Keep bumping this! This is the reality of what is happening in the game right now and had been happening ever since last year. I'm not a Bungie fanboy, never cared much for Halo...but I have enjoyed Destiny ever since I started playing it earlier this year. That's right I started playing in 2015 after the Dark Below expansion. I only purchased the base game and didn't bother with any DLC until maybe a month after HoW. I played and enjoyed the base content of vanilla Destiny for months and never thought to complain that end game stuff was locked out for me. It makes sense because I didn't pay for the expansions and additions to the game. I still had the story, original strikes, raid, and original crucible maps and that was plenty of content to enjoy. The only reason anyone got endgame content a year ago was because they owned the current version of the game...the endgame and new activities will always evolve with every expansion because they are a feature of the expanded (not base) game. I'm not an MMO or PC gamer and I completely understand and accept this model and as long as I'm having fun with Destiny I'm happy to pay for more content that the developers are working hard to create. Console gamers need to get their heads out of the sand and realize this isn't the Super Nintendo era...games grow and evolve and add new content and require online subscriptions and high speed internet...if you don't want that kind of experience than you don't want to play Destiny.