Big changes are coming to Destiny 2. With today's announcement of Destiny 2: Shadowkeep, developer Bungie has a new way to deliver content to its players. When the major expansion lands on on September 17th, the core game will go free-to-play, shifting to "expansion-level, standalone content" for Destinyveterans.
Details of the plot are scarce, but thanks to early leaks we know that Shadowkeep will require Guardians to return to the moon to "journey deep into a mysterious enemy citadel" and "become a slayer of nightmares." Bungie also says that it will feature the return of an old ally.
With the move to free-to-play, the core game will be called Destiny 2: New Lightand will feature all year one content, including "foundational modes, activities and rewards."
This represents a change for the Destiny franchise as it seeks to lure gamers away from popular free titles like Fortnite. Previously, players paid upfront for the game and bought big expansions to gain access to new raids, missions and in-game items, either separately or as an annual pass subscription. Now, the core game will stay free, while additional content will be made available in the form of paid "à la carte" offerings like Shadowkeep.
With a rocky start and declining engagement in the face of its more popular competitors, Destiny 2 has been struggling to win back players. It was made available through PS Plus and the base game was even given away for free on PC last year, although only for a short time. One issue the new update aims to address is the requirement for players to have bought older expansions in order to access newer content. That's no longer the case.
Following its split with Activision, Bungie has had to find a new store for its shooter. PC gamers will be pleased to note that Destiny 2 will soon be available on Steam, and can migrate their progress and purchases over for free.
>No Destiny 1 on PC >"Why don't PC gamers want to play Destiny 2"
Cause i don't know what the fuck is going on?
Charles Lopez
>he actually thinks they aren't going to add catchup mechanics and welfare gear for new players
Chase Perry
Going F2P on Steam is smart. D2 is going to get so much more exposure now.
Dylan Cook
This is actually smart as fuck. The question I have is what happens to my account if I want to play on steam vs blizzard launcher.
Nathaniel Barnes
>The question I have is what happens to my account if I want to play on steam vs blizzard launcher. You can transfer you shit.
Daniel Mitchell
more exposure for people to point out the shit gameplay
Mason Wilson
OP post cut out a bit of text to fit in, I guess. >The update will also bring more comprehensive cross-platform support to the game. A new cross-save feature allows players to access the same characters from their primary account on different platforms, though for now this is only for Xbox and PC, not PS4. In addition, Bungie says there will be no more platform-exclusive weapons, armor, maps or activities.
>If the idea of cloud gaming interests you, particularly Google's new Stadia service, Bungie has some good news. The game will also debut on Google's cloud gaming platform, which is due to launch in November. If you don't have access to a high-end PC, you'll be able to play Destiny 2 through Google Chrome.
Nolan Diaz
>game was free on PS+ >game was F2P for a limited time; if you played it during that time you could keep it forever >game is getting ported to Steam and is F2P forever, for everyone Alright Yea Forumsros, just how much fucking money is Bungie losing?
Joseph Perez
Is it fun?
Lincoln Smith
you'll get some cuck emblem on your account to show off that you wasted your money
>just how much fucking money is Bungie losing? They got a 100 million dollar investment from Netease. So we don't actually know how much are they losing.
Carson Young
so what all is free? base game or DLCs too?
Landon Cox
Play Halo it's a better game series except the new ones.
Eli Watson
>destiny 2 >high end PC
lol, runs on toasters
Aiden Morris
Raids and some other end game is, yes. But with buncha a friends and in small doses. If you play too much you will be way too tired of it, for few month. Also, raising power level can be pain in the ass.
Sebastian Kelly
shit game, I played it for a few hours when they gave it for free, just another looter shooter, I hate those
Tyler Gutierrez
>he fell for the Bungo scam The game was free on the Blizzard spyware last year.
>grindframe >quality The only good thing grindframe has are asses.
Ryder Bennett
imagine first spending $100 to buy the base game and the first two dlcs then another $50 to buy forsaken which fixes the mess they made with the $100 version you bought, and ON TOP of that put out another pass for $40 where they release a couple of new missions and weapons over a period of 1 year and when that 1 year is over they literally make the entire game which you just spent $200 on completely FREE
Brandon Myers
thanks for beta testing you faggot nigger.
