i agree, it appears to be, Bungie now says it isn't, but i never meant my reaction/feelings on on-disc content to be solely squared at Bungie, i consider the phenomenon across the board, as it's becoming a regular thing now. i agree with all you wrote there, as i too hope it's still new content, and substantial content for the asking price. i love Destiny, i love a couple of past Halo games, and i do want this title to succeed, i just hope they stick to their guns, fix the massive mistakes that plague the game alongside all the great stuff the game currently does, don't grift their fanbase by offering the same stuff but in a different part of the same maps as i'd feared, and show the true potential of the game, rather than the fun and beautifully realized, yet somewhat empty, repetitious game world we currently have. it's wierd, it's a beautiful game, but the cut content is painfully obvious, especially in terms of the holes in the story, that's not how to do expansions, it comes off as a mess, yet i still want it to take off and become something amazing. it really does feel as though they pushed it out to beat the october flood of AAA titles, and the initial base game suffered as a result. i wonder if this would have been the same release on the disc had they waited until post-xmas to launch with a few more months to really nail the complete core package and fine tune the story aspects as well...