Metro Interviews Luke Timmins (Destiny)

by Kahzgul, Thursday, July 09, 2015, 15:31 (3662 days ago) @ Cody Miller

And so The Taken King, we’re absolutely looking to make substantial improvements across the board, in all of these areas, including storytelling. And the player stories, we think those can be better too, and one of the ways is we want to reward players for their deeds. We want you to be earning loot out in the world by killing monsters, not necessarily saving up your money and buying something from a vendor. Saving up money and going shopping, that’s not the fantasy you have about being a space knight and saving the universe!

So does this also mean no rng? Because winning a lottery and being given an exotic doesn't strike me as much of a universe saving fantasy either. I'd of course love for every weapon to be obtainable by specific ways. The only downside is I'll never be able to buy Hawkmoon.

My takeaway from this is that it means more RNG, not less. They want to remove your ability to buy upgrades from a vendor, which means you're only getting loot from drops or quest/bounty/strike rewards. Right now, vendors are pretty much the only guaranteed path to upgrades.