I know bungie has probably thought of this and intend to release on Year 5 perhaps, Destiny needs content now to keep more players playing, more players = more porpularity = more cash in future DLC or whatever paid stuff they came up with i hope Bungie knows that. Keeping away stuff is just not the way to go. Faction War Weekly Event and purpose. This faction war happen and conclude every week, participation criteria are simple, players are require to wear shader, emblem and class item and Faction gear (explain later). The purpose is to make players have a sense of belonging into respective faction, for now faction serves basically no purpose... Except u can wear FWC shader to entertain others. When Faction War ended, whichever faction that won will have a hall of flags shown in the tower for a week, and players of that faction are given faction packages as a reward, and able to access specific faction vendor for better quality gear, weapons, faction obtainable only weapons/gear. Of cos every week vendor will change their loot table just like the gunsmith/saladin. Remember that in current patch, everyone are only allowed to switch faction every week, this stays the same, however, a bonus perk should also be introduced if u stay of the same faction consecutively for weeks will allow u to obtain bonus rewards when ur faction won at the end. How this works Matchmaking will start by matching players into fireteams of whatever faction they are representing, ie 6 Dead Orbit VS 6 New Monarchy, so matches of Control/Clash/Skirmish continues for a week, and at the end having stats of whichever faction won the most games for that week published officially and declaring the winning faction, also allow players that participated in the faction war to access the faction hall. During the event, everyone will be able to see the progress by talking to faction representatives, so u can just walk up to them and view the progress like (37% New Monarchy - 33% Dead Orbit - 30% FWC) in a pie chart. This will promote more players of same faction to play during the week and to fight harder so their faction will win and allowing them to access the loot afterwards. In order to avoid letting players that AFKed/idle during the faction war period to access the loot when their faction won while they didnt even participated, everyone required to complete a weekly faction bounty, ie "complete 20 games representing [Faction] in a week" in order to access the loot packages and faction vendors. "How about if everyone stay as new monarchy for example, isnt new monarchy going to win every week?" Well, every week the statistics will reset, making even to all the factions, and no one will know the loot table for DO and FWC if NM keeps winning. If there are 10 teams of NM and only 5 teams of DO for example, DO representative will "call to arms" giving additional rewards for players of DO faction if they won at the end. [Faction Gear] As of current patch, faction gear serves no additional purpose at all, In Faction War, Faction Gear will have perks like allowing capture zone slightly faster, or giving more points per kill etc... So players will wear faction specific gear for a purpose. This is just my personal opinion how it should work, of cos u can suggest better stuff in the comments, lets make Destiny better.