In Destiny a conspiracy theory is circulating. Has a mysterious stranger leaked the next release date?
Crazy story: 17 minutes after the update was available on Tuesday evening, a user on reddit already found the new dead ghost. Players scratched their heads: How is that possible? 17 minutes, you download the patch, run off, find the ghost, make a post here – that can’t be right. You must have known about it beforehand.
Especially strange: The user who showed the new ghost on reddit was named “Rezyl Azzir” – and that is the name of the Destiny character related to the Grimoire card that was stuck to the ghost.
Something was up. It must have been a Bungie employee or someone who already knew the ghost. Something was definitely off. A little later, the user, Rezyl Azzir, disappeared; his reddit account was deleted.
The Twentieth Day of the Ninth Month – Will the next Destiny expansion come then?
A day later, another redditor reported that “Rezyl Azzir” had made another post before his account was deleted. In Latin: “Vegisimia die mensis noni. ILLUD est venturus. Per Audacia ad astra.”
Translated, that means: “The twentieth day of the ninth month. IT will come. Through bravery to the stars.”
With a bit of imagination, one can see the 20.9., the 20th of September 2016, as a very plausible date for the fall expansion of Destiny. The “Through bravery to the stars” is a slogan that Bungie has used at times in the past.
Mein MMO says: The most logical explanation is that a Bungie employee had some fun leaking a date in such a complex way, which has little relevance for us now. Because from mid-September, everyone was basically expecting it, and most likely, it will be that or a similar date at E3 in June anyway.
What’s behind this?
There are basically 3 possibilities:
- It’s a Bungie employee with a tendency to be a nerd and joker – such people are likely to be plentiful at Bungie. The employee amused himself without the studio’s knowledge. Perhaps someone in the extended circle, a QA tester early in his career.
- Or it’s a Bungie employee who is doing this with the studio’s knowledge because they simply find it funny. It raises the question of whether the fun police at Activision see it the same way, but that’s not what this is about.
- Or it is really an outsider who prepared well in advance, maybe overheard something or had a vague idea and let something slip – but that would be a long shot.
In any case, a nice story! And like many stories before it, it helps to make the mystery of Destiny a bit more mysterious.
