What you describe is how a BUY TO PLAY title usually works. And SHOULD work. Bungie on the other hand went the greed route after the activision split and went full blown micro transaction gacha game while the entire game STILL IS a pay to play game. The f2p part is more like a demo. So why do they think they can have the cash shop and mtx's be the main focus? This is far from a f2p title. Lost ark, path of exile, warframe. To name a few examples. Those games can justify an mtx shop. Those titles are completely free and all the content is playable entirely without paying. A cash shop with a lot of stuff in it is fine and justified in those games. In D2, we pay 100 bucks per year for the content which essentially is a subscription. The extreme mtx focus on top of that shows you how scummy this company really is. Remember how easy it was to obtain literally everything from the eververse store by just playing the game in year 1? AND we were showered in bright dust to buy even more stuff. WITH Activision? Yea i remember. But hey, Activision was the problem right? Right?!?