OP is on welfare.

What!? A company is trying to make money off customers!? The whole world will fall into anarchy.

I don't understand. We get 4 free boxes a week potentially, one is given, the other three need various amounts of playing involved. These free boxes hold the same items as the paid boxes. We have identical chances of getting these items regardless of where the boxes come from. Without spending a penny and with some luck, I could get every piece of armour and the ships in maybe two months. If I don't want to wait that long to potentially get the armour I can spend money to get it. What I don't understand is how this is as bad as other mircotransactions? Have you ever played Warframe? I put 200 hours into that game and the whole time I was piggybacking on a team of people who had put way more time in and a lot of money. I never spent a penny and got some pretty decent gear. However I didn't get a single prime weapon or frame, I worked singlehandedly to crate, manage and build my own clan and dojo from craft and didn't manage to even get one of the weapons from the dojo labs, let alone all the rooms required to build it all. I was helped hugely, yet I barely kept up and had to deal with the basics and in that time I'd become a monster but only in part. If I had the money I could have had the room to store more frames, weapons, everything. Bit I could only hold 3 frames and only 12 weapons. Going back to Destiny, every single armour piece in the game is free, every single gun in the game is free, we have 164 slots IN VAULT to store the armour, and 164 slots for weapons. The grind to get these weapons is nothing compared to Warframe, at least there's no mass time gating on waiting for my exotic to be built out of 3 separate parts that I had to g oto three separate end game activities in order ti collect as well ad grind the same. Mission hundreds of times over to get the resources to build the weapon. Each part took at least 12 hours to build. The Warframe's were worse; you basically had to wait a week to build them and that's if you had all the super rare resources that only came from specific end game activities. I did all of this. I could have caved and spent money but no. I put a lot of time into that game and in reality I didn't have a whole lot to show for it. Destiny players have more than stories to tell; we have the weapons, the armour and the completed activities that show we bested the content. In Warframe there was only one thing that showed you were the best and it required weeks of prep and grind to, unless you payed money. And it wasn't a couple of pounds either. It was 30 pounds for a warframe. A Prime warframe that was better than anything non paying people could get without hundreds of hours of grinding. So don't talk to me about Destiny being a cash grab. You don't understand.

What's more pathetic is a studio of 500 people can only put out at 15 level light increase and an updated poe in 7 months...

To the naysayers. I believe there is a qualitative difference from selling a product than getting people to throw money at virtual slot machines. Actually now that I think about it, the old arcades were basically solely there to extract money from players. Old arcade games were much harder than home consoles so you had to keep pumping quarters in. Discuss...

"Sole reason" >they balanced some stuff and let us get updated y1 legendaries from reward packs smh

It's a more common practice than you think. I'm just shocked the company that created the Master Chief has gone down this road :(

This x1000. Yet they still can't get dedicated servers. Guess Luke Smith was right you all did throw your money at the screens. Fuc[b]king[/b] morons.