People ask "Who cares?". Well I for one. Not because it's some sparrow I'll never have (not getting the game any time soon so it's literally not going to affect me) but, because I don't want this kind of ultra exclusive nonsense to become the norm! Yes a lot of you likely see this as just a joke however, here's the lowdown from the outside looking in. If today (before anymore exclusives get announced) I wanted to collect all of the "cool" loot for destiny 2, get a decent amount of engrams with the new more sparse engram drops (Bungie have said you'll need to be levelling up factions and doing missions and quests to get them and we know these quests are limited in their repeats per week as per other Bungie posts). I will have to do the following:- 1. Be with Virgin Media in the UK and probably the equivalent service state side/European side etc. etc. 2. Eat pop tarts. 3. Drink Rockstar to bypass the quests and faction levelling and boost my weekly engram drops. 4. Pre-order the game on blind faith (coldheart, ghost, salute). 5. Be on a PS4 NOT a PC or Xbox One. This is all for a single game. Just to get content that must, by definition, be in the game I buy from the store, that is exactly the same as the copy you get from the store and cost exactly the same whether I do any of these things or not. I can not Xurn, RNG or otherwise get this locked off content using gameplay (with the exception of the ghost and coldheart). I can't grind for it. It's just unavailable because I didn't choose to spend extra money and wasn't fortunate enough to be with a particular service provider. Those who do the rockstar cans and pop tarts have a distinct advantage over me. That's the very definition of paying to win. If people happily support this then where do you think this ends? Does the next AAA game out there see this and decide to get a few million extra bucks by adding in game advertising for pop tarts. Do you get half the game as the standard purchase then level's 4 and 5 by pre-ordering otherwise wait 3 months. 6 and 7 are exclusive to gamestop but a different 6 and 7 are exclusive to Target and bog standard 6 and 7 without the special extra chests and loot are included in the game? Oh and you only get level 9 the alternate ending if you are with Virgin Media! It's a f$%king slippery slope and a lot of you are laughing and whooping with joy as you slide down it. I suspect you'll be laughing and whooping all the way down until you glimpse, just out of the corner of your eye at first, a lake full of hungry crocs as the splash down point. Hindsight is a real b&*ch and here, now you are at the point where it's a future prediction that can go bad real fast and not the end point where you're swearing and asking how the heck it came to this while looking at a bill to get a complete game of 200+ dollars and 30 different add-on codes!