Destiny PlayStation 4 PS4 Share Play

Never trust the Internet. The embedded Destiny video may seem downright boring at first, but it comes to an epic conclusion – and carries a valuable lesson for us all. In it, a young PlayStation 4 player is merely having fun streaming Bungie's first-person shooter, when he's told by a group of fellow players that they can help glitch him to a higher level. Unsurprisingly, they don't.

The sequence of events that follow from about 13 minutes onwards are incredible, as the host starts a Share Play session, and allows his new "friends" to take control of his game. They then go on to delete two of his higher ranked Guardians, before switching to his current character and dismantling some of his better gear. The kicker is that he only sees the latter getting purged, and isn't immediately aware of the deletion of his heroes, too.

Honestly, the way things play out, we thought that this was staged, but you can't fake those long sobs towards the end of the clip. The developer's said that it can't restore characters, so two months of this kid's game time are now gone forever. We suppose the upshot is that his video's gone viral as a result – it's already had over 200,000 views.

[source reddit.com]