Update: On January 18, Bungie responded to fears involving mysterious character deletions with the following statement:

“Maintaining your characters and progress is our top priority. After kicking off a deep dive investigation of a very low number of reports of missing characters out of an abundance of caution, we are confident that no characters or progress were incorrectly lost by our systems.”

Therefore, reports that characters are mysteriously disappearing are likely fabricated.

Original story:

Destiny 2 characters are mysteriously getting deleted, according to a series of recent reports on Reddit. Over the past few weeks, several players have reported they suddenly found themelves without access to specific Destiny 2 characters. Some of these players had spent significant time developing these online Guardian personas. The looming threat of a sudden character deletion is quickly becoming a significant blight on the popular FPS game.

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