“QoL”? I can’t believe that they, and us, call such Bull 💩 “QoL”. “What -blam!--ing QoL?”, is what I immediately ask. The nerfs to our abilities? Prismatic, Devour, Stasis, Hunters dodge, Sanguine, Restoration if the numbers were right from the livestream on Tuesday(could be wrong about that one though) etc, etc, et--blam!--ing-cetera Exotic armor not just being automatically Tier 5, but having to wait a year to be brought upto spec? (I mean they are optimistic aren’t they? What makes Bungie think they’ll still be around in a year?) Not having the seasonal bonuses to armour (which I -blam!--ing loath anyway), just being 4 pieces, so we can use any exotic armor piece? The six month perpetual grind for light level, weapons and armor? Tier 5 weapons and armor that are soft sunsetting all our other gear, by having a stupid seasonal increase in damage or damage resistance. Then in turn is soft sunset itself six months later because it is no longer new gear? These “QoL” changes? These are the same changes that have made me cancel my preorder. The same changes that cause me to sit in disbelief at the BDF, the addicts and those that need a shiny new thing to chase just to engage with the game, defending or actively praising their brand new gilded hamster wheel of 💩ty grind. These changes are the very worst thing to happen to Destiny for a very long time. Mark my words, Bungie will be forced to roll these changes back due to falling revenue and player numbers. That is unless the [b]ACTUAL[/b] EoF content is an absolute banger. 🙃🤣. With the current preorders at less than a quarter of TFS’s at the same point and projected to be about half by the time we are all said and done, I think EoF will be an outright failure. I don’t think $110 million (from projected 1.1 million final sales, if every one of those purchases the Year of Prophecy: Ultimate Edition) will cover Bungie’s running costs for more than 11 months. Bungie are going to tank themselves and they have “not over delivering”, “we’re listening” and the failure to respect our time in the game and stick by this statement from Deej over 10 years ago to blame. "In the months to come, your quest to become more powerful will have more avenues that lead to satisfaction. [b]The last thing We wanted was for you to look at your favorite gun or helmet and decide that it had become obsolete.[/b] Since the reveal, we've read a lot of ideas for how this could have been done better. Your feedback is clear: [b]The time you have invested in your stuff should be respected.[/b]"

Apparently nerfs count more as content in their heads

They spent so much time talking about the qol and forgot to talk about the thing with a price tag (until next tuesday). I'm curious, when I see people talk about how good/bad other expansions were, they always include the free updates as part of that expansion. For example, beyond light with sunsetting and witch queen with 3.0, both didn't require you to make a single purchase. Is your line of thinking consistent or was there a point when you, like many, considered the free aspects of a content drop as part of the dlc?