I'm unfortunately going to have to cancel my pre-order for The Taken King. I can not condone these types of business practices from such an esteemed company.
This is just as bad as having to buy the same game 2-3 times from different stores to unlock all the exclusive real life vendor dlc. I have to buy the game a second time so I can have a cool sparrow that I'll barely be able to see due to my character obscuring it, an exotic class armor piece that increases xp that I'll never be able to use because I need to rank up my factions, and emblems? How can you give out emblems to players? It was bad enough when you gave out emblems to people for being on bungie.net for way too long, now you give it out exclusively to new players and only give us some measly loyalty emblem?
I can't tolerate this any longer, I'm going to have to go play TESO instead where I can buy a horse for 25 dollars.
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Think of it like this...it will be Christmas noob season again! Going 9-0 in trials will be pretty easy when people jump in and complain about the thorn being overpowered and "too hard to get" Yes it's annoying that noobs get an experience class item, but it doesn't matter because you can max out stuff pretty easily. Armor is a bit harder than guns but can still be maxed in a day. Shaders serve no purpose. Your armor color won't effect your game experience (except the iron banner ones that boost iron banner experience gains). It's not like they get an exclusive exotic that shoots 5 gjallarhorn rockets that spawn 2x the wolfpack rounds. Let the noobs get the dlc handed to them. It doesn't bother me. It will just make blowing their heads off with the queenbreakers bow that much more fun.