Read this please: http://www.joystiq.com/2013/02/17/destiny-what-we-know-now-vs-details-in-the-activision-bungie-con/?onswipe_redirect=no&oswrr=3&oswrtu=PbCCxtZzmjO5U9GT2vTfVQ== It outlines the contract from 2010 between Bungie and Activision. As you can see, DLC have always been a major part of the plan, not some recent conspiracy hatched over the last few months before launch. Furthermore, if you have planned for four years to launch products with DLC add-one to follow, don't you think a bunch of the content - say the resource and bandwidth intensive physical regions and maps - would be good to work out in advance? Which is what they did. Now you or BDobbins may not like the idea of DLC on first principles - fine. But it's here to stay. And it doesn't mean Bungie is evil. This model basically creates two price tiers: $60 for a rather anemic vanilla version, or $95 for the full experience. If you don't see the value at those price points, you are welcome to not buy. You will have seven more opportunities to make that choice (Comets 1-4 + Destiny 2-4).