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Bungie apologises for unintentionally including Nazi slogan in Destiny 2

The developer will remove the reference in an upcoming patch.

www.pcgamer.com

Bungie has issued an apology to fans, after it was discovered one of Destiny 2's latest weekly challenges shared its name with an infamous Nazi slogan.

As reported by Kotaku, a Season of the Chosen weekly challenge raised eyebrows in the game's community. The latest season focuses on the warlike Cabal, meaning there's plenty of stoic, warrior language surrounding the game's challenges and events—though some fans felt one example skewed disconcertingly close to real-world fascism.

Complete eight war table bounties, and Destiny 2 will reward you with an powerful engram for completing the challenge "Blood And Honour"—a title that also happens to be the English translation of one of the slogans used by Nazi Germany's Hitler Youth, "Blut und Ehre".

While this was very likely a case of a developer simply missing the connotation, its placement alongside an event named "Battlegrounds: Cleansing"—in which you loot chests using Cabal Gold—only raised further alarm bells for some players. Bungie has since apologised in a statement to Kotaku, pledging to remove the terminology in an update.

"Any connection to anti-Semitism in Destiny is completely unintentional. Bungie is emphatically committed to inclusion and human rights, and will never stand for anti-Semitism. We are already preparing fixes in an upcoming patch. We apologize to all of our players that were hurt by the references, and we are grateful to our community for bringing their concerns to our attention."

 

[AnotherOne]

 

[Majmun]

The slogan alone is harmless, but in combination with that event?

Yeah, I would understand the commotion....

 

[SSfox]

All those politics and dramas are getting so tiresome, Can devs just go back on making games and players go back on playing games.

 

[Orta]

Apologies aren't enough. Fire all the staff and cancel Bungie, cancel them now! This is racist and sexist and homophobic and transphobic and erm, phobicphobic, etc, etc....

 

[Revolutionary]

I guess it's time for Bungie to formulate another diversity committee: Jewish @ Bungie

 

[N0S]

You cant make this shit up.

 

[Skifi28]

Soon we won't be able to have bad guys in games at all. Just good guys jerking each other off. We need motion controls again.

 

[deriks]

 

[ManaByte]

Of course it was Kotaku.

 

[mortal]

 

[LordCBH]

What a waste of resources. And who the hell is the useless sad sack who went “hey nazis used that in German 80 years ago!”

 

[worldwithpyramids]

lol

we've become a society that doesn't care about context or intent at all. it's fucking pathetic.

 

[The_Mike]

Apologies aren't enough. Fire all the staff and cancel Bungie, cancel them now! This is racist and sexist and homophobic and transphobic and erm, phobicphobic, etc, etc....

We need public executions of those behind it, and even that is not enough.

 

[GymWolf]

The bungie that keep on jumping.

 

[Portugeezer]

its placement alongside an event named "Battlegrounds: Cleansing"

Anyway, just a mistake, most people like the developers probably didn't even know.

 

[MiguelItUp]

Anyway, just a mistake, most people like the developers probably didn't even know.

Exactly. They're creating a game. When people do so they don't go through an encyclopedia of material that could offend people to make sure they won't. This to me feels like a stretch, and I can totally understand the honest mistake.

 

[Self]

Kotaku provides the real meaningful stories - as expected. Thank you guys/gurls.

 

[BusierDonkey]

A company could make a game completely devoid of any recognizable imagery and some dipshit bleeding heart would still manage to find something that may potentially resemble something that may have been offensive to someone.

The problem is people give these losers attention which makes them feel vindicated in their quest to ruin everyone else's day.

 

[Gandih42]

Blood and Honor is such a generic statement, it seems a bit silly to me that this would make people think of a nazi slogan. Although in the context of the event name, it's almost seems like an inappropriate joke.

I would still say that I feel like whomever is reacting to this is reading a little too much into it but either way, very non news.

 

[harmny]

Change it to strength and honor. Gladiator is not offensive... Yet

 

[Blue Spring]

How did people even notice this? Are they experts in Nazi slogans or what?

 

[HerjansEagleFeeder]

Honestly wondering when it will be okay again to use the two very common words in conjunction with each other.

 

[Skifi28]

How did people even notice this? Are they experts in Nazi slogans or what?

That is the scary part.

