Sony Just Leaked Destiny 2’s ‘The Final Shape’ Expansion Early
It is a disastrous morning for Bungie and the Destiny 2 community as next Tuesday’s mega-expansion, The Final Shape, has been
leaked early.
What precisely happened is still being worked out, but this appears to be an issue with Sony PS5 streaming, where the DLC was made available briefly through that service. It’s been nuked now, but an incredible amount of damage has already been done. (There are no spoilers in this article).
The leak allowed some players to start the campaign, but more pressingly, see loads of information in the collections system, leading to story spoilers circulating on the internet, which will no doubt soon include spamming of them in threads, stream chats, even in-game, as unfortunately that’s what always happens with this sort of thing.
In addition to the story spoilers, there are now raid mechanics that have been leaked early, casting a shadow on what would be the highest profile raid race in Destiny history, as if you do
not know those leaks, you would be at an immediate disadvantage over those who have seen them.
This is, without a doubt, one of the worst leaks and screw-ups I’ve ever seen, and it appears to be entirely Sony-based, as this is the only platform where this happened and it’s tied up in their streaming functionality. The exact technical nature of how this unfolded remains to be seen, but it’s an issue Sony must address immediately lest this happen elsewhere. There are other, as-of-yet unconfirmed reports that this may have also made Elden Ring’s Shadow of the Erdtree playable, but I have not seen confirmation of that like I have with the Final Shape leak.
It's hard to overstate just how devastating a leak like this is for Bungie, where so much hinges on the release of this expansion, the culmination of a ten year saga, and the leaks are not just leaks, they are spoilers for years-long plot threads.
The community seems to be rallying to clamp down on the spread of these leaks as much as possible, but the only real solution to this is to go completely dark online until Tuesday, as there are just too many avenues for this stuff to pop up. All it takes is one comment, one line of chat, to ruin a major plot point, and I’ve been here before with many different games. Stay online at all and it’s almost impossible to avoid, especially when a leak is this large. And there are plenty of people with vendettas against Bungie who are more than happy to spread stuff like this around maliciously.
It's awful. We need to know exactly what happened here, and how it can be avoided in the future. But for Destiny 2, it’s too late.
