Bungie never said Destiny was going to be an MMO. There may have been a statement that mentions it would have MMOesque qualities though that would have to looked into. The areas on the disk that appear to be part of the DLC are in fact part of the original map set to use for the DLC. Including them on the disk was fully the intent of Bungie. I really don't believe this was foul play on Bungies part, some seem to believe it was. Including things like area maps as part of an initial release is not uncommon. For one it lessens the amount of data to be downloaded when an expansion is released. A tactic often used by todays higher end MMOs. SOE has done this with several expansion, they will include elements connected to an upcoming expansion in small chunks as part of the normal maintenance updates. This way when zero day arrives players can dive into the content ASAP. As far as the missing story and lack of things to do. I don't get it either. The ground work for an excellent story is there. I am not sure if it has something to do with that guy leaving Bungie in mid development (not sure I would buy that anyway when you work for a company anything you create becomes property of the company). Perhaps the story has holes in it as intended. Consider your character has just been revived after being dead for a long time (like being in a coma for 15 years and waking up) trying to put things together as to when where and how is going to be rough. Who knows. Until Bungie comes clean it's anyones guess IF there was content that has been removed and for what reason. Don't take this as me defending the state of the game or Bungie's silence about the issue. I did that at the launch, now I feel just as let down as all the others. I really would like something other than all this RNG for a loot/reward system.