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The link is to Destiny Tracker's "Where's Xur" video.

Xur had an upgrade for Plan C today (exotic fusion rifle). It costs an exotic shard and 7000 glimmer to purchase. I purchased it and it reset all my upgrades. All the time I spent leveling the weapon with XP, all the materials spent to get the weapon where it needed to be are gone.  The weapon now has a higher base damage then it did full upgraded by 3. It's now 303 instead of 300. The max damage is 331. 

I don't understand how Bungie decided on this awful method of upgrading. There was obviously no consideration to how a player would feel about this process. A player has to wait for Xur (exotic vendor) to appear on Friday and Saturday. Then that player has to hope that at least 1 of the 10 upgrades Xur has is for a armor piece or weapon they own. Exotic shards cost 7 strange coins and 7000 glimmer. If your character has a piece of armor that can be upgraded in this small window, that player is now tasked with more grinding to level the weapon or armor.

If I was in charge of the process, I wouldn't disrespect players like this. A new upgrade tier would be added to existing exotics. Players would be able to keep the abilities they spent so long to get. Instead of just adding more damage, I would also improve existing abilities or special qualities. Wiping the slate clean adds more hours to a player's game time just to get them back to where they were. 

I don't know what Bungie was thinking when they designed this game. Just because they have a 10 year plan for the game does not mean that every aspect of the game should take forever to accomplish. Allowing players to upgrade their exotics is a good concession, but they shouldn't turn the process into this big ordeal.

What comes to mind is the attunement process for World of Warcraft's 40 person raid dungeons. Anyone who hates themselves has spent the enormous amount of time it takes to complete all the quests just to set foot into the dungeon. Even with The Burning Crusade gear, it still takes 8 hours to go through all the dungeons. I can't help but wonder why Destiny is set up to make players spend so much time playing it when there isn't a monthly fee.

When did Bungie get so sadistic? At E3 they said that this game was not going to be a grindfest with a large time commitment. I have 330 hours played and I haven't even reached level 30 on 1 character. XBox One players are punished by being denied 2 strikes and being charged the same price for content. 

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