Nathan Gutierrez
>waitfarm >literally created the best multiplayer economy where F2P players reap all the benefit from whales/cc warriors
If you wait for a single thing in warframe past your first few days playing, then you're simply bad and should put your helmet back on so you stop licking the monitor
James Watson
I request a respectable source for this, anthem was supposed to go f2p as well according to Yea Forums
Isaac Green
>game introduces you to the wait mechanics but gives you currency to skip it >forces you to wait to get weapons that you can actually afford at the start of the game >forces you to wait for the wing shit, shit you need to progress the story, with no ability to skip it without paying
>b-b-but u should play the ecnomy lmao! Thank you for admitting the gameplay is fucking garbage and you play it solely to slam screwdrivers up your nose and trade fucking ugly items with other fucking brainlets.
Easton Gray
>i play waitfarm for the economy
Easton Clark
>>
Zachary Watson
Also having thousands of plat in game doesn't matter when you can't buy the best cosmetics with it.
Cameron Gonzalez
Year 1 is pre-Forsaken aka shit nobody has thought even when they were released.
>base game who even cares anymore at this point? everyone with a slightest interest at the game would've acquired the base game for free a couple of months ago anyway
Blake Perry
I thought they already gave the game away on battlenet back then?
Aaron Barnes
I mean its not a big deal. Kinda bad timing but whatever I wanted to play it and i didnt previously own it.
Austin Peterson
>PC gamers will be pleased to note that Destiny 2 will soon be available on Steam, and can migrate their progress and purchases over for free.
FUCKING BASED
Parker Thomas
What exactly did you buy though?
Nathan Hill
I thought it was free to pay already???
Elijah Perry
The 60 dollar pack with all the expansions
Angel Sullivan
>PC gamers will be pleased to note that Destiny 2 will soon be available on Steam, and can migrate their progress and purchases over for free. Finally I can uninstall Battlenet.
It's base game+year 1 DLC
Dylan Myers
that's destiny 1 I think
Anthony Hernandez
i guess Forsaken will be free when shadowkeep comes out
Brody Cook
I uninstalled the game within 5 minutes. You are asked to make a Class selection with literally 0 information.
Alexander Nelson
>taking the warframe memes this seriously Gg Bungie. At best you’ll get some dumbass emblem/logo/item to show just how supportive you are :^) t. I play CSGO
Nathaniel Reyes
Only for 3 days. It also required you to set up 2 factor auth if you created an account during that time. So a lot of people didn't bother with that shit.
Benjamin Evans
>titan >hunter >warlock
>hp/dps >mobility/dps >magic/dps
Its almost like you can guess what they do based on their archetypes
Matthew Bailey
Dinklage is coming back?
Austin Torres
The game is SHIT. It's not worth a literal 100+gb download.
Evan Scott
>hp ok >mobility ok >magic ????
William Wilson
you could just watch a youtube video
Jason Jones
The gameplay is fun though
Asher Myers
I wouldnt really say you brought them, then. You brought Forsaken and got the rest for free. When Forsaken launched you actually had to pay more for the deluxe edition (not the one in the OP in relation to the annual pass) if you didnt own CoO or Warmind
So either way big expansions cost? Fuck yourselves if true. Warframes big content drops are free, same with Path of Exile. Why would I bother with this game going f2p if major releases are going to cost me anyway?
Gavin Perry
It was a lot more than 3 days. I had a ton of friends who had bo desire to ever touch the game pick it up for free and then put it down a week or two after they noticed the game was not what it was cracked up to be.
Julian Ortiz
not if you have the attention span of 5 minutes apparently
Carson Ortiz
cus it's not shit 4 poorfags
Jace Moore
That seems to be the case. People buy the game expecting COD and then they never even hear that there is endgame content, which at this point blows anything WaitFarm has to offer desu.
t. 300+ hours in both games
Jaxon Ortiz
At least you didn't buy a game only for it to go f2p shortly before dying.
I like dinklage for his voice much more than the tasteless piece of cardboard that nolan north is, but his performance was weak, disinterested, almost as if the sound director was afraid to give instructions to a game of thrones star...
Jackson Clark
I have literally run out of things to do in D2 besides login for my Xur Exotic
Dominic Cook
D2 raids are shit though. If I want to play a puzzle game I'd play a puzzle game, if I pop in a sci-fi/fantasy shooting game I want to shoot monsters. VoG had a nice balance between regular Destiny gameplay and other stuff but everything I've seen from D2 has been 90% Simon Says, 10% something resembling a shooter. I don't give a fuck what kind of bird is tattooed in Space Satan's asshole and I don't care how that influences what color of floor tile I need to do the hokey pokey on.
