Its certainly not ideal, and if Bungie had any other way forwards I'm sure they'd have taken it. As it is, we're here now, a continuous game on an engine that wasnt designed for that. If you ask me, I think this situtation stems right back to the early design upheaval between Bungie and Activision. Remember when they spoke about a 10 year plan and taking your characters and gear forwards throughout the game.... sounds continuous right? Then along comes Activision and start pushing for a release architecture that resembles all their other franchises - [i]sequels.[/i] What cements my suspicions on this is that as soon as Bungie split from Activision, they drop the "2" from the games name and we're on a continuous DLC schedule. I suspect that if that this had been the plan from the start, the game would have been designed to be modular... unfortunately thanks to that ill-fated partnership, we are where we are.