I would say I'm shocked at how many players don't pay attention to the game they are playing, or more so what actions have actually taken place that they haven't paid attention to either for the last year or so, because Bungie has a huge list of crap they dumped on you guys and it keeps piling up, and the sad thing is most of you refuse to look at it. I've been reading over this forum today and what is the biggest grip on the first page? (the cost for items and sliver), and every time the price goes up for something or Bungie removes something that makes it harder to collect whatever? Post start flooding this forum as if this is a [b]("new thing Bungie has been doing")[/b] [spoiler]News flash people, it's not. Bungie has been manipulating the entire player base for the last 4 years, and it started getting really bad right after Forsaken when they started jacking up the cost to masterwork items among other things, and shoving Eververse in our face. Let's take a little trip back to when the manipulating actually kicked in. (Cores) thanks to some bright streamers Masterwork cores were changed to Enhancement cores and the game has gone downhill since and it keeps getting worse as time moves on with Eververse and other cosmetic BS in this game that is literally drowning this game. This is who this Bungie is today and I knew this day was coming when the real talent that cared about the player base and the game started leaving this company. Here it is that some of you were so happy Luke was moved to doing other things yet nothing has changed with this company when it comes to them looking to sucker players into their BS.[/spoiler]

Don’t buy the shaders then

If you WANT YOUR Raid Armor - THIS CAN ALL BE YOURS for a limited price of 5 yrs of your life and $2000 real hard earned dollars! You heard that Right!! AND if you order NOW we’ll throw in the All Black Shader for Another low fee of 75,000 Bright Dust and a Pint of your blood. Order Now! (While supplies Last, we know it’s actually unlimited but hey F U) ❤️ Bungie

Diablo III came out 11 years ago, and that Transmog system makes more sense then this one. That twab is an eyeroll. Not to mention since it’s gonna be grindy, why not give us the ability to unlock armor sets and shaders we missed thru this system? Would love Black armory set for my Titan, this would have been a good way to do such. Edit: thanks for posting OP.

Games been dead awhile now. They are just trying to stay afloat. They are all gripping their sacks trying to survive their 10yr term

You have always been on board with Eververse since this a is free to play game? This game wasn't free until almost 2 years into its lifespan. It cost $60, plus Curse of Osiris and Warmind DLC, which, for the most part, has been all but deleted. So that was a big middle finger to everyone who bought all that. And as a "free" player, what do you actually get? Earth, Cosmodrome (nothing to do there anyway) and access to crucible, strikes, and gambit. You still have to pay for Shadowkeep, Forsaken, and Beyond Light if I'm not mistaken. Not to mention the season pass. Game isn't as free as you might think. If you don't pay, you are basically just playing a demo. So I'm not exactly sure where you get the idea that Eververse is justified because Bungie allows people access to about 20% of their game at no cost.

No one tricked you. Bungie exists in the RW and the hundreds of people working at Bungie need to make money to feed their families.

The logic behind this change is just...not logical. They were a permanent unlock before at 40 dust. Does the removal of needing legend shards to repurchase justify like a 700% increase in bright dust cost? No, no it does not. Especially since no one really gives a rip about legend shards.

Can you guys not complain about everything for 5 minutes? Cmon, I’m sure all of you have over 10,000 bright dust stashed away. “Manipulation”? It’s a free currency in a video game. I thought we were better than this...

I think you need a reminder on what "1 time purchase" means. Unlocking the shader for use HAS always been a 1 time purchase. But you also had to buy copies of it any time you wanted to use more of it. The unlock was one time, the shader itself being consumed meant that the actual copy put on your gear was not one time buy. The higher price is fine. This way we have an infinite use shader instead of having to spend glimmer and shards on buying extra copies. Those may not be super rare for the sweats out there but for casual players or weekend warriors, it's a big help. Plus, even sweats will benefit from this. How much do you think you spend on shaders in a year? At 2 shards and 500 glimmer per shader, if you buy 5 copies of 1 shader, you've spent 2500 glimmer and 10 shards. Not much, right? But what if you get armor with a better roll, or a better look, and swap? Now you've spent 5000 glimmer and 20 shards. That happens two more times and it's suddenly 10k glimmer and 40 shards. Still seem small? Say you're not set on a fashion and you're swapping up that many times per week. In a month, you've spent 40k glimmer and 160 shards. Do that every month for a year until you settle on a style and that's 1,920 shards and 480k glimmer. To sweats those may seem small but that's still resources you could have spent much better on non-cosmetics, and it's certainly a loss that casuals and weekend warriors would feel. 300 bright dust, which is pocket change even to weekend warriors, in exchange for never having to spend ANY form of currency on that shader ever again? That's more than fair.

Whoa... Who cares. Lol!