I disagree with you, and I will even explain why it is better that they do this. First off i don't believe your argument is that strong in the first place because it relies on the huge assumption that they will eventually have non cosmetic items in the shop. Truth is we actually don't know if they will ever do that and in fact there is more evidence that they will never do that which can be seen in the way Activision ran World of Warcraft. They introduced mounts and unimportant cosmetics to be bought and they kept it that way. This example shows not only does Activision have experience with this situation, but that they will most likely not cross that fine line. Now I'll explain why this is actually better. To understand why this is a better move you must look at the game that shipped and it's dlc so far. 1. Vanilla destiny shipped with a huge lack of content but not only that, it shipped with a huge amount of locked content that was already made into the game. All the dlc show this but TTK makes it fairly obvious when the paradox daily introduced what all the secret questionable areas in VoG were for, they were for that paradox daily because you go into the second jump puzzle, crystal cave, activate the vex gate in the distance, and go under trials of khabr. Other examples from previous dlc makes this obvious. So their dlc has already been planned for all of destiny 1 and is clearly on the disc. 2. Now each dlc cost about 20$ but TTK cost 40$. The TTK was actually the only acceptable dlc, the others had so little content those should have been free updates, especially because they were already on disc. Now they are only going to have free update rolling out which is what they should have been doing however there are going to be sellable emotes in exchange. 3. Dlc, mainly Destiny's because it's on disc already and completely planned out, is worse than micro transactions because you are technically paying for weapons and other content AND on top of that not purchasing the dlc excludes players from features that were present in the base game. 4. When you compare the price of the first 2 dlc combined it equals about 40-50$. Now that same amount of content is going to be free. While they will have buyable emotes it is not essential to buy them, but rather we can each individually pay for as many as we see fit. For instance I'm not forced to buy a 20$ dlc but I have an option to buy a few emotes. How much I buy will be based on my income and how much I want to support bungie/Activision. More hardcore players with money will buy more than a few emotes and some might spend a lot of money on them, while others might not spend at all. The dlc aren't technical free because the money still needs to come from the emotes, however the people that want a lot of emotes will naturally spend more money on them over the course of months. So yeah thanks for reading all the way here I'd like to know what you think of some of my points.

The best reason for Bungie to give us microtransactions is so they can start making DLCs free. If enough people buy these emotes that is.

New games around the corner halo 5 and fallout 4 wont do this

It doesn't affect anyone's game. Leave it be.

IF these micros are used to fund future dlc i am conpletely fine with it. I think it is HIGHLY unlikely that they will add anything but cosmetics to the silver trade system. World of warcraft has microtransactions in the form of cosmetic mounts....that did not break the game.

micro transactions may save this game. hopefully guardians who can afford it will invest enough on cosmetic nothings to keep this place running so bungie wont have to keep locking out players every few months to force as many as possible to buy the mandatory dlc packs or implement a true subscription. your reaction is a bit short sighted. they should sell arms and armor too, just so long as the stats and perks are no different than regularly available gear.