Yes because I can sit here and watch the forums just waiting expectantly for your response........ Your own statement refutes the logical argument you are attempting to make. You indicate in your sentence that in order to win the lottery you have to play it. While this is in fact an accurate statement you have also demolished your attempt to argue that you earned your exotics because you played the lottery. If you consider getting money from a lottery as "winning the lottery" then by logical extension you must consider obtaining an exotic through RNG (IE lottery) as "winning the RNG (lottery)". Winning the lottery does not equate with earning. Earning is something that you strive for where you are guaranteed (or deserved) some reward for some action/service you have provided in exchange for that good. So while you earn coins by completing the weekly (and yes you can obtain some coins through the lottery system as well) you cannot truly earn any exotic. In fact the only exotics you can earn (other than by using coins to purchase them) is the exotic bounties...and even those have an element of RNG (lottery system) in them. So no you did not earn that exotic that you got when you opened the VOG chest. It feels great to get it and you didn't have to pay anything for it...you got it for free! YAY you! But you didn't earn it. Definition of Earn: verb 1: a : to receive as return for effort and especially for work done or services rendered b : to bring in by way of return <bonds earning 10 percent interest> 2: a : to come to be duly worthy of or entitled or suited to <she earned a promotion> b : to make worthy of or obtain for <the suggestion earned him a promotion> If everyone received the exact same rewards for performing the same actions that you performed then it would be called earning. Since this is not the case.....you didn't earn it. I literally got my red death from a blue engram obtained on a lvl 24 strikes before the DLC came out. Meanwhile others had to play much more difficult games to obtain the same thing...even the weekly before the DLC was more difficult than how I obtained my red death. I don't think I earned my red death. It was a random lottery reward. It felt great to get it but I don't think I "earned" it. In fact the only exotic (other than the ones I bought from Xur) that I actually feel like I "earned" was still an RNG but I just happened to receive it after clutching a victory in PVP by going on a massive kill streak in a period of about 30 seconds and winning the game by only a couple hundred points. And even that I understand was truly RNG it just came at a time when it was memorable and felt good to get it after feeling great to clutch the victory.