*sigh* Here we go again. [quote]It's actually more fair in that it is completely random. Everyone has the same chance. There's no modifiers, there's no skill numbers taken into account, nothing. Pure, random, rewards. That's the very definition of fairness. What would be unfair would be to only give rewards, or only give the good rewards, to the players who perform the best. This would create a very large disparagement between the players, and a very large separation of the Crucible player base. The best players are most likely already using better gear (or are much higher level) than the players who do not have the gear or levels under their belt yet. So the gear helps their skill to come out on top in the match. Then if we give those top-performing players even better gear, and give the lower level/lower geared players nothing or crap gear; then the next match the already good players will do even better (they did just receive some kick-ass gear), and the lower people will do even worse due to getting nothing. Over the course of time (and it wouldn't take long at all), there would be an insurmountable gap between the better players and the lower players. This gap would be insurmountable because the lower ranked players would never get better gear because regardless of skill, the higher ranked players would be getting constantly better and better gear which leaves the lower players as nothing but target practice for those higher ranked players. This type of segregation and favoring would be so divisive that it would actually drive people from the game. New players would have no hope of doing well because they'd never get any good gear at all, so they would quit playing after a short time. This is an issue that has killed may FPS games in the past, and that doom would repeat here. For the sake of fairness of competition, having an RNG assign after-match rewards in a completely random manner is the best thing that could happen to this games multiplayer.[/quote]