[quote]I was with a new player friend and he was talking about having to buy the 3.0’s I was so confused. Bungie it is beyond predatory and f-ed beyond belief to have to pay hundreds of thousands of glimmer for new players to have to buy a la carte every piece to the reworked (not new) light subclasses. The investment team honestly is a constant liability to this game. Grind is not content! But guns and craftable weapons are such OVER-Inflated investment cost that nothing feels like a reward. Same with pinnacles what is so important and or special that players get locked out?! The in game economy is terrible to even have a basic experience gm farming is required so the game for just a basic ease of build crafting and trying new things costs the highest level of investment. Gm’s and raid are considered aspirational but that’s a complete lie if players are set up to fail because the economy is designed for the top not the bottom band of players. Endgame players have no short of mats but new and mid have exponentially less. Last season was the first time I did gm’s regularly it changed the way I played destiny. But Bungie has the new/mid game so material broke that it’s makes it a terrible experience. I’ve never had this many exotics masterworked or had more than enough mats when I started to even enjoy the basic game. I’ve quit for long stretches of time and more than once and I lay that entirely on the investment teams shoulders. And I know a giant part of players that have a bad impression of destiny it’s devs and the community are because it’s so anti new player and has an economy of scarcity which again feels terrible. I can’t think of what point the bottle necking and the CONSTANT OVERUSE OF the worst kind of rng used in this game serves. Last mentionable experience: I got touch of malice day 3 after release after I subbed in for someone in my clan didn’t even complete the whole raid was just trying to save my friends run and you know what. No one has gotten it since and I guarantee no one is going to be grateful to Bungie when they get it. Why because so many people are upset yet again the investment team screws the community by making an exotic that was a quest reward toxic rng reward. There is zero room for gratitude and goodwill towards Bungie when the game decides randomly when you get the reward you’ve been working towards for _____ amount of time. I mention this because it is beyond toxic to see guardians have clears in the hundreds + of specific raids and no raid exotic. Please shake up the investment team fire people if you have to but the game needs to not by it’s mechanics create toxicity and general friction arbitrarily rng does not reward skill and grind is not content. I hope theater anyone from Bungie -blam!- this knows I and many community members wanna just have fun no one really wants to be toxic I think situations do that so please I would like the opportunity to be grateful to you as a dev but I can’t and won’t until inroads are made with general fairness to the economy and design choices. I originally came from a mother game community and that one was very healthy and maintained by attitudes of fairness towards players. Please this isn’t a call for free but a call for more tailor made situations for new and old players and an end to inflation in this game.[/quote] I absolutely agree. The main point is new players definitely need glimmer to upgrade core abilities. The entire argument that microtransactions are predatory in gaming is a Pay To Play Mobile Game model. Which is exactly what having high prices glimmer is. New players do not have 25k to drop for a basic ability. This will only force new players to buy those sweet material packs or season pass. Again what makes microtransactions predatory is when they go beyond cosmetics. Microtransactions should be for cosmetics only otherwise IT IS a Pay To Play Mobile Game model. New players can’t play the game unless they spend money on silver coins just to buy Mats. This is literally the definition of predatory microtransactions.