{"id":422033,"date":"2026-01-20T19:37:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T19:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/422033\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T19:37:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T19:37:27","slug":"destiny-2-will-delay-shadow-and-order-due-to-marathon-release-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/422033\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Destiny 2\u2019 Will Delay Shadow And Order Due To \u2018Marathon\u2019 Release Date"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"marathon6<\/p>\n

On Monday, Bungie pushed the reveal of Marathon\u2019s release date and opened up preorders even on MLK Day, thanks to the fact that it all leaked the previous day<\/a> anyway. It was supposed to be today, I was told, but here we are. Marathon will arrive on March 5.<\/p>\n

Welllll, there\u2019s a bit of a problem.<\/p>\n

Destiny 2\u2019s Shadow and Order post-Renegades major update is supposed to launch on March 3, which will inject at least some level of new activities and loot into the game after many, many weeks of little to do. But two days before Marathon\u2019s launch will be too uncomfortable for Bungie and many players.<\/p>\n

My sources tell me that yes, Bungie will delay the Shadow and Order update because it\u2019s too close to Marathon\u2019s release. I don\u2019t know how far it might be delayed; I’d imagine more than a week, nor do I know when this will be officially announced, but it will probably be announced soon. But it\u2019s happening.<\/p>\n

This has not thrilled a number of Destiny players who were not planning on playing Marathon, a wildly different genre, and just wanted that new content. Here\u2019s a sampling of comments I got when reporting on this yesterday:<\/p>\n

Play Puzzles & Games on Forbes<\/p>\n

\u201cOh great love being second classed again.\u201d\u201cF#$k! I hate them sacrificing their current money-making child for the new kid who hasn’t even learned to walk yet.\u201d\u201cI say allow Concord 2.0 to release and fail. Then the Bungie team can get together and focus on working on Destiny 2.\u201d<\/p>\n

It should be noted that Marathon struck a pretty big blow against the \u201cConcord 2\u201d narrative yesterday when it peaked at #4 on Steam\u2019s best-sellers chart<\/a> for its pre-orders, being only monsters like CSGO and, of course, ARC Raiders. Concord did not make it inside Steam\u2019s top 100 best-sellers at launch.<\/p>\n

While I get why Destiny 2 players are annoyed, I mean, this was sort of how it had to go. It is hard to overstate just how important Marathon is to Bungie, and they want all eyes on that launch rather than blending it with Shadow and Order promotion. And you have to admit that Shadow and Order is not a terribly substantive Destiny release. At best, it\u2019s a few new activities, events and some loot. It\u2019s not even one of the new, smaller expansions in the post-Final Shape era. And it\u2019s not The Final Shape.<\/p>\n

Despite the difference in genres, a large chunk of who Bungie hopes will play Marathon are Destiny players, at least to try it out, with many of them loyal to Bungie for years or a decade or almost three decades if you go all the way back to Halo. It\u2019s the third new Bungie shooter IP in about thirty years.<\/p>\n

So, annoying? Maybe. Understandable? Yes. I\u2019ll report more on the exact timing of the delay when I figure it out. I don\u2019t think the timing is even set yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Monday, Bungie pushed the reveal of Marathon\u2019s release date and opened up preorders even on MLK Day,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,12316,33302,176780,61],"class_list":["post-422033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-destiny-2","tag-marathon","tag-shadow-and-order","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}