Good points all around. I am as well a Spartan at heart. When I play I feel like I'm a Spartan with magic powers. Maybe that's what Bungie wanted to do. Bring in super space magic but Microsoft said no, now we are here. I do have one disagreement. Yes I do agree that much of the dlc content should have been with the base game but I also see it like this. The base game is both a test, experiment and tutorial. Playing through it for the first time introduces you slowly to how the enemies work, and how over all Gaurdian interaction works. Once you hit 20 you can then begin to get serious about getting vendor gear and utilizing Exotics and learning how to use them all to their full potential. VoG is you're first test. Can you work with 5 others to overcome complex combat puzzles? If so you are ready for Destiny. Now many will say that it was due to greed or laziness that what we got at launch was a bit lack luster when it comes to content. Well imagine this, if we had gotten all 4 basic dlcs and the one big dlcs then Bungie would have been trying to fix and update across all of it. We don't need to farm for materials anymore, we can now reforge legendary weapons and soon we might be able to reforge legendary armor. With so many variables on how the community can respond to the various gameplay elements that tie us together it's no surprise Bungie is taking their time with content. I am glad they are trying new things, changing things and adding to the game over all with each dlc. We got PoE because Bungie saw players were getting bored with the same endgame content and that many where not making the effort to fo a 6 man team. This was a solution to both issues while they redesigned and possibly altered how the next Raid will work. Modifiers perhaps? So with them these leading the dlcs like this the money supports updates and running the servers along with them over all adding to the game in ways they could not have thought of to do so in the beginning.