There are some of us who have a lot of time grinding and getting the lucky drop, then there are some of us who doesn't have as much time and/or not as lucky. So Xur provide a means for latter to have a chance to get some thing good and make them feel good playing the game using their new toy. Not everyone has 17 coins all the time, and there is no guarentee that you can get however much you need over 2 days, so not everyone can actually afford it. Even if a lot people have it it just brings a lot people on the even ground. One may argue that this makes exotic seem less powerful, but then if only a few people have it and wrecking the game then there will also be people crying for nerf. There's no difference whether you got it on the 2nd day after launch or after 2 weeks of grinding, because it's all random. Same applies for coin drops, there are only 9 guarenteed coins you can earn if you beat weekly strike on lvl28. That's not enough to buy anything. The rest? Well, it's all random isn't it? And just because you can create 3 lvl20+ characters to get max 27 coins a week doesn't mean everyone would, because not everyone has the same amount of time to play the game. Even beating the raid doesn't 'earn' you anything, because in the same group there might be people who got nothing but shards/energy and there might be people who got other fancy gears. [b]But in no way the latter is more deserving than the former.[/b] So it's still just random. Having the same gear as someone else doesn't make my character less special, my character is special to me because of the way I play it. And it will always be the special character to me. I enjoy playing games full of SUROS users as much as a PvP full of rare users. I can have a good game with a mediocore weapon or a terrible game with Hard Light. In the end, I cannot care less who has what gear, I play my game, you play yours. Why wasting our energy ranting on the forum while we can go back and enjoy the game more? :)