It's not useless to Bungie because that means you're spending more time in their game. Why do you think The Tribute Hall was set up the way it is. Bungie knows not everyone had the resources and new gamers that are playing are going to have to grind for the material between that and leveling up 3 characters among other things. A lot of people are going to blow through their resources and spend a lot of time in this game. It's like the Cores when they were first introduced as part of the infusion. Bungie deliberately made the cost high when purchasing the cores from Spider and deliberately made it where cores were hard to come by. There are many things in this game that are just made to stretch out time that is wasted time. Take the bounties for an example, there are [b](4 times the amount in D2 then there are in D1)[/b] because of the lack of in-game content, mainly to due with Bungie blowing through their resources not using their head. You also have things like the mindless quest that getting 1500 kills with a grenade launcher only to extend time. I can make a huge list of how much time is wasted time in this game so Bungie can get their quota vs quality time spent in the game.