Happened to me. I hit the home button on the XBOX controller, highlighted the game panel that says "Destiny Beta" at the home screen and quit the app exiting the game completely. It took 4 or 5 tries of getting stuck in orbit and then the game finally worked. Of course this is after I had: 1) not hit "launch" while beta downloaded 2) not hit A button repeatedly during tutorial cinematics to try to skip them 3) waited till after finishing tutorial (after you do all the green objectives on the Tower) to join a fire team with my homies 4) made a new character 3 times 5) did a hard reset, unplugged and re plugged everything back in (XBOX, router, etc) 6) went to Settings, then Advanced, then MAC Address, then hit "clear" 7) made sure I was out of any Party during tutorial 8) pulled out some hair Good luck. This was the first major test I faced as a Guardian. Peter Dinky was like "I believe in you Guardian" and I was like "Pshh, where's the love Bungie? Are XBOX owners really the Fallen?, Bungie the Darkness and PS4 owners the Guardians?" and Peter Dinky was like "I don't know man, this is just a phone-in gig for me, leave me out of it". Then I played this sexy game for 12 straight hours without blinking like I took a hit off a crack pipe on the Millennium Falcon. Oh and kinect doesn't work in fire team voice chat. So if you don't have a mic then get one