I agree with you but at the same time it can't be overplayed to the degree it has been throughout the forums. You never know they might be bluffing in an attempt to stop the elitist culture around gjallahorn.

Don't fool yourself - this has nothing to do with the elitist culture and everything to do with nerfing a weapon which they see as too powerful. The more whiny elements of the community just gave them the scapegoat. If their goal was to stop the elitist culture, all they had to do was sell it via Xur. Problem solved.

But in truth it is about the elitist culture as everytime xur sells a weapon threads automatically pop up with I earned my *insert weapon* and the whole xurner vs earners topics. In selling gjallahorn there would be a massive upset by most of the people that have gjallahorn. Don't get me wrong I hope they do sell gjallahorn again at somepoint as they have sold icebreaker several times now but I think bungie want to keep gjallahorn as an elusive weapon of rng

It's not about the forum topics - they're trying to say it was because people were being excluded from Raid groups. You know what would fix that? Let Xur sell it. You know what else would fix it? Matchmaking. They nerfed it because it was overpowered and they're using the Elitism as a scapegoat. Period. PS: Rumor has it that the reason Xur has no weapon today was because it was supposed to be the Ballerhorn for sale and Bungie broke it.