There's plenty of DLC planned for Destiny, most notably the incoming expansion, The Dark Within. With some unfinished DLC areas already accessible to intrepid explorers, there has been some that have speculated that Bungie had perhaps held back content and are repackaging IT as DLC.
"No," Bungie's Harold Ryan said in a recent interview when asked if finished content had been held back. "Eris and her story were built over the last three months, long after the game was done. For example for The Dark Below, that included the activities and the bosses and all of the polish of it.
"There's a bunch of shared-world content we've shipped on the disc specifically to limit download sizes for people. Both inside the US and all over the world, how much you download on your local home internet connection can be a problem, and even how much storage space it takes up on your console.
"So we share a lot of assets across all the activities in the game. When people get into areas that aren't unlocked right now, they're seeing pieces we built and shipped ahead of time, but they're by no means the finished experiences or even the finished content."
Ryan also confirmed in the same interview that the expansion's story would be structured differently to the main campaign, with the studio reacting to fan feedback in the wake of September's release:
"The structure of the story in this expansion is different than the story in the core game. Looking at how the story plays and how we wanted to repackage it and reacting to fan feedback, we're taking a different approach to the story in this one. So it's going to be driven in a very interesting way for players, as you meet with Eris in the Tower and follow her guidance through the story."
Ryan later added: "What you'll see in this expansion, it's going to be a very different approach to telling a new story to players than the thematically-driven story from the original launch of the game. It's going to feel much more loot driven and story driven in that it's going to feel faster-paced with more action as you go through it, and with exposition. The important thing about Eris is, this story is going to be her story, and she's going to send you on a mission that's a lot of fun."
The Dark Within, the first of at least two Destiny expansions, is set to appear across all four platforms on December 9.