Is Destiny 2 Free to Play Worth Playing in 2023?

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Imagine if they actually taught players how the game works instead of pushing dlc

Short Answer, NO

I do feel bad for f2p players being locked out/time gated on basic activities. They should consider a legacy nightfall list, with only the lowest option difficulty being available while keeping the seasonal GM list. This would let f2p do nightfalls without waiting for a non dlc strike.

I feel like they should have an hour long tutorial on the game, there’s so much stuff they need to learn so an hour to half an hour guide on it all with practice missions

Hot take, red war was and always will be a better new light experience than what we've had since beyond light (especially the halo 3 forge mission lol)

I hope they redesign this whole experience soon, every time I see new lights I do my best to help them because this game can be so fun but even I can admit it’s a nightmare trying to learn at this point

“OMG YOUVE WON THE ABILITY TO GIVE US MONEYYY” 💀💀💀 im dead

When he mentioned, "forever gated at level 6" , felt this in my bones. Been f2playing for the past 1500++ hours, and often look up to others in admiration for their accomplishments in those quests that I can't access. But it's ok it's all good, and oh ,many thanks to y'all players for keeping the teamplayer spirit in strikes/ destiny runs making it a pleasant experience for everyone without judgement. Salute.

This really puts it into perspective how greedy the game creators really are

They should add this mission for starter players where the city and traveller are attacked. The gaurdian travels to the city and gets his light taken. The player then makes his way to a village and goes through other mission to get their light back and take out the enemy that attacked the city and traveller.

If the DLC's were $10 sales would go through the roof but paying $50 for a dlc of a game that has been out for 5-6 years is heinous

Risk/Reward is in the Cosmodrome because the quest came out and took you to the Cosmodrome before the Cosmodrome came back as a patrol zone, so they placed it on the EDZ (the only earth patrol zone at the time). When the quest released it was like a nostalgic throwback to D1. The Cosmodrome came back though so it doesn't make much sense for it to not be there but I figure they probably just never found a real reason to move the node.

At this point these videos are more like “how bad is the new light experience in x time”

I think that Sweat summed it up pretty well. It’s half and half. Free to play is not as bad as people make it out to be, and it is certainly WAY better than it was when I first was a f2p gamer. There’s a lot of content to do (Even some endgame content which is unfortunately locked behind time gates) and unlike the past year or so, Bungie is starting to give new lights direction on what to do next. Is free to play better than buying dlc? No. Are you missing out on a lot of stuff if you don’t pay for content? Yes. However, I truly believe now more than before that you can get by in this game as a free to play gamer and still have a good time, but you need friends, which paying for stuff in the game won’t really help you in that department.

A friend and I got back into Destiny with Lightfall since basically beyond light (I played a little here and there) and since then a few other friends have each tried out playing it at different interest levels and it felt like with each person you have to explain so much just to like get off to the right start and its honestly overwhelming at the beginning.

The fact that they put 2/3 of the nightfalls behind a paywall is criminal

Maybe shadow keep should be redone into a new light campaign. It’s 4 years old at this point and if won’t be sunset make it useful for new players it gives them a story to latch onto and play through, it would also give them more weapons to use and options to level up as well. Also let people just play the strikes/nightfall I could almost guarantee no new player is gonna wait weeks for a nightfall they’ll see buy this dlc and probably opt out

I love these videos. Keep up the great work. I never got a chance to truly play d1 so watching these is so much fun. Would you ever try to post solo raid encounters?

Great video! Just coming back to the game after not playing it since the 1st expansion. It's crazy to see how far the monetization has tilted to the extreme. I am only playing it cause my Nephew was interested in it. We're doing the F2P experience and enjoying it so far but the in game pop-up ads are getting old already. We're not going to spend a dime on it. Just enjoy what we can and move on. Thanks for making this. It helps me to understand what all we can do as F2P.