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Destiny 2 is set for a September 8 release date and this time around it’s coming to PC, but a couple of tweets from Geoff Keighley have got people’s hackles up about the PC release.

 



     


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I'm personally not even interested in picking it up for PC after not being able to get the first one.
I don't exactly feel like missing out on any story elements.



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Bristow9091 said:
Honestly, I wouldn't feel right playing it on PC anyway... I know FPS games are seen as better played on PC, but for a game like Destiny, I think the best experience would come from playing on my PS4, although that's mostly to do with me playing the first on PS4, and with it having exclusive content, lol.

Plus most of the community will be there and all the exclusive content deals. 



Bristow9091 said:
Kerotan said:

Plus most of the community will be there and all the exclusive content deals. 

I did mention exclusive content lol... and yeah, I think it's safe to say PS4 will have the bigger userbase, followed by XBO and then PC, that seems to be the trend with most FPS games this gen too, and a big userbase is always a good thing, especially when we're now gonna' have matchmaking for raids, halle-fucking-lujah! One of the best decisions they're making for the sequel in my opinion... although not a fan of them getting rid of 6v6 Crucible matches, they were my favourite!

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Pemalite said:
I'm personally not even interested in picking it up for PC after not being able to get the first one.
I don't exactly feel like missing out on any story elements.

The thing that irks me the wrong way, is that they expect PC players to have played the first one on consoles. Most other games out there that never touched PC, but eventually did, have had their first few games released on the platform, thus saving you having to go back to a console to play the first few games. Consoles have this happen on their end as well, but suddenly with Destiny 1, it's not going to happen with PC, so it's either I buy a console just to join a very late MMO experience in roder to gain knowledge of the story/worlds, or I spend a whole day reading the wikia page, either of which aren't my cup of tea which leaves me with zero options.

I feel like they are approaching this in a half baked way. I'd rather they toss over the first game as well, that way the community can actually form properly, rather than the community being a clear and obvious mix of those that played it on consoles and those that never played it at all and just winging it (which can be just as likely to pull out of the game entirely and become the ill fated WoW level loss of subs).


Also limiting the second game to Battle.net wasn't the smartest idea. I know full well that Blizzard has been around before Valve, but the thing is, Valve has a ton more users on their client, that also happen to use Battle.net, only Steam has more than Battle.net in general (before anyway states differently, rememebr that if they truly were bigger in user numebrs than Steam, then SCII, WoW, Heroes of the Storm would be going through the roof, yet Blizzard has denied giving out user counts for most of those games on PC, they instead go with OW style combined platform numbers).

Activision could have allowed for the game to be bought from Battle.net as well as Steam, in the same way Ubisoft sells their games both on Steam and Uplay. Hell they could even pull a Ubisoft and allow the purchase through steam, yet require the installation and launching of Battle.net in order to play and update the game. They could have tapped two clients worth of users in one go, but instead they want to force a fence the way EA has tried and failed with SWBF and BF1 on Origin (both numbers of users have dropped like flies and it's definitely not the consumer's fault either).

 

I can't say I'm happy about news on the same day as the presentation, that the PC version will be delayed, especially with no specified date of release in sight either. if this turns out to be delayed for various reasons not related to making it the definitive game, then I'll simply not pruchase it and give my money to other devs instead. The delay has to mean that they are making it the best it can possibly be, there is no stepping outside of that one reason from their end. I just hope they are being brutally honest, that they need more time to make sure it plays and looks rerally decent.

 

All those features though, they should be the default by now, especially with higher resolution monitors being sold all over, as well as higher refresh rates growing in number. 

 

Bungie hasn't really done much for PC in years, so it'll be interesting to see how well they can craft for the platform once more. 


Also peer to peer connection is a bad sign to see.



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Chazore said:

Also limiting the second game to Battle.net wasn't the smartest idea.

I didn't even know it was limited to Battle.net.

This is probably why Blizzard is retiring the Battle.net name... So that they can integrate more franchises from all across Activision.

Chazore said:

Bungie hasn't really done much for PC in years, so it'll be interesting to see how well they can craft for the platform once more.

Their last game was Halo 2 - Vista. Boy was that a shit experience... And that was 13 years ago.
Before that it was Halo 1, 16 years ago which was a solid effort. But I am pretty sure other development studio's handled those ports anyway. :P




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releasing later and not releasing on steam this is going to be a hard choice.
I guess if it releases on pc before the scorpio launch I will buy it on pc and else on Xbox

Better a late port then a bad port for sure but I hoped they would have prioritized the PC version.
A game like The Surge and Prey really is a great excample of how a multiple platform launch should be they run good on Console but get their potentials unlocked if you have a good pc




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Pemalite said:
Chazore said:

Also limiting the second game to Battle.net wasn't the smartest idea.

I didn't even know it was limited to Battle.net.

This is probably why Blizzard is retiring the Battle.net name... So that they can integrate more franchises from all across Activision.

Chazore said:

Bungie hasn't really done much for PC in years, so it'll be interesting to see how well they can craft for the platform once more.

Their last game was Halo 2 - Vista. Boy was that a shit experience... And that was 13 years ago.
Before that it was Halo 1, 16 years ago which was a solid effort. But I am pretty sure other development studio's handled those ports anyway. :P


Apparently, according to IGN and others who got their hands on the PC versaion at the event, claim that it's running pretty decently, though this isn't all on Bungie themselves, they do have another team included which I suspect is doing most of the work on the PC side of things.



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