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Hmm, that's disheartening.

Indeed, though PlayStation users already have the earlier beta access too. That said... good luck!

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This is the kind of stuff people were worried about when they first announced PS exclusives. Most people were pretty confident that Bungie wouldn't do exclusive content and that it would only be cosmetic stuff.
I guess we were wrong :(

I'm going to be playing on the PS4 but I really don't like this!

The things that were shown before were timed exclusives; it's not a stretch to think these will be too. That said, I don't like it either.

This is the kind of stuff people were worried about when they first announced PS exclusives. Most people were pretty confident that Bungie wouldn't do exclusive content and that it would only be cosmetic stuff.
I guess we were wrong :(

I'm going to be playing on the PS4 but I really don't like this!

This of course presumes Deej doesn't have his hands tied for the sake of Business.

This is the kind of stuff people were worried about when they first announced PS exclusives. Most people were pretty confident that Bungie wouldn't do exclusive content and that it would only be cosmetic stuff.
I guess we were wrong :(

I'm going to be playing on the PS4 but I really don't like this!

Dude, they told you guys back in 2013 that the exclusive content was playable. It was as unambiguous as it gets.

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Yeah, exclusive content, for any game, is a bummer.
It just tends to work so well, that companies, MS (who really pushed it a lot last generation), Sony, are willing to pay a bunch of comarketing money to get it.
So as a publisher it makes sense.

As a dev.. getting your game so much press conference time and coverage, is really beneficial to making that thing you [and 500(!) other people] have slaved away on for years more successful.

It was in the middle of the Playstation press conference.

It was in those 2 seconds the PS dude talked about Destiny smack-dab in the middle of the Games part of the conference.

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As far as the PS exclusive stuff goes, i'm just as frustrated as everyone else here... Bungie REALLY needs to cease performing fellatio on Sony... it's getting old FAST.

Try finding a publisher willing to dump hundreds of millions of dollars into a project without cutting weird exclusivity deals with various parties.

Alternately, convince gamers at large to stop buying games with associated weird exclusivity deals.

Until then, Bungie is going to continue "performing fellatio" on whatever parties are willing to give Activision money. Yes, the world sucks.

I think this is more that Activision is just trying to milk whatever platform partner it can get. The silence from the MS camp about Destiny is deafening. Find an MS exec who's willing to say they'd be promoting Destiny if only they got a chance... because I haven't seen or heard that, and I don't believe it.

As a crossplatform title in the scifi FPS space, I doubt MS perceives Destiny as being anything other than a threat to Halo, from which they assuredly make more money per unit sold than they would on a nonexclusive, third party title.

Now, if Destiny starts outselling Halo by a handy margin over the next decade, we'll see whether the issue now is that Bungie is giving Sony fellatio, or if MS is giving Bungie the cold shoulder, because I'm betting it's not purely one or the other.

They announced as much on stage at E3 last year didn't they? That strange announcement that seemed ominous that and that nobody would even comment on...

As far as the PS exclusive stuff goes, i'm just as frustrated as everyone else here... Bungie REALLY needs to cease performing fellatio on Sony... it's getting old FAST.
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Did some digging into the net. Found this.

I guess taking over the world isn't as clean as we hoped it would be. This of course might not be the only reason, but I would be willing to consider this a very large cause.

PlayStation growing with Destiny, not the other way around. I thought it was all stuff (read: money) on Sony's part with Bungie responding and reciprocating, but this admittedly small statement indicates Bungie is calling a lot of these shots (in fact, it implies they're calling all the shots, but frankly that would be ridiculous, so I'll take it as meaning this is a two-way street). Of course, maybe whoever wrote that meant to put it the other way around, Destiny growing with PlayStation. Even so, this is quite the relationship they've cultivated, and I can only assume a lot of money (and other stuff) hangs in the balance. So that's Bungie, Activision, SCEA, and a bunch of fans, now, who have hitched their wagons to Destiny's star. I really hope for all our sakes it delivers.

It's right now an awesomely purely scientific type of hero to point at and tell kids, if you're smart enough and reach for the stars you can become one of these people. Annnnd have Distant and near visual acuity: Must be correctable to 20/20, each eye
The refractive surgical procedures of the eye, PRK and LASIK, are allowed, providing at least 1 year has passed since the date of the procedure with no permanent adverse after effects.
Blood pressure not to exceed 140/90 measured in a sitting position
Standing height between 62 and 75 inches

It just doesn't sit right to tack on "and receive some firearm training 'cause you may just have to kill things".

It's also weirdly dissonant as they look like they're wearing regular astronaut outfits rather than armored militarized ones. It's like running around naked with a gun... in space!