Is anyone somewhat upset about this? I think if I had worked hard to rank up during the beta it would annoy me to a certain extent but I can understand the reasoning behind this and think it is for the best.The decision to not have characters from the Beta carry over to the release arose from realizations that improvements made to the game would have rendered the characters nigh unusable. Tyson Green, a designer at Bungie, explains that characters from the Beta ended up in "strange shape that would be confusing at best, broken at worst." This is due to the amount of balancing and tweaking that has been done to the game as a result of feedback from the Beta.