You're a day one player if.
You remember the loot cave.
You have a legendary engram, oh let me turn that into a blue for you.
When Xur sold the Gjallarhorn, and we all thought, what idiot would use an exotic rocket launcher.
You remember the Shadow price.
You remember farming materials for hours on end.
You remember how hard it was to get ascendant materials.
You remember the grind to get materials to upgrade your gear.
You remember the VoG loot table.
You remember being stuck at level 29 for ages.
You remember the queens wrath.
You remember farming queens wrath for ascendant materials, until they hotfixed it.
Seeing a level 30 and thinking, wow you legend.
The community gathering at the loot cave and about ten guardians defending the warsat.
You remember when it was all about fusion rifles in PVP.
You remember being killed by Thorn in PVP and thinking, you sir are an absolute beast.
Where you had to farm for materials rather than spending marks.
[spoiler]I liked it that way. It made me play the game longer and promised rewards. And now it's a joke....[/spoiler]
You were excited to buy vendor gear, because it refreshed regularly so you never knew what kind of cool gun rolls Vanguard and Crucible vendors would have in stock.
[spoiler]Seriously, why was that removed? Did it make the game too interesting, Bungie?[/spoiler]