Never buying silver or any other ingame 'currency'.
People who buy that shit are creating an environment for greedy asshats who want us to throw money at the screen.
[i]Clarification[/i]: I don't mind adults spending their money on things. If Bungie sells something for a fixed price and people are stupid enough to shell out money, so be it. I still find that questionable, because this one thing is awfully expensive compared to the cost of a whole game.
What I find criminal is to hide the real cost of things behind a RNG system that makes you accept a much higher cost because you don't get told the probability of items. Bungie just tells us which items we get by chance without any method to evaluate the potential price tag! That's not a fair buissines tactic.
IGN needed around 100$ to get all items from the FotL packages. That's the price of the whole vanilla game plus HoW and CE. Do you think that's an incentive for Bungie to bring us more planets, cutscenes and missions, or will they make more superfluous 'events' to sell you even more of that wonderbag stuff?
Would you buy any good in a shop where you have to pay first and then roll on a secret loot table? You want some german beer and get 5x root beer and some bread instead? Would you pay until you got your real beer?
Thanks for the intense discussion. Never tought this would go that far.
Edit: Corrected a spelling error. (I am german. Hints on how to write something correctly are appreciated.)
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In your second to last paragraph the word good should be changed to goods. The noun good isn't used often in singular form and flows better when said as goods. Other than that great English, it's better than half of the people's English on this forum and they're native speakers. And I don't see the harm of buying a few dollars worth every once and awhile. I've bought 10$ worth of silver the entire life span of the game and I got Ghost ghost which is what I wanted so I'm not going to complain, but even if I didn't get I wouldn't've spent anymore. People that spam buy RNG factored things (I.E. loot caches, treasures in destiny, Supply drops, etc) are generally people who blindly throw money at the game developers without forethought