It's bad. They are taking the free, frequent, lenient, and simple bounties that give us cores, and throwing them in the trash. Only to make room for another set of bounties, that will have a cost of materials we already use for many other things,, expire daily or weekly, and their difficulty is yet to be known. For the same rewards. The only way this makes any sense is that they will be constant daily grind, as opposed to the random nature of Scrapper bounties. I'm swimming in cores, so this doesn't necessarily hurt me. I've been grinding for these yellow P.o.S. materials since they were first introduced. I've run countless raids, throwing the drops in a blender to harvest the Masterworked nuggets within. I've spent hours exchanging one material for another to hand in to another vendor to get materials and roll the dice for cores. I've waited for HVT's, only a handful of times because it is even more mind numbingly boring than mashing X over and over to exchange mats. I've completed almost every Scrapper bounties I've ever received. I've done everything Bungie wants us to do, and have been "rewarded" for it. But every time they needlessly expand our levels, I grimace, watching my stockpile shrink slowly but surely because inevitably, the majority of new gear is no better than my old tried and true kit. Just like Bungie's spaghetti code, the problems in game are intertwined. Unnecessary level increases. Mediocre gear. Random rolls. Incessant nerfs and "balance" patches. Core availability (or lack thereof) during regular play. Tedium and inconvenience of bounties. Economy, economy, economy. Never has the economy in this series been in a good place. Look back at the loops we used to make for Relic Iron. Or the hours we spent in the story mission farming glimmer because of the asinine cap. The weapon part droughts. HoW giving us a new mat to farm so we could use all our gear only to be forced to throw it all back in the trash a few short months later. So on and so forth... Cores are just an easy and obvious target for our frustrations. Not that we can't get them. Not that there aren't ways to save. Just that it is yet one more barrier to entry, chore, or tax on a game we just want to have fun in and enjoy. Their insistence on "We're right, you're wrong" with these half hearted efforts and conversations regarding cores are yet more symptoms of the bigger problems with the game right now. Trials, anyone? Every trials player I've ever known, spoken to, played with, or watched, has said simply- Give us 3v3 elim. But no, Daddy bungo knows best and thinks that isn't enough for the changing landscape of PvP. How many times and in how many different ways can we give them DIRECT feedback of what we want, like, or dislike in the game, only to have it thrown in our faces and hear that we don't know what we want, or are talking about? I fully appreciate that this is their game, and they are free to do what they wish when it comes to changes. But this stick in the mud, and "oh it's your fault because some streamers asked for it", attitude does nothing but breed malcontent in the community and hurt the goddamn game. You know, back in D1, I felt betrayed when all their promises and senseless changes turned the game into a shell of what it was sold to us as. I left for almost a year. It was like a mourning period for me. When I inevitably came back for the gameplay, I had learned to accept the game for what it was, and cling to nothing, care for nothing, ignore most of the BS and just play. If I try to apply that to now, there's plenty of good stuff out there. Tons to do. But their insistence on grind and extending the play time has made it a grueling experience. Even to play casually, you have to jump through their hoops. Every day, hour, minute you don't play, you fall further and further behind. I feel that returning apathy as I go through the motions, flicking these moronic cores, one at a time, on top of my pile. It seems like this is the game now. Not cool loot. Not experiences with friends. Not a challenge to overcome. Just the never ending loop of garbage currencies. Currencies that have chased my friends away. Currencies that have made it harder to get a group together to get more currencies, I mean [u]cool loot and experiences[/u]. I want my cool loot and experiences back, Bungie. You telling us what is meaningful, doesn't make it mean a damn to us. I wish I could say I was mad, or cry out in sadness. But I've seen this all before. I'm used to it. Thanks for making so many of us not care anymore, it makes these bitter pills really easy to swallow.