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Destiny 2 needed to roll back characters after emptying spacewalletsOh dear
Oh dear
Last night’s newDestiny 2patch had the unintended consequence of deleting many players' hard-ground cash and upgrade materials, causing Bungie to take the MMOFPS offline for nine hours while they fixed it. Their solution was to roll characters back to their state before the patch, which has the unfortunate side-effect of wiping out everything players did between the patch launching and the emergency maintenance started. A big mess right there. Some players report they still have things missing after the rollback.
Update 2.7.1 launched at 5pm on Tuesday, and many players noticed instantly upon logging in that they’d lost all their Glimmer spacebucks, their earned Bright Dust for cosmetics, their paid Silver microtransaction cash, and upgrade materials like Enhancement Prisms and Ascendant Shards. Some of those upgrade materials are super-rare and Silver costs real money so this was a huge problem.
Bungie announcedat 5:31that they were investigating the issue, then at6:05that they were taking the game offline for emergency maintenance. While they investigated and worked on a fix, the game was down until3:18amtoday.
Must suck if you got some sweet loot during the period lost to the rollback. Those were also the dying minutes of the latest Iron Banner event, one of the few ways to get Pinnacle-grade drops, so some folks will have lost those. As someone still searching for a pair of 970 trousers, I sympathise.
The problems don’t seem fully resolved yet, mind.Some playershave reported that they’re still missing their Silver after the rollback. Others havereportedthat the ultra-rare Ascendant Shards they’d bravely/foolishly kept stored in their post box are gone too. It’s not yet clear quite how common these follow-up issues are.
Players who ran throughthe Corridors of Timecollecting pages of the lore book ‘The Pidgeon and the Phoenix’ will find that has vanished too, though Bungiesaythis “is a separate issue and will be resolved in a future update.”
The intended consequences of Update 2.7.1 are actually quite good. They include:
Shame about the horrible mess. Seethe patch notesfor more.
