Makes NO sense. Why delay a PC version?

It can't be about piracy, because Destiny has to always be connected. It's literally impossible to pirate. What other reason is there?

Hmm, maybe they aren't even trying to launch on PC yet? No QA, if you argue it's the same code as a PS4/XBO version? Also, it's not literally impossible to pirate always-connected games. Very, very hard, but not impossible.

Just very very hard? Can you point me to a pirate WoW server that has every piece of content that the legit version has?

Makes NO sense. Why delay a PC version?

It can't be about piracy, because Destiny has to always be connected. It's literally impossible to pirate. What other reason is there?

A reason was given. Launching a new game on four different platforms is hard. Adding in a fifth with vastly different control schemes, a much wider variation in hardware, and ensuring compatibility with various additional operating systems may well have been beyond the scope of what even Bungie's large team can handle.

So why do it at all then? Delay it, and most people who want it will already have it, and their friends won't be playing on PC. The longer you delay the worse sales will be.

I thought for sure the only reason they stuck it in Reach was as practice for their next game.

They very well may have been testing the waters with it. That doesn't mean that it was necessarily going to make it in. Part of why you test something is to figure out what it means going forward. Even if it was extremely good, Bungie may have decided that it just wasn't fitting nicely into their roadmap for Destiny.

And yeah, I'm fully aware of how obnoxiously 'corporate PR jargon'ish I made that sound. :)

Well, PR jargon or not, it's still true.

I dunno whether I would have wanted this to happen. On one hand, it might have been interesting to add another experience to the Destiny mix. On the other hand, I played a game once where most of the gameplay was on-foot, you transitioned between planets via (primarily) load screens, and occasionally space combat would break out during the transitions. It was Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, one of my favorite games and generally regarded as a classic now. But that lame turret-shooting between planets got old real fast, and looking back (through somewhat rose-tinted glasses, maybe) it was the only part of the game that I remember disliking. I was thankful that it happened as rarely as it did. Probably, Bungie's implementation would have been less tedious, but still - the only reference I have for such a thing was pretty meh.