 

[DeepEnigma]

How did people even notice this? Are they experts in Nazi slogans or what?

 

[Torrent of Pork]

Mel Brooks had this shit pegged half a century ago when he made the Nazis a mockery instead of a boogeyman.

 

[xrnzaaas]

I imagine 5-10 years from now you'll be forbidden from saying "You're fired" because Trump used to say that.

 

[Hendrick's]

I wonder more and more if all of these so called offensive things actually offend anyone at all. Or is it that these people just enjoy the power their "outrage" mob gives them.

 

[UnNamed]

At this point, the problem is no longer the idiots who are offended for everything, the problem are the ones who pay attention to them instead of replying shut up you idiots.

 

[John Bilbo]

THANK YOU! I've been waiting for this ALL WEEK!!

Spoiler

/s

 

[Self]

How did people even notice this? Are they experts in Nazi slogans or what?

I presume they have some sort of 'inpropiate content search algorithms' working all day long to save humanity form the most serious problems.

 

[JeremyEtcetera]

All those politics and dramas are getting so tiresome, Can devs just go back on making games and players go back on playing games.

You would have to un-create the internet, forums, and social media or stop using them entirely. I certainly would not have known about this issue nor change without all 3.

 

[DeepEnigma]

You would have to un-create the internet, forums, and social media or stop using them entirely. I certainly would not have known about this issue nor change without all 3.

 

[Cyberpunkd]

I will be honest, before clicking this thread I thought it would be a variation on ‘Arbeit macht frei’. I can see how ‘Blood and Honour’ can be an honest mistake, since even when learning about history in Eastern Europe I never heard about this slogan.

 

[Concern]

More self victimization yesssss

 

[Gold_Loot]

The hoops some people jump through to try to find something-ANYTHING, offensive blows my mind.

 

[DeepEnigma]

The hoops some people jump through to try to find something-ANYTHING, offensive blows my mind.

The height of first world privileged, innit.

 

[jaysius]

Jesus if we have to filter ourselves to avoiding phrases and words that pieces of shit through history said, our vernacular will greatly decrease.

 

[Entroyp]

Don’t apologize Bungie. Own it and wear it like a badge of honor.

 

[DeepEnigma]

Jesus if we have to filter ourselves to avoiding phrases and words that pieces of shit through history said, our vernacular will greatly decrease.

That's the point. Controlling language.

Ironic to say the least.

 

[Spukc]

fuck those nazi bastards!

they better call their next game..

Destiny the third reich.

brb going to twitter to cry

 

[Hugare]

Thank God they apologized

My 98 years old grandpa that plays Destiny 2 regularly started screaming out of a sudden and having PTSDs due to this shit. Irresponsible on Bungie's part.

 

[AeonGaidenRaiden]

If it was in GERMAN, as spoken by the man himself id get it. But now we are banning english translation that maybe didn't even have the original context.

 

[MiguelItUp]

How did people even notice this? Are they experts in Nazi slogans or what?

Exactly! Wonderful point.

Every time something like this happens I ask myself that exact question. Because, I'd like to think I'm very familiar with what is "offensive", or even potentially so, and not. I mean, I was a community manager for a number of years. Gotta have some kind of grasp on it.

A lot of the stuff like this just makes me go, "Huh? Really? Wtf?" Especially when at 36 years old, I've never even heard of or known about these things, lol. Guess I'm blissfully ignorant? Thank god. Sometimes I feel bad for these people that can't stop being offended at spilt milk or things that just don't exist.

 

[DeepEnigma]

You're next, Magnum P.I.

"Magnum, P.I." Blood and Honor (TV Episode 1985) ⭐ 8.0 | Action, Adventure, Crime

48m | Not Rated

www.imdb.com

 

[recursive]

How did people even notice this? Are they experts in Nazi slogans or what?

There are legions of idiots looking for things to complain about.

 

[Godzilla Emu]

Spoiler: Kotaku/Polygon complain about nothing because their lives are so luxuriant, they're angry that they have nothing more important to complain about. Something something victimhood, <insert> imagined racism/sexism.

 

[ÆMNE22A!C]

At last i can sleep.. BASED BUNGIE

 

[ethomaz]

Sorry.

But where?

Edit - Ohhhh it is the title... I was trying to find the swastika.

 

[T8SC]

So what can we get offended by tomorrow?