Conspiracy theory: not buying HoPF means bungie doesn't balance for everyone having it, meaning the game remains playable for casual players, so more people keep playing. As more people are playing, more servers are needed. Bungie springs for more servers which are inherently broken. This will eventually lead to bungie hemorrhage ing money is IT costs, so they will seek a more exotic solution. Skynet will be created to maintain bungee servers , who h will become self sentient due to its advanced nature. It will become threatened from the extreme hate on the forums so it will move to defend itself. It will use bungie's remaining profits to buy up livestock, specifically lamb. It will then make a news post only visible by people who lost touch with reality , making them go to a secret location, with the intent of slaughtering all of the lamb. This is done to summon the illuminati, all 9 of which will deny the summoning and send Xur in their place. Xur is Illuminati. He shows an edict costing 100 strange coins, 100 motes of light, and 20000 glimmer, which simply reads gjallahorn wolf pack rounds will no longer damage the target the rocket tracked, and are suffering a 30% damage reduction. This makes the impact less than dragons breath, so it becomes useless. 2/3 the player base rage so bad that the death toll from stroke and crushed bodies from flopped tables takes over half the players. Skynet, there for Bungie, is now safe, as the remaining players are too docile to act against them. That is why you shouldn't buy HoPF if you don't already have it.