[quote]Bungie has clarified with IGN even further saying that yes, your progress will 100% carry over to the sequel.
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[quote]The idea is that the Guardian you have created is something you can bring along with you on that adventure. If you take a look at the way people have played other games for a long period of time, they've had a relationship with the same character for a very long time.[/quote]
http://uk.ign.com/articles/2014/12/07/bungie-wants-player-progress-to-carry-over-to-destiny-sequel
Edit: Added link to interview with DeeJ
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It would be really nice if Bungie made a small icon for our characters in game, that when clicked on would give our stats and other important information. Like hours played, k/d ratio's world rankings. It would be just a simple little bit of noninteractive code introduced into the game code for our toon screens. Simple, sublime and not a big feat. But would do wonders for making longtime guardians want to still play the game. But I guess that goes against Bungies ethics of making all guardians equal to the lowest common denominator. Goodness gracious me! We wouldn't want to offend all the casuals with actually having to play the game for any real amount of time.