No that would not be why they did it, while something better could possibly be on the horizon. The real reason they did it, is that the player base for Destiny was dropping like a ton of bricks after HoW. HoW was -blam!-ing paper thin, it took me like 3 hours to get to 34 when it dropped. So now players are bored of HoW and are quitting, not playing, signing in one day a week etc. So what's the best way to artificially inflate playtime for people before TTK, sell what is considered the best gun in the game so people grind bounties, and play a ton to level and use their new gun. They did this when they sold Ice Breaker when everyone was bored with TDB and was not playing waiting for HoW.
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Dude you are right too. I've noticed slim pickings for randoms ever since they announced the legendary excision. Everybody only crawls out of the the woodwork for ToS.
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Yeah when I did the weekly this week to try to level Dead Orbit, I was soloing it for most of the strike, and about 2/3 of the way through I got one teammate and that was it, never got a third.