To all of the people saying to suck it up, or grow a pair...really, just take a step back and look at this issue. Why did they make the change in the first place? Honestly, give me any other reason why they would change a drop rate consistent in the game for months, just out of the blue, other than to make us have to play the game longer? And that's the real issue here. It's not about who said what, most of us usually take trash talk on these forums anyways. But when our community manager, the guy that's supposed to be [b]our voice[/b], makes a statement like this, it's rather unsettling. Who cares about the tone of his text, who cares if it might have been insulting? [b]Whats more troubling to me, is that he seems so far detached from the issues plaguing this game, that he doesn't even realize why this was such a problem in the first place. [/b] Bungie has made repeated steps in the last couple of months to lengthen the amount of time we have to play, just to do simple things. Now leveling up a weapon (for a lot of people mind you) has become so tedious, that anywhere in the neighborhood of 5-6 strikes [b]might[/b] net you enough for an upgrade node or two. (Provided you also have the other upgrade mats as well which are harder to get now as well). And gaining rep for factions? Why did we need to remove the rep payout from the nightfall ? It's not like you got more rep for doing it on Reset than doing it on the Monday before reset... (As was there defense for removing the nightfall buff). So really, when this developer has gone out of its way to slow down our progression, has time gated away weapons they advertised ([b]before people jump down my throat, I'm referring to no time to explain and SS which WERE advertised[/b]), has made a new system involving RNG and microtransactions (lookin at you Tess Everis)...I mean, do they not understand...? Who here wants to defend these changes listed above? I can guarantee you, [b]a majority of you do not[/b]. And yet, amidst all of the problems we've tried desperately to communicate with them over the last month, they finally break down, cherry pick an issue, try to defend it themselves here on the forums (a Bungie account actually made a stink defending it in a comment to a previous post) , and laugh it off like they did nothing wrong in the next update. Bungie is very rapidly sucking the fun value out of this game, and many of us are just trying to prevent that. Our community manager is literally the [b]only[/b] apparent link we have to Bungie, so when he undermines what we say like this, we're basically talking into the wind anymore. [b]"Hurt feelings" and "insults" be damned. This isn't the problem. The fact that they don't realize why the weapon parts issue was just the tip of the iceberg, is. [/b] *hovers* [spoiler]bleep-bloop[/spoiler]