Time will tell what other benefits (and drawbacks) come from this move. I suspect it won't be that much of a hassle to exchange usernames with people you plan on playing Destiny with. Other than that, it means you'll have to click a different desktop icon to play Destiny 2 on PC than you do for most other PC games. I want to dress Soldier: 76 up like a Titan. I want to get a shader for my Destiny warlock that makes her look like a Warcraft character. We see it all the time with games like Heroes of the Storm and Overwatch. The left sidebar of the desktop client will have a big fat logo for a non-Blizzard game on it now, for the first and potentially last time ever.īungie hasn't hinted at this at all yet, but what I'm most excited for is the idea of Blizzard and Destiny cross-pollination. People who play World of Warcraft (or any other PC Blizzard game) and Destiny 2 on PC will be able to text chat with each other. If you want to partner up with fellow guardians on your juiced-up gaming rig, you'll have to do it in a different desktop client with a different friends list than the place where you normally play PC games. How does this affect me, the player?ĭestiny 2 living on means that the PC version of the game won't be available on Steam. Destiny 2 coming to is the most tangible effect of the Activision and Blizzard merger in the decade since it happened. This whole time, you wouldn't have known Call of Duty and World of Warcraft come from the same place unless you sought it out. The logo that pops up when you play Call of Duty just reads "Activision" meanwhile, there haven't been any Nazi zombies in Heroes of the Storm. From the outside looking in, it's felt like the Activision and Blizzard sides of Activision Blizzard have maintained autonomy from one another. In all likelihood, there weren't any significant business hurdles to jump in order to make this deal happen, but it's still highly unusual. In layman's terms, that means Destiny has been under the same corporate umbrella as Overwatch and World of Warcraft this whole time. You see, Destiny publisher Activision merged with Vivendi almost a decade ago to become the company now officially known as Activision Blizzard. The idea that anything else would ever show up there is fairly shocking, even when you read between the business lines. Until the announcement that Destiny 2 would live on, it was the home of Blizzard's games and no one else's. The service officially changed its name to just "Blizzard app" earlier this year, but everyone on Earth still calls it. It launched in 1996 as a way to connect players of the original Diablo and has since evolved to sell Blizzard's games digitally, as well as give players a way to chat across games. is a storefront and social hub for all of Blizzard's PC games.
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