1. Bungie has never treated the strike playlist for D2 like they treated it in D1. I think its because they don't want people hiding out there and doing nothing but grinding strikes hour after hour. Bungie wants us to play the "whole game", and they don't want to give us a reason to hide out. Also strikes loose their replay value quickly. What's THREE strikes.....when you drop them into a playlist that already has SEVENTEEN of them. They quickly become background noise. Bungie seems to get much more replay value from activities like Sundial and Contact. Where play for an entire season can focus around that new activity. Rather thatn story missions that we won't replay, and strikes that just fade into the woodwork after a week. 2. How is Bungie going to monetize it? They can't charge for it....and trying to make up that money with sellign cosmetics just pisses off PvE players. I believe Bungie is slowly boiling the frog. They aren't going to kill PvP outright (way too much negative publicity). But I think you are seeing Bungie start to SLOWLY remove support from PVP with the goal of letting it wither and die. 3. See above.