Unsubscribers playing Destiny (Destiny)

by INSANEdrive, ಥ_ಥ | f(ಠ‿↼)z | ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ| ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, Saturday, July 05, 2014, 11:18 (3794 days ago) @ Kermit

Basically, I need to know what the options are for playing Destiny on the different platforms based on if you do not subscribe to their live service.

PS3 Yes, unrestricted play
PS4 ?
360 ?
Xbone ?

My main concern is for those families who have one Gold subscription for the 360 at their house, but I figured others may want to know the other bits, too.

Kermit

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I recall posting something of this effect at least for the Xbox.

...Destiny is a great example of a next gen game experience that I think maybe we will see more of. A game that blends a single player story driven campaign with online spaces where you will see other players, [...and ya know while...] thinking of next gen games one of the things I want to make clear to people in these single player experiences where you see other people in story driven mode, those will obviously be on Xbox live. Those aren't Gold features, those will be features that people can use if they are free member of xbox live. Now obviously PvP, Co-Op ... the stuff that fully uses xbox live is still gold.

So If you aren't gold you can play half the game essentially. No different then a conventional game with a dedicated Singleplayer and Multiplayer mode respectively.

Playstation Plus seems to be about the same. (At least to me)

On the official site it reads:

Membership Includes:
Instant Game Collection™ – Free games included with your PlayStation®Plus membership*
Online Multiplayer on the PS4™ system
Exclusive discounts of up to 75% on the PlayStation®Store
Up to 3GB of online game save storage
One membership works across PS4™, PS3™ and PS Vita systems

As far as I can find you must have a PS Plus subscription for PS4 to play online parts of games like Cod and Bf4, so it might very well apply to Destiny as well. How far?

Currently Unknown.

So If you absolutely HAD to play without a subscription to any middleman, you would have to play on a PS3. Even then... you would "have to" upgrade eventually to play out the next 10 years (more likely then not).

Yep.