Destiny 2 Frontiers
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There’s a lot going on in Destiny 2 right now, the main thing being a giant puzzle involving chess pieces, frequencies and a new mystery website dropping references to loads of Bungie lore through the years.
But something else has happened at the same time, the leak of a previously unknown Year of Prophecy bundle for Destiny 2, listed on the store for a short amount of time before being removed, priced at $275.
I know for a fact this does not have to do with the puzzle going on. Players aren’t going to complete that and pre-orders go live or something, which would be impossibly lame. So you can dismiss that idea out of hand.
Destiny 2
Bungie
There is of course some measure of freaking out about the price, but this price is…normal. This is not just the year of content, this is the year of content and all the Collector’s Edition goodies that come with it. The $275 price is exactly what the Collector’s Edition of The Final Shape cost, for instance, so this is just sort of how things go.
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However.
From what we know already, it seems like there will be less content in the Frontiers-era years than there will be. There are no more seasons, only “major updates” introducing some new activities and weapons. Those updates are free, so this package would be giving out the “rewards pass” for each, a battle pass of unknown length.
You are also buying two smaller expansions without knowing what the second one is. There is about to be an Edge of Fate stream for the first expansion next week, but the second one, codenamed Behemoth? We’re not likely to know really anything about it when these $100-$275 bundles go live. Similar to how seasons worked except this is an entire expansion.
If the CE bundle was not $275, I’d say that maybe the year would be discounted to $80. But that does not seem to be the case even as less total content will be given out at that price. Two, smaller $50 expansions and some battle passes, unless there is some other secret thing you’re paying for. And that’s bound to be controversial.
Destiny 2 Frontiers
Bungie
I do think it’s clever that the year is deemed “Prophecy” following the codename Apollo as in, Apollo and the gift of prophecy. And that makes me wonder what hints Behemoth is giving us. Perhaps we will hear something about that in the stream next week, especially if Bungie wants us to pre-order both ahead of time.
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