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Destiny 2 is being renamed & going free-to-play, eliminating PS4 exclusive content, getting cross-save, moving from Battle.net to Steam
- Thread starter Lukar
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Pretty cool, kind of shitty that PS4 doesn't have cross saves, Sony seriously needs to get over this not participating in cross save/play shit at this point. Regardless my time with Destiny as a franchise is over and I'm never going back but this is a good move by Bungie for sure.
Thanks. Now I might try the game. Being a while since I played Destiny.
Surprisingly not. From what I can gather, the Sony deal was strictly an Activision thing and was set to expire this Fall anyway.
Oh brother.
We paid for the game and got great value out of it. This isn't hurting us.
So this means Microsoft can run advertisement for it finally and won't have to rely on sneaky but humourous stuff like this anymore? Shackles have been broken
There isn't one piece of gaming media that you can't get cheaper further down the line than people who paid full price at first. Even online games do it eventually. I don't complain when people buy games for 1$ 5 years after i buy it for 50-60$
While it sucks, I think this is the reason why PS4 is not included.
Note that this says no more content will be made exclusive. This seemingly doesn't include previous content, only new content going forward. So they won't let PS4 use the cross-save system because they don't want someone on PC/Xbox to go to PS4, get that exclusive gear/guns, and then go back to PC/Xbox.
So it's likely the deal with Sony is still in effect in some way.
Note that this says no more content will be made exclusive. This seemingly doesn't include previous content, only new content going forward. So they won't let PS4 use the cross-save system because they don't want someone on PC/Xbox to go to PS4, get that exclusive gear/guns, and then go back to PC/Xbox.
So it's likely the deal with Sony is still in effect in some way.
I see Sony are still in their "beta".
Might give this a go through stadia streaming eventually.
Might give this a go through stadia streaming eventually.
This is huge news. Loved the first one but hated what they did with the expansions locking out the base game. Ill definately try 2 now when it goes free to play.
I wish this wasn't leaked because it seems pretty exciting.
While I do feel bad for those that do use Blizzard Launcher but not Steam, I'm personally excited for it to come to Steam because it's hard for me to round up people to play the game. Maybe it's a generational thing, but all of my friends and family that game on PC use Steam as their social hub rather than Discord or something similar. But yeah, I'm terrified something similar will happen with Rocket League where Epic just yanks it off Steam for the EGS in which case I and everyone I know will just cease to play it forever.
So, about the monetization structure, because I'm super early on in my D2 run, can you buy progress or just cosmetics with money?
While I do feel bad for those that do use Blizzard Launcher but not Steam, I'm personally excited for it to come to Steam because it's hard for me to round up people to play the game. Maybe it's a generational thing, but all of my friends and family that game on PC use Steam as their social hub rather than Discord or something similar. But yeah, I'm terrified something similar will happen with Rocket League where Epic just yanks it off Steam for the EGS in which case I and everyone I know will just cease to play it forever.
So, about the monetization structure, because I'm super early on in my D2 run, can you buy progress or just cosmetics with money?
Developer: Can we have cross-play, cross-save and all that other great stuff?
Sony: Heads for yes, tails for no *FLIPS COIN*
In September (or maybe sometime before that) all the Sony exclusives expire anyway. This is just about Sony being petty. Too bad they aren't at E3 for people to grill them over it.
Sure, but outside some cosmetic skins in Fortnite, there is no exclusive content.
What people are misunderstanding from the article is that the previous PS4 exclusive content isn't being made for everyone. Meaning, those weapons and gear are still exclusive. This likely prevents a PS4 user from going to PC and Xbox with those exclusive stuff. Same with a PC/Xbox user going to PS4 temporarily to get that gear and then jump back.
If this move to F2P happens before September, then this could be only a temporary thing.
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The way the PlayStation-exclusive stuff has worked in the past is that it becomes available for other platforms after roughly a year (though I think it took longer for the Taken King content in the first game). By the time all of this happens, it should be available to other players.
So have people started crying for some sort of "ambassador program" yet and about how it's so unfair to the people who bought the game?
I'm sure they have.
I'm sure they have.
The exclusive gear stops being exclusive in September when this expansion launches and the game goes free to play with the cross save stuff.
It's Sony being Sony
After kicking and screaming for awhile, they did.
That was particularly shitty because your couldn't unlink your ps4 account at all so everything was locked to the platform. But I'm in the same situation here, again, where I played Destiny 2 on PS4 and would want to move the save elsewhere.
All this does is make me never want to tie an account to a sony product in the future. Solid work there.
I wonder how they will address no cross save on PS4? Look at the camera and have them tell gamers to tweet Sony?
If they could allow crossplay with COD they can allow cross save with this
If they could allow crossplay with COD they can allow cross save with this
It's pretty early and we are getting hot takes like this zzzzzzz
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Pretty much where I'm at. I got my money's worth out of it and then some, and if this gets more of my friends to play Destiny, I'm not going to complain.
No, the current exclusive content (1 strike, 1 pvp map and 1 weapon) will be available to Xbox and PC players in September, after that there will be no exclusives.
