In the latest Bungie Mailsack the developer addressed whether players will be able to go solo in Destiny and confrimed you'll never have to take part in multiplayer if you don't want to.
Commenting on the matter, Bungie said "As for playing solo, this question still comes to us a lot, and we're happy to answer it again. The company you keep, the challenges you tackles, the war you wage will all be products of the choices you make.
"If you never want to have a cooperative or competitive expericence in Destiny, and if you want to experience every cinematic in private, you'll have the option. We believe you'll be having way less fun, and we think you may find it really difficult to resist the pull of our cooperative vortex, but when we say we're buidling activities for every mood, that includes players who don't want to party up."
Destiny will have a strong multiplayer component but the news that you can play alone should come as welcome relief to those put off by Respawn's also-online shooter, Titanfall, which does not have any single player capacity.
Earlier today, we reported on Bungie's comments that the studio is "planning for success" with Destiny. The game is set to be released at some point in 2014 for PS3, PS4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One.
