"But that hasn't stopped players from having a field day with the mere idea that Bungie wanted so desperately to enroll new players in its sci-fi loot shooter that it was forcibly installing Destiny 2 on people's computers like a cracked rom site virus. " Marathon used so many Destiny 2 assets that it automatically downloaded the game when people pre-ordered Marathon," joked one person. " Marathon comes with malware," joked another."
"While Bungie didn't explain why this happened, it probably has something to do with the pre-order bonuses. Buying Marathon ahead of its March 5 launch date gives players free cosmetics for Destiny 2. Maybe a bug in the files was making it so the loot shooter would auto-download in order to register those rewards. Whatever the reason, it's fixed now. Destiny 2, on the other hand, still not great."
Pre-ordering Marathon on Steam briefly caused Destiny 2 to begin installing on some players' hard drives because of a backend issue. Bungie resolved the unwanted Destiny 2 installations and fixed an error preventing Collector's Edition owners from activating their game code on Steam. The Marathon pre-order includes free cosmetics for Destiny 2, and the bug likely related to cross-game reward registration that prompted an automatic download. Players responded with jokes about forced installations and asset reuse. Marathon's March 5 launch remains scheduled, and the installation and activation problems are now fixed.
Read at Kotaku
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]