The two companies Bungie and Activision are going separate ways, and Bungie retains its brand “Destiny“. This has been known since January 2019, but now it is also visible in the Blizzard launcher Battle.net. This raises questions about how PC players will play the shooter in the coming years.
This is the situation: On January 10, 2019, Activision and Bungie announced that they would no longer work together. Bungie would subsequently handle the development of the “Destiny” brand on its own.
The two companies are still linked through the Blizzard launcher, battle.net, as Destiny 2 is exclusively playable on PC there. The shooter is available on PC nowhere else, not on Steam, not anywhere else.
This is what Destiny 2 looked like in Battle.net:
- For a long time it said “Destiny 2 – developed by Bungie, published by Activision Blizzard.”
- Additionally, Destiny 2 was listed in the Blizzard launcher under “Activision” – alongside Call of Duty: Black Ops 4.
This is now different: Destiny 2 is still in the Blizzard launcher, but is now categorized differently:
- It now states: “Destiny 2 – developed by Bungie, published by Bungie.”
- And the section “by Activision” is now simply titled “by partners.”
These questions arise: It seems unlikely that Destiny 3 will appear in the Blizzard launcher, as even games like Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice have not landed there.
The future of Destiny on PC therefore seems unclear:
- Will Destiny 2 really remain in the launcher permanently – even when the game is eventually hardly supported, as is currently the case with Destiny 1?
- And what happens with Destiny 3 – will it come to Steam, the Epic Games Store, or does Bungie want to develop its own launcher?
For the time being, it seems Blizzard has found a solution for how to deal with the strange relationship to Destiny 2: Bungie and Activision are both “partners.”
