In Destiny 2, Bungie has allegedly considered moving the release date to October so that everyone can play at the same time and PC players are not disadvantaged. It’s hard to believe that when you know the history.
Destiny 2 will be released on September 6, 2017 for PS4 and Xbox One. The PC release of Destiny will not be until October 24, 2017.
Once again, PC players are at a disadvantage with Destiny 2. They are used to it: Destiny 1 never appeared on their platform.
Yet Bungie never tires of telling PC players how much they are valued and that everything is being done to make them happy. You can’t even imagine what would happen if Bungie truly loved PC players!
Allegedly Bungie considered moving Destiny 2 to October – for all platforms
So Destiny 2 will come later to PC. That didn’t have to be the case.
As Bungie’s PC chief, David Shawn, says in an interview, they discussed, moving all versions of Destiny 2 to October 24 so that Destiny 2 would be released at the same time for all platforms.
However, Shaw cannot reveal why Bungie decided against this option.
There are so many “moving parts that go into these conversations that it would be super exhausting to detail the reasons for the decision.” They have absolutely talked at Bungie about the right decision and in detail.
Why is Destiny 2 coming to PC so late?
According to Shaw, players have been asking for a Destiny version for PC since 2013. This has been a topic in the years since as well. Bungie has heard these calls.
They couldn’t manage Destiny for PC back then. They wouldn’t have been able to meet the demands earlier. Bungie did not want to insult PC players with a weak version. If they bring Destiny to PC, they’ll do it right.
Now they can deliver on that performance.
With Destiny 2, they had the right team, the right people, and the ideal partner to bring Destiny 2 to PC in a version they can be proud of.
Bungie loves PC players, they say – It just takes longer because they want to make everything perfect
This claim to deliver a great Destiny to PC players has already prevented Destiny from coming to PC in 2014, and now it’s causing the delay in 2017.
For this reason, Destiny 2 comes to PC later than to PS4 and Xbox One: The additional time is needed to ensure that they get it exactly right, according to Bungie representative Shaw.
According to GameSpot, Bungie explains: The PC version of Destiny 2 is not a port. It has been designed from the ground up for the platform to look fantastic and run smoothly with all the features PC players expect.
Bungie says one thing, does another
Mein MMO believes: A lot of marketing here. The fact is: Because Destiny didn’t come out for PC, more people bought PlayStation 4 and Xbox One consoles in 2014. If Destiny had been released on PC in September 2014, the consoles would have sold worse. So there was a business interest, especially from Sony, that Destiny 1 never appears on PC. Sony is known to be a partner of Bungie/Activision in Destiny.
The fact that there is a PC version of Destiny 2 but none for Destiny 1 is part of the ancient contract between Activision and Bungie from 2010.
If there had been a strong will to bring Destiny 1 to PC, Activision would have already found means and ways. After all, they had four years and a lot of money available.
That the PC version of Destiny 2 comes about a month and a half later than the console version fits this “console-friendly approach” that Bungie is pursuing.
Wouldn’t it have been better for everyone if Destiny 2 was delayed to October?
But of course Bungie doesn’t say that openly, instead there are always problems that cannot be verified from the outside.
And the reasoning is quite logical: Six more weeks of development time would likely benefit every game in the world. But why not delay it for everyone then? The news currently sounds like Destiny 2 could also use six more weeks of development time for PS4 and Xbox One.
Apparently Destiny 2 still needs time for fine-tuning.
There remains a bitter aftertaste for PC players with Destiny. Bungie could have disproved this if they had really delayed Destiny 2 to October. They are not doing so. PC players once again draw the short straw. While Bungie tells them how incredibly much they are loved and that everything is being done to make them happy, they are once again left out and enviously watch console players play.
This may sound negative at first, but the good news is: The PC gameplay is said to be really good. At least that is what the first reports from people who have played it say:
Destiny 2 E3 2017: The PC gameplay in 4k and 60 FPS receives praise
