If you logged onto Destiny at some point and saw that you couldn't play the game or got some kind of error message, don't worry—it's not on your end, and it certainly won't last forever. Since Destiny 2 is a live-service game that continually brings new content to its community, it's normal for it to need some patches and server maintenance.
So for all those nervous Guardians out there, the reason for the downtime is the launch of The Witch Queen. This is the game's sixth expansion, and fans have long awaited this release. Since it is such a big update to the game, Bungie needed to take the Servers offline for an extended period of time.
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If you were trying to log on and couldn't or you were kicked out of a lobby mid-match, this was the reason. Bungie announced that the servers would be taken offline at 7pm PT / 10pm ET on Feb. 21, 2022, and remain down until 9am PT / 12pm ET on Feb. 22, 2022. Players can also expect queue times when logging into the game after servers have been brought back online, due to the high number of players trying to get in all at once.
In addition to this big chunk of downtime, players can expect the servers to be offline briefly in the near future, as tons of new content is bound to bring tons of bugs. We recommend players keep an eye on the Bungie Help website to keep track of any scheduled maintenance or server outages.
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