tldr; Epic is giving away Destiny 2: Legacy Collection. You'll have to give Bungie whole bunch more money if you really want to play. Don't give Bungie your hard earned money because Destiny 2 is now pay to win and they'll always try to screw you. Don't get sucked into this game and give this horrible company your money.

According to the article, Epic is giving away Destiny 2: Legacy Collection which contains The Witch Queen, Beyond Light, and Shadowkeep. If you've never played Destiny 2 and think this seems great because now you can start playing Destiny 2 for the first time. This isn't so. You'll still need to spend bunch of more money if you want access to seasonal content and they're really not an optional. Just when you thought you're done, you'll then have to buy the Dungeon content which isn't part of season pass. Oh by the way you can't just buy season pass with money. You have to purchase their premium currency and then buy season pass with that currency which means you'll always have a left over premium currency. This is definitely scammy and it's by design.

Destiny 2 is dystopian microtransaction hellscape. They've been adding layers of microtransactions for years and this is the result. If you want to see how bad it has gotten watch this video by Aztecross.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsIdPWB2_JA

[–] JoeKrogan@lemmy.world 29 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Warframe is a free alternative to destiny , its in steam and runs on linux. For those looking for that type of game. There is a warframe community on lemmy too.

[–] reksas@sopuli.xyz 1 points 6 months ago

I used to like warframe a lot, then they sold out to tencent.

[–] vivadanang@lemm.ee 10 points 6 months ago

Don’t give Bungie your hard earned money because Destiny 2 is now pay to win and they’ll always try to screw you. Don’t get sucked into this game and give this horrible company your money.

Bungie was given 1.2 BILLION to retain talent. They decided to fire 100 people going back to the Halo days.

That right there ended any money I'll ever give to Bungie.

[–] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 5 points 6 months ago

i bought that game full price. 60 dollars

still better use of my money than black ops 4 was

[–] whereBeWaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 months ago

I was thinking about playing destiny 2 for a while until I got this video recommended to me randomly. After watching it, all I can say is the developers have to pay me more than I earn on my job for me to even consider playing it.

[–] WholeEnchilada@lemmy.today 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

However, it's not a bad idea to use Epic like I do: Check the app every Thursday and see what's free, grab whatever is free aimlessly and probably never play it until 20 years from now. I've been accumulating free games I've never downloaded since about a year now. I have quite the library! Maybe 20 years from now Destiny 2 will be obsolete and the microtransaction features will be obliterated and I just waste my time doing the single player mode. Maybe. I got it in my library for free just in case. LOL. I've never actually paid money for a game on the Epic Games Launcher. I just grab the free stuff and wait and see. So far, after acquiring 20 plus games this way, I've noticed that most of the "freebies" will require, if you get deep into the game, some extra purchase. Usually, the base game is free but the base game comes with DLC. Destiny 2 is special as a case, isn't it? It has DLC given out for free up front, hoping to snag players that will become new whales. Your doomsday warnings about this whole thing has a positive spin: Game publishers are desperate for microtransactions and are probably realizing that we, the game players, are on to them with their microtransactions. I'm going to use my crystal ball to predict the following: Game publishers will find other ways to make money because people are becoming better educated about their personal financial health with regard to microtransactions (because microtransactions are ruining lives at the individual consumer level) and therefore Epic Games will stop offering free games every Thursday and do some other thing before it goes out of business.

[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world -2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Or epic shuts down their store randomly 5 years from now and all the games are gone. Digital content baybehhh

[–] Kbobabob@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Oh no, all the free stuff i got and never used is gone

[–] WholeEnchilada@lemmy.today 1 points 6 months ago

Yes, that's a possibility! This is why I don't buy games there. I just grab the free ones.

[–] Ansis@iusearchlinux.fyi -1 points 6 months ago

I mean basically everything in the game is optional, you just miss out on some story tidbits here and there. I have never bought seasons, dungeons or anything like that and I still have 400+ hours in the game. If you want to 100% everything, yes, you need to buy a lot of stuff, but you can still have tons of fun with just the expansions.