You purchase the game. You play for 1 hour and get a Legendary Engram. You turn it in and receive Red Death. You earned it. You put in the time to get the Engram to drop. You played the game. You earned it. You purchase the game. You play for 500 hours and get a Legendary Engram. You turn it in and receive The Last Word. You earned it. You put in the time to get the Engram to drop. You played the game. You earned it. You purchase the game. You play for 100 hours and do a Nightfall Strike and receive Patience and Time as a reward. You earned it. You put in the time to get your Patience and Time. You played the game. You earned it. You purchase the game. You play for 1220 hours and purchase Universal Remote from Xûr. You earned it. You put your time into gathering the strange coins necessary to purchase it. You played the game. You earned it. You purchase the game. You play 18 hours and purchase Ruin Wings from Xûr. You earned it. You put your time into gathering the strange coins necessary to purchase it. You played the game. You earned it. Whether you receive your items from Raids, Nightfalls, Strikes, Engrams, or Xûr, you earned the item. You put time in, no matter if it was 10 minutes, or 1000+ hours. You put the time into the game to get your items. That is earning. That is work. /thread TL;DR [b]Go Fück Yourself[/b] Edit One: Fun thought. People complain about players HAVING certain weapons, yet they will counter complain themselves during a group event by complaining that players DON'T have the weapon BUT they don't want it to be sold..? [b]MAKE UP YOUR MINDS.[/b] Edit Two: I appreciate all of the support every here has given, as well as any possible criticism. Except that tears guy, thanks for that post. 4/10 got me to notice. Everyone else, continue to spread this like wildfire. Guardians are capable of amazing things. Do work. Have yourself a good time, and to everyone getting their first Thunderlord today, or even their first [b]ANYTHING[/b] today, enjoy it. You earned it! [b][i][u]Time for bed, it's 7AM.[/u][/i][/b]