My one and only reason: betas typically run on old code. The 9/9 game will be the most cutting edge code so the character I built a week+ ago was obsolete when I built him. To bring him up to date sounds like a bad situation in the making, if not for me then someone. Then Bungie has to put out these little fires all over the place because people's beta characters are glitching. This will then steal resources from the live game carrying over something essentially dead; the beta code. In short, the game should be an entire experience, not a chapter started in July to be continued in September. I don't care about the character because [i][b]I[/b][/i] was playing and exploring and having fun, not it.