Developer Bungie has announced plans to bring back all of the vaulted content from Destiny 2. This includes campaigns and destinations that are currently unavailable in the current, dormant, version of Destiny 2.
For the uninitiated, Destiny 2 over its 10 years of life has reached a point where content had to be removed from the game. Vaulted, as it is termed in this context. The Red War campaign that was the base game Destiny 2’s main content at launch, for example, is currently inaccessible, to the point that in a court case, Bungie had to resort to using fan-made lore videos to present to court, as the main source at the time, Destiny 2 the game, didn’t have it.
As the video (and accompanying article) by Bungie Studio Head Poria Torkan and Head of Product and GM of Marathon Josh Deane said, the process of adding back removed content in Destiny 2 is “not as simple as restoring old files” or “easy as flipping a switch.” But there are now people at the development studio working to get them back in.
Destiny 2 has remained dormant of the final Moment Of Triumph update. But fans have made it clear, very angrily as the Bungie leaders admit, that they’re not happy with this.
Bungie’s latest game, the extraction shooter Marathon, isn’t clearly not a 1:1 replacement for Destiny, and was never intended to be. But there is now movement in the development team to keep the Light in Destiny shining, as “this restoration is the first step to lay the foundation for how we reforge into new stories and games that you all deserve,” the article states.
Both the video and article makes it clear that Bungie is aware of the loss of player trust in recent years. The tepid post-launch after Destiny 2’s big expansion to wrap up a 10-year saga went nowhere and led to the game ending development altogether, but there are fans out there that clearly want more Destiny over Bungie’s current ongoing game, Marathon.
Marathon, a paid game unlike Destiny that’s technically free-to-play with annual paid expansions, is not hitting sales targets. Bungie states that “it did not reach as many players as we had hoped” and unlike other successful AAA hits, there was never a post about the game reaching any sales milestones. The extraction shooter has recently announced a change in plans to skip seasonals altogether and attempting to make the game not strictly a PVPVE experience, and will be evolving “beyond genre constraints.”
The move to bring back Destiny 2’s currently inaccessible content is a nice gesture, even if it’s technically a lot of work for reheated nachos. But when fan trust is low, and you want to demonstrate good will and to show that the franchise these fans love and care so much is still actively being worked on, it is at least something.
How much the install size of Destiny 2 is affecting by the reintroduction of all previously vaulted content remains to be seen.
Torkan became Studio Head at Bungie in June 2026, after the announcement of Destiny 2’s supposedly final update. Deane also took up his current role in the same month.
“We need to restore Destiny to a place you can call home again,” said Deane in the video, in hopes to assure fans this new Bungie still got what it takes to make games like they used to, despite knowing the scepticism fans have still.