No free handouts son 👍

Yes. Honestly the fvcking totally convoluted nature of the transmog system is far more baffling to me than the cap on earnables. Three new currencies AND a whole new raft of bounties? Why this obsession with currencies and bounties?! Fvck that. My guardians look cool enough. My plan as of now is just to not engage with transmog at all.

You got it backwards. Full priced game with full priced seasonal DLCs with full priced yearly expansions with fully working microtransactions cash shop with gameplay elements channeling folks into spending money on the MTX with free-to-play aspects as an easy entry point into the game at large? They've managed to build the golden goose of video game monetization. Literally every possible monetization plan's in effect (seasons are close to a bi-monthly subscription) and hundreds of thousand of people are paying for it all. The revenue has to be massive especially for the relatively little development effort (from looking at the results provided, not the adverts and promises) being invested into the game. Why do anything different? Bungo's already got it perfectly built. The only thing that's wrong are the player's expectations who're still wishing this to be a player-friendly player quality-of-life -first triple AAA product and continue to play and spend partly driven by the hope of seeing the game become more like that. It wont because the company behind it doesnt want it to be. The joke, as always, is on the paying customer.

It's sad because it also prods another area of the game people have complained about. 1. Excessive materials. 3 -blam!-ing versions of the material to turn into a single piece is just outright stupid. You wanna make me grind for this material, fine, but just give it to me. 2. Going to the tower. We go to the tower to pick up the bounties, go do shit, then fly back to the tower to use it. It's just a time waster no matter how fast it loads.