Bungie Explains Destiny’s One Destination Per Planet Issue

<p>Following the end of a successful beta session for their upcoming open-world first-person shooter title&comma; <em>Destiny<&sol;em>&comma; Bungie has now turned its attention on explaining to the gaming community why there is only one destination per planet in the final product&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Bungie&&num;8217&semi;s community manager Eric &OpenCurlyQuote;Urk’ Osborne went into extensive detail on a<a title&equals;"NeoGAF" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;neogaf&period;com&sol;forum&sol;showthread&period;php&quest;p&equals;122942974&num;post122942974" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank"> NeoGAF post<&sol;a> as to why <em>Destiny <&sol;em>will only feature one destination or playable map per planet&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Oh&comma; hello&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Destiny’s pretty big&period; It’s the biggest game we’ve ever made&comma; by far&comma; and we’re sort of known for making games you can play for months&comma; years&comma; and even decades if you’re a little bit…dedicated&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;With Destiny&comma; we’re looking to exceed what we’ve done before&comma; not just in terms of scale – the Moon is our smallest destination – but in terms of scope and breadth of activities&period; That’s true for day one&comma; as you expect&comma; but it also means we want Destiny to have super long legs&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;If we’re fortunate enough to have you playing months after launch&comma; you still find lots of compelling stuff to do&period; That will manifest itself in a myriad of ways&comma; from straight up content to cool activities we’ve yet to show off&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;We think we did a decent job supporting Halo&comma; post launch&comma; but we were only ever able to cater to the competitive set&period; That left a lot of players out in the cold&period; That made a lot of the team grumpy&period; We wanted to do better&period; So&comma; Destiny is philosophically built support every type of player&comma; and all modes with ongoing activities and events&period; We look at it quite a bit like television programming&comma; as opposed to a singular film&comma; as we had in the past&period; We think it’s gonna be pretty great&comma; but we wanted to test out a bunch of our new stuff with Beta&comma; to make sure we could flip knobs and levers live&comma; reacting and responding with lots &lpar;and&comma; ho boy&comma; did we see LOTS&rpar; of players online and playing&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Beta was water wings&period; Level 8 is nothing&period; You barely scratched the surface&comma; and it seems like some folks had fun with what was there&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;If you did&comma; good news&period; More soon&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-youtube layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"500" height&equals;"281" data-videoid&equals;"y2Jx5&lowbar;&lowbar;c1lY" title&equals;"Official Destiny E3 Gameplay Trailer"><a placeholder href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;youtube&period;com&sol;watch&quest;v&equals;y2Jx5&lowbar;&lowbar;c1lY"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i&period;ytimg&period;com&sol;vi&sol;y2Jx5&lowbar;&lowbar;c1lY&sol;hqdefault&period;jpg" layout&equals;"fill" object-fit&equals;"cover" alt&equals;"Official Destiny E3 Gameplay Trailer"><&sol;a><&sol;amp-youtube><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>Destiny<&sol;em>&&num;8216&semi;s beta featured areas that were restricted to the player&comma; which would either be guarded by enemies that were immune to attacks or locked by Bungie&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>Destiny<&sol;em> is scheduled for release on September 9th for PlayStation 3&comma; PlayStation 4&comma; Xbox 360 and Xbox One&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Via&colon; <a title&equals;"Bungie Responds to Fans Disappointed About One Destination Per Planet in Destiny" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;playstationlifestyle&period;net&sol;2014&sol;07&sol;28&sol;bungie-destiny-map-response-eric-osborne&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">PlayStation LifeStyle<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>What are your thoughts on the news&quest; Did you enjoy the beta&quest; Let us know in the comments&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;