It's not even the money that gets me. $100 is dinner for two at Red Lobster. It's the absolute trash system of leasing out recycled content with zero innovation, yet charging as if we were getting something exceptional and new. If this game was actually an open world with an ever changing dynamic and new areas and worlds to explore, that would be a different story, but all we get is the honor of leasing out content that was vaulted, which some of us that have been around since day 1 paid for. I honestly have no idea when the last time a new archetype of weapon was introduced, and there hasn't been a single new type of enemy since the Scorn.

[b]It's not being discussed more often because most of the Bungie fans don't care about quality work and try to shut posts like this down.[/b] Let's post the BS they always use to "justify" things being way overpriced that the players are literally getting ripped off vs what other gaming business offer. "You don't have to buy anything" "It's optional" "It's their game" "No one is forcing you to play" "Leave if you don't like it", etc... You know, because all this^ justifies the minimal effort put into the game for the max profit this business makes, and saying all that makes it all okay to add all the BS to milk the players for what they got to fund their other projects. "We/Bungie fans don't care that our money is not being invested into the game we pay for." [b](You guys not giving a crap is why 343 tried to pull the same thing Bungie has been doing for years with Halo Infinite, but the huge difference is that didn't fly with the Halo fans because the Halo fans actually have the balls to speak up and speak with their wallets.)[/b] It's the same crap over and over with the Bungie fans and Bungie as each year goes by with things getting worse every year that goes by. More BS to buy but less is offered as the OP said with the added Paywalls and this business has the nerve to call this game a "F2P game". [b](You fans are literally 100% the problem with gaming these days.)[/b] Especially with a Business as lazy as this one is vs every single other actual AAA gaming business.

The fact that they got away with Dungeon Keys alone pisses me off. Shattered Throne and Pit were both included with Forsaken and Shadowkeep. Separating the Dungeons from the expansions was dumb. Also, the fact that they -blam!- monetized campaign skips AND transmog. I have to -blam!- pay for my own armor back after they sunset it.

hard agree. my friend just got one of his friends into the game. the cost to access everything if you're just getting into the game is ridiculous. All your friends have all these exotics, are doing dungeon runs, and this new player is like "i have to buy [i]how much stuff just to play the full game?![/i]"

I also wanted to list everything (that I can think of) that you can pay for in this game now: Forsaken Shadowkeep Beyond Light 30th Anniversary Witch Queen Lightfall Season Pass Dungeon Key Event Card Transmog Campaign Skip Eververse Items Forsaken and the Annual Pass remains the best content / pricing. It'll never be that good again. I'll never forget that Bungie said they intentionally limit themselves so we never get our hopes up again. Sad.

I love how the season pass has so much glimmer. I love paying real money for glimmer, I mean, because I’m always at max glimmer anyway, so thank you so much Bungo for making me pay for glimmer I don’t need. Braindead money scammers

Greed has ruined this company.

I buy the annual expansion, "super duper diamond deluxe +++ whatever the f" package once a year. I effectively look at it as me giving Bungie $100 to leave me alone for a year, this gives me access to all the seasonal content, the raids and the dungeons, and the main reason I do this is because $100 once a year for 12 months of content in a game I play all the time? That's not that bad a deal. However $20 to access one dungeon? A bunch of dumb tedious filler content stretched as thinly as possible just keep you busy for a few months? That's not a good deal, that's too expensive for what you get. I don't buy event cards, I don't buy shader bundles and I rarely ever buy silver. If people are dumb enough to drop $20 on a shader, emote or event card Bungie will keep making that option available to them. If people didn't buy it, it wouldn't happen, so you're shouting into a void. I don't buy event cards or shader bundles on principle, because they're an embarrassing cash grab, and I'd feel like an idiot if I let a $3.6bn corporation take me for that much of a mark. Other people however don't think about it that deeply, they just see a shader, they want the shader, they buy the shader. You're not going to reach those people, so there's no point in letting it annoy you. Just be thankful you didn't get addicted to something like Lost Ark or Genshin, those games are so predatory and exploitative they should be illegal, and once you experience those games it's really hard to get outraged about Destiny 2 microtransactions. Imagine a world where the only way to get guns was to buy "Star Engrams" in batches of 10, that you could only buy for silver, and spending over $300 would net you maybe two exotics? Then to add insult to injury, if you wanted the catalyst for those exotics? You need to get the same weapon another 5 times! Destiny's monetization is more embarrassing than a problem, Bungies monetization is just a petty attempt to nickel and dime the players at every opportunity, and it just feels unbecoming and makes the game harder to sell to friends. But let's not get delusional, in the modern gaming landscape Bungie's monetization strategy is a lot better than the majority, which is massive condemnation of modern gaming... but not Bungie itself.

They're pushing it hard right now because most people have far better things to spend their money than an overpriced icon on a screen. Willing to bet sales are falling as players are leaving and new ones are not as invested and will balk at paying £15 for set of armour skins. I used to buy a bit of Silver for the odd cosmetic, haven't bought any in the last three years since the politics appeared. Want to favour all these minority groups ?? .. Get them to keep your company afloat then. My money, whatever I am buying, goes to companies who treat all their customers as equals. The prices in Eververse are shameless and Bungie have backed themselves into a corner with it, everything goes in there and everyone can see it. I wont be buying their new cash shop, once the Light and Dark saga is done, and I will be waiting for Final Shape to be reduced before forking out for it, Bungie are dead to me. They are sowing the seeds of their own demise right now, treating players like walking wallets while their game barely works. A 20% bump in price for a season with no added value ?? .. Says it all, and that's before we get to the needing to buy more silver then you need bit. Remember when they told us that Eververse was there to fund more content ?? .. Keep that in mind people when they start hyping Marathon.

Don’t see a problem if you have a job and manage your money

It really feels like we're living in a dystopian late-stage capitalism fever dream. My wife and I make good money, and even we are just taken aback at the prices on everything everywhere you look. But video game companies??? Umm no. They have no inputs. They have no physical outputs to move around the globe. They are not impacted by "supply chain", or fuel costs. There's just no excuse for this. This is greed, plain and simple.

I hope their new game dies in a heartbeat. I want them to face consequences for their trash human behavior milking us for every penny without providing any quality content. I will laugh at these clowns when people talk about their trash marathon game like they did about Anthem.

I hate to defend Bungie but as bad as Eververse is, after watching some video reactions from the likes of Armstrong on Diablo 4’s Monetization System, Eververse pales in comparison to Diablo 4. And the highest edition for Diablo 4 is extremely Pay to Win crap. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m gonna go throw up cause defending Bungie made me sick. *Runs into bathroom and throws up*