The solutions are actual coming free. Your €40 payment buys you: New Strikes All gear with the Taken King symbol New Subclasses New destination (The Dreadnaught) The Taken King's Story Missions/Quests New Crucible maps Possibly the new game modes Possibly the last six XP levels. Everything else - Vault pages, story reorganization, quests and bounties, collections, exp leveling to 34, Light Level change, etc, will affect all players regardless of how many DLCs and/or Expansions you have. Unless they cut you off from the game completely if you don't buy The Taken King, but I would hope they would have said something about that already. It is an expansion not a new game, after all. It's just that many of the new changes are easier to roll out as part of a big release like this.