The heart of this issue, IMO... (Destiny)

by Ragashingo , Official DBO Cryptarch, Monday, November 27, 2017, 16:33 (2349 days ago) @ CruelLEGACEY

I can only think of 2 possible reasons for Bungie to clamp down on XP gains.

Yes, but how many reasons can you think of for Bungie scaling them up? Because that was happening too, as per XP In Destiny 2:

Currently, XP will scale up when playing longer or fixed duration activities like Crucible competitive multiplayer matches and the Leviathan Raid, and XP will scale down when playing activities that can be quickly, repeatedly chained, like grinding Public Events.

My guess is that the XP scaling was meant to do a few different things:

• Provide an even, measured progression as you unlocked skills and subclasses.
  
• Even out XP gains for those playing longer activities vs those bouncing between shorter events.
  
• Provide occasional rewards for just playing the game in the form of Bright Engrams.
  
• Prevent players from earning Bright Engrams too quickly so that purchasing them would remain a temptation.

I don’t like the game lying to us about xp gains and I’d bet keeping Bright Engrams a temptation was a part of the consideration for this whole xp system, but if the scaling up is also true, then shouldn’t that part of the system get a paragraph or two’s consideration as well?