Destiny 2 makes it look like experience requirements for engrams had increased, Bungie apologizes

Let’s just start with the good news here: Destiny 2 actually didn’t screw over players by pretending it had reduced experience gains while actually increasing requirements this time! That’s what appeared to have happened, and that’s what players were initially up in arms about; it looked at a glance like the XP requirements for Bright Engrams had gone up to 240,000 instead of being reduced to 120,000. But it turns out that this was an error with the API and one that was relatively quickly fixed.

The official response also contains an apology for the display issue and an admission that really, no one could be blamed for assuming that Bungie secretly increased requirements while claiming otherwise.

Fully understand the frustration here – After XP throttles and other issues over the holiday, we have ground to make up. Issues like this cannot continue to happen if we wish to earn player trust, and improve player sentiment.

So the good news is that the bad thing didn’t actually happen. You could argue that we shouldn’t have been at the point where the worst possible outcome was this plausible, of course… but here we are.