If you think bungie is doing this for your benefit...think again. Naiveté + Denial + Addiction + Ignorance + Low standards + Corporatism Loyalty + lack of intelligence (basic economics concepts and corporate principles) + Lack of skepticism + lack of self inspection/evaluation = $$$ for bungievision Honestly...with the lack of content in year 1 for equivalent of 40$ (us) 70$+ (aus). Do you really think you are going to get better more quality/depth driven content with this Micro Transaction + Free Content bs? I know i'm starting to sound like alex jones but hear me out. If destiny had come out as a monthly paid subscription. The game would have died in the first 2 months. People would have cancelled their subscription when they realized how bungievision had straight up lied to them about this game. The false advertising was through the roof, I guess Aliens Marines gets trashed but when its bungie . . . So they pushed out TDB and HOW as expansions. Major backlash as it was evident that these DLC brought very little content for the asking price BECAUSE we could accurately [b]quantify[/b] and[b] compare[/b] content with price. This also allowed us to compare destiny dlc with other games such as borderlands and wow dlc. In which destiny fell well short in terms of delivering content. ( [i]Thats why most bungie fanboys live in [b]denial[/b] because our criticisms where backed up by objective facts and logical comparisons. All the fanboys could do attack with ad homonyms.[/i] ) The bungie devs understood this as every DLC saw massive amounts of player drop off. They knew that this method would not be viable especially when they want to peddle destiny 2 next year. So what they essentially have done is taken all of the pressure to provide meaningful dlc that can be [b]logically[/b] and[b] objectively[/b] be [b]criticized[/b] but instead provide [i]"free"[/i] content for next year. [b]Understand[/b] that Bungie has basically made it [b]impossible[/b] to [u][i]criticize[/i] [/u]the most glaring factor for their game...CONTENT/PRICE. This is unbelievably [i]genius[/i]. Bungie will look like benevolent, kind, giving and caring developer as they shower us with "free" content while the indoctrinated masses will of course fall for this hook line and sinker. The very nature of "free" content makes criticism of that "free" content practically impossible. It takes any amount of responsibility, accountability and rudimentary levels of quality and throws them into the trash. They basically made this game criticism proof ...incredibly ingenious (look up this word). I can see it now, any complaints about any future content will go like this: Malphisto: logically and rationally criticizes one of the "free" missions that bungie releases. Rabid-Fanboy: SHUT UP ITS FREE CONTENT YOU HAVE NO RIGHT STFU U DIDNT EVEN PAY YOU ENTITLED . . . Malphisto: but hey look at this compared to that. . . ModeratePlayer: Hey man I understand your point but this content is "FREE" before you had to pay . . . Bungie cares now bro, they are not ripping us of anymore. I'd rather have this "free" content (aka repetitive re-skin reused map re used assets missions) than paying 40$ . . . and it goes on. I guess Luke Smith really was telling the truth. Micro-Transactions is the[b] definition[/b] of throwing money at the screen for no conceivable worth in terms of actual content. Mind=Blown. Luke Smith tried to warn us, he really did. Little did we know he was the harbinger of truth. [i][/i] Destiny will turn into COD. Trust me the micro transactions will become more egregious and obvious as time goes along. Soon anything worth a damn in destiny will be micro transactions. 1) Soon things like (sexy as f) weapon shaders will be released as micro transactions exclusively 2) Special event shaders,emotes, sparrows will be Micro transactions (Such as halloween mask, I WANT A KERMIT MASK GODDAMIT) 3) Voice emotes (connected with exotic emotes...haha trust me this shit will happen ;) 4) Legendary/Exotic armor, weapon,vehicle variants. (dead orbit shader exotic helm version of base game helmet) lets say you have to own that armor first but then can like roll for legendary or exotic shaders with micro transactions. 5) Weapon attachments (LED lights, torches, flames etc etc) 6) Exotic Player emotion emotes ( sad emote generates a cloud over your head with rain and lightning) 7) I'm having way to much fun thinking of ways that bungie will make you throw money at the screen...0_0 8) Ship hangar so u can show of your ships and walk around them 0_0 9) Luxury tower apartment priced at 5.99$. Will allow you and fire team to access tower hotel room. Can be used for mini social events, Shooting Range, Can play music, Allows some form of player mini gambling game with glimmer...ok Ill stop. But seriously im not even a game dev and iv already made you throw money at the screen havent I? It's so insidious, I know you are thinking that i'm being conspiratorial but Bungievision would not be implementing this if it wasn't going to make them massive amounts of money. This game's soul, identity, creativity and even community features will be hidden behind micro transactions. Welcome to the future of AAA gaming, and you know what? Bungie are going to get away with it! Because it's only cosmetic micro-transactions that don't affect the game. :) Oh and it pays for all that free awesome content that your going to get! Well played Bungie and Activision... Well -blam!-ing played. Suddenly Luke Smith doesn't seem like such an asshat anymore? More like a god damn gaming SNOWDEN. HAHA