As a lot as I feel Destiny 2‘s Guardian Games is a disappointing grind-o-rama, I need to concede that the occasion’s merch is cool. For every of the three lessons, Bungie are promoting just a little supporter’s pack with a shawl, a felt pennant, and an enamel pin. I don’t purchase merch however even I’ll concede that’s fairly neat. Bungie are good at merch usually, and I do like how some if the fanciest gadgets are locked behind in-game accomplishments or achievements. If you need to purchase the t-shirt, you want to have been there and achieved that.
The Hunter, Titan, and Warlock Guardian Games Boxes are three such gadgets. As is the way in which with challenge-gated merch, it has a default worth of €777,777 (£675ok) however taking part in sufficient Guardian Games to earn the occasion’s Ghost shell additionally will get a code bringing it all the way down to €50 (£43). Still expensive however hey, that’s merch, child.
Earned merch is intelligent. Trinkets and shirts are a method for folks to have a good time their fondness for a game whereas not taking part in, so merch celebrating your in-game accomplishments is doubly neat. Even if accomplishments in Guardian Games are simply grinding tedious bounties grumble grumble.
This isn’t simply in occasions. Bungie additionally promote particular jackets to gamers who full new raids quickly after they launch, on the level the place they’re nonetheless novel and a good problem. Here’s (clearly a mock-up of) the Crown Of Sorrow raid jacket:
That’s respectable, as video game merch goes. I do know somebody in my raid group purchased the Garden Of Salvation raid jacket. Bungie are usually good at clothes which aren’t clearly ghastly video game merch. Sure they do promote t-shirts with the game’s name and that, however a lot is far more refined. Here’s the £40 flannel shirt you should buy this season after finishing the hunt to get a brand new quad-barrelled shotgun, The Fourth Horseman:
Even with the heads of a decadent, planet-drinking alien emperor on the shoulderblades, that’s nonetheless principally a plain ol’ shirt. I feel you’d want a sure type to drag it off, however it may work should you had been so inclined.
It’s not simply clothes both. They additionally promote pin badges to gamers who earn in-game titles by finishing sure achievements. Neat little issues.
Though should you performed sufficient Gambit Prime to qualify for the Reckoner title pin in time, frankly Bungie ought to’ve despatched you that badge at no cost. There was an actual battle.
I can not stress sufficient: I don’t purchase merch. I nonetheless assume that is cool. Having been there, achieved that, and acquired the t-shirt would possibly earn you bragging rights in sure circles (I don’t know) however principally it makes merch extra particular to the particular person shopping for it.
