Your concerns are valid, but invalid at the same time. Bungie knows rare weapons won't be super rare. They know that most people will get most of the weapons, especially completionists. However, that doesn't mean everybody will be using the same weapon, even if 2 people are using the same weapon, those weapons could be drastically different from each other. Lets use 'Thunderlord' for example. I could have Thunderlord, and I could spend my gold or whatever it is into making it a heavy spray electric damage weapon, while someone else puts their gold into making their Thunderlord into a more accurate gun. There are skill trees for your weapons, and while we don't know much about them, or if they branch out all that much, the point is, even if I do pick up a Thunderlord, I may not want to use it over my common gun, because I've put so much into my run of the mill gun, that it's just as badass as the Thunderlord, maybe more badass. For exploration: If you don't like to explore, that's your perogative, I'm sure there will be loot and treasure scattered throughout Destiny, for those brave enough to go exploring the wilds. Aside from treasure there will be mysteries and secrets to be found out there. Borderlands syndrome: There is poised to be a bunch of stuff to do other than shoot bad guy, pick up loot, repeat. Races, PvP, PvE, gambling, etc. Since you haven't played Halo, or at least you've said you've been a playstation guy for the past 15 years, you don't really know what a Bungie game is all about. The community takes the game and makes it theirs. With races and made up sports, like griffball. While these things were born from the community, Bungie has since then made them actual gametypes AND have made it easier for the community to create these unique experiences by giving them the tools they need to do so. I doubt this is going to stop with Destiny, I feel it's only going to get stronger. The public events, yeah, I see them being X event, in Y place, at Z hours. However, maybe there are X1, X2, X3 events that could happen in place Y, and it's randomly chosen, and this happens at Z hour, or close to Z hour when enough players are in proximity to that area. I don't see anything wrong with this. Especially since a game designer wants their customers/players to experience the fullness of the game. They hand crafted these awesome events for a vast amount of players to experience them. It's be silly to think this awesome 'public' event would only happen once, and whoever got to experience, got to experience it, and that's that. If you weren't online for that awesome thing, you're shit out of luck. No, that's not how it's going to happen. Special holiday type events, yeah, I could see those happening, but the run of the mill daily public event.. those are going to happen repeatedly. Could they be randomized in a way? Maybe, X amount of Vandals, X amount of Devil Walkers, maybe the faction that's attacking is randomized, so you might fight Cabal instead of The Fallen. Who knows? But I think that these public events will definitely be replayable in some fashion, that it won't be a one time occurence. I don't know what you're talking about 'end game content'. You can do pretty much whatever you want as end game. You can replay missions, play PvP, play PvE, do races, gamble, etc. Explain more in-depth as what you want to see as 'end game'.