Xbox 360 silver

by Stephen Laughlin , Long Beach, CA, Friday, May 17, 2013, 01:05 (4218 days ago) @ narcogen

Yes, they have. They've said you need to be online. So if you put the disc in and yank out the ethernet cable, you can't play.

They have also said that this doesn't mean you have to play multiplayer or coop, and that you can play solo in a single-player campaign.

I'm guessing there will be some kind of secondary login specific to Destiny, the same way EA has their separate login system in Mass Effect 3. The difference would be that while you only need to do that login in ME3 to access DLC or online multiplayer, in Destiny you'll need to do it to play at all, even the solo campaign-- but you can still play the solo campaign without enabling the kind of drop-in, drop-out coop that the game seems to have been designed specifically for.

Man, I'm all for trying new things, but I must admit it's going to feel weird playing a Bungie game that just plain doesn't allow people to play unless they're connected to the internet. I don't want to jump to any conclusions but I'm really curious about the details. E3 can't come soon enough.