Sony adds Destiny 2 to its monthly PlayStation Plus free game line-up

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If you're a fan of video games, but you don't exactly have a massive budget to go out and pay $60 for all the biggest titles, there are plenty of options out there for you.

For PC gamers, services like Humble Monthly and Origin Access offer substantial, rotating game catalogs at a fairly-low monthly price.

For console gamers, Xbox Game Pass and PlayStation Plus are your two main options. Sony wants to convince you to subscribe to the latter with a major new addition to its monthly game catalog: Destiny 2.

This is a bit of a surprise, given that Destiny 2 released just under a year ago. Newer games, particularly big-budget AAA titles, don't typically make their way to subscription services so early.

At any rate, Sony is partnering with Activision to give PlayStation Plus users access to a 24-hour free trial of "Gambit," the PVE/PVP hybrid mode arriving with the game's upcoming Forsaken DLC.

This trial starts on September 1, so you'll have a few days to level up your characters before it begins.

If Destiny 2 isn't your thing, Plus subscribers will also get free access to God of War III Remastered, Sparkle 2, Foul Play, QUBE Director's Cut, and Another World - 20th Anniversary Edition.

For the unaware, Sony's "free" monthly game offers only apply as long as you remain a member of PlayStation Plus. If you ever cancel your subscription, you'll lose access to the games until you renew it again.

The good news is, once you've downloaded the games, they're pretty much yours forever - they won't be rotated out with monthly game additions, and you can return to play them any time you like; again, so long as your subscription is active.

You can give PlayStation Plus (and Destiny 2) a test drive by signing up via the official PlayStation website. The subscription will run you about $9.99 per month, but Sony is currently offering a 14-day free trial to newcomers.

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[alabama man]

"Sony adds Destiny 2 to its monthly PlayStation Plus free game line-up
Good news for Plus subscribers"

First of all the games are not free, you pay for them.

How is this "good news"? You get the platform they sell dlc on, they them selves give the "base game" no value. It's basically a shop and it should have been free to begin with.

 

[ghostf1re]

This isn't surprising at all. Destiny 2 isn't as popular as the developer wishes it were. Gamers have been saying from day 1, this game is Destiny 1.5, not Destiny 2. Bungie really didn't put the effort into this game that gamers wanted and it was pretty clear they only thing they wanted was to give players an advantage with paid items on their store. Other than this, the game got stale really fast because it was essentially the same game with a few more features added. It was never worth the $60 price tag in my opinion.

 

[davislane1]

This isn't surprising at all. Destiny 2 isn't as popular as the developer wishes it were. Gamers have been saying from day 1, this game is Destiny 1.5, not Destiny 2. Bungie really didn't put the effort into this game that gamers wanted and it was pretty clear they only thing they wanted was to give players an advantage with paid items on their store. Other than this, the game got stale really fast because it was essentially the same game with a few more features added. It was never worth the $60 price tag in my opinion.

They put plenty of effort into it. The problem is, all that effort went into streamlining every aspect of the game to such a degree that it becomes a hollow experience. And that's why it's on PS Plus--no other incentive to get people to play it at this point.

 

[Burty117]

No, it's not Destiny 2, not even 1.5, It's Destiny 0.5. Go and play Destiny again then play Destiny "2" afterwards. Yes, some stuff is more streamlined but there is something missing, I could list loads of little bits and bobs but it would take ages so I'm just going to say it feels like the soul of the game is missing.

I loved Destiny 1, played the living crap out of it on PS4, Destiny 2 on PC I played through, completed the raid a couple of times but haven't played it since, it was just rubbish compared to Destiny 1.