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Destiny 1 Players Say Their Accounts Have Been Deleted, With All Characters And A Decade Of Progress Suddenly Gone [UPDATE]
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Key Points:
- After a scheduled maintenance on December 10, Destiny 1 players reported their accounts and characters disappeared, with the game treating profiles like new accounts and third-party tools showing no prior progress.
- The maintenance window lasted from 10 am to around 2 pm PST, during which Destiny 1 was offline while Destiny 2 only underwent background work; the issue surfaced immediately after Destiny 1 servers came back online.
- Numerous players shared experiences on Reddit and Bungie forums describing lost characters, missing account data, and error messages directing them to character creation screens instead of their original profiles.
- Bungie has acknowledged the problem by taking Destiny 1 servers offline again for emergency maintenance but has yet to issue a direct public statement about the deleted
