Since 2:00 PM our time, the servers for Destiny are up. This divides the gaming world into the lucky and the waiting. Because not everyone can play: Those who own a digital edition are enviously looking at those with a retail version.
The gaming world is split. Since 2 PM – when it became Tuesday in New Zealand – the servers for Destiny have been open. Those who own a retail version of the game (for example, because they ordered from a retailer like Amazon who delivered it earlier) can start leveling up their Titan, Warlock, or Hunter right now.
Those who bought a digital version will have to wait until midnight in the original country of the store. Australians who purchased a US version of Destiny to save money will also have to wait until it becomes Tuesday in the USA.
For us in Germany, that means: Waiting until midnight. Attempts to fiddle with the Xbox or PlayStation and change the region settings until something happens have proven fruitless. It looks bad. And even going to the store to try to grab a CD version of Destiny will probably end in disappointed faces. Although we wouldn’t be surprised to read somewhere tomorrow about crazy raids on innocent electronics stores (Please, don’t get any stupid ideas!).
Whether the live streams from major sites, YouTubers, and “gaming” personalities who are clamoring to share their first hours of Destiny with the world really offer relief or if the agony of not being able to play is only reinforced, everyone has to decide for themselves.
On our topic page, you can find everything we have covered about Destiny so far.
