Sony whispered something to Activision. It removed its hand from Activision's shoulder as Bungie stood to leave the room. "This one's for Halo." Like the spry strike of the black mamba, I watched Activision quickly draw and fire a semi-automatic pistol into Bungie's foot, and then languidly accept a handful of bills for their service. The echoes of Bungie's screams almost drowned out Activision remarking that bungie should remember their agreement, their responsibility in all this. "My hype! My Rise of Iron hype!" Bungie yelled. Maybe this is a verbose hyperbole, but I feel it illustrates how duplicitous these companies and studios are. After all, they have yet to announce it on the website, or outline plans to bring the sony exclusives over or even make excuses as to why this was technically impossible until destiny 2. Any interest I had in rise of iron is starting to fade as it's obscured by the news that I won't have the armor combinations others take for granted. Because though I try to fight down biases, I am still human, prone to focus on the negatives, and feel loss more clearly than gain. At any rate, I'm not here to stoke flames in a console war, since by the end of this, you'll understand why I support both consoles, and why my picking just one is so difficult. I'm here to explain to you the ways exclusive content (beit games or movies, apps, or dlc,) is something that is perhaps tolerable as a necessity, (in the example of games that couldn't be made without capital from one company or another) but toxic if done for the sake of peddling basically identical gaming pcs. After all, we deserve the dignity of refusing to be the chickens in a cockfight where cabals of incomprehensibly rich and heartless men furiously hoot and rub some feeling into their angry, red, cocaine-afflicted members. What's sad is when their misinformation works. When I see someone typing about choosing the right console, or trash talking another's exclusives. The marketing departments have cast a jedi-like mindtrick on this community, cutting up game content, making devs work harder for a fraction of the result, pitting you against each other, and somehow convincing you not only that there's more content, but that this is the only way to get content. That this abusive relationship is normal...It's downright cowardly and punic, and I'm disappointed that you haven't snapped out of it. Put yourself in the shoes of attentive xbox players. We don't really care about the new guns because until we handle them ourselves, we won't know what we're mssing. But every Guardian has been paying attention to RoI. And we saw a brief glimpse of a prettier world when they didn't announce any new exclusive armor or exotics for rise of iron. Just a ship, a quest and a sparrow. And then the rumors begin to trickle in that the armor may not be coming this year. No public announcement from a company that was so benign a moment earlier. And the quiet patience of a saint becomes the silent vigilance of an assassin. The betrayal of the situation makes you realize how truly unwelcome you always were, and the entire situation sparks an aggression in your heart. It was never about the content itself. We can do without it. The armor is slightly more consequential, as it not only bars twelve pieces, but the potential gained when we combine those pieces with publicly available armor. It's about the wedge they drive into our community. I was actually debating which current-gen console to move to before the announcement. (As you can tell by the quality of this post, the xbox chatpad sucks ass.) I was interested in VR and AR gaming, sure it would kill the Television as we know it, and ready to throw my money at a PS Neo this fall since sony actually seems to be investing in it as opposed to microsoft's wait-and-see-and-throw-in-arbitrary-UWP-requirements approach. I hated the xbox one at console launch. It seemed inundated in a doctrine of anti-consumer legislature. But now, I can't switch because I'll look like I only did so for the sake of a few bits of armor and some guns. Pride won't let me roll over and shell out the money because to Activision, it'll seem like their dastardly bullshit worked. Not that I care what they think, but some in the bungie community would be fooled, but I kinda do care what some of you think. I'm playing the unity card. Despite the pro-consum-no, because of the pro-consumer things that bungie has done, (like discounting the collection for current TTK owners and Private matchmaking) we should fight so that their content be brought to 100% of their audience. So that their devs shouldn't work harder because some silver-spoon impaled shitmingler handed it down from on-high. So that we can finally unite against those smug PC-Gamers...