Following the end of a successful beta session for their upcoming open-world first-person shooter title, Destiny, Bungie has now turned its attention on explaining to the gaming community why there is only one destination per planet in the final product.
Bungie’s community manager Eric ‘Urk’ Osborne went into extensive detail on a NeoGAF post as to why Destiny will only feature one destination or playable map per planet:
“Oh, hello.
“Destiny’s pretty big. It’s the biggest game we’ve ever made, by far, and we’re sort of known for making games you can play for months, years, and even decades if you’re a little bit…dedicated.
“With Destiny, we’re looking to exceed what we’ve done before, not just in terms of scale – the Moon is our smallest destination – but in terms of scope and breadth of activities. That’s true for day one, as you expect, but it also means we want Destiny to have super long legs.
“If we’re fortunate enough to have you playing months after launch, you still find lots of compelling stuff to do. That will manifest itself in a myriad of ways, from straight up content to cool activities we’ve yet to show off.
“We think we did a decent job supporting Halo, post launch, but we were only ever able to cater to the competitive set. That left a lot of players out in the cold. That made a lot of the team grumpy. We wanted to do better. So, Destiny is philosophically built support every type of player, and all modes with ongoing activities and events. We look at it quite a bit like television programming, as opposed to a singular film, as we had in the past. We think it’s gonna be pretty great, but we wanted to test out a bunch of our new stuff with Beta, to make sure we could flip knobs and levers live, reacting and responding with lots (and, ho boy, did we see LOTS) of players online and playing.
“Beta was water wings. Level 8 is nothing. You barely scratched the surface, and it seems like some folks had fun with what was there.
“If you did, good news. More soon.”
Destiny‘s beta featured areas that were restricted to the player, which would either be guarded by enemies that were immune to attacks or locked by Bungie.
Destiny is scheduled for release on September 9th for PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One.
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