Not to be rude, but it's hard to believe threads like these still get posted. Here's my perspective: While it's true that [b]areas[/b] of The Dark Below and House of Wolves are already on disc, that doesn't mean all the content is on the disc. The designers need to already have the skeleton of the maps, guns, etc. laid out first or else they would need to completely build all the DLC's from scratch. Now, Bungie and Activision are high-end corporations that had a business plan laid out for Destiny. That includes a timeline and a release schedule for additional content. Now in order to stay professional and on point with their schedules and releases, they had to make sure that when the game released, they were already thinking ahead to House of Wolves. So when they built the game they had to build the layouts for the other DLC's. If they did not, then the wait between expansions would be more like half a year to a year. You are [b]not[/b] paying to just "unlock" content that's on disc. The entire Crota's End raid was not just "locked" content on the disc. It had to be built, tested, scrapped, rebuilt, retested, polished, and then released. Not to mention the additional story missions, dialogue, weapons, strikes, etc. that came with The Dark Below. If all of those were "locked" content then it would have been leaked by data miners A LONG TIME AGO. Proof of this is the fact that even though certain images, sprites, placeholder names, etc. have been leaked from the House of Wolves but [b]nothing definitive[/b] such as actual story layouts, raid mechanics, strike layouts, etc. TL;DR Bungie is a game company with a plan. DLC's need to be planned out and have foundation laid out to build on to cut down on wait times and meet deadlines. [b]Content[/b] is not "locked on disc" only [b]FOUNDATIONS[/b] Hopefully this clears up any misconceptions.