Except the infusion system existed before. Just in a different form. I also wouldn't be stupid enough to make the claim that using well of radiance is how the game is meant to be played. No instead I would say using your abilities and supers is how the game is meant to be played.
You can try and claim that grinding for loot, or spending time to upgrade your equipment is how the game is meant to be played, but claiming that using infusion cores is the way it is meant to be, because that is the way it is at this moment, is just plain foolish.
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If it wasn't meant to be played that way why is that the way it is? Infusion is and always has had some cost tied to it. This is no different
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I don't recall it having any actual cost in the beginning besides the consumption of the more powerful item. You can try and claim that it having a cost is the way it is meant to be played, but trying to claim that infusion cores being apart of it, is how it is meant to be is rather foolish. Seeing as the cost of it has changed multiple times. Why are their glitches in the game? Why are their systems that don't work well, or don't do what was intended? Are those all how they are meant to be? Should they also not be changed? And should people not be permitted to ask/demand that they be changed? Your attempt at an argument falls apparent incredibly fast, when looked at in any kind of logical manner. Just because something is in the game, does not inherently mean that is the way it is meant to be.
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It at first had the most expensive of costs with etheric light. The resource you could only get 2-3 of per week
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And that system was changed, why? Because it was found to be to restricting, it failed to fully do what the system was meant to do. The same thing can be said about the use of infusion cores.
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Then they made infusion more accessible Which is what they intend to do with the addition kf the gunsmith bounties. Enhancement cores are also nowhere near as restrictive as etheric light was
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Except the gunsmith bounties are replacing scrapper bounties, they aren't an addition. In fact this actually makes it even less accessible to newer players, because while they would have at least potentially been able to do scrapper bounties (completely RNG), they have zero chance of doing the back armory bounties anywhere near the beginning of the game. So in reality this change actually makes it less accessible, just more reliable for older players. So again they make claims about giving players freedom, they originally changed the system to be one that was more accessible, and now they continue to change to system to being less accessible and have less freedom. You also keep brining up ethiric light like it is some grand point, if anything it demonstrates the opposite of what you are trying to say. The original ethiric light system was to restrictive, hence it was changed, this shows that a restrictive system is not what people want, and for a time at least wasn't what Bungie wanted either. And yet we are now returning to a more restrictive system, despite what was clearly learnt in the past.