Destiny 2 will become free later this year, cross-platform [Updated]

Shortly after Google's developer's presentation on Google's stadiums, the Destiny 2 Bungie Handlers have launched their own livestream whopper. While the broadcast revolved around the next pay extension of the game …Shadow guard, September 17 – it probably made more noise with a free ad and multi-platform.

Once Shadow guard will be available in September on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Windows 10 and Google Stadia, Destiny 2The basic version of the computer will become completely free to download, start and play on Bungie's live servers. The "New Light" version can be best described as "Destiny 2 Year One ", which includes content from the overworld and the campaign shot from the 2016 SKU and the first pair of paid expansions of the game, Warmind and Curse of Osiris.

From there, the rest of the current and future content of the game – that is to say complete expansion packs and "season" paid content – will be sold "à la carte" without requiring other purchases. "No existing content is required to access Shadow guard"A Bungie employee explained by explaining this retail model." All future extensions will be simple and a la carte. "(Employees also admitted that" the pre-purchase content was not as cool as it could be ", referring specifically to" seasonal "content before their content be announced.)

Bungie describes this version as "suitable for new players" because it drops players into Destiny 2The first chapter of the campaign before transferring them to a social center. The platform is where online gamers connect to the full range of content such as destinations, strikes, free trade areas and lost areas, as well as modes like Crucible and Gambit. Some fee-based content, especially basic "destination content," will unlock free readers over time. These will basically tease free players to pay for Abandoned and Shadow guard content like campaign missions and exotic quests.

In addition, if you have progressed on a supported medium Destiny 2 platform, you can transfer characters to other platforms. This includes the Sony PlayStation 4, a platform known for gating its content and its accounts behind restrictions "only on PS4". However, Bungie was more discreet about the exact functioning of this process of account and character transition. The picture above suggests the considerations to take into account when transferring characters and rights from one platform (what you paid) to another. Will an expansion pack purchase on PS4 be taken into account for PC? If I start a character on a non-extensible account, can I transfer it to a platform where I to have paid for this content? We will have to wait and see.

[[[[Update, 3:20 pm ET: After reviewing Bungie's "cross-backup" page, which went live shortly before the publication of this article, we wanted to clarify the cross-play claim of our original article. It seems like Destiny 2 players will always be limited in the platform of their choice for matchmaking and grouping with friends, as opposed to Windows 10 players joining groups with Stadia and PS4 players in the same case. As a result, we adjusted the original title, which was previously read as "fully multiplatform".]

In related news: Destiny 2 will no longer include "platform-exclusive" content. Wherever you buy the future extensions of the game and the season's packs of the game, you can expect to see the same hardware, the same missions, the same multiplayer levels, and so on.

A major change is also coming for Windows 10 players. By the end of this year, all of these Destiny 2 accounts will have a mandatory Blizzard Battle.net launcher merged with Valve Steam. Bungie compared this process to a moving service that comes to your home, picks up your belongings and furniture and installs them cleanly at your new location. We'll have to wait to see if Bungie makes the change of the PC launcher as smooth as it sounds.

Bungie was timid in explaining why these features (free-to-play, multiplatform) have not yet appeared in the game: "capital reasons". However, frequent references to the former publisher of the series in Activision (as well as reminders that Bungie had purchased this contract earlier this year) clearly indicated that Activision had been until now an important prevention factor.

For more on the sales pitch of Destiny 2: Guarding shadows, watch the video below, which details the return of the series on the Moon and the content of the paid campaign that it will include.

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