Going into the beta, I was almost certain the characters wouldn't get carried over. I was totally OK with that and still am. You see, not only did I get a chance to play at least an early version of the game, I helped contribute to making it an even better game, one that I now know for sure that I'll be getting because I got a chance to test-drive it. As far as "losing all my work", I've had to go back and re-do a whole lot more of a released game that I paid full price for from another company because of bugs. And if keeping my firstborn Guardians means bringing bugs into Destiny because the original code and the new code won't play nice together, well. I know what they'd chose.. And if you think about it, they've been dead before, even if they don't remember. That's ok, I'll remember for them when this time around they first hear Ghost's voice and they open their eyes, ready to take on the Darkness in their new improved forms.