Laziness, Its the only applicable answer I came to after playing the game and reading the complains on these forums. It shouldn't surprise people that bungie isn't being innovative with their design decisions after experiencing D1. If you look at anything in D2 you can see some effort was put into it, but it was half-assed or seems unfinished. Look at how many D1 exotics there are, were they too lazy to come up with new ones? Out of the three sub-classes only 1 for each class is new while the other two have been re-hashed and that one new one still feels all too familiar. The armor does look better in general compared to D1, but once again there is a very small variance in legendary gear within a class. Hell even the campaign, while coherent this time around it still doesn't explain squat and we are left with more questions then answers with zero answers for the questions in D1. So much time and effort was put into the campaign cut-scenes to make them look pretty and the game was localized in what? 11 or 12 different languages, but they couldn't go that single extra step to give our guardians a voice? Factions should have been in the game form the start. They had areas in the tower since the beginning, but were withheld to be introduced later as new content. Its also not a "real" even't. All you have to do is align yourself with one of them and then go do what you've been doing for the past two weeks just to get re-skinned armor.