I feel like Bungie is forcing you to buy things now. I got o. Thinking that there were going to be all these new things like armors and weapons and great things; I was so excited. Then I get on and look at everything, and every piece of legendary armor or weapons require TTK. Which is really a let down because it felt like I HAD to buy a brand new game to continue playing one that I had since last year. With the other DLCs, it was fine because they added new things and the only things that were restricted if you didn't own The Dark Below or House of Wolves were things that pertained solely to those expansions (i.e. Eris Morn items and Crota's End loot, Variks and Petra's items and PoE exotic weapons). I could still play the game just fine, just doing dailies, weeklies, and the Nightfall when it wasn't DLC strikes. Now they've taken out the good stuff and dropped trash for us gamers who don't want or haven't gotten TTK. I'm basically playing for blue engrams and gaining +10 reputation for a single Legacy Strike. Oh yeah, I can play in the Crucible, but why? I can't have rewards for doing my part in reaching high rank to buy weapons and gear. Nope. Now they took out Vanguard and Crucible Marks to put in Legendary Marks, but, you guessed it, you can only earn them by playing TTK-related strikes and missions! You know, apart from dismantling year two items you were lucky enough to snag from high rank packages, which you can only look at for a few seconds before deciding 'well, I'm not going to need this, as cool as it looks' before you dismantle it and look at the three marks you got from it in victory, but also regret. The only thing we have now without TTK is... well, missions we've done before with the old weapons we already have wearing the old gear we've had and supers we've had. They might've gave the year one people a new shader, emblem, and sparrow, but is that really enough to keep people from leaving because they can virtually no longer play the game for the rewards they want? I don't know, but I've read that a lot of people were leaving because of no game to play. Personally, I could understand restrictions a lot of stuff over the huge expansion of TTK, but not locking up the whole game and forcing people to spend forty more dollars, which is basically no longer a choice. When The Dark Below and House of Wolves hit, I played the game without a problem because neither DLC interfered with my gaming at all. And when I had extra money, I bought the two and enjoyed it. Not because I needed them to play Destiny like a regular game, but because I simply wanted them now that I could afford them. Maybe I don't understand marketing because I don't have a degree in selling people stuff, but I find it hard to understand why I HAVE to pay forty dollars to play my favorite game again. All we have now is story, strikes that don't reward anything we need, and VoG (Crota's End and/or PoE for those of you who have the expansions). So much things are missing from Destiny now and I can't do a thing. I looked at everything the vendors had to sell and simply thought to myself 'too bad I'm poor'. People who own TTK are probably just tired of seeing all the rants and just want us to shut up, which is agreeable, I'd hate people complaining over something nonsensical, but they don't see things from our point of view. Bungie dropped the expansion and said 'You didn't buy The Taken King? Well, have fun playing another game until you can spare forty dollars, kid.' Ha ha, the struggles.