The Biggest Scandals in Destiny History: A Retrospective

This video covers the most absurd scandals and drama that we've witnessed over the past 10 years in the Destiny community. From top players being banned, to problems caused by Bungie themselves, there has been no shortage of controversy in this community. You may have heard of some of these stories in the past, but this video puts them all together in one place, and provides updates on how the stories have developed over time.

Please note that certain topics were deliberately not included. These topics involve subject matter that did not fit within the scope of this video.

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Sections:
0:00 Intro
0:30 Stolen Art
1:51 Bungie Offends 25 Million People
3:17 Massive Wave of Wrongful Bans (Thousands of Players)
4:11 Destiny Content Vault, Sunsetting
7:05 Streamer Gets Caught Cheating While Live
9:25 Offensive Names During Bungie Livestream (Permabanned)
10:26 Cheaters, Cheaters, Cheaters
11:43 Root of Nightmares Worlds First Raid Race
12:47 Mass Layoffs
14:44 Lizard Squad
15:26 Dungeon Keys
16:02 Bungie in Turmoil
17:03 Dev Harassment
18:07 Deej's Big Mistake
18:44 Disrespect towards Lance Reddick
19:22 To Ban or Not to Ban
20:49 The Origins of Microtransactions in Destiny
21:35 Sony Leaks
23:00 Marathon and its Impacts on Destiny
23:45 The Red Subclass
24:10 Cheater Sued for $500,000
25:44 The introduction of Transmog
26:23 Content Creator Banned After Leaking Bungie Summit
29:17 The State of Destiny 2 in 2017
31:14 Forsaken Not Meeting Expectations
33:01 YouTuber Caught Cheating
35:39 The $500,000 Pizza
37:01 Reboots
37:47 XP Throttling Scam Fiasco
40:05 The Infamous Starter Pack
41:08 Sunsetting, Weapon Retirement, and its REVERSAL
41:55 Bungie Sues YouTuber for $7.6 Million
45:26 Wrongful Bans (Speedrunners, D2 Gunsmith, etc.)
47:56 G1

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[ShadowDestiny]

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[ashleejones]

“This is our final communication on the matter” is the most professional “Cry more” I’ve ever seen 😂

[ShadowDestiny]

"You forgot to mention XYZ".
No, we did not forget. Certain topics were deliberately excluded from the video if they were not strongly related or connected to Destiny. Just wanted to put this comment here to clarify this because I can already see a few comments asking about this. Thanks for watching!

[fanbuscuspie]

Stolen art has to be the biggest compliment. So good that they thought it was official

[Evilskyworshippers]

I luv how Baken quadrupled down and was too stupid to realize he admitted to PvP cheating "I only used PvE cheats...for the first time I cheated"

[AnatakGG]

War Thunder being the promoted as the alternative option to Destiny drama is hilarious considering the WT community has memes specifically for times when classified documents are leaked by players to win forum arguments

[Bidoof_is_best]

Remember, this is the same company that was talking about pay cuts and when asked if any of those pay cuts will apply to upper management, they were quoted saying "we're not that kind of company"

[AlcoholicFather]

Who needs to pay taxes when you can watch shadow destiny

[lorcanc]

As someone who was affected by the fake DMCA scandal talked about at 41:55, I wanted to add some more context here.

Bungie did issue a number of legit DMCA takedowns of music content on YouTube. Including against the perpetrator of the fake takedowns, one "Lord Nazo", who had uploaded extended loops of the official soundtrack releases. As in, he'd paid for the official soundtracks, and then reposted them to listen to for free. This is cut and dry piracy and Bungie are in their rights to remove that.

Nazo then started isssuing the fake DMCA takedowns as some kind of payback over losing his channel. The whole time he was spreading conspiracy theories about the original, legitimate takedowns being by a "malicious third party" to cover his tracks. He gaslit the shit out of everyone the whole time. He sat in a group chat with myself and other Music channels who archive tracks that either didn't make it onto the OST's or were from Vaulted activities and lied to all of us about this stuff, while issuing fake strikes against us and feigning ignorance.

I have zero sympathy for him. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

Bungie do deserve to get some flak though, because they were absolutely radio silent the entire time this was happening, and refused to help channels who were being hit by fake takedowns until big name channels were affected. Though shoutout to Cozmo and the unfortunately laid-off Liana Ruppert who were very helpful both to myself and others and actually passed our concerns up the chain as this was happening.

[바보Queen]

i dont get why bungie wont just let new players play the story from beginning to end... its ridiculous

[itsterres]

blud forgot the CEO buying a lotta cars to flex

he could've given em to his employees

[GhostRydr]

Content vaulting to me is one of the most egregious anti-consumer offenses they've committed. Not only did they take away content people paid for, but they also crippled the onboarding to the game by removing swaths of initial story content that would enable new players entrance into the narrative.

It's even more egregious now that we now know Bungie had so many resources away from their sole money-making ip that could've probably invested into the game's systems and MAYBE prevent that content removal from becoming a necessity.

[russdavis]

Good video. Lived through all of it and it was refreshing to see that the ugly wasn’t just forgotten but is relevant. Good job.

[SenorGermaine]

Im glad someone remembered lizard squad

[Mystic_Rogue]

absolutely love these videos, thanks for the good content, and have a good one shadow, keep up the amazing work.

[kaixgt]

perfect video to have in the background while i write my essays for school :ddd

[Corndog-]

Crazy how many of the scandals were during Lightfall.

[iamterra]

When the title says DARK, yet no BSK.

[VonBlanproductions]

Worth noting that they've un-sunset weapons now. And they did also bring some back via onslaught...

[D.K]

On the timeline to build factor, you should look into what happened at V.C. Summer nuclear station for units 2&3 that were in development around 2011.

The TL;DR: Corrupt contractors CEOs stole money and bankrupt the finishing of the additional 2 units for V.C. Summer. This left a sour taste in the mouths of the public (many who lost EVERYTHING literally overnight). This only hurts investor relationships, relationships that want to help/fund the building of more nuclear power sites in the USA.

-Former A.O.V. diagnostic technician and I/C tech. I have worked with many plant Operators/NEO's and engineers from all over the country.