I am not an avid player as I use to be, I am married, and just hit my 40th, you can imagine that I don't have the time any more to play like I use to. Before being married, before being engaged, and even before having a girlfriend, and if I wasn't working you'd see me attached to the computer playing games. 10 hours to 20 hours a day if I was let to my own vices. I am now down to 4 to 5 hours a day if I am lucky, and a dozen hours on the weekend. I do a few crucible games, a few runs and play solo by myself when I get tired of the human interaction and lack of communication in game at times, that being said, I got the Ghost Edition because I am a huge Bungie fan. I also pre-ordered games to get the extra skins, etc so I would have the full effect of the game. In any case, I unpacked it and downloaded the game the night it was released. As the game was downloading, I redeemed my codes... and this is where my story begins. I went to the Vanguard Quartermaster, and went to see what I could get since I was told with the “Ghost Edition” I would have first dibs at it… and well, I need to hit level 2 or 3 in Vanguard and have something along the lines of 150 points to even buy the wears… I wonder what everyone else had to do to get it, or did my code not go through? I got the ship, and everything else so far that I knew I was suppose to get… I looked at my Microsoft account on my Xbox one and it showed the code redeemed… so I though Ok… no worries, I’ll just slog along and get the points and ranks required. So far I’ve found that easier said than done with the limited time I can give the game. So I probably won’t see another purple gear in my hand through the vanguard for at least another month. So I beat the game, I played solo because I wanted to say I beat the game myself, and with no help. It was worth it. I got at the end the stranger's gun, at level 17. The gun was a level 16 weapon, other weapons have come and gone through my hands, I still hold a green auto rifle at level 24 because blue auto rifles seem to not exist... So I hit level 20 a little while later, I expected to see my skin, from the COD pre-order… no such luck, unless the royal purple was it? On the box it looked black and gold just like the ship, so was I missing something? I don’t know, I wait and hope a patch will fix these things, but the game seems to be semi-balanced… just not so much that the drops are worthy of the player. I have been playing games where I am playing level 24 while I am a 22/23 player, so I expected to see better drops. I see plenty of greens, a few blues, and a handful of purples… You know how much gear I have that is purple or legendary? None… I would of thought after 4 purple drops you’d at least see one purple item. I wouldn’t care if it didn’t fit my character or not, but just to see one in my possession by now would be great. I know legendary drops are rare for obvious reasons… but I don’t understand why purple drops are. When you hit level 23 and higher you need better gear to survive, sure your stranger’s weapon can hold on for a bit. Once you get a blue pulse rifle the only reason to hold onto The Stranger’s gun is so you can have “auto fire”… which I found out means that you don’t need to keep pulling the trigger, seriously? I digress… The game is good, don’t get me wrong I will be playing it for a long time to come, but I seem to not be getting full advantage of the game… or at least the part I paid for. Is this just me, or has someone else seen this same problem? I will be sending a copy of this to Bungie, but I wanted an open post here to see if people have seen the same issues I have. Does anyone?