It all depends on how you decide to look at it. What is earning? How do you earn things? I'm asking for real life purposes AND Destiny. The idea of "earning" if hard to define but using the actual definition [i]( to gain or get in return for one's labor or service) [/i] I will have to say: [b]No;[/b] you do not earn anything you bought from Xur. You earn the coins and spend the coins as you see fit. Stop, don't try to argue, it's plain and simple. You earn the coins, nothing else. Just because you bought something, it doesn't mean your "earn-menship" transfers to the item you bought. [b]Yes;[/b] getting something from RNG is earning the item. Why? Cuz your hours of gameplay are rewarded and whatever item you get from completing a specific task means you earned it. This includes the one thousand ascendant material you got from getting the most kills Nightfall or the gjhallhorn a player in last place got. You know what the loot system is. You can say it's crap and complain that it's unfair, but that's how the game operates. Earn things by completing bounties, finishing strikes or completing raids. You cannot measure luck. Being lucky can never be measured so you cannot say someone got lucky (in regards to the RNG) just because they got something better than you. It's a part of the system. Learn it, accept it and move on. You'll enjoy the game much more if you do.