It's hard to say what the plan was. They totally would have sold this for $80, with no alternative, if there had been no uproar. I'm sure they would have been perfectly happy to do so. Now that there has been uproar, they have to go for their fallback position (which is still overpriced).
Best thing is to vote with our feet. I stayed out of Destiny from December until May, when Bungie seemed to be turning over a new leaf with HoW. Now that Bungie will be back to greedyville in September, it may be time for me to avoid it again.
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Yup, I'm still enjoying the game buuut not as i was before this whole nonsense. I'm slowly fading away.
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Yeah, knowing that they will pull this kind of stuff makes it less enjoyable.