Steam’s database is one of the most trustworthy places for leaks of games that were/are coming to the PC. However, this place has also hinted at some games that were considered at some point – but never got the green light – to be released on the PC. One of them was Halo 3 and it appears that the first Destiny was also considered to hit the PC via Steam.
The following SteamDB page is dedicated to the first Destiny game. Now we are pretty sure that some people may believe that this page is for a potentially Steam release of Destiny 2. However, that’s not the case here as all the items and areas are from the first game. Not only that, but most of the items were last updated two years ago (though the page was updated only 10 days ago).
Some suggest that Activision may release the first Destiny as a pre-order bonus – or as a separate game in order to spark further interest for Destiny 2 on the PC – however this seems unlikely. In fact, we are pretty sure that this won’t be the case as this move would annihilate the PC Destiny crowd.
As such, we believe that this page is from some early days when Activision was considering releasing the first Destiny to the PC. We don’t know why those plans were abandoned, and perhaps we may never find out.
But anyway, Destiny 2 is officially coming to the PC this October and its open beta phase will begin later this month, so there is not point wishing for a port of the first Destiny game. Still, we find it interesting – and disappointing at the same time – that while Activision was experimenting with the idea of a PC version of Destiny, it did not eventually go for it.
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“Some suggest that Activision may release the first Destiny as a pre-order bonus – or as a separate game in order to spark further interest for Destiny 2 on the PC”
Some people are idiots.
“As such, we believe that this page is from some early days when Activision was considering releasing the first Destiny to the PC. We don’t know why those plans were abandoned, and perhaps we may never find out.”
Incompetence coupled with extreme laziness. Also probably the amount of (no doubt completely unexpected) backslash they received from the console versions upon launch, which forced them to double-down & focus on revamping the game for those platforms in order to relaunch it on the PS3 & the X360 before then moving on to porting it over to the at-the-time new-gen consoles, in turn.
By this point, time was all but running out for Destiny OG, as it was time to reveal the scam that was their “10-year plans for Destiny”, as (surprise!) Destiny 2 was up next on their internal development agenda by now, thus making dedicating the time & effort to a PC version would be considered a completely moot thing to do.
There you go, mystery solved.
“Some people are idiots.” Some? 😛
Most other people, with the exception of His Glorious Majesty the God-Emperor of Humanity? 😀
“Activision legally committing massive-scale tax evasion for over a decade now, all the while continuously laying off employees & cutting overall expenditure across the board.”
and adding more microtransacrions instead of real content
It’s called ‘cost cutting’. Yes, I do approve. This is the world bequeathed to us by our fathers. Everyone talks about how crappy it is, yet still play in the same sandbox.
Do you also approve of;
– Dropping dedicated servers right as Call of Duty reached the pinnacle of its sales figures
– Overpricing DLCs “because Call of Duty”
– Releasing ever-smaller amounts of content in World of Warcraft, while charging ever-more per-Expansion Pack (not to mention their subscription fee spikes a couple of years ago “because inflation”)
– Defiling Diablo 3 through the Real Money Auction House
– Microtransactions, microtransactions, microtransactions
– etc. etc. etc.
Because a lot of this is also technically “cost cutting”, yet all of it came at the consumer’s detriment – as usual.
I mean, come on, it’s not like they’d be broke right now if they hadn’t done any of the above, that’s just ludicrous. This is just pure, sheer greed, simple as.
In the end, the cards will sell. This fact will justify the behaviour, reinforcing it. Sure, it sucks but I approve. If you can get away with it and milk, all power to them. It’s the consumer that makes the choice.
What consumer, the 12 year old who doesn’t know sh*t about how much he’s getting f*cked over, or the parent that doesn’t care enough to find out how much their kid is being taken advantage of, since they’re too busy ignoring PEGI box cover ratings to give a sh*t?
No seriously, I keep hearing this argument, yet it overwhelmingly implies that your average Call of Idiots player is net-savvy enough to know about dedicated servers, or whatnot.
On the other hand, World of Warcraft’s subscription numbers have actually dropped by the millions to the point wherein Blizzard has even stopped talking about their subscription numbers altogether in order to spare themselves the humiliation anymore & the Diablo 3 Auction House was permanently shut down after a while, since they realised it was killing the game.
Sure, these people are still (currently) making money hand-over-fist, but their innovation has literally bottomed out & their turnover rate is mind-f*cking insane, making this model completely unsustainable in the long-term. As such, it will, eventually, inevitably fail.
This entire “minimum effort, maximum profits” ideology that the AAA industry has been running on for a decade now has defiled it to the point wherein it’s going to end up imploding unto itself if they don’t scale it back, but no, please, keep telling me about what “they’re getting away with.”
GOD DAMN YOU’RE THE BEN SHAPIRO OF THE GAMING INDUSTRY. That was some well writing stuff ma bwoy 🙂
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thank god it didn’t the last thing steam needs is more cancerous activision games
Good, that game was f*cked on every level.
Bought into the hype on ps4 when it came out. First i should’ve never bought a fps on console it sux soooo much. Second, the damn game is sad all around. 10Hours later i was grinding already. I never bought their expansions and stuff and just sold the game back to ebgames and went on to play princess heart and her molested brother instead.
You’re damn right.
thank god it didn’t the last thing steam needs is more cancerous activision games
Steam : game rated overwhelmingly negative
I’d definitely say “Mixed”, though. Maybe “Positive” at around 70%, but I doubt it. The port would most probably have been sh*t, which would have dragged down the score significantly & that’s without bringing up the content itself, which has dragged down Destiny (OG) from the very start.
Something in the vicinity of 60% positive because of the fanboys seems the most likely, I’d say – assuming the port gets patched.
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Have to say that the Blizzard app is a turd when compared to Steam.
Even Origin is way better than Blizzard app.
Man… we were that close to not dodge that bullet, weren’t we…
no content for 1 year on pc…rip destiny 2 on pc.