Destiny, Social Gaming, Shared World, and Numbers

by Cody Miller , Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Tuesday, June 11, 2013, 07:17 (4193 days ago) @ car15

I think Destiny will work in a manner similar to SWTOR, in the sense that the game will be divided into the "public canon" and the "player canon." Certain events (like the public event we saw at E3) will be shared experiences that happen to all Destiny players. Other events, probably the main story events, will be more akin to traditional campaign missions and each player will experience these missions separately within their own personal canons. Hopefully there will be some choice involved a la Mass Effect so that players have a direct impact on the direction of the story. Either way, because each player will be able to complete the main story events separately in their own separate private canons, each player will in fact be a hero... just of their particular canon.

So the world isn't a shared world, just a semi-shared one…