Destiny 2 studio Bungie is attempting to “rebuild some trust” as it scraps another annoying currency in a bid to regain players

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22 October 2025

Last Updated: 22 October 2025

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Bungie’s once-beloved MMO Destiny 2 has been struggling immensely as of late with its lowest player count ever and a recent hated expansion. Nevertheless, the studio is still pushing forward with new plans to “rebuild some trust” with the community following years of poor decisions.

Most recently, Bungie received a heavy dose of backlash for the addition of Unstable Cores, a new in-game currency that were added alongside the Edge of Fate expansion. This currency was used for Infusion, a way of power-boosting gear, and they were instantly hated by the community.

In a recent blog post, Bungie announced the removal of Unstable Cores with the currency being “replaced with a flat cost of one Enhancement Core and 5,000 Glimmer across all Power levels”, much to the celebration of fans.

Bungie has gifted every player 777,777 Unstable Cores until the change is live, telling players that they: “wanted to make sure players could infuse without issue during the week where we made a bunch of rewards changes in the Portal. Didn’t want folks getting power bumps and feeling too much friction with unstable cores.”

Via GamesRadar, Bungie developers took to the official subreddit following the announcement with the team explaining that they still “have a lot more work to do” in regards to improving the player experience within the MMO.

While fans celebrated the change—especially since fans no one expected a change to happen at all—Bungie explained that it’s the first step in improving Destiny 2 for the future. While the developer didn’t reveal any additional changes coming to the game, they hinted at more to come.

“Understand the anxiety,” Bungie told a fan on Reddit. “We’re doing what we can to rebuild some trust here.”

Over the past few years, Destiny 2 has suffered from poor expansions, buggy updates and annoying increases to monetisation, all while failing to remedy actual issues plaguing the game. With players currently weighing up whether they want a third game to enter development or not, it will take a lot of work to actually “rebuild some trust” for the MMO.

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