Yeah, that's usually how it works. If you don't buy something then you don't get to use it. He's not stuck at 30, vendor gear goes to 31 so that argument is also invalid. He already got that boost for free, now he should get all the other content the rest of us paid for as well? Makes no sense. He didn't buy a nightfall each week, and if they only let the weekly and daily missions be vanilla content those of us who paid for new content would be livid. Companies support those that support them. If he's playing enough that it matters to him, then the $20 investment is worth the number of hours he'll get out of it.