Is bright engrams what you get from microtransactions? You can already get that with in game skill and playtime because you get one every time you fill your xp bar at level 20. And what you get from them is shaders, ghost shells with minor bonuses, different skins for sparrows and space ships, armor with 10 defense, different skins for exotic weapons if you've gotten them from playing otherwise, emotes, emblems, and blue mods. True, blue mods can be useful, but you can get that with in game skill and playtime by farming blues and leveling up the gunsmith. The rest is just cosmetic. It's true that microtransactions can be bad, but unless there's another place in game with microtransactions than the bright engrams that I haven't discovered, there's probably other games that the microtransaction protesters might want to focus on first.