Yeah, I get your point. But the game they had in Y1 was addicting. Not flawless, but it was easily one of the most fun games I've ever played. Top 5, Top 3 even. Game disc never left my 360 until middle of HoW when I got frustrated with POE/Skolas and Bungie's shoddy netcode which prematurely ended a large percentage of my 35 runs. As for people complaining they're "locked out of content?" Bungie went out of their way stressing that this was a social game at the DRE. Its one of the few things I thought they did right with this game - make sure people are aware its a social game not intended to be fully experienced/completed without a team. Nobody is realistically locked out unless they decide they don't want to team up with anyone, or simply can't find a team (likely because of personality conflicts). I don't think these people have a leg to stand on anymore than the kid that can't unlock X gun in Battlefield 1 because he can't get Y number of kills with Z gun in PVP. The content is there just like anyone else. Just because you paid money for the game doesn't mean you have the right to go to the lighthouse or finish the raid, etc. The content is there for you to try all you want (and fail at all you want). Outcomes aren't guaranteed just by virtue of paying the admittance fee. The one argument they DO have, is that this game is set up to create barriers rather than help people get connected. One way they could solve this is by adding in optional matchmaking. In THAT context, they have a legit argument IMO. The bottom line is this: I don't want to impose changes on anyone that people won't enjoy, but I think they can certainly accomodate everyone at all levels of play, regardless of whether they are PVP or PVE oriented. They just need to separate the modes, let people use what they want, play how they want, and add in several different tiers of rewards so that every player at every level has something to play for. DE, which develops a F2P game - Warframe, has found a way to do this and without having the billion dollar backing Bungie has. They have 1/7th the staff of Bungie and yet they continue to find ways to do ALL of these things. So I find myself being entirely unsympathetic to Bungie when they claim they can't do this or that. They can. They just wont.