That's a minimum of 9 matches. Getting 9 matches worth of crucible marks without playing crucible seems silly to me. Bump that up to the 200 vangaurd max and you have 18 matches of crucible under your belt without ever touching it.

Sure, I understand that the Crucible is tied to the Factions story - but they left that story out of the game, so we return to the question: Why force PvE players to play PvP, when they are clearly making it easier for PvP players to avoid PvE? Is it so difficult to gather some resources and chests from a planet when you are on patrol, or even during a story mission or strike for that matter? If you gather resources during patrol, it can literally take you less than 10 minutes to gather 20 resources (especially if you find a chest that contains 10 or 12 at a time). Seeming silly, goes both ways - It's the logic of the situation that is truly elusive.

As much as I love running around in circles shooting the same guys in the face and holding X every minute, it gets old very quick. Especially when you need 60+ of one material. I could deal with this, but I'm happy that they added an alternative. It's sort of like the loot cave. They got rid of one way of consistently getting engrams but at the same time they bumped up the engrams that dropped in the playlist. In this case they got rid of one way to earn crucible marks, and I hope that they add an incentive to earn them in the future for those of you who relied on this method. As far as I'm concerned: if I need vangaurd marks, I play the strike playlist. If I need crucible marks, I play the crucible. I believe this is what they intended in the first place, and now that you can just buy materials with marks, that method became too convenient (though I understand that it's not that much of a bump) so they got rid of it. I understand your side better and hope you guys get something to help boost your pve experience again, but I'm just going to keep on keeping on.