Once Bungie is fully released from the shackles of Activision, I would love to see the ability to play with your friends, regardless of which platform they are on and to allow a single, unified account with your three characters attached to it. This would mean that you could purchase the game on however many platforms you would like, but your characters would always be the same, and you could also play with whatever group of friends you want, whenever you want. This could be achieved by having the user link and/or sign in to their Bungie.net account with the player's current choice of platform (PC, XBox, PS) once they launch the game for the first time. Think of something similar to what Ubisoft does with their Assassin's Creed games and their online user accounts/profiles. No more would be the days of grinding 6-9 different characters on 2-3 separate platforms simply because some industry and publishing leaders say that you're not allowed to do that (with a little bit of technical difficulties mixed in).
-Cross-platform fireteams should be limited to PvE-only activities by default for console players, with the option to turn that restriction off. Similar to how PUBG and Fortnite are setup (I think, I've never actually played either of those but I hope you get my point)
And secondly, NO MORE PLATFORM-SPECIFIC EXCLUSIVES!!! This would actually have to happen first in order for cross-platform play to be possible when you're talking about fairness in gameplay.
Final note- I do not expect, or even think it's possible, for Bungie to be able to implement something like this anytime soon, or even during the lifetime of Destiny 2. But when Destiny 3 comes out, I, and many others, will be very disappointed if these two things (along with many others) are not implemented on day one of D3.
Please upvote in the hopes that someone important at Bungie will see/hear about these suggestions and wonderful requests. ;)
Congrats Bungie on your recent announcement, I am so happy for you and for this community! See you starside, Guardians.
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I agree with no more exclusives but I say no to cross play.