The equation balances thus: Xûrning=Earning

It's just snowflakes getting upset that other people have nice things. Also they seem to have this weird idea that everyone who got a drop worked really hard for it and everyone who bought something from xur bought the game yesterday and was handed a brand new exotic for doing nothing at all. They forget that actually newer players don't have that many strange coins yet. The ones with only one character have to save and grind for weeks to buy a primary like red death, and if he sells two things they want they actually have to choose. They forget what it's like to have a lot of your armor and most of your weapons still be blue and have to carefully weigh each purchase because buying red death this week means probably forgoing a piece of armor or any weapon next week. The players with tons of strange coins sitting around who tear through the weekly in less than twenty minutes? They've put in the work. That's how they got all those strange coins in the first place. They're also out there doing nightfall, doing the raids, grinding away, and if they can finally buy from xur what rng stubbornly refuses to give them despite all their work, they've more than earned it.

"Earners" ought to call it what it is, "eaRNinG."

Explain yourself: Tom and jack like cars. They both like the same car. Jack works his goddamn ass off and buys that car when he finaly has enough money and its available. Tom buys a lottery ticket and wins the car. So who earned it? Jack who xurned it. Or tom who " earned it "

It's making me confused my ghorn was bought from xur week 2 so according to some i didn't earn it however since then I have gotten 8 more Did I earn it or not :/

Earning = Spending thousands of hours grinding to *hopefully* aquire the god-tier, end game gear. Xurning = Spending these common coins and basically being given the end game gear with little work and grinding. Can any guardian here imagine howmany exotic items they wouldn't have if Xur didn't exist... Lol, exotics would ACTUALLY be rare and sought after...

Here's the thing, the "earners" have a problem. They believe that the gear they have was hard earned because they have fallen into the trap set up by a RNG reward system. They like to call "Xurners" scrubs ect. It's not that people are "scrubs" it's that the game has a huge flaw, it's RNG reward system. This system sometimes creates huge swings in the way loot is handed out. Because of this there are people who have put vast amounts of gameplay time into Destiny and have done every possible thing they can do and still won't have the "luck" others may have who have done the same. Then there are people who have done much less than these people who have gotten more than them. An unfortunate side effect of an RNG reward system is that when you run the hamster wheel long enough and eventually the system tosses you a "reward" you feel it was hard earned when in fact it was not. The system doesn't care what you do or when it chooses to hand out an item. It is random. It doesn't care if you have had to run the VoG 100 times or just once when it hands you that McLast. It doesn't care if you had a 0.12 KD or a 3+ KD when it hands you that Jellyhorn. It is random and some people just don't get that because they have become addicted to the hamster wheel. "Just a few more runs and I'll get my reward" they keep telling themselves and when the "reward" comes it makes them believe the time spent was worth it and that "reward" was hard earned. It is a great and simple trick used by Bungie and others to keep you playing but in reality it was just luck. A roll of a dice, a spin of a wheel that decided to hand you that item at that time. When the "earners" begin to realise that, then they may become better people. And it is because of the flawed system that Bungie put Xûr into the games, as a way to level the RNG playing field. Another thing to consider is if Destiny was not an MMO where you can easily see what gear everyone has, like a single player game, then Xûr would not be a problem to these people. But because it is, they use it as a way to put others down as they are deluded by the way the RNG hamster wheel actually works.

Fun fact: There is no earning in this game. Edit: I know the exotic bounties but I stand by my comment XD

"Earning" = Spoiled Brat "Xurning" - Normal Player

Earning = earned, which you can't do in destiny as its RNG so that statement is bullshit. Xurning = Buying items from xur, which is why he is there so why shouldn't people use something the game provides.