our shared worlds, and Future, to dwell past Future 2.
As our focus turns in direction of a brand new starting for Bungie, we are going to start work incubating our subsequent video games. To that finish, on June 9, 2026, we are going to launch the ultimate live-service content material replace for Future 2 to start that new journey as a studio.
Although lively growth could also be concluding, we are going to be certain that Future 2 stays playable, simply as the unique Future is at the moment. Many modifications on this ultimate replace will goal to make sure that Future 2 is a welcoming place for gamers to return to.
We’re happy with Future 2, the locations it took us, and the legacy it has created. Due to you all, our universe is huge, constructed on years of shared tales, adventures, and victories. From the Cosmodrome to the Pale Coronary heart to the Lawless Frontier, we’ve cast life-long reminiscences and friendships with you all.
We’re extremely grateful to everybody who made that journey with us.
From the deepest a part of our hearts, thanks, and we’ll see you within the stars.
Following the announcement Bloomberg printed a brand new report that claims Bungie is ready to undergo “vital” layoffs within the close to future, and {that a} follow-up to Future 2 (specifically Future 3, however you by no means know the way sequel naming conventions work) isn’t actively within the works.
Per Bloomberg, Bungie reportedly has concepts for different video games set within the Future universe, and can proceed to pitch them, however on the time of writing, no different Future sport is in lively growth. The studio’s focus proper now could be squarely on Marathon, and while the launch of the sport maybe hasn’t gone as swimmingly as Bungie would have appreciated, the studio guarantees it is “in it for the lengthy haul”. Let’s examine how latest developments have an effect on that, although.
I personally discover the information about Future 2’s finish pretty bittersweet: I’ve been vocal about my criticisms of Bungie recently, however each Future and Future 2 had been particular video games: they successfully birthed a style, and navigated a dwell service mannequin that laid the foundations for loads of what we see in gaming at the moment. There was lots of innovation in each video games, marred as it might have been by very public missteps. A few of my finest gaming reminiscences have been within the photo voltaic system of Future, hanging out within the Tower or harassing PvP with my tacky Warlock. I will miss this period, and hope that every one the workers affected can transfer onto one thing larger, and – possibly – higher, sooner or later.
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