Please, tell me more how having an exotic randomly given to you is earning over the guy who did numerous weekly strikes to get enough strange coins to get that one gun/ piece of armor he/she wants. I guess people who buy Lamborghinis with their paychecks isn't earning it either, they have to win it in a raffle, am I understanding you correctly?

]I think the majority have accepted Xur and are fine with him, there are still a few who feel they need to rant on a weekly basis. That's not to say I don't see why you are upset, its just I think you need to look at the bigger picture before calling for his removal. If you break it down, the only reason to be upset - you were lucky enough to loot something good, but if everyone was handed it through xur it no longer feels special. That's an understandable reason to be upset, maybe not justified given the nature of rng, but understandable. I just want to approach the subject from a different angle, why I think he exists and should continue. For simplicity sake, take the situation before the DLC. Xur, he exists primarily [b]not [/b]for those of us who are playing end game but for those who have [i]just finished the story mode[/i] and working on increasing their light level to play end game. For me that is the most challenging time in the game, in terms of the grind and motivation. Its a time when the most amount of people i suspect either quit the game or decide to continue on to play the end game content. Your grinding out strikes and marks with sub-par weapons, looking to buy vender gear and hitting those public events with a passion, the very site of an exotic gets your blood racing and Exotic bounties seem like an unsurpassable challenge at times, if your lucky enough to get one. Its at that critical time, I think Xur is essential for. Firstly it gives a sense of purpose - newly Post 20, your focus is to start doing the weekly heroic. It will take you a few weeks perhaps, but your work is almost guaranteed to be rewarded with an exotic at the end of it. That feels good, it feels like progression and it makes you motivated to continue. Players at this stage, might be lucky to buy an exceptional weapon from Xur, their first exotic might even be a Gjallahorn or an ice breaker, that doesn't all of a sudden make it easy mode for them, they still have a lot of work to do in outfitting the rest of their character to a level good enough to raid or nightfall. But it does give a huge amount of motivation to continue playing and a short term reason to get their light level higher to do the Weekly on hard. Once your of a level high enough to Nightfall and raid, you have several opportunities now for looting exotics and the rate at which you progress is much faster. Xur becomes a lot less relevant, he is a nice bonus at the end of the week and a reason to do the weekly, but the reality is in the longer run you are going to have much more gear looted that is not from Xur. So what I am saying is, without Xur. So many players would of quit a long while back, his existence keeps players playing after the main story is over. He doesn't make [i]that [/i]much of a difference to those playing end game and before we call for him to be removed, we should look at the bigger picture and offer an answer to that first. Thanks

I don't mind Xur. I bought Suros and Red Death from him a while ago, and two Titan helms (Skullfort and Glasshouse). I "earned" Plan C, Pocket Infinity, Icebreaker and Universal Remote from random drops and bounties. I "earned" Crest of Alpha Lupi off a random drop. The very nature of a random drop means you don't earn what is dropped, you simply receive it for free. In a way getting exotics through Xur by way of coins is more deserved than receiving them from drops due to the fact that you have to do something to earn the coins. Either way it shouldn't matter that other players have the same guns and armor as you, unless you have a significant emotional investment in being one of the few with said guns or armor. If that's the case it is perhaps not "nubs" owning exotics that is the core of the issue. tl;dr chill out its just a game..the items are just pixels on a screen