Well, make up your mind -do you want them available day-1, or do you want them to be released later on? You can't have both! People complained before that Exotics were too easy to get, and that people were collecting everything so easily. Bungie finds a way to stall this process and increase playtime a little bit, and you still complain. You're literally complaining about their solution to your last complaint -it's all full-circle. The timegate was there for two reasons: to prevent players from rushing through the game, like they did with HoW, and to give some dedicated players time to prepare. How many people were unprepared for Sleeper? How many people decided that the bonus boss on Paradox was "just a waste of time" and ignored it? If it was so pointless to hide the weapon behind a timegate and "force" players to wait, why do so few people have NTTE? It's almost like you people psyched yourselves out! IMO, what Bungie did was certainly justified, in every way. They gave us time to prepare, and time to try out some of the immediately-available exotics out there. Be honest, would you have ever tried half of these new exotics after finding that one "perfect" exotic for you? Would you have tried any other sniper rifle besides Spindle, if you'd had Spindle immediately available? (as an example, of course). They made us have a little patience, variety, and open-mindedness -is that really such a sin?