These Ghost shells have perks that change the game for those that have them equipped, having a 10% EXP boost on a shell (which is only available through the bright engrams) after doubling the EXP needed to earn a single engram (after being caught out for throttling EXP gains by 95%) is a joke. This effects the game and thus makes it pay to win as it offers an advantage.
Stop defending this, bungie are in the wrong, they need to fix it.
Bungie have made it clear too that they really don't want players being able to farm bright engrams, they've now twice successfully changed the game in order to get people to spend more money on microtransactions, how can anyone carry on defending it when the proof is literally right in front of us. Stop defending the awful practices, stop spending money on a dev team who don't care about the games they make. This entire game is nothing more than a cashgrab at this point.
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Sorry but xp is cosmetic for the most part. The levels come too fast that level specific gear requirements are a joke, and the 10%buff will only be noticed by people constantly restarting characters. For the vast majority of players the only thing xp buffs do is get eververse engrams faster, which btw is cosmetic.