Got it, installed it, never played, uninstalled when realizing that not even free is good enough for what even people that like it can sell as a good and worthwhile game in their videos. When they get beaten with a metaphorical stick for years and still come back every time, is that not very doggish?
That game was actually pretty damn fun too, shame it died.
Ethan Fisher
I hope whatever you bought for your last meal was worth it, you're fucking dead kiddo. You've brought a world of hurt onto yourself and you have nobody to blame but your shitty fucking attitude.
See you soon.
Carter Gutierrez
>3 character slots >3 classes
Just fucking use one, if you don't like it, play another. Do you bitch about classes in RPG's as well because they don't give you all the spells at level 1?
>Game goes F2P on PC. >Gets instantly filled with hackers from China/Russia. >Multiplayer PVP becomes unplayable unless you're hacking too.
U-us PC Master-race, r-right guys?
Jordan Thompson
as far as i can remember it was just a CoD clone but it was pretty fun
Gabriel Gonzalez
Why do people always say this dumb shit?
>Buy product at full price at launch >Many years down the line the product goes on sale or free >UH BUT I PAID FULL PRICE WHY DONT I GET A MEDAL? HOW COME THEY PAY LESS FOR A PRODUCT THAT IS NO LONGER NEW?
Thomas Gonzalez
Bungie hopes you continue to buy Destiny over and over again. Destiny 3 will hit the b.net store in a few months after all!
hp = more health = endure attacks mobility = better movement = evasion / relocation magic = become harry potter it's vague as fuck especially in gameplay mechanics terms
>Gets instantly filled with hackers from China/Russia. The game is fort knox, chinks and commies arent going to be able to do shit. Same with Overwatch, its just retards using Auto-Hotkey """PixelBots"""" that are slow as fuck and break constantly.
Cooper Foster
AFAIK there are more players on D2 across all platforms than Warframe and it's always been that way.
Lucas Rivera
>destiny 2 fans >suddenly brings up Warframe for no reason like clockwork
>wasting money on Destiny 2 when everything pre-release pointed to it being shit Why?
It's a little bizarre to me that the guy who made the best "mission" of Destiny managed to fuck everything up so bad the second he was put in charge of anything else. Maybe he's a George Lucas type and he needs other people to filter his ideas? Regardless, it's strange.
Alexander Phillips
even with year 1 it's still literally nothing not even forsaken dlc
Hudson Lopez
>Warframe inferiority complex every time
Colton Ross
scrolls up and read the thread
Chase Butler
Make me
Easton Turner
It was worth the $15. Hard to believe the FEAR devs made it.
Asher Parker
*makes you scroll up and read the thread*
Caleb Garcia
SoS, LW and now CoS are turning out to be the best raids in the game's history, they are easily some of the most fun I've had with my clan mates. They are comparable to KF and WotM. It's unfortunate you have to fall back to gaslighting in order to justify your arguments when you obviously have no idea what you're talking about.
Angel Barnes
!
Zachary Brooks
What do you want them to do? Just let the game die out and all their money dry up just so they don't hurt your feelings?
Camden Bailey
HAHAHAHAAHHAHAHHAA
Ian Wright
you faggots get to spam eververse emotes at new players to show how loyal you really are
Austin Morgan
You fool. I was in other thread, looking at vidya boobs
Bentley Roberts
>waitframe babs shit up the thread >someone says wf is doing worse than d2 >LMAO INSECURE DESTINYBABS Every time and, you never have any other rebuttal.
Landon Myers
**makes you scroll up and read this thread*
Levi Baker
I don't even play warframe faggot, but it's always funny that every thread ends up with a "no u" kiddie fight with them
Carter Richardson
I'm sure you'll get some sort of dick suck emblem for it
Oliver Bennett
>f2p they would've to pay me to even touch that piece of shit of a game
This looks fake as fuck but I also always thought Destiny would fit more in a F2P environment, or even $20 release, than a $60+ full release. Especially with how much they put it on sale and give it out for free I wonder why it wasn't F2P out the gate.
