I glitched into the a few of the areas not explorable in the beta and there was a lot more to explore.

DeeJ explains this in his interview, hope this gives some clarity to the scope of how much bigger the game will actually be than in the beta.

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Does no one realize that the warlock had a knife in the first Destiny gameplay? Watch[b] 5:54[/b] and you will see.

I don't think we have even explored half of earth. Or at least I like to think so. Guess we will see in just a few more weeks. [spoiler]so close but so far[/spoiler]

No, don't get carried away. Listen to what he says. *we hope that one day we can send you to* The phrase of note here is 'one day'. That is not release date, or in the DLC, as he 'hopes' this. He would have said 'we will send you too', not hope. Yes the playable space will be eventually... expanded upon. But not at launch or in the 2 DLC's. I can guarantee that. [spoiler]I love destiny and it is large enough in my opinion.[/spoiler]

Great find and wow

i In the video at around 2-3 minutes in he turns around and shows you "older" Russia. Which he said we will one day hope to send you to. And that was in 2013! I have a good feeling that they severely limited us in one mid-size part of old Russia for testing and player feedback for just that one area. Old Russia in Beta size was big, but not even close to more or less the size of Halo: Reach. The full release on 9/9 my guess would come on 2-4 discs, how many depends on the console. You better have a large, open hard drive to install it to. Destiny is going to be a lot bigger than opinions from the Beta! A lot was just blocked off by invisible walls of death.

I think it's going to be quite large....but if I was content playing the beta for as long as u did. I'm sure any addition will make me happy. But on a side note....did anybody else notice the guy in the trailer was a warlock but used a knife for his melee?

Question: Have you found it difficult to get across to people that these small number of locations go really deep? Jonty: Yeah, I mean, when people think of it as being four things, it’s really hard for them to understand the real estate that is there and the complexity of all the different spaces that you can visit. Then, when you add it to another layer, which is that you may be going back to places that are familiar to you, but there’s going to be completely different activities for you to participate in. So you’ll be getting a very different experience even though you get some familiarity. We actually like that property, because we want people to be able to navigate and go through things. So yeah, it’s definitely been very interesting… source: http://www.thesixthaxis.com/2014/08/19/interview-bungies-jonty-barnes-on-destinys-locations-multiplayer-and-beta-testing/ I think its bigger than what people actually think there is

I saw an interview on a website which I think was called the sixth axis, it talked about some guys actually getting out of old Russia and finding new areas to play in.

Yeah there are boundaries now for "old russia" but just like he said that is all playable space, as in potential space that they, as he said again, hope to utilize some day. So maybe in expansions, maybe not the first two planned but maybe after? I'm just saying, this game is going to just keep growing like an mmo, new areas will be unlocked, and people who have played from day one will enjoy it every step of the way.

The playable space is bigger and more intricate than the beta would have led you to believe if you weren't paying close attention....or you only did the story mission. But ALL playable spaces have boundaries....and it is unreasonable not to expect there to be any.