This week's TWAB: "No, we're not listening to our players and changing Factions back to the way they were, but we ARE adding some cool features to Faction Rallies. [i]BTW, only one Faction per ACCOUNT, per rally, from here on in.[/i]" ... "We see that people aren't playing Escalation Protocol. It can't be because we broke vertical power progression and 90% of you can't get past Round 1; we just don't believe that. So instead of lowering the required power level of the first half of the event to allow lower level players to try the event out and get used to the mechanics, we are instead lowering the power gates for the final three rounds. Why? [i]Because we're listening[/i]." Jesus of Christ. It's becoming clearer and clearer that Bungie is doing this on purpose.