[quote]The key to ultimately losing a player is to make them feel like they've been wasting their time playing.[/quote] Agreed. Since the new IB hit and I saw just what you saw, I now feel much less motivation to play the way I've been playing. A little time to chase a bounty? Maybe. The IB Gear should have been Light Level 32 (the same as IB2 was LL30 ... on par with Raid). That ALONE was a slap in the face. IB Gear is fundamentally less useful than Raid, or Vendor. - It takes glimmer farming to get (most tedious grinding than anything else) - It takes IB grind to get (not so bad and can be fun at least) - Sharding IB weapons/armor get you NOTHING (no energy, no shards, no glimmer). Not even if you've invested shards or energy INTO the weapon (let alone the glimmer to buy the weapon and again to upgrade it). Sharding any other Legendary gets you SOMETHING. No better way to tell your players they've wasted their time than this.