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Bungie: Destiny 2 is Not Supported for Play on the Steam Deck

Bungie: Destiny 2 is Not Supported for Play on the Steam Deck - News

by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 March 2022 / 1,696 Views

Valve has begun shipping out the first units of the Steam Deck, the all-in-one portable PC gaming device.

Bungie has now come out to say that Destiny 2 is not supported to run on the Steam Deck or any platform that uses Steam Play's Proton unless Windows is installed and running.

"Destiny 2 is not supported for play on the Steam Deck or on any system utilizing Steam Play's Proton unless Windows is installed and running," reads the Destiny 2 Steam Guide.

"Players who attempt to launch Destiny 2 on the Steam Deck through SteamOS or Proton will be unable to enter the game and will be returned to their game library after a short time.

"Players who attempt to bypass Destiny 2 incompatibility will be met with a game ban."

Bungie last month released the Destiny 2: The Witch Queen expansion for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC, and Google Stadia. It had over one million pre-orders before it launched.

The Steam Deck has a starting price at $399 and going up to $649. The $399 starting price is for the model with 64GB eMMC internal storage. The $529 model comes with 256GB NVMe SSD internal storage, while the $649 model comes with 512GB NVMe SSD internal storage.

The Steam Deck runs on an AMD APU. The CPU is a Zen 2 4c/8t, 2.4-3.5GHz (up to 448 GFlops FP32), while the GPU has 8 RDNA 2 CUs, 1.0-1.6GHz (up to 1.6 TFlops FP32). The APU uses 4-15W. The handheld also comes with 16 GB LPDDR5 RAM (5500 MT/s).

A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. You can contact the author at wdangelo@vgchartz.com or on Twitter @TrunksWD.


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VAMatt (on 02 March 2022)

I'll reserve judgement until we hear the reasoning behind this.

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Pemalite (on 01 March 2022)

Shame on you Bungie.

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Mr Puggsly (on 01 March 2022)

I imagine any avid gamer buying this wants to install Windows.

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Azzanation (on 01 March 2022)

Might be a Windows compatibly issue since the Steam Deck doesn't run native Windows.

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Chicho Azzanation (on 02 March 2022)

"Players attempting to bypass Destiny 2 incompatibility will be met with a game ban" that sentence tells you is a conscious choice by Bungie.

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G2ThaUNiT Azzanation (on 02 March 2022)

Bungie could’ve chosen to just not support the Deck and users may be able to get the game to work using a workaround or the game just won’t load. But to outright ban players for trying to get the game to work is something else

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VAMatt G2ThaUNiT (on 02 March 2022)

Yeah. That is interesting. That's why I like to hear the reasoning behind this decision before criticizing it too heavily. Doesn't really make sense to ban people for playing your game, unless there's some sort of problem that comes along with it.

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