>B-B-BUT WHAT ABOUT SMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
God I hate people like you fuck yourself
Hunter Rodriguez
>mmo with no endgame yikes, I guess for runescape nerds that think grinding is the only gameplay you need it's alright
Tyler Evans
Well I was annoyed at the nerfs and no new content And the newest season started and i forgot But thats probably the end of me caring about this game Theyr gonna go full pay to win
Owen Perez
Im quite happy with this. I dont regret spending the money I did spend on the game. I had great fun with it. Im happy that now, I can enjoy it with even more people. Also, now I can play on PC and Ps4.
you gained the experience so don't fuck it up next time, same thing for me and black ops 4
Bentley Turner
>Especially with how much they put it on sale and give it out for free I wonder why it wasn't F2P out the gate. Activision. Now they're free to do their own pricing and content release schedule.
Leo Powell
Year one is vanilla + CoO + warmind Welcome to playing a shitty 2 year old version of the game I guess
Jack Jenkins
>"big" content drops Poorfags have no standards
Owen Lee
Man, console babies used to hype destiny so much when it was not on PC. Now we figure out that it's shit.
I've hated just about every update they've made honestly.
Sebastian Reed
Why did D2 tank? Did it get worse than 1? Or is it just the same as 1 but the competition is better now?
Henry Hughes
it went for casuals and balanced pvp,so all the power and fun of bullshit items went away
Luis Perry
it going free means it must be shit somehow and probably not selling meaning i'm not touching it
Henry Evans
it's just year one content,why would letting people try out the game for free mean it's shit?
Xavier Watson
Ah, the sandpaper approach. Have seen many games become "balanced" unfun shitshows that way.
Jaxson Evans
They already gave away the game for free last Blizzcon.
Sebastian Long
Questionable design choices behind the weapons and classes. Forsaken unfucked and improved the weapon loadout system, but the classes still need to be able to swap nodes between the different clusters.
Andrew Young
at least they learned their lesson and did a 180
Xavier Miller
So as somebody who has never touched destiny, is it something similar to Borderlands?
Dominic Hernandez
>f2p
aka p2w
Christian Taylor
i've bought vanilla+y1 dlc+forsaken+annual pass and i'm not mad either
Liam Russell
What does that mean, annual pass? I thought it was a buy to play game.
that means if they happen to release some minor shit DLC before 2019 ends, you'll get it.
When i got destiny 1 the super special fuckoff DLC pass got me 1 minor content pack and 1 expansion and everything of note came out the following year as "season 2" of DLC
never again.
Carson Kelly
in that it's a shooter with loot,classes and abilities otherwise it's a mmo-lite with dungeons,raids,quests and match pvp/pve
I think all that Warframe shilling close it's launch also lured lots of customers away.
Kevin James
not worth my NVME space
Jeremiah Cruz
Honestly, sounds nice for casuals (which I became due to time reasons over the years).
Sounds like a rip-off. Let's see how it's going to work out.
Robert Martinez
it's like 30$ for 9 months/3 seasons of dlc
Cameron Williams
It's like a bad and boring borderlands with pvp battlegrounds. It has some nice graphics tho
Matthew Long
even people who bought csgo got upgraded to prime aka somewhat less cheater infested
dont think theres such a draw for destiny
Jordan Roberts
well this is certainly interesting however it makes me very sad to see videogames devolving to the brainlets that play them now.
i hate to say it destiny developers but these games are actually hard games. and basically todays market is aimed at people who have little skill. its sad but true
Sebastian Mitchell
>didn't like Destiny 2 base
>Didn't like expansions >Loved foraken >Didn't like the annual pass >Another forsaken expansion us coming soon
if you find the free content enjoyable then you'll want to get the expac which is 40 and maybe it'll go on sale
Jordan Morgan
I don't get it. I played it when it was free already. What do I get get for being on bnet?
Brayden Butler
>bought the first one >some raids were enjoyable but outside of that it felt like a huge scam >bought the second one >got straight up scammed again I hate Bungie. I made my own retarded choices but fuck Bungie.
Lincoln Sullivan
So you felt scammed and rewarded them by buying the sequel? You're the reason this industry is in the shitter
Caleb Powell
Where is the source for any of this?
Luis Young
So its F2P but not really cause you have to buy expansion content?
Matthew Clark
WARFRAME ON SUICIDE WATCH
Isaac Fisher
bungie just announced "new light" on their stream
Lincoln Ross
It’s al-a-carte or something. They said every expansion is stand alone but you access all other activities through the “free” base version of the game
And of course they said nothing about how existing players would be rewarded for buying the base game if everyone now gets it for free.
