Accessing characters after relinking Steam account
I recently decided to relocate my Bungie account to my primary steam account after playing Destiny 2 on a secondary Steam account--ever since D2 was taken off of the Blizzard launcher several years ago. I had messed up the migration initially because I ended up creating a new Bungie account entirely on my main Steam account and couldn't figure out how to undo it, after which I ultimately decided to create a new Steam account and just migrate my progress from Blizzard there. I finally decided to fix the migration problem because I wanted all my games on one Steam account and unlinked my secondary Steam account (the one I ended up migrating to) and relinked my Bungie account to my main Steam account. The issue is, there is already a save on my main account, I had created a hunter around a year ago on my main Steam account to see what the new light experience was like with some friends, and I even bought some silver so I could get a season pass. Now that I have relinked this Bungie account to my steam account, I can still access my old characters through my secondary Steam account but can only access the new light hunter I created a year ago on my main Steam account. I know that cross-save has a cooldown of 90 days, but do I have to wait 90 days to access my old characters on my main Steam account as well? Do I need to delete my new light hunter too? I'm not trying to migrate all the DLC I've purchased on my secondary steam account, as I intend to repurchase them on my main account and I know you can't migrate purchases, nor do I care about the silver I purchased on the new light hunter, I just want my characters that I have progress on to be accessible from my main Steam account (also I want to make sure I didn't just royally screw up and lose my progress). Can anyone at Bungie Support let me know? Thank you!
Hey there. Characters are tied to the platform account directly, not the Bungie Account they are linked to. A Bungie Account contains your redeemed emblems and Bungie digital rewards, but no actual character data.
That is to say, the characters migrated from battle.net to the secondary Steam account are permanently tied to it, there is no way to move them to another Steam account, and linking/unlinking them from Bungie Accounts won't help because the Bungie Account doesn't hold the characters.
Cross-save can only be set up across different platforms, so it is also not possible to use cross-save to access one Steam's characters through another Steam account.
Cross Save doesn't migrate character data. Your characters will always be on the Steam account they were during the Battle.net transition, and there are no other migration tools available.