Brave “Destiny 2 will have all current and future expansions available on Xbox GamePass, not just the base game. I hadn’t made the connection, even though I realised it was f2p and seemed weird to be in GP in the first place.”
Bear in mind there’s a ‘vaulting’ process happening in D2 early November. ‘Vaulting’ in this case is a euphemism for ’binning off a load of the older content that hardly anyone is actually playing any more so our game isn’t quite so bloated and massive as a download and patching isn’t a chuffing nightmare’.
This means (there is a Bungie blog post about it I’ll get hold of if people want to read the whole thing) the following will basically no longer be accessible
‘The Red War’ i.e. the ‘base campaign’
Warmind and Curse of Osiris expansions
All related content - story missions, raids, etc etc… will basically be gone. Along with (IIRC) the EDZ, Io, Nessus and Mars as game areas. This also means a lot of other stuff - exotic weapon quests, titles and so on - will also be gone, because it will be no longer possible to complete the content required to get them.
So what you’re actually getting is Forsaken and Shadowkeep. Because from November that’s all there will be - and it does seem the plan is for those still to have paid for bits, although you can get a bundle of both for like 20 quid now. The ‘all future expansions’ part is I suspect another bit of careful language. ALL destiny 2 players get ‘access’ to all the expansions as they launch, but there’s a big chunk of content in each expansion that is tied into the expansion’s season pass which you have to pay for and I very much suspect you won’t get free on Gamepass. So look at it this way - if you look at the overall map of D2 today, from November you’ll have access to about half of it - but then so will the people who have been playing since day one. And you’ll get access to new locations in future expansions in the open world, but you almost certainly won’t get access to the story in those expansions and a lot of the ‘stuff’ - armour, guns etc - will be locked behind a paywall too.
So you get a lot of stuff right now, but you’ve got about two months to do a big chunk of it, because then you won’t have those bits any more. Bear in mind of course this is all true of ALL D2 players, even the ones who paid for the base game and the first two expansions at full price. A lot of people are not happy.
D2 is a F2P game now. And, in the round, it’s a fairly generous one IMO. But my reading is what you’re getting free (at least from November onwards) above & beyond other F2P players is actually Forsaken and Shadowkeep. Which is nice, but it’s probably not what they want you think you’re getting…
