Follow me on this, Pretty much every reward you get in this game is based on the RNG there for nothing can honestly be considered as earned. Sure Bungie set out a task in front of you, you accomplish said task but in the end even if you got the most kills and did everything during the mission you could end up getting a helmet for a class you don't use and the guy who did nothing the entire time gets the exotic weapon. Who really "earned" what in that situation. Now do I think in game types like PVP Bungie really needs to completely revamp the entire reward system, of course. If in the Crucible you perform better than you deserve better. Let's not lose site of the issue here though. Every week people lose their minds because Xur sells something they "earned" doing whatever they think deserves the title of "earning". Truth be told if you've ever received an exotic from a drop or a reward you didn't earn it, you just got lucky. The only true "earners" (as people like to call them now) would be the players that do the tasks that give you a guaranteed reward of Strange Coins. If those player complete those tasks and spend those Coins with Xur then they in fact have earned their new item be it armor, weapon or what have you. As we all know Coins can be given as a random rewards as well but they are a guarantee with curtain things. So stop with all your bullshit about how you're all upset that Xur is selling the same thing that you "earned". The player that's buying it might just have actually done more then just lucked into it like you did.