I don't know if some people noticed, I don't know if the even care. What I know is that Bungie and Craptivision screwed us over. At least that's how I feel. Be warned. This IS going to be a Textwall. Dear user, if you don't want to read this, leave. But you Bungie smarties MUST. So, a few weeks from the new metagame has passed, to be sure what the hell hey made to the game compared to the original idea (which I liked so far). I felt terrible after playing so much everything I could. Here I'll make a list of missing stuff for those who don't have TTK: -[b] Level Cap:[/b] Before the patch, everyone had capped their progress to Level 20. You were still able to rank up your gear and subclasses after that and Bounties still are a great help to keep it up. Gear with Light leveled you up even further, max Light level with expansions I and II was 34. Right now everyone can at least rank up to 34 by just doing stuff. Right there it sounds cool, but it's not. Now I'll tell you why. Owners of TTK have their drops evened with their current level. Doesn't matter what kind of gear or which rarity is it. Are you a owner of TTK and are level 30?, every drop is matched to your current status. Of course they have max cap, 40. (Even worse, they can generate Motes of Light by earning any XP after 40). All other guys who doesn't have TTK suffer, even being 34. Uncommon drops (green gear) never go further 32. Not to mention Rare (blue gear), which are stupidly capped to 26. Your Legendary and Exotic chances are EXTREMELY LOW TO NONE AT ALL. All this stuff makes your [i]new[/i] Light status very low compared to your potential given you are Lvl 34 - [b]Step Quest final tier rewards[/b]: This is one of the VERY FEW THINGS GOOD this update ever had. Some rewards actually are Legendary stuff, but it's a goddamned Level 40 item. You just can't use it. I've been awarded with some New Monarchy and Vanguard gear I can't use thanks to this. - [b]Crota's Bane and Queen's Wrath rep[/b]: Before the update, Eris and Petra had Bounties like the Vanguard and Crucible ones. You could rep up by completing those. Of course you needed ownership for The Dark Below and The House of Wolves recpectively for that, but a few could be completed w/o Expansion I or II. NOW, Crota's Bane is strictly tied to TTK activities and there's no way to rank up Queen's Wrath at all after Quest Steps are done. - [b]Endgame activities[/b]: Before the patch, anyone with Level 20 were able to join Daily and Weekly activities, such are Vanguard Strikes or specific Story missions. Even better, you could chosse to join any of these in Heroic mode, which are very difficult but with higher chances for really good gear. Now you must have TTK for that, because you need to be Level 40. Bungie took those from us and gave them as exclusives for TTK owners. Non TTK users are capped to "Legacy Vanguard Strikes", very low to none Legendary/Exotic drop rates and Heroic mode is missing for ANY AND ALL activities. That includes any Raid you have access. All this Engame content stuff gives me the next missing stuff. - [b]Materials and Consumables[/b]: I don't really remember how I'd get an Ascendant Shard and some Ascendant Energy. That was with my old Warlock. Sometimes I'd get those by getting Gold Tier in Public Events. Now, Gold tier rewards are merely a very few Motes of Light or Strange Coins barely. Also, how I'm supposed to get Legendary Marks if I can't do Heroics?. Those Marks are the mere currency for buying Legendary stuff from Tower vendors, given you meet Rank requirements. Now I can't fully upgrade my few usable Legendaries, like The Stranger's Rifle (14), Murmur (10) or Vestian Dinasty (16) because of the missing content. - [b]The Crucible[/b]: Ohh man, this is one of the worse and sad things I've seen changed. They melted very few game modes, splited into 2 + 1 activities and renamed them as "Classic 6v6", "Classic 3v3" and "Classic Free-for-All". Many game modes are missing and, again, are now exclusives for TTK owners. There are other new game modes of course, but Bungie limited non TTK owners to these Classic game modes. You think that's all?, no my friend. TTK owners are able to join these Classic game modes, bring their new subclasses (exclusives with TTK) and gear, and kickass so easily. Only other TTK players give them fight. Even worse, those users tend to bring Blades, which are Heavy Weapons, they block damage of the same type as the blade is and wielders are extremely resilient to damage. Can kill you with a single swing. - [b]Season Pass conten[/b]t: At first, Expansions I and II were originaly planned and there they are!, The Dark Below and The House of Wolves. Both included in their Season Pass. These Season Pass are mean't to include any current and future content. Now Bungie/Craptivision asks for even more money to complete your copy of Destiny, $40 is exessive and IS NOT INCLUDED IN THE SEASON PASS, which is a really bad joke for us supporters of the game. In short I conclude: Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to the Ransomware era. [b]EDIT[/b]: One more thing about the Crucible. It's absolutely lawless thanks to the patch for non TTK owners. It's insultig how TTK players take their exclusive subclasses and gear, having their own exclusive game modes, to Classic playlists. They love to butcher non TTK players with their shiny new stuff non TTK owners can't have....... I've memorized as many names as possible: Thorn, Last Word, Red Death, Bad Juju, Ice Braker, Felwinter's Lie, Invective.... I don't know how many more I'm missing right now. But the perks they have debalance non TTK gameplay unfairly. We should have the same chances equally for Legendary and Exotics gear drops, starting by normalizing Max Level Cap for all players regardless of expansion ownership. OR, Bungie has to block exclusive subclasses and gear for fair and even matches. EDIT: Nice videos from Youtube. Apathic chumps check this out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzaEKExZiwg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_LE7HXLlDo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hazS1yERncw EDIT: So thanks to a Kotaku article we realized how Bungie treated us all along. I wasn't playing this in day one, but I already had my suspicions on cut content. I'm surprised how far this has gone. The Taken King "expansion" [b]was part of the original game[/b], among other content. How come?.