I've posted this in response to numerous posts like this, so here I go again: This game is being tuned to support a broader array of microtransactions by creating an economic imbalance wherein the player is always operating at a deficit for materials and/or currency, thereby creating a choke-point for player progression that can be conveniently alleviated with items/perks purchased in the cash shop. Game mechanics like scarcity of resources and time-gates are used in F2P/P2W games as an inducement to spend $IRL by creating a pain point for players who want to immediately progress their game experience, characters, and gear, but cannot. Bungievision will continue to dial up the inconvenience factor as quietly and imperceptibly as possible in order to keep people playing as long as possible - like boiling a frog. When the complaints about material scarcity get loud enough, they will make those materials available through the cash-shop as well using in-game currency (glimmer/marks) in order to keep stringing people along, while in fact all this does is create another chokepoint downstream. Remember how we complained in year 1 that there was nothing to spend glimmer on? That's changed, hasn't it? Now there's lots to spend glimmer on. This business of "streamlining" the economy by combining vanguard/crucible marks, just gives you one pool of resources to draw from, not two. "Yeah, but there's no weekly cap on marks now", you say. True... but there are now limited ways to get those marks - requiring you to play longer and expose yourself to more pain points and giving more opportunities for the developers to monetize your game play. As a veteran of F2P/P2W games who has spent THOUSANDS in the cash-shop, I am well-familiar with this model and can see it coming from across the solar system. Here's the truth of it people: The grind will get longer. Loot tables will get stingier. Rewards will get smaller. XP requirements will get higher. And Tess Everis will be there to comfort you. For a price.