I believe they have confirmed that is the situation for xbox 360 and playstation 3. They gave the players a warning and a timeframe to transfer to a new console but I believe that time is up now. Also not everyone had the next generation consoles at that time, or even now.

Same for me, all but rank seven :(.

One question, can I beat it to make it farm relic iron. If the answer is yes then I still want my own character in destiny two :(

As for me, sorry for butting in. I would want my old character still. A new race might convince me to make a second character but my primary would still be my warlock. I thought in a few interviews we were told that our characters would carry over, because of that information I focused on just one character and became…

Did they not tell us that our characters would be in Destiny 2, if this story is correct I am deeply let down, I poured excessive amount of time into one character instead of 3 because I assumed that was who I would be for 10 years... Feels bad.