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.
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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
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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.
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Yeah i've just seen the images of gjallahorn in xur's inventory before it "glitched" out. Bungie have some answering to do. It's nearly 6 hours after xur dropped and bungie have done nothing to fix the missing gun. How much you betting they are in a meeting and can't decide what weapon to sell instead of gjallahorn or just to go ahead and sell it anyway