Players using older consoles to adventure in Destiny will soon discover that they’re being moved to the kids table, unable to enjoy the latest offerings — including the new expansion.
Bungie announced that Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 consoles are scheduled to make up Destiny’s “legacy consoles,” servers that will be shut out of Rise of Iron when it comes to the game later this summer and any future updates. Additionally, legacy servers and the main servers (Xbox One and PlayStation 4) will no longer be able to share accounts or character progress after August, but will instead splinter off into different paths.
In other words, Destiny on the older consoles will be switching over to a kind of maintenance mode. The studio posted a list of details about what will and will not be available when the change happens.
“Our goal is always to bring every player from this awesome community along for the ride as we continue the story of Destiny, but we will also continue to support players who elect not to upgrade their console hardware,” Bungie said. “Up to this point, player progression between current and legacy consoles in the same family has been shared by each account. This summer, that experience will fork onto two separate paths that will no longer share progression.”
