If you voted yes, no, or kinda, comment below why or why not it is or is not "earning". After seeing so much controversy on this subject I want to see what some people have to say, you are all entitled to your opinions so have at it Guardians!!!
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Does it make one feel better to say "I spent x a out of hours playing a game to get something not real!? " If one needs to lord over someone about stuff in a GAME, then they are just sad.. No one really cares because it doesn't effect your game at this point.
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If anything, it's the only way to earn exotics. You have guaranteed ways to get the coins to buy the exotics, and getting exotics to drop is RNG. That being said, most of the exotics that xur sells are underpriced.
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Ya, as long as things don't suddenly appear like the Ev-30 it is earned
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This is an old, endless and dumb debate. It's like having a job and spending your earned money on a new television, as opposed to getting one on a random Wednesday as a complete surprise gift from your wife/girlfriend.
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It's not earning, strange coins practically throw themselves at you
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You have to actually go out and earn Strange coins to buy stuff from Xur so technically you do earn his stuff
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Buying exotics from Xur is exactly that. No "earn" about it.
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I love people who say you don't "earn" it by buying it with strange coins. That's like saying people have never earned anything in life because they had to work to get what they wanted. It would be earned if they just randomly stumbled across it somewhere and picked it up. First world problems
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Lol what? A bounty is earning not doing easy weekly
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I think you earn the coins to buy the exotics from xur. I also think that the ones you buy should be slightly different from the ones that drop. Maybe slightly less powerful and with a different colour scheme or xurs mark on them. Something like that.
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If coins were weekly heroic only and I didn't get like 10 of them out of engrams a week it would be more acceptable. Besides once he sells Ghorn (or in my case Thunderlord) he will be entirely irrelevant. Xur is simply unsustainable and that's why he is convienently forgetting to bring ammo or engrams or both each week.
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Oh god not this again.
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It is earning, but it's not cool
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When I run that -blam!-ing weekly on the hardest difficulty 2-3 times a week for those coins? Damn right I earned it.
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buying is earning it more that RNGing it when you get strange coins your working twards a goal when you get it randomly through a nightfall or raid or crucible its not working hard to earn something its luck
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You earned the coins for buying exotics. Drops are RNG
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Everything is earned, you dont get summat for nothing
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Well, you earned the coins to buy the Exotic.
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I would say that buying things from Xur are the items most earn't. I mean eventually he will sell his entire loot table. The question is are you masochistic enough to still be playing Destiny's "SOS" for that long?
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What next.... what was your first exotic?
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You could always look up the other 1 million posts about this if you want to see peoples opinions.
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No controversy here at all. Just another one of these posts to add to the countless others. Yawn.
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You earned your coins right? So anything you buy with your strange coins are well deserved. Enjoy.
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The only exotics you actually earn is Thorn, Bad juju, Pocket infinity, invective. Not Super good advice that shit is to easy.
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Post is irrelevant because of one word, "Earning". You don't "earn" things in a video game. You don't "work" when playing a video game. The most you put into playing a video game is time. That's it. Some people have this assumption that they deserve some outstanding reward for their "effort" when the actual reward for the time spent playing a video game is the enjoyment of playing a video game.
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Yes It Does, Because u Earn The Strange Coins To Buy The Exotics.