Destiny 2 is rolling back the game’s servers for the second time every due to a re-emergence of the same bug that deleted everyone’s cash last month.
Destiny 2 is a game with weekly updates. While this is great in that players can always expect new stuff every Tuesday, it also comes with its downsides. For example, if something goes wrong, it will almost always go wrong on a Tuesday when that update goes live.
Which has happened today. For the second time, Destiny 2’s update has caused a problem so massive that it has required Bungie to roll back the servers to an earlier game state.
The first time this happened was at the end of last month. We thought that it might have been Telesto up to its old tricks, but it turned out that the January 28th update deleted everyone’s Glimmer and banked materials. Naturally, this caused a bit of a panic since some of those materials represented hundreds of hours of in-game effort.
Bungie took down the servers an hour after the update went live to make emergency repairs, and the servers stayed down for just over 8 hours. The solution was to roll back the game servers to how they were at 8:30 AM PST. This meant any and all progress made since Tuesday morning was lost, but it also meant you got to keep your hard-earned Enhancement Cores.
Fast forward two weeks and the same thing is happening again. Players reported Glimmer and mats disappearing, Bungie took down the servers for emergency maintenance, and now they’re rolling everything back to the way it was at 8:30 AM.
Some players are quite peeved at Destiny’s servers being down for the second time due to the same issue. One hopes that Bungie has learned a lot about server rollbacks so that this time they’ll be able to get the game back online before 10 PM EST.
The update should bring Destiny 2’s Valentine’s Day event, Crimson Days, which will have a bunch of rewards and the return of the 2v2 game mode in the Crucible. Stay tuned to the Bungie Help Twitter feed for when the servers will be back online.
Source: Bungie
