I started playing Destiny 2 about two days before Season of Arrivals, and I find myself hooked. I browse these forums, Reddit, and Facebook and see the salt and disappointment from long time players at their time-laden gains being made obsolete soon. While I respect and understand why this is so, I find that I don't have nearly the same worries for the future as most players, and I believe that this will be a recurring trend as the player base inevitably cycles in newer and newer players. So when I grind for a god roll armor or weapon, I do so with the expectation that as far as end game content is concerned, I'm only going to be able to use it for about 12 months. I know this, and adjust my expectations accordingly. It doesn't detract anything from the game, because, for me, thats how the game has always been. As primarily an MMO/Looter fan, this is also in line with how most games I play handle themselves. My current armor build is at levels 8 and 9, and I'm imagining I'll have it completely masterworked by week 2 of Beyond Light at the latest, then I can start getting materials together for the next year's armor, and have a year to do what I did in about three months. My preferred weapon loadout was really easy to masterwork, and I'm happy with how it turned out once everything started pushing out orbs of light on multikills. I'm already looking forward to what new builds I'll be able to make in future seasons to replace this gear, both armor and weapons. Sunsetting is something I plan my expectations around, and I still feel like grinding out god rolls on multiple weapons and getting multiple armor sets for different builds (even if I don't choose to masterwork more than one or two of those builds) is fun and engaging. As far as D2 goes, it's all I know, and I'm not turned off in the slightest, and while I understand and respect that veteran players are losing a lot of end game viable items due to the changes, the direction that the game is going doesn't destroy the game play loop as imagined by Bungie by any means. It IS a change in expectations from what veterans have come to accept as normal up to this point, on that point, I'll agree. Change =/= bad, though. Change is just that, change. If you don't like the change, I commiserate with you, but as new blood comes into the game, they won't feel that "change pain", and the friction caused by your consistent complaints on how the change is bad will just serve to further dissect the community and potentially push them away from discussions and camaraderie. This will start giving the community a different view of how the game is actually faring than the actual top-down view Bungie will have with the full numbers on their side, them being able to see the new players that feel that they CAN'T RELATE with the community and their tunnel vision on the sunsetting issue and what they play content wise and the hours they put in. This feeling of unrelatability can lead to some new players dropping the game solely based on community focus, and not on the game merits itself, and shrinking numbers hurts everyone, on that I believe we can all agree to an extent. This post isn't one to invalidate the issues that current players have with sunsetting, but is instead to show the often ignored viewpoint of someone who decides to start the game from now on, who isn't sitting on a mountaintop, or recluse, or whatever the meta gear is (and at this point, probably won't see the point of going to get it, and therefore will never have it), yet will be completely okay with that, and will be playing the game as it stands. I beseech the community to remember that these players exist now, and will continue to appear in the future, and that their experience will be vastly different from yours, which doesn't make them any more or any less of a valued player in the community. Stand firm, Guardians!