Most of the “free” updates at this point are just more micro-transaction cash grabs. In D1’s the dawning, we also got SRL, and strike scoring. This dawning we got...snowballs...and micro transactions.... we buy the base game and season pass for over 100$. Bungie would be fine making that amount of money on D2. D2 would die with a subscription service. Nobody is going to pay for the game upfront along with a monthly subscription.