That's just it, it was never about the hardcore playerbase. This game has catered to casuals from day one. Every game mode, every strike,even "Xur" is purly for casuals. The only thing HC players have is raids and look what the drops rates of that is, HC gets shit on again. We had to wait one year to get a decent elimination game mode, one -blam!-ing year.... and pay an extra 70bucks