All Of ‘Destiny 2’ Is Free Before ‘The Edge Of Fate,’ And Loot Is Permanent

I wrote up yesterday how Bungie is attempting to draw in new players to Destiny 2 with its new Frontiers era, which begins with its Edge of Fate expansion on July 15. Now, Bungie has pulled the ripcord and made quite literally everything you can currently play in Destiny 2 free for a limited time. The list?

• The Witch Queen expansion
• Lightfall expansion
• The Final Shape expansion
• Echoes episode
• Revenant episode
• Heresy episode

I’ve seen some misreporting about how they’ve just made five expansions free, which is technically true, but Shadowfall and Beyond Light’s campaigns were made free some time ago.

The expansions will be free until after The Edge of Fate launches, until July 22. The episodes, the three super-seasons that have been live since The Final Shape, are only up for a week and will be removed on July 15 when The Edge of Fate is released. I mean literally removed; they will be taken out of the game, as is the case with seasonal content when a new expansion launches. The good news here is that anything you earn during this time, armor, guns, exotics, currency, even titles. All of that will carry over once everything stops being free. The exception here, I believe, would be the Strand subclass from Lightfall.

While this is meant to attract new players, absolutely dumping content on them like this is bound to be confusing. I’m going to tell you right now that a week to play all the episodes and two weeks to play all the expansions is really not going to be possible for most players. My advice is that if you want to connect with the best story and campaign content of the game, play Witch Queen and The Final Shape (Lightfall is bad and a thrown-together expansion that was never supposed to exist. Strand is fun though).

But if you want the best loot in the game, you might want to play the episodes as much as possible, as those have introduced some great gear that will go above and beyond most of what you can earn in past expansions (minus raid loot, perhaps, but I wish you luck trying to burn through raids as a completely new player in two weeks. Lapsed players? Maybe so).

I do find this somewhat ironic, that players can keep all their weapons and armor, as the game is quite literally revamping all weapons and armor into an entirely different system with the launch of The Edge of Fate, so things will change immediately, or even midway through this free period for expansions.

I mean, go for it. I love Destiny. It has wild ups and downs, and it will never be what it once was, but so much of this content is great, and gunplay is best-in-industry. Have fun.

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