Bungie’s next title, Destiny, will be launching next week across both Sony and Microsoft platforms, but only if you have high-speed internet.
Over a year and a half ago, both Bungie’s Pete Parsons and Activision CEO Eric Hirshberg had previously stated that an internet connection would be required to play Destiny. This means that regardless of platform, there would be no option to play the game entirely offline. There’s always an option to play through Destiny by yourself, but Hirshberg had this to say about the multiplayer component when speaking to Shacknews back in February 2013.
[Destiny is online because] that’s the only way to realize the vision of the game. The vision of the game is a shared world first person shooter. In order to make the world shared, you need to be connected.
Destiny has a warning label featured prominently on the front of both the Xbox 360 and Xbox One releases of the game, although the internet requirement notification is hidden on the back of the PS3/PS4 versions at the top of the fine print. Credits for the Destiny packshot go to an anonymous user on imgur.
Destiny launches in North America on September 9th on both Playstation 3 and 4 as well as Xbox 360 and Xbox One. Be sure to check back next week for our full review!
[UPDATE: While an internet connection is required to play Destiny, Playstation Plus is only mandatory for the cooperative/competitive play on PS4 (Strikes, PVP, and Raids). Xbox Live Gold is required for any mode on both Xbox 360 and Xbox One.]
Animate
September 4, 2014 at 10:57 AMPlease correct the headline. You say that you can play as long as you have a connection. Plus and Live are required for multi-player aspects such as Raids, Strikes, and Pvp. You can play the story by yourself if you don’t have a subscription on the new consoles
darklurkr23
September 4, 2014 at 6:07 PMWait so you have to be ONLINE. To play the SINGLE PLAYER game. That’s incredibly stupid. It’s not like it’s a GWG or PS Plus exclusive title. It’s a retail release.
Or maybe it is i dont know tl:dr just assumin
Blah
September 5, 2014 at 6:05 PMUmm having XBL Gold for everything is ass backwards if you only play the SP, why would you not need PSPlus for all of Destiny like on XBOX. I highly doubt you “need” GOLD to play SP in Destiny.
Connor
September 8, 2014 at 11:31 PMI’ve been waiting for this game forever and found out that it is only online just recently cause i don’t have internet readily available most of the time. everything great game seems to be going towards online only nowadays and it sucks. i know a comment won’t change s**t but i just wish that there could always be an option to be offline in every game, especially for those in the military that can’t normally have access to internet most of the time. guess i’ll pick it up when i have a chance to get home now. as far as playing it, it won’t be very often given deployments and underways…
M.S.canEatme
September 9, 2014 at 8:04 PMIt’s bullshit being required to have a Gold membership to play the single player campaign. F.U. Microsoft!!!
Deanpool
September 28, 2014 at 7:52 PMI cant believe sony finally stooped to charging for using the psn network via ps+, and its pointless saying oh thats only for co op or pvp game modes – why the hell else would you play online?