So, I've complained about Destiny a lot (see [url]http://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGame/comments/2kv57y/a_complete_destiny_deconstruction_part_1/[/url] for most of it), but I've still played it almost daily. Not out of some bizarre self-hating torture, and not because I'm genuinely having fun. Destiny has sort of become my "I need to kill 2-3 hours before falling asleep, so let's do some mindless repetitive activity) game. Anyway, onto my point, out of my extreme disdain for the majority of design decisions that went into the game and the sad quality of the DLC, I decided not to pay for the DLC. Now, you'd think the smart thing to do, and a thing Bungie has done in the past with their Halo games DLC is to keep new content separated from old content. If people want to get the latest greatest stuff, good for them. Their enjoyment should not hinder my "enjoyment" of my vanilla experience that I paid full price for (and have yet to feel compensated for). But since the DLC has come out there have been multiple weekly strike/nightfalls and daily story missions locked off to me and everybody else who needs those to get resources to level up the grindtacular stuff you have provided us. I grin and bear it because while that pisses me off that Bungie couldn't have added extra slots to their UI to accommodate DLC activities without locking off normal stuff for people who didn't buy the DLC, I at least acknowledge that maybe that's work they just don't want to do. So, we get to today, Friday. Xur Day. Now, I have never been all that pleased with Xur's random selection of mostly meh exotics but it was worth a look and I would occasionally get something I didn't have just for the sake of it. What do I see when I check him out today? Every single item he is selling requires The Dark Below. You put Dark Below exotics into his apparently extremely limited loot table [b]FOR THE F'IN VANILLA PEOPLE[/b]. I really, really, really try to defend you guys whenever I see "they just care about money" posts. I argue, it's all Activision's fault. But then I see this crap which has nothing to do with Activision. Everything in this f'in game takes forever to do and making every single item Xur sells The Dark Below required making Xur pointless for the week is a real low blow. I'm just speechless at the ineptitude of it. Why can't the game tell I don't have the DLC and adjust Xur's loot table accordingly? There is just not nearly enough content in this game to be locking off what little there is to do in the game behind a paywall. Bravo Bungie, every week you give me another thing to rant about, it's amazing. [b]Edit[/b]: To what I'm sure is every third person who's going to comment in this thread. No, I am not going to just "buy the DLC". That isn't the point of the rant. It could be free and it wouldn't change the point of this post. [b]Edit2:[/b] There's a frightening amount of people apparently not reading this post very well or understanding the point of it. The point isn't that I'm not able to play DLC content. The point is the DLC content shouldn't be replacing content that previously was available. It should be adding to it and self-aware of who owns it to switch between old and new when appropriate. This isn't a hard concept, this is how 99% of other games handle DLC. [b]Edit3:[/b] I want everybody who says "just buy it" or "stop crying" or whatever other justification you think of to consider something. My entire point here is to implement the DLC in such a way that people who paid for it get full access to that stuff [b]and[/b] the original content. For people who didn't pay for the DLC FOR WHATEVER REASON (either they didn't want to, weren't able to, whatever) they should have the same full access to the content they paid for. This suggestion leads to an improved experience for everybody. To the people who own DLC, NOTHING WOULD CHANGE FOR YOU. To the people who don't own it they simply just wouldn't be presented that content. I get that to a lot of people this isn't a problem to you so you don't care. Try out a neat concept called empathy. It simply amazes me how many people are arguing against a solution that doesn't affect them in the slightest but improves the experience for others. Really paints a nice picture of how many people with bad personalities there are. [b]Edit4[/b]: [quote]That conversation is already raging internally, as it always does. In the meantime, the existing plan is in place to make sure that, as consumers of The Dark Below start to become even legendier, [b]those who don’t opt in aren’t left behind. We’re making these options available to everyone, whether they own Expansion I or not[/b].[/quote] - Destiny Update 12/4/14 I wanted to point out this statement from DeeJ. It was in reference to the patch adding content before The Dark Below was released but I feel the sentiment behind it also was meant to apply to all content including DLC content. "Those who don't opt in, aren't left behind". [b]Edit5[/b]: I just wanted to thank all the people who own the DLC and still shared their belief that this system is wrong. It's nice knowing that even though they don't have to deal with this problem (at least right now anyway, the problem will most likely exist over all the DLCs) they still empathize with the people that do. Kudos to all of you.