Borderlands was not an open online game, yes you could have people with you, but it wasn't exactly the same. You need to sign in to your PSN, and through your PSN, sign into Destiny to access your character at all, these are not local saves, which makes the world of difference as far as trying to use 2 different characters. Also, the loot distribution system is completely different, you'd probably end up with shared loot, which would break the whole way the loot even works. There's quite a few obstacles here, and it's just not worth it to try and get around. I can think of no game that has online saves that has a split screen feature. And if the saves were local, you're looking at people editing their save files and opening the door to all kinds of terrible things in Destiny.

Okay, thank you for an informative response. It makes sense. Especially the loot system and online saves. Borderlands loot is broken because it's so easy to duplicate weapons to other people.

I voted no simply for the fact that to add split-screen to a game in a update later wouldn't be possible. At least not very easily. The devs would have to rewrite entire parts of code and that could take awhile. I voted for what seems more realistic rather than wishful thinking. We will see what Bungie does. At least they're listening to their community!