One of the things I used to enjoy in the game were the public events. A long time ago (or so it seems), each guardian would get a strange coin for 3-staring the first public event of the day. A guardian could count on collecting a good number of them to save up for Xur. Even on the following events, you usually picked up a rare engram. Then the game was updated and you no longer got strange coins for for the 1st 3-star of the day, you would get a mote of light. Not as nice as the SC, but you could still buy pretty things from the Speaker. And occasionally, you would get ascendant materials. Now you only get planetary materials (spinmetal, spirit blooms, etc.). Sure you get 10 of two different types, but... 1. They are one of the easiest things to collect in the game. 2. I am already discarding lots of 200 of them to make room on my characters and vaults. IMHO, not much of a reward. You can't even exhange them for anything else (other materials, marks, rep, or even glimmer). I used to see a public event and race across the map to partake in them. Now, I just avoid them half the time (unless I have a bounty/patrol mission to kill the particular kind of enemy that is attacking in the public event). Why work so hard to devalue what was one an aspect of the game that I looked forward to?