What happens to outdated DLC/Expansion?

[Pattrone]

New soon to be destiny player (installing it now for pretty much the first time)

I am curious as to what happens to outdated paid DLC, does it just become free to everyone or does it become fully inaccessible?
If it becomes inaccessible then what is Bungies reason for it?

If I were to buy the expansions for example should I just buy the latest one and ignore the rest or buy them all? (I'm going to be getting gamepass anyway with all the expansions, this is just out of curiosity)

[Nakos]

Depends ...

The older ones that were created during Activision's tenure are probably all going to be retired eventually. They might return after being refurbished, but the Activision code base was fast, dirty and intended to be discarded after a year or so. Whereas Bungie wasn't to build for a longer service horizon.

This is a Game-as-a-Service. A lot of the content is transitory. If you're going to get into it and expect content permanency you're going to be disappointed.

But activities and events and seasonal storylines, Bungie seems pretty okay with presenting a pretty consistent stream of those.

Currently, there are two packs I'd suggest.

The Legendary Edtion while on sale is a great way to pick up the older content. That gives you Beyond Light, ONE season pass (for S15) and then tosses in the two older Expansions basically for free. That's the best way to get Shadowkeep and Forsaken.

The Deluxe Edition will give you access to ALL of the Y4 content. That all remains active until the end of S15 (Feb 2022). There's also an upgrade version if you already own the base version of Beyond Light.

Anything that says Witch Queen is a pre-release bundle. None of it becomes active until Feb 2022.

[Sebrium]

Basically Expansions are just for Weapons(Exotics), Armor(Certain World-armor for example; Moon's), and Raids(Everything from Armors to Sparrows)

The campaigns that come with those expansions would sooner or later be vaulted(Stored away Possibly deleted) so Bungie can maintain the game download space.

When something gets vaulted in Destiny, It's usually just Planets(Everything that is included in planets, Eg; Planetary Materials and Planetary Quests.) , Campaigns, and Quests.
But! Weapons and Armor do STAY, (Certain planetary armor that was formerly removed are coming every season it seems!)

Thus, If you want to buy Forsaken or Shadowkeep it's completely optional since no items are ever being sunset and Bungie refreshed the rolls and light of the armor/weapons for those Expansion packs.

But if you wanna save money, like the guy above me said, It's possibly best to just get Y4.
Just get GamePass PC or Ultimate ($10-$15) you'll get direct access to those Expansions during the subscription period. That is if you're willing to use either game-streaming or reinstall Destiny 2 through Gamepass PC App.

[Pattrone]

Thank you all for this information. I just bought the ultimate gamepass for $1 as it was my first ever month, I will be trying it out that way and afterwards I will make my decision on purchasing it. Your input has helped thanks!

Looks like a good strategy would be getting it on gamepass completing the older expansions and if I do want to continue buy the latest expansions.

[Dosbilliam, Boring but Practical]

The first thing you should do is make sure you enjoy the game; there's no point throwing money at it if you don't like the gameplay or story. :P

[Pattrone]

Originally posted by Dosbilliam, Boring but Practical:

The first thing you should do is make sure you enjoy the game; there's no point throwing money at it if you don't like the gameplay or story. :P

Yes you are 100% right, thats why I bought the $1 gamepass to get access to all expansions for a month just so I can try the game out.

[Dosbilliam, Boring but Practical]

Originally posted by Pattrone:

Originally posted by Dosbilliam, Boring but Practical:

The first thing you should do is make sure you enjoy the game; there's no point throwing money at it if you don't like the gameplay or story. :P

Yes you are 100% right, thats why I bought the $1 gamepass to get access to all expansions for a month just so I can try the game out.