Bungie bans player after social media outrage.
People on Twitter are angry. Over what? Some stuff. This last week marked the return of the Vault of Glass, a raid pulled from the Destiny archives and served up on a silver platter. As is tradition with new Destiny raids, players competed heavily to obtain that juicy world’s first completion achievement.
And as often happens when something on the internet becomes a spectacle, someone had to make it racist. The second team to beat the Vault of Glass raid found one of its players banned thanks to their tasteless username. The player used the title “#blacklivesdontmatter” and their team managed to complete the Vault of Glass within two and a half hours of its release.
Bungie community manager Dylan Gafner confirmed the player’s impending ban.
This breaks our Code of Conduct. The player in question will be banned.
Please make sure to report any names like this at the platform level, too.
— dmg04 (@A_dmg04) May 22, 2021
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The lesson here? If you’re going to be an inflammatory racist, try not to put yourself in a position of wide public exposure. Or do, I’m a writer not a cop.
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