Interesting reading after sleeping on it (Destiny)

by Claude Errera , Thursday, October 08, 2015, 18:16 (3430 days ago) @ Cody Miller

The person without it couldn't do whatever the new thing is anyway, BECAUSE HE HASN'T PLAYED LONG ENOUGH TO RANK UP. Once he's played long enough to earn 150 marks (even if it takes him a month), he can buy that gun - and do exactly the same activity player 1 was doing a month ago.

This is not correct. Because by then the other player will have been able to buy 5 guns. Eventually a new expansion drops, and things change, and you are behind and always have been. You can't 'buy 5 vanguard guns' because by the time you can, the guns change. So no, you can;t have the same experience but just slower. That only works if resources are limited and finite, and the game gets no updates.

I don't buy this. (Well, the fact that stock rotates, sure. The idea that you're 'behind' if you take longer to get guns? Pfft.

Strange coins are hard to earn in TTK. They were easy to earn before. If you did the weekly, you got 27 each week guaranteed. Going into TTK, are you going to say someone who has 1200 strange coins is going to have the same experience as someone with 100?

Wait, what?

I earn almost 100 strange coins a week since TTK dropped. (Between 50 and 100 every week, usually on the high side. For example, I burned every coin I had on Saturday last week - and I've got 76 right now.) I earned a quarter of that (and had to play on 3 characters to even do that!) before TTK. I have no idea what you're talking about when you say it's harder.