So I have a friend that originally played on PS4 (prior to Forsaken) and then migrated to PC for Forsaken. He's going to choose to use his PS4 save when September comes. Will he still have access to Forsaken? Or is that specifically if he chooses to transfer his Blizzard characters over to Steam?
Posted Jul 16, 2019, 6:06 PM UTC
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If he bought Forsaken on PC he should be fine.
well he wants to migrate his PS4 character (cause he has some old guns there he wants (Darkest Before))
I would post this on the bungie forums so a ninja can help bring some better answers.
It's a difficult question because I don't know if foresaken is bound to our account or our consoles. If it's based in the account then he would need to buy it again but if it's based on our consoles/pc then it should be ok.
thanks for the info. I'll suggest that to my friend.
You need you need to ask friend if his bungie account is linked to both his pc and PS4 account. He can check it in the settings of the bungie page after logging in. If it is indeed linked, then he won't need to repurchase forsaken for when his PS4 account becomes cross save.
thanks for the response, looks like ive got some more digging to do just in case.
Would guess he will have to buy Forsaken again with the migrated account.
Licenses are bound to the platform you play on, not with Bungie. With cross save, you will be able to play any of your platform accounts on any platform you have destiny on (free or purchased). When we transfer to steam, the forsaken license will transfer from Blizzard to steam. This means that the Forsaken content will be available to any of your platform users when playing those users on the PC/steam.
from this it would seem that if my friend picked his PS4 account to use in cross save then he would not have access to Forsaken
They would. You buy the license on the platform you want to play on. If they have forsaken on PC (blizzard and steam mean the same thing here) then come September any character you play on PC will have access to Forsaken content.
since im not directly affiliated with Bungie Support I asked him to put up a post to the Bungie Forums for final clarification. Thanks for the info though I'll pass it along.
Your friend should read this, as this is as official as you are going to get right now: https://www.bungie.net/7/en/CrossSave
Q: Do players need to repurchase Destiny 2 on each Cross Save platform separately? A: Destiny 2 will be accessible to plaoyers on all available platforms for free as Destiny 2: New Light, however players will need to purchase Destiny 2 expansions (Forsaken, Shadowkeep) for each connected platform in order to access that expansion’s content. Cross Save will preserve all gear, character, and items across all platforms regardless of expansion ownership.
Also, this covers a lot of it too in more detail: https://www.vgr.com/destiny-2-bungie-cross-save-support-clarified/