Glad to see someone mention ME3 in this discussion. The thing with the packs in ME3 was that you didn't have to buy them. You could earn through game play & performance, the purchase was merely a way to accelerate your acquisition. In Y1 Destiny when players commented on how they wished Bungie would sell Gjallarhorn for real cash I said the only way that you would [b]ever[/b] be able to buy exotics would be if random engrams were sold, players wouldn't be allowed to buy exactly what they wanted. This dovetails into something else about the ME3 packs... The purchased packs were for items that had an in-game benefit, it wasn't for cosmetic only items. New classes, new & better versions of weapons, weapon attachments, single-game consumable boosts...EA/Bioware implemented it fairly well and from what I've seen on how it works in Halo 5, 343 has done a good approximation of the EA/Bioware model. Bungie has their head up their fourth point of contact if they think what they're proposing is in any way acceptable to players.