Destiny 2
Well, we may finally be starting to see the tangible fruits of the Sony Bungie acquisition. While the base game of Destiny 2 is free-to-play these days (minus all the vanilla content that was deleted), the game still charges for its past DLCs. Now, however, Beyond Light has been made free as part of February’s PS Plus offerings, which also include Evil Dead: The Game, OIliOlli World and Mafia Definitive Edition.
However, because of the way Destiny 2 works with cross save, getting Beyond Light on PlayStation means that on whatever platforms you play, while you may not unlock the DLC content, you will unlock Stasis across all your characters on all platforms if you complete that questline on PS4 or PS5.
Story content requires you to purchase individual expansions, but the loot you get, and in this case, the subclass you unlock, transfers across all characters. Beyond Light is the only current expansion that has a fully new subclass, as Shadowkeep doesn’t, and the 3.0 light subclass updates that began with Witch Queen have been available for all players since the start. That is not the case with Stasis.
I did wonder what sort of perks and deals PlayStation players would be getting with Destiny 2 now that it was owned by Sony, and this is one of the more major things we’ve seen since that deal closed. Of course, Destiny 2 and some of its expansions were previously on Xbox Game Pass, though those were removed ahead of the Sony acquisition.
Destiny 2
If you think that maybe Sony is now trying to screw over other platforms hoping for Destiny deals, that’s not happening. Something that also just went live, something I was going to give its own article before I heard the Beyond Light news, is that The Witch Queen Deluxe Edition is now just $20 on Xbox, down from $80, which includes the expansion and the Duality and Spire dungeons, permanent content, and all four seasons from this past year, which are being mostly deleted with Lightfall, so you can hardcore binge them for exactly a month if you pick this up.
I don’t know why this is Xbox only. It’s possible that PlayStation and Steam could get a similar deal later, or maybe Bungie realized that Xbox uptake of Witch Queen is slower and they’re trying to create more parity there. I’m not sure. But Witch Queen, unlike Beyond Light, doesn’t have a subclass to give away. The next time that’s happening, of course, is Lightfall, which requires the expansion to have access to the subclass.
The Xbox deal for Witch Queen is live now. The Beyond Light download for PS Plus will start on February 7, and run through March 6.
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