I,ve heard not all previous content eg strikes/raids is not available ?. Please correct me if I.m wrong.

Not really, although it's all the DLC's the problem is Bungie effectively invalidate all the previous content when they release a new DLC so it means all you get in reality from the the base game and previous DLC's are a few story missions and base level strikes which I'd say are the worst part of Destiny. The story missions are largely dull and lack any interesting design and the story in general with Destiny is terrible. Where the game really shines is in the six person raids and unfortunately Bungie have left the older raids to gather dust, they haven't been updated in any way so the equipment from the first two raids (Vault of Glass and Crota's End) and Prison of Elders ( the three person horde mode in House of Wolves) is useless for current content. Plus because you can use much higher level armour and weapons, they're much easier than they used to be. Since there's no reward for doing the older raids, few people do them now and the raids are complex, it takes time to learn the mechanics and they're fun so it's something you want to do repeatedly - you need six people in total (I know less for the first two but not with beginners) and at this point in the game that's going to be difficult to find.

Also specific events which occurred during the DLC have all stopped since that DLC finished - during the Dark Beyond you'd get Hive spawns attacking in patrol, house of wolves you'd get wolf packs attacking etc.

What you're really getting here is Rise of Iron with some extra back content if you're bored but don't think you're getting a huge amount of content like you would with a normal game of the year edition where there's tons of gameplay time in the DLC. It's frustrating as Vault of Glass and King's Fall are fantastic gameplay experiences and it seems completely crazy not to bring them forward with Rise of Iron to give people a much wider choice of activities.

John

theres a lot of people playing this game at all time and at all levels, I started a new char and replayed all the first games few weeks back, still brilliant. when I was trying to download the dlc that came out recently I was put in place 284000 to wait for the download.. so there no shortage of players at any one time. Its a truly awesome game, highly recommend.

It's not to bad for the base game. You get the base story which is not all that good. You have the base map packs and game modes which are ok and plenty of people to play against. Base Strikes and raids as well. It's decent if you can get it for around £5. Easily find 15 hours of content in the base game. Also max rank in base game is 38. So you can't use exotic weapons I believe.

But the 4 DLC packs do add a lot more to the game.

Honestly, if you're interested in this game I'd just go ahead and buy the collection. You won't be able to access all the good stuff; including exotic weapons as your level cap won't allow you to equip them.

EDIT: Heat added, shame the price isn't the same for the Xbox.

​You can actually play the demo up to level 20. Completely free!