[i]"Daily, Weekly heroic and nightfall missions are all gated off."[/i] Has been like that every expansion [i]"set the new game to 'only level 40' mode"[/i] False. It's actually level 41. Bunt you wouldn't know that since you can't access it. It's to give players a challenge. They also took out the lower versions to prevent glimmer farming (My guess). HOWEVER, it doesn't really matter. In buying the game you payed for the story, strikes, Raids, and crucible. Those are the core features. Features like "lv 18 heroic story mission" were never advertised. That isn't a feature that you "paid for" It was something extra to provide replayability. [i]"All Vendor gear is now locked, old vendor gear is gone completely"[/i] Again, true with every prior expansion. [i]"The vanguard legacy playlist is a shadow of what the old vanguard strike playlists" [/i]But you still have access to the strikes you payed for right? Regardless of there rewards. I remember playing Halo CE day in and day out and I never got shit for it (Besides getting better, [i]"All "kill objective" missions while patrolling lead to Taken"[/i] This one's easy. Don't select them. They are easy to identify. Simply choose a different one. [i]"all Eris bounties are gone, and her item selection has been culled (so that's what, half of the dark below?)"[/i] Eris Bounties were not "half TDB" In fact you can still increase her rep by playing the Crota Raid. [i]" the jump from year one gear to year two gear means that for someone with the expansion, there's very little reason to play VoG, Crota's end or PoE."[/i] VoG was pointless after TDB. It's weapons weren't as powerful, it's gear wasn't as good. The HoW came along and introduced ascending. But only the hardcore new players cared about it. The population for those raids died well before Year 2 began. The only thing I will agree with you on is there needs to be a way for you to also rank up Queens Rep. That's about it though. Your main flaw I find is that you bought the game for it's content, and all of it's content is still there. There are features missing though, but that's nothing you can't have reasonable predicted. Destiny was advertised as a game that would evolve over time through expansions. Imagine this. Imagine the Nightfall was still set at the Vanilla level of 28. This was all players could access it. However, it also only granted vanilla gear. Would that give incentive for anyone else that bought the DLC to play it? No. Oh, but we can make one foe them also. Then you get this. Vanilla Crucible TDB Crucible HoW Crucible TTK Crucible And you talk about the Raid population being dead. Try finding a gamemode of your pick in any of the older modes. That will take a while.