Missing from this image: thousands of other players

After taking part in Destiny's recent Alpha, we were happy to report that we found the experience completely hassle free. We spent over 25 hours in Bungie's newly created world, and we didn't come across a single connection problem, big or small. It provided a promising glimpse of the full release, but as we all know too well, big games are susceptible to failure when it comes to launching, where hundreds of thousands of players attempt to jump online at roughly the same time.

Thankfully, Bungie is confident that the upcoming sci-fi epic will enjoy a smooth birth. The studio's COO Pete Parsons told Gameindustry.biz that the developer has been "actively preparing" for the inevitably popular release. "It's always scary and exciting and to put your work out in front of people who are judging it but it's also scary to put it out there because you're testing whether it's going to work or not," he contemplated, before placing confidence in the studio's work during the development period: "they've really learned a lot over the last year, so we take it super seriously and we've been planning for a long time". Summing his thoughts up, Parsons concludes that "we will ultimately see what happens but we have every expectation of from moment one having a great experience".

With a title that's, er, destined to be smash hit, it's certainly nice to hear that Bungie has faith in its shooter's performance, but are you ready to put stock in its optimistic outlook? Try desperately to sign into the servers in the comments section below.

[source gamesindustry.biz, via eurogamer.net]