Sony is adding Destiny 2: Legacy Collection to PS Plus on June 9 – the exact same day Bungie drops the game’s final live-service update, as reported by IGN. The collection normally retails at $70, making this one of the more substantial catalogue additions Sony has offered in recent months – and the timing is anything but coincidental.
The Legacy Collection bundles together a significant chunk of Destiny 2‘s paid expansion history: The Final Shape, Lightfall, The Witch Queen, Beyond Light Pack, Shadowkeep Pack, Forsaken Pack, the 30th Anniversary Pack, and three dungeons – Pit of Heresy, Shattered Throne, and Grasp of Avarice, as reported by Kotaku. Fair warning: Edge of Fate and Renegades are not included – those are separate $40 expansions still requiring individual purchase, and content previously removed from the game’s servers remains inaccessible regardless of subscription status.
Here’s the context: Bungie has spent years consolidating Destiny 2‘s sprawling paid content into bundles as the live-service model grew increasingly fragmented – a direct response to the chaos of vaulted campaigns and scattered dungeon keys leaving returning players confused about what they actually owned. The June 9 update, framed internally as the “Monument to Triumph” patch, marks the end of active development on a game that has run for nearly nine years, as covered in our breakdown of Destiny 2’s end-of-support announcement. Bungie has stated the goal is to make the game “a welcoming place for players to return to” even after the live roadmap closes – and dropping the Legacy Collection into PS Plus on that exact date is the clearest possible expression of that intention.
Here’s the real read: This isn’t a goodwill gesture – it’s a managed exit strategy. Sony and Bungie are using PS Plus to lower the barrier to entry on a game whose development just ended, giving subscribers a frictionless on-ramp to campaigns that now function essentially as a fixed single-player library. The community sentiment around Destiny 2‘s sunset has been raw – and adding the Legacy Collection to the subscription catalogue the same day the final update drops reads as Sony trying to soften that landing while simultaneously filling out a catalogue slot with a $70 product that now costs them very little to offer. It’s practical, it’s smart, and it’s a little bittersweet – which is pretty much exactly the mood around Bungie right now.
What remains unclear is whether this addition affects players who already purchased the Legacy Collection outright, and how Sony plans to manage the collection’s long-term catalogue status once the live-service context is fully gone. The other thing to watch is whether the June 9 patch changes pricing or composition of individual content packs in ways that shift the subscriber value calculation. The next concrete signal will come from Bungie‘s post-patch communication on how remaining paid content is structured going forward – worth checking our recent PS Plus catalogue coverage for comparison context as that picture develops.
Are you planning to use the PS Plus access to finally work through Destiny 2‘s campaign backlog now that the live-service pressure is off, or does adding a sunsetting game to the subscription feel more like a farewell wave than a genuine reason to return? Sound off in the comments below, and keep your eyes on GameLuster for more PS Plus and Bungie coverage.
