[i]Hanlon's Razor: "Never attribute to malice what is more easily explained by incompetence or stupidity." [/i] The point of Hanlon's Razor is reminds people of the unhealthy tendency that we have to want to see ourselves as victims of other people's machinations. The reality is that screwing someone over takes time, effort, and energy...and that most of us simply aren't important enough to other people to expend that kind of energy on. So when we find ourselves on the end of something we don't like, it almost always due to an unfortunate series of events. Not malicious intent on someone else's part. 1. This game is the product of almost a decade long struggle for control within Bungie, and between Bungie and Activision. Between factions that see this game as an MMO/RPG/FPS hybrid.....and those who simply wanted a shooter that was a successor to Halo. [b]The first faction WON that struggle. [/b] So anyone who is expecting this game to NOT become more and more of an RPG with each passing season and year, are just setting themselves up for disappointment. I fully understand that this is perhaps NOT what some people want. Which is why----when Bungie started calling Destiny 2 an "action-MMO"---I came here the very NEXT DAY and tried to warn people that the game would start to change in ways that some of them weren't going to like. That the "unification of vision" that swept through Bungie's own ranks, was going to come to the player base. ....and here we are. Unfortunately in situations like this there are winners...and there are losers. But Bungie is not going to go back, and there comes a point where some are going to have to possibly reconsider their relationship to the game if they aren't happy with the direction its going. 2. This is not a FTP game, and Bungie did not "invent" the things you are unhappy with. The business model of this game is pretty standard for MMOs. a. The Devs give away old content....including the base game....for free. This keeps the barrier to entry for new players, and lasped former players, low. Making it easier to grow the game, and replace/recover players lost to attrition. b. The model then makes its money by a combination of selling the player NEW content in the form of expansions, as well as cosmetic microtransactions. Which makes point "a" possible, financially. c. These kinds of games are expensive to make and to maintain...and profit margins are slim. Especially when there is no monthly subscription fee involved. Which is why jsut about every game that set out to compete with Destiny in this arena has either failed......or is barely hanging on and starving for content. As well as why Sony bought Bungie outright, and has apparenly set aside over a billion dollars in employee incentives to make sure that those employees stay put at Bungie. Because Sony wants to leverage Bungie's experience and expertise for live-service games for the array that Sony is saying they plan to launch. 3. Addiction is never the responsibility of anyone or anything other than the addict himself. The moment the "blame" gets shifted somewhere else? That's the disease talking.