But you've gotten use out of your phone (using your metaphor). It was brand new, and no one else had it. Then it got old. Your buddy would have picked it up as a last-gen phone, or a "soon to be replaced" gen phone. The whining is unbearable. When you buy a new car (I'm going to go out on a limb and assume you've never done this) it loses half its value the second you drive it off the lot. In a year, your buddy could buy the same car, with more bells and whistles than yours, for thousands less than you still owe, never mind what you paid. Consumer beware. It's not Bungie's "fault". It's no one's fault. It's capitalism. Deal with it, or whine about it, I guess. I have NO problem with any of this. I'll get a couple of exotics that will help me level up quicker (then be bored quicker)? I'm good.