[quote]Part of the game is resource management.[/quote] Wrong kind of game. This isn't a survival game. Materials in a loot game are currencies. They are proxies for player time investment...and are exchanged to the game in return for some form of power. Cores are a broken mechanic becasue they were intentionally designed to break this rule of loot-game design by INTENTIONALLY being unresponsive to player time investment...and to be undersupplied to the game. What Bungie is proposing to do is NOT a solution to the lack of cores....but an effort to put them under even more rigid control in an effort to solve their content creation problems. It will ultimately fail because what they are doing sabotages the primary reward loop that is VITAL to how loot-games function. Which is why this mechanic is getting such powerful pushback....and is sapping the enjoyment of the game for many players. TLDR: Cores may allow Bungie to increase player playtime in the short run....but will ultimately cost them, and damage the franchise in the long run.

"Materials in a loot game are currencies" Right. Cores are materials in the game used for infusion. They are rewards for missions rank ups and clan rewards. Very common in the game now.

No they aren’t. I’ve got over 7000 weapon parts. And 25 cores.