This Week at Bungie – 3/24/2022 > News

Using these types of services can tarnish competitive activities like Trials of Osiris, or even reduce the value of rewards from activities like raids and Grandmaster Nightfalls. To protect the integrity of these experiences, we are issuing the appropriate reprimands to a number of accounts in accordance with our policy. Our security team had this to say about our policies regarding account sharing and other in-game behaviors that can jeopardize account integrity: 

Bungie Product Security Team: In August 2021, Bungie adjusted its policy to clarify that account recovery, boosting, and players that benefit from these services were in violation of our Terms of Service. Since then, we have closely monitored suspected activity and issued our first ban wave against identified violators. We want to assure the community that we will fairly enforce our policy on player conduct for even the most skilled or well-known players. 

Destiny is an evolving experience, and we will continue to update our policies to make the game a more enjoyable and safe experience for all players. We will continue to update the community on the further evolution of these policies, but for now, you can read up on our current stance right here.  

• 9 AM PDT (1600 UTC): Destiny 2 maintenance begins.  
• 9:45 AM (1645 UTC): Destiny 2 is brought offline.   
• 10 AM (1700 UTC): Destiny 2 Hotfix 4.0.0.5 will begin rolling out across all platforms and regions.   
• 11 AM (1800 UTC): Destiny 2 maintenance completes.  

• Osmiomancy Gloves lose a grenade charged after dying.
• The Devour timer isn’t consistent when killing multiple enemies at once compared to killing one enemy.
• Players on Xbox are crashing at higher rates than usual.
• Rahool’s planetary materials aren’t rotating. 

“We’re aware of a series of copyright takedowns on YouTube and we’re actively investigating. This includes content on our own Bungie channels.” 

“These actions are NOT being taken at the request of Bungie or our partners. Please standby for future updates.”  

We also included a link to our intellectual property guidelines, which can be found here. The most recent wave of takedowns was peculiar and upon further investigation we have confirmed that they included some takedown actions from fraudulent accounts created to impersonate our IP protection service.   

• CSC, a Bungie partner that aids in IP protection, did not go rogue or issue any unauthorized takedowns.  
• Bungie does not use or authorize algorithmic takedowns on YouTube.  All actions by CSC are reviewed and authorized by Bungie.  
• Because these are human processes, in rare occurrences human error has occurred, in which we have quickly worked to correct any issues.  
• Bungie investigated the claims of suspicious takedowns and found that several strikes were perpetrated by a “bad actor” that is not affiliated with Bungie or CSC, but who has impersonated CSC by falsifying look-alike email aliases. This attack occurred after, and possibly in response to, a recent set of authentic takedowns of OST uploads. 

Most of the recent takedowns carried out by us were for uploads of original soundtrack (OST) music content. While it’s not permitted to take a soundtrack we release and upload it to your channel, there has been feedback from the community about the desire to access music that is not currently available. Our audio team’s main priority is creating and maintaining the amazing music in the game, and we won’t be able to release every version of every song. But we do agree that we would like to create avenues for the community to fill these gaps and archive some of the music not currently available. 

• It can’t be an OST song that Bungie has already released or posted elsewhere publicly.
• The content cannot be monetized.
• The creator needs to obtain permission from Bungie by contacting this email: licensing@bungie.com.

At the end of the day, our content creator community is invaluable to us – and no, not just the “big” creators. We understand that many creators have their content as a source of primary income, and we do not wish to cause harm to those that express their passion through art. However, as with any company, there are boundaries in place to protect both the community and the property that the Destiny 2 teams have poured their souls into through the years. Because this is important to the future of the game and the future of our community, we have been working to update our community guidelines messaging, found in its original iteration here, to make our boundaries as a business clearer so that you, the creators, can make the content your souls crave without fear. We will share the updated resource with you all when those changes are finalized. 

 

Sam: Happy Twabsday, Guardians! Every single week you all make our lives so much brighter by submitting movies and art for us to go through. This week was another where we totally could have picked 4,000 winners, if we could, but honestly, I think out blog might crash if we hyperlinked than many posts. So, instead, you get these! 

 

Hippy: What does the title of this week’s AOTW section mean? Who knows! Moving on. This week’s art picks are a hodge-podge of creativity, clever meme-ness (that’s a word, don’t look it up), and continued tributes to the Vow of the Disciple raid boss with legs for days. Here is this week’s Art of the Week picks!

We’ve got more on the way but for now, thank you again for being the amazing community you are and sharing with us your struggles and your triumphs. You’re amazing and don’t let anyone make you feel differently. Until next time; stay fresh, be kind, and kick all the butt … in-game.   

“I should go,” 

<3 Hippy