I agree. I understand the benefits, its possible the world isn't even on the disk and we have to access it from their servers allowing for expansion and larger worlds possible than on disk. They could seamlessly add content (although so few studios would give content away for free). There are plenty of options with such an architecture, but I agree, always online games are pretty unforgiving for people without internet, or people with spotty internet. I am pretty sure they've explicitly stated its always online, but I could be wrong. I am curious what happens if you have an Xbox live silver account. You can connect and access many of Xbox Live's features, but you can't connect to other people. Does that mean we can play Destiny, but it will be [b][i]empty???[/i][/b]