another STEAM Rebellion member .........

MSim
Wish Blizzard would hurry up and add "offline" mode for friends list.

That is supposedly in the works.


On topic, I'm not only excited for the game, but that Blizzard will be handling login/authentication and shop duties. My WoW gold can fund any microtransactions I need/want for Destiny 2. There has been a LOT of confusion and misinformation getting tossed around regarding this announcement. The game will not be hosted on Blizzard servers. They are strictly handling account login and shop duties as mentioned before. Yes that is spelled out in the official press release, but that hasn't stopped people from making false or incorrect claims about how things are being run.

The game for PC will be hosted on Bungie servers, and they use Microsoft cloud servers for their hosting. No word yet if PC will use a different server system than console uses, but they will be servers run by Bungie, not Blizzard. Console uses a mix of P2P and Microsoft cloud servers, players are hosted P2P while loot and damage calculations are handled via the cloud servers. That prevents P2P manipulation of critical gameplay elements, but creates the typical lag that console is known for. 

It is unlikely we will see that system for PC, as it's an invitation for hackers. Even if critical functions like loot and damage calculations are still handled server side, it's too easy for PC players to manipulate other data and ruin the game for everyone else. So we are likely, though not confirmed, going to see PC hosted 100% via servers. Even though Blizzard is not in charge of the servers, they can certainly help Bungie with developing a system for that purpose. WoW uses a multi server system for different functions within the game. It's why you have two different pings, Home and World, while playing. Home is the server your character is actually registered to, World is the server you're connected to at that particular moment for whatever content you're doing. And the two are not always the same even if you are just on your own server and not in a raid.

You actually connect between 3 or 4 different servers depending on what you're doing in WoW, so if Bungie is smart they will set up a similar system and avoid the P2P that console relies on.

I love the first Destiny

Blizzard does good games but it feels odd. I wonder if other games are going to go this way that Activision makes. I don't want to make it sound like I don't expect this to be a good game but Blizzard has a long history of making some of the best games on the PC. It makes it easy to recommend anything on the blizzard store to anyone but if they start offering up more games I feel it will hurt them if the games are not AAA hits.

Yeah it's a one time deal. However, I wish it was a steam game.

MSim
Wish Blizzard would hurry up and add "offline" mode for friends list.

They announced that feature like 4 years ago. But, until now, NOTHING. Soon TM Company.

Can't wait for this game

Crazy thing is I have friends on PC and fitness on PS4 so I just might have to own 2 lol

I'm just glad that my otherwise useless Wow gold will be able to subsidize this game and its microtransactions. 

When do preorders start?

I pre-ordered here, Can't wait!

I’m really hopping the PC version is stable. Played a ton of the first on PS4 and while I enjoyed myself...FPS on controllers is rough

So how do i download the beta? I already redeemed my code on the Blizzard site

Yea I figured it out shortly after I posted. Beta runs flawless on my machine, 4K ~100 FPS max settings.

XrayMan
 
I really wanted to play Destiny 2 on Steam. Bah!           

I think the biggest problem I have with it is I don't need battle.net installed all the time. StarCraft Remastered is the reason I have it installed right now and maybe some Diablo 3 now and then. For a while I didn't even have Battle.net on my system and didn't really miss it after a clean install. Now it's kind of forced to be on the system for Destiny 2 players who otherwise would just be using Steam.