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You Can Join the Destiny 2 Beta Right Now Without a Pre-order

ByWesley Scott 19 July 2017

For those of you itching to jump into the Destiny 2 beta but (rightly) unwilling to put money down for the promise of a product unfulfilled, there’s a way you can get started without giving Activision your $5.

Simply register a Taiwanese PSN account by creating a new user on your PS4. You don’t need to purchase PS+ or anything; simply enter some details including a zip code and prefecture in Taiwan, give them an email address to verify (if you’re on Gmail you can just add +taiwan to the end of your address like this: myemailaddress+taiwan@gmail.com) then download the beta from the PSN store under that user profile. Once it’s on your system you can play it from any account including your UK or US account.

I just jumped in this morning and can confirm it definitely works. As for the game itself? Whoooooo boy… uh… that’s for a whole other post. Suffice it to say, if you remember how Destiny originally launched, with a beta that promised nothing and delivered even less, you may wanna buckle up buttercup, because we’re going around again.

Wesley Scott

Wesley is a writer and actor living in Chicago in a tiny studio apartment who spends his days gaming, reading comic books, watching TV and occasionally going to his day job. He's been playing games since the Atari 2600, has owned every major Nintendo system, and thinks Chrono Trigger is the greatest game ever made. He plays everything he can get his hands on except for sports titles, racing simulators and RTS games.