Confirmed: Beta characters will not transfer to full game

[hebbnh]

Well, it's official.  From the weekly update:

If the rest of you haven’t gathered the painful truth from the eulogy yet, our Beta characters won’t transfer to the final version of Destiny. The vaults have been cleaned out, too.

I'm fine with it because I only got 15 or so hours in and didn't grind for anything, but I imagine some people who put in a lot of effort to get some of the higher-end stuff aren't going to be too thrilled.  How are y'all feeling about it?

[Dumien]

SALTY

[volgon]

Aug 8, 2014 20:12:20 GMT -5 hebbnh said:

Well, it's official.  From the weekly update:

If the rest of you haven’t gathered the painful truth from the eulogy yet, our Beta characters won’t transfer to the final version of Destiny. The vaults have been cleaned out, too.

I'm fine with it because I only got 15 or so hours in and didn't grind for anything, but I imagine some people who put in a lot of effort to get some of the higher-end stuff aren't going to be too thrilled.  How are y'all feeling about it?

Shouldn't surprise anyone, though I supposed console players don't have much experience with betas. It's pretty rare for progress to be carried over to the live game, I can't think of one game offhand that did that actually.

[hebbnh]

Yeah, I went in assuming that nothing would carry over, but it seems like a lot of people were under a different impression for whatever reason.

[wittyscorpion]

As I mentioned earlier: I believe that the decision was made at the very beginning. No game has done that before, and it is less controversial.

IMHO they just did not want to say it during beta for the purpose of keeping people playing.

[Dumien]

Many games with cash shops keep beta stuff too.

[mannon]

Firefall wiped characters a few times during beta, but then kept characters from the last phase of beta and didn't do a wipe for release. Of course that game has been in beta so long it only made sense.

I believe for Destiny they originally said that beta characters would not transfer, but then there were rumors that something might. I think that Bungie might have actually considered letting us keep something, but then they started tweaking based on the beta results and it no longer seems like a good idea.

I got my three characters up to level 8, got all but one of the golden chests on all of them, (got disconnected doing Devil's Lair for the last one and then didn't have a chance to play again before beta ended). Two had nice ships too, and I rather liked my scout rifle and my shotgun, they were lovely...

But then, those were only green items, which in the release version will be merely transitory items. The best weapons we had access to in beta will be weapons we would only use for a little while in release, then trade up as soon as we can to something better. And getting level 8... no big deal at all.

Part of me wishes we could keep our guardians in some form or another, even if they had to be stripped back down to level 1. But then, if that's all we really want then we can remake them. I'm kind of glad they wiped them. I always figured the game would change enough that I'd want to play it over again from the beginning, and this saves me the painful choice of having to delete them myself.

[tooros]

I had two lvl 10 blue items in that vault. Damn.............

[mannon]

Yeah, me too. Got lucky with engrams... or unlucky. ;p Oh well. I wasn't that many hours in despite all that. Progression is actually pretty fast in Destiny, unless they nerf that for release.

[tooros]

I'm sure that nerf happened from alpha to beta. Again: possible placebo effect but I think it took longer to get to 8 2nd time around.