Man, they know me so well that it's scary.

An instance is when you take a group and go to a place where no other players can appear. A public space is where you open the doors to the wide world.

Yeah Bungie has tried to tell that to multiple interviewers but they seem to hear their explanation and then obviously think "Right, like an instance." If anything the rest of the game aside from the public events is more like an instance.

I am really liking Polygon as a news site, they read more like a magazine or newspaper (in a good way) then like a news aggregator.

They posted an article about the reveal of Destiny and have good tidbits I haven't seen before. Favorite quote in the article is probably:

"In Destiny, if you fly to Mars and just plant yourself in one of the public areas, you'll see people streaming in. You'll see monsters dropping from the sky. You'll maybe even see a monster that shows up once a month, that people have only told you rumors about on forums. But that stuff just happens in our world, and it's pretty magical."

Here's the article.

Yea, generally really good, though what they describe is the opposite of an instance.

"IN AN PC-BASED MMO, THIS WOULD BE CALLED AN "INSTANCE." ON A CONSOLE-BASED SHOOTER, IT'S CALLED A GAME CHANGER."

An instance is when you take a group and go to a place where no other players can appear. A public space is where you open the doors to the wide world.

"We've put some big stakes in the ground way out there, so we know where we're headed, but for this first release ... if you're just talking about the cinematic story campaign, we absolutely know where the first book ends."

It's also one of those things that Bungie has always excelled at -- taking the long view in their storytelling. If you don't know where you're going, it's hard (though not impossible) to write a compelling narrative. I'm glad to see they're doing this again with Destiny. I can't wait to see where this rabbit hole goes.

They posted an article about the reveal of Destiny and have good tidbits I haven't seen before. Favorite quote in the article is probably:

"In Destiny, if you fly to Mars and just plant yourself in one of the public areas, you'll see people streaming in. You'll see monsters dropping from the sky. You'll maybe even see a monster that shows up once a month, that people have only told you rumors about on forums. But that stuff just happens in our world, and it's pretty magical."

Here's the article.