Bungie dev asks "F***ing... how?" as Sony seemingly leaks the entire Destiny 2: The Final Shape expansion via PlayStation's own streaming service
May. 30, 2024It’s not been a great string of weeks for Sony
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Hot on the heels of putting words in Neil Druckmann’s mouth and causing a meltdown amongHelldivers 2players,Sonyhas now leaked Destiny 2: The Final Shape days ahead of release.
Don’t worry, we won’t be spoiling the contents of The Final Shape here, so you’ve nothing to fear if you’re looking forward to Destiny 2’s new expansion. That being said, it’s probably best to know what exactly was leaked and, as far as we know,how.
As Bungie has now confirmed, Sony’s game streaming service let some users access The Final Shape early. The expansion was evidently preloaded on PlayStation servers ahead of launch, but without the proper protections in place to stop players from accessing it now. Players jumping into the new expansion thankfully didn’t get access to the entire Final Shape campaign, mercifully, or the leak could be a lot worse.
Instead, players got an overview of new gear and content, which includes the Echoes Season Pass and rewards, all Collections page items, and the Eververse storefront. So it’s not actual gameplay that leaked, but rather loot and other aspects of Destiny 2 that are changing with The Final Shape.
At the worst, some of The Final Shape’s first campaign mission may have leaked here. This appears to be the furthest into the expansion that players were able to progress before Sony and/orBungiequickly realized what was going on and got the servers taken down. It’s obviously a bad leak, but at the very least, Sony was able to stop the bleeding fairly quickly. The MMO’s most important expansion was only leaked for, you know,four or five hoursaccording to most accounts.
You’ve got to feel for the developers at Bungie. The pinnacle expansion packing the long-awaited climax to a 10-year narrative being leaked online ahead of launch by a platform server issue is a tough blow to take. The tweet below from Bungie IT lead Alan Thomas probably sums up how a lot of Bungie developers are feeling right now.
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Senior Bungie marketing director Gary Clay also weighed in:
“The joke inside Bungie before every big launch or reveal was, ‘can’t wait for Sony to leak this,‘addsformer Bungie staffer Griffin Bennett, now senior community manager on Marvel Snap. “Not a dig,” he clarified. “Just laughing through the pain I feel for my former colleagues.”
This has not been a great spring for PlayStation coordination. Last month,Sony enforced a PSN account linking mandate for Helldivers 2 players, which was pretty swiftly canned when players overwhelmingly spoke out in rejection of the rule. Over the last few days,Sony has deleted an entire interviewwithNaughty Dog’s Neil Druckmann after the developer pointed out onTwitterthat he straight-up hadn’t said entire sentences attributed to him in the interview.
Destiny 2’s The Final Shape expansion launches, for real, next week on June 4 across all platforms.
Read our fullDestiny 2 The Final Shape previewfor our hands-on experience with the campaign’s opening hours.
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