Destiny 2 has been struggling with mounting error codes and regular server outages for months, frequently preventing players from playing the game at all on what feels like a weekly basis. Now, developer Bungie has finally addressed the state of the game's stability and what it's doing to fix it. Spoilers: it's good news and bad.
Let's start with the obvious question: why are the servers on fire? The main culprit, Bungie explains in its latest blog post, is a part of the infrastructure called Claims, which tracks moment-to-moment gameplay and therefore "handles a tremendous amount of volume, routing every single kill, orb, or unit of Glimmer in Destiny 2 to the correct recipient."
