These trying ahead to Destiny 2: The Final Shape’s launch on June 4, 2024 ought to maybe keep off the web for a couple of days as a mishap at PlayStation-owned Bungie noticed the whole growth launch early and spoilers unfold like wildfire.
As reported by Eurogamer, dozens of gamers took to social media to share their shock and horror after discovering the extremely anticipated growth, set to be the grand finale in Destiny 2’s to date 10 yr saga, was accessible to play on Could 29 after server upkeep.
Those that selected to stream Destiny 2 as an alternative of play a downloaded model, like Cupcake_0f_Doom on Reddit, have been loaded straight into the brand new content material.
“I attempted loading it up tonight and at first I believed cross save was bugged and it wasn’t loading up my account,” they mentioned. “It wished me to create a brand new character. Then I seen the title display had been up to date to The Final Shape. It regarded like I used to be loading right into a construct of The Final Shape.”
The participant bought to attempt a couple of missions earlier than the bane of many avid gamers, having to go to mattress for work within the morning, bought the higher of them, however not earlier than they shared their discovery on-line and riled up the Destiny 2 neighborhood.
Bungie quickly shut down the sport’s servers and thus stopped gamers exploring each inch of it, however gamers have been nonetheless capable of finding and share myriad main factors of curiosity such as story spoilers and knowledge on its raid, trophies, loot, and extra.
Sony and Bungie have executed their finest to extend curiosity in The Final Shape forward of its launch, even granting entry to 3 main Destiny 2 expansions (and 4 on PlayStation) without spending a dime within the month forward of its launch.
The Final Shape was as a consequence of arrive on February 27, 2024 however suffered a delay as a result of it wanted “extra time to grow to be precisely what [Bungie] desires it to be”, in accordance with the developer’s official assertion.
The studio was hit with lay offs in October 2023, nonetheless, because of the underperformance of Destiny 2. This led to a “soul crushing” ambiance at Bungie as workers mentioned goodbye to round 100 colleagues and feared additional job losses, rumored to reach upon The Final Shape’s launch.
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll speak about The Witcher all day.