In Destiny 2, Episode 3. Players were supposed to return to Oryx’s grave ship on the evening of February 4th 2025.
What did I miss in Destiny 2? On February 4, 2025, episode should start: heresy in Destiny 2. The story around the Echos will soon come to an end and keepers have to return to the Oryx grave ship, which they had left after the events of Destiny: The Taken King. While many fans were waiting for the admission, Bungie had to intervene and take the servers off the net.
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Emergency maintenance for damage limitation
How did the start of episode 3? Bumpy. In the evening of the release, a maintenance should kick the players from the servers. The new update was waiting to be downholidated as usual before the start of the episode. Everything went according to plan for now, but then a variety of plum reports appeared (via X.com).
Two hours after maintenance, there was a message that Wagen found her way in Raids again. Bungie assured that her priority was primarily the removal of the instability of the server.
In addition, the maintenance was extended by another hour. After this message, the message of another emergency maintenance followed, in which players are completely kicked by the servers so that Bungie can better analyze the problem. After 4 hours of delay, bungie reactivated his servers and fans, albeit with queues, could finally log in.
How big was the player rush? With episode: 2 Bungie could not keep his fans long, the number of players dropped to Steam between 13,500 and 30,000 simultaneous players – depending on the time. With the release of episode: heresia, the developers were able to double at least their number of players and reach a peak of 77,252 simultaneous players (via steamcharts.com).
This is at least a small success that Bungie can see. It remains to be seen how fans feel the last episode and whether they are persuaded to be there to be the release of Frontiers. You can find more about Destiny 2 here: Destiny 2 makes your guardian a Stormtrooper from Star Wars and even the stingiest players suddenly want to spend money