Ragashigo's post is super important. (Destiny)

by CruelLEGACEY , Toronto, Monday, October 23, 2017, 11:37 (2380 days ago) @ Robot Chickens

Nobody is claiming that Eververse is ruining their life, lol. It’s just designed in a way to earn more money than the items for sale would earn in a truly fair marketplace.

I agree with a lot of your feelings but I'm not sure this is true.

You are thinking of real money being valued at a rate of 1 item from the vault of goodness. Understandable, but what if you were to instead think of it as about 100 bright dust. Each item is worth a minimum of 95 bight dust (I believe) and many are worth considerably more. So, when you pay or play, you get about 100 for each transaction. It just happens to be that you *might* get something much more valuable. You may get the exact thing you want or you may get something worth more than 100 bright dust. But, you're never left with nothing (unlike a casino). Now you know the value of real money/ real time. Sometimes you get lucky, but there is always a path forward if you didn't. The obscured value of those engrams (100 bright dust) is probably the most problematic part, but I don't think it is unfair. I'm pretty sure most people have figured out whether the math is worth it on a gut level even if they haven't quantified it. Under this framing, the products are being fairly priced, but they're just higher than what I think you framed them as.

I didn’t mean to suggest that items were being unfairly priced by way of conversion. I meant that the RNG nature of buying engrams forces you to spend more money overall than you would spend were you able to simply buy the exact item you want outright (case in point, Speedracer spent $40 to get the Six Shooter emote). You might get the item you want out of your very first engram, but you probably won’t. And you might get bright dust out of an engram, but who knows how much. So just like a casino, there will be the occasional winner that gets what they want right away. But all together, I guarantee Bungie pulls in more money this way than they would it they removed the RNG layer.