I like your analytical approach to this, which most here don't seem to want to do. Critical thinking is super helpful. However, your perspective is that it is a positive move on your part since you typically don't do all of the weekly bounties. More BD overall for you off of less work. My issue with it is that the people that play the game substantially more and do all of the bounties every week, such as myself, are taking a hit. Yes, BD is only used for cosmetic items, sure, but most games that have microtransactions also provide a clear avenue for players to still be able to earn all of those cosmetics if they are dedicated enough and put in enough play time. However, given the total amount of BD we can earn in a season and the likely number of seasonal cosmetics for Season 12, it's highly likely to be impossible to earn anywhere close to the amount of BD to end up with all the Eververse items no matter how much you play. In a given season, there's typically 3 or 4 exotic emotes from Eververse, which typically cost like 3,250 BD, yeah? Unless they're exotic multi-player emotes, in which case they cost more (I seem to remember the Cow Bell emote coming with a price tag of more than 4,000 BD). That's a whole heck of a lot of BD for just the exotic emotes. If my math is correct, that would come in around or just under half the total amount of BD you calculated that could be earned in an entire season. That isn't even factoring in legendary and rare emotes, ships, sparrows, ghosts, shaders, transmat effects, exotic weapon/armor ornaments, and whatever else I may have missed. Depending on the total number of available Eververse items from this upcoming season, the cost to buy everything could very well be quadruple or more what you calculated to be the absolute maximum possible amount of BD that can be earned during the season. All of the above is a big slap in the face to the more dedicated players that keep the game alive when nobody else does. Who do people think kept the game going right now in a content drought that was pre-existing and then also extended by 7 weeks? Sure wasn't the more casual crowd. The more dedicated players are what keep the game alive, always have and always will. And the thanks those players get is the ability to earn less rewards for their time. Bungie has repeatedly said they want you as a player to feel like your time is valued. Their actions disagree with that statement. That's the perspective of someone who actually does the work each and every week to maximize their BD earnings. It's a slap in the face to us and a cash grab. FOMO no more, says Bungie? Nah, more like FOMO on steroids next season.