That's what Shaxx gets for blowing all his meagre, less-than-minimum wage earnings on Blue engrams and avocado toast. Silly Millennial could own real property by now if only he had put all the money wasted on avocado toast into his 401k, while shorting his stocks in ATVI. Then he too could be a member of the capitalist ownership class like Tess EverPurse, who just rakes it in from those whales she lures in with her virtual dotted line where everyone signs, a blinking neon light forever reminding Guardians that there is always a fresh sale on at EverPurse, always open, never closed, 24/7 365 e-commerce, it's all the rage, all the Kool Kids(tm) are doing it. You're in Fear Of MissIng Out if you don't! And Remember Kids: It's "only cosmetics" and "totally voluntary" to buy some Silver, help support your friendly neighbourhood game developer, the _independent_(tm) ($500 million from Activision and $100 million from NetEase notwithstanding) game developer who runs your game, _free to play_ (additional season pass charges may apply;no refunds on Silver purchases). That's how you win in life, Mr...ur, 'Shaxx', is it? It's the ultimate meta endgame, and it's called capitalism. It's what makes your entire universe, or 'verse if you will, possible. So you either get with us and start selling some of your precious loot for some Silver, or we replace you with a cheaper voice actor who can do a passable imitation of your voice at _bargain prices_! It's all about cutting costs and overhead, increasing profits and a healthy bottom line that employs so many hundreds of workers in the gaming industry. Look, we even donate to charitable causes, that's how awesome we are. You'd be a 'loser' if you don't buy now, you'll be missing out on profits if you don't. Everyone else in the Tower has already bought in, they're just now signing on that dotted line, and they'll be #winning in life too. It's important to remember that this is what video gaming is about: making money, making fat stacks of cash and popping champers to celebrate, and you're all here to help us, whether you like it or not. Because god forbid we should have to make an _actual_ game-as-service, when we could just create the most elaborate virtual storefront display with a baked-in addiction loop Skinner Box. Don't worry about any 'dedicated servers', we have this much better system where the customer will have no 'rubber-banding' effects while playing the game. And no more of that nonsense with 'host migration' from Destiny 1, we have a new, improved version and it's much, much better than in Destiny 1! It's called *wait for it* "hybrid peer-to-peer"? Will it still expose player IP addresses to others and result in endless cheating, lag switching, drophacking, DDoSing? Yes-but as I was saying, it's _much, much_ cheaper than having these 'dedicated servers', so you can see why it's important that we use the cheaper option, it's in the best interests of our clients who will appreciate that their matches _seem_ fair, even if they really are not, and furthermore, we can always update our terms of service agreement at any time to ensure that they sign away class action litigation rights *void where prohibited by law* so even if our customers do get hit with a Distributed Denial of Service attack on their home internet access, resulting in financial damages for people who run businesses from their homes, or disabled customers who may rely on always-on internet for their medical and assistive devices... well, they have to go to arbitration individually, in a jurisdiction of _our choosing_ (isn't it great? So convenient for us!). So, no worries Shaxx my friend, you're totally covered and won't be held liable for bringing back a competitive Player versus Player game mode with much, much higher stakes than the currently cheater-infested Competitive game mode, because surely our superior 'hybrid peer-to-peer' will totally be fine for Trials, which I'm sure you'll be helping to officiate *nudge nudge wink wink*. We'll have some more stuff for you to sell in your virtual storefront soon enough, good buddy, and you and I will make a killing on this little venture. Now just you make sure not to mention to any of the other Guardians about this 'peer-to-peer' business, you understand? They won't know what we're talking about anyway, and most people want to believe the best of their fellow players and won't be quick to believe they are cheating, even when they totally are. Because who can tell, with all these constant disconnects even in PvE, those jokels wouldn't know a DDoS if it slapped them in the face. Those n00bz will happily defend my good name because don't you know I basically invented this Halo franchise that Microsoft is making so much money with. I've got brand recognition, baby, and the 'gamers' love us! You have to look no further than our very own forums, where we never censor anyone's opinion about our storefron-- I mean 'game-as-service'. I mean, except for that little outrage over 'Enhancement Cores', haha, that was hilarious, wasn't it? The best part is we changed it to make it seem like they get more, but in fact the economy has changed so they need more now more than ever, lulz. Meanwhile we don't even have to beta-test anything, or test for bugs, or balance issues, because we've outsourced those jobs to our own customers! Who knew that people would do for free, what so many qualified people used to get paid to do? Hell, we can even outsource catching cheaters (of which there are so many that we could never do it all ourselves, even if we wanted to) to the players, and have them fighting each other about it, while carefully removing any customer posts which 'name and shame' other players who are blatantly cheating, because we'll have no fighting in the War Room. We'll let the forum trolls openly insult and troll other players though, because that's their god-given right, by gawd! Anyway, we only have to deal with the occasional cheater who is silly enough to cheat against a well-known streamer or YouTuber because everyone knows they're the only people who actually matter to us, since we've outsourced our advertising and public relations to them! It's not like they'll say anything so critical since they still want to get invited back to 'player summits' where we roll out the red carpet and get back in their good graces again, just in time for the next content drop, where we'll have new, OP Exotics and some sort of "pee-knuckle" something-or-whatsit, anyway, these kids will just throw money at the screen as soon as they see their favourite streamer/YouTuber start using it as product placement. Rinse, repeat, reboot, reskin... it's so much cheaper than designing a game that is actually fun to play, and inspires players to work together and bond over shared enjoyable experiences, so that they keep coming back for more, without any sort of addiction-causing elements, or FOMO, or trying to sell virtual items at ridiculous prices, to cause envy and jealousy amongst players to promote the sale of more Silver. We don't want to give too much power to the 'community': they're not a "community", they're just customers to our corporation, and they give us their money, and we profit. That's how video games should _always_ be designed, with profit in mind. And if we can jump like a parasite from Microsoft, to Activision, to NetEase, to Google, why wouldn't we? They're throwing money at us, how can we say no? Under capitalism, we _have_ to say yes, it's literally the only way, by gawd! It's a _sin_ not to! If we don't do this, we're the ones losing out on all that sweet, sweet billions in dollars of video game industry revenue, just there for the taking. So much of that money could be ours, if only we just keep doing as we've been doing, nickel-and-dime-ing our own customers, our own playerbase, our own "community". And don't worry, Shaxxy...or should I say, $haxxy... we will. Because capitali$m demands it. It's the only logical way to de$ign video game$. All hail the Almighty Dollar, hallowed be Thy name. Omen.

If you do what you love it doesn't matter how much you get paid. I work at haunted houses for free, because I love striking fear into the hearts of men.

You don’t know how much he makes now, or how much he was making at the time of the debt. You don’t know how much the debt is.

No, shaxx is paying for what he did to the last tower... it wasn’t the cabal who destroyed the tower... It was shaxx after seeing a spider, and he decided to put on a solar weapon

That random banter after the mission was terrible. How do the writers have a job?