How does Bungie plan to handle splintering?

by FyreWulff, Wednesday, May 22, 2013, 04:16 (4212 days ago)

With the news of the Xbox One today not supporting 360 <-> One crossplay, this is what we're looking at now for totally isolated Destiny playerbases:

PS3
PS4
360
XBO

Considering Destiny's persistence, how to they plan to handle sustain for Destiny with this setup?

If Destiny has a playlist setup for competitive multiplayer, will the playlist always be the same regardless of platform, or will they adjust playlists per-platform to accomodate where the population goes? To use a Halo example, if Team Actionsack is really popular on PS3 but MLG is really popular on PS4 and the playlists are tanked out on the other platform, do they delete MLG on PS3 and delete Action Sack on PS4?

In cooperative, will they adjust the experience on a global level or do you think they'll tailor the experience to what each playerbase prefers? Say for example if Mars is really popular on 360 but Venus has absurdly high population on XBO, do they split new mission content across the planets or have entirely split teams focusing on that platform's sustain?

I've got some solutions in mind but I wonder what everyone else thinks. Would you prefer a unified experience across platforms or would you prefer Bungie cater to each pool of players individually?


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