Doesnt matter if its cosmetics only if the game system is designed as gambling. They hold bright engrams under your nose by letting you get them with every level but they reduce the xp you get so it becomes frustrating as to make you buy bright engrams. Then when you do you may not even get the thing you want so you have to repeat the process. This whole loot box bullshit needs to go. These companies earn tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions, they dont need microtransactions to "get by". Remember how no games at all, not even free games, used to have microtransactions? Then the free online games started doing it to make up for lack of subscription fees. Now AAA paid games are doing it too and why? To get more money.

If you feel frustrated enough that you "have" to but bright engrams for cosmetic items that have mostly zero impact on actual game play, then you probably do not have the constitution to be on the internet, go to a store, drive down a street that has signs, watch TV channels that have commercials, or ever leave your house again.

Cosmetic or no, we're still talking about real money that Bungie stacked the deck against you to get.

"stacked the deck against you to get." You could always earn XP to get bright engrams. How fast is for Bungo to decide.

Yes, but when they deliberately alter what your bar shows and what you're actually getting? That's wrong.

Arguing with people like that won't get you anywhere. They try to be those sophisticated assholes that think big papa BungieVision cares about them, and thus defend their shitty business practices by saying "it's just cosmetic" and not really seeing the deliberate UI throwoff Bungie hoped you wouldn't notice. It's simply a dick move that these people don't seem to get. I'm seriously starting to think bungie pays a percentage of the community to battle backlash.

THIS! It has nothing to do with Bright Engrams. It has everything to do with the deceit used in throttling your XP but showing you are receiving the correct XP. If they are throttling your XP now, what comes next? Oh Billy plays 4 hours everyday let’s cut his drop rate, make sure he doesn’t get that IB helm Oh Kim is only playing an hour a week? Let’s drop her a few extra exotics the next time she’s on. If Bungie had come out and said “Here’s how XP gains work”.......end of story. They would have been honest and transparent......instead they hid it expecting their “dumb” players would never notice. Unfortunately, they complete underestimated their players, and now they are scrambling to explain why all the Subterfuge. Good Luck Bungie, you’re going to need it

I would literally love to dissect the server-side code for this game so I can see exactly what their engram decryption and drop system really looks like. If they were willing to place undocumented systems in the game to throttle our XP gains, then for sure. It's not even a maybe. It's literally a FOR SURE that there is a system in place that rations a as of yet "unobtained" rewards. For example. Im willing to bet that as the pool of my unobtained rewards begins to shrink. The variation of the rewards that could come from an engram or tokens will be heavily biased against that. This is a logical conclusion when you consider the token system rewards you with engrams. They most likely have a sophisticated API in place that enacts on an Engram class and all of its child derivatives (crucible engrams, vanguard, iron banner etc). When you begin playing less, then get on after a while of not playing, the game will probably throw something at you that you haven't yet obtained, and thus keep you hooked for a little bit as you try to keep the next one. They're really doing their best to steer our progression. And they're controlling how we play the game way too much. I'm just here to troll the forums. I wish bungie burns.