"Theyre just sunsetting weapons due to lack of creativity and ingenuity". Ok. Go ahead. Give an example. Do what a company whos been making FPS game longer than some of you have been alive, apparently cant do. First of all, Exotics exist, so you can go hyper creative. Thats why the most creative stuff IS exotics, and why they wont get sunset. What new perk? Does it invalidate another? What does it do? What avenue of FPS and RPG design have perks not taken advantage of, that fit into Destiny? What happens when its combined with another? What happens if that combination combines with another combination? What happens when its tied to another weapon, or armour perk? What happens when its tied to an exotic armour piece? There are SO SO SO MANY factors, to designing a weapon. It is ridiculous, to even suggest that they dont know what theyre doing, or theyre being lazy. Youre dealing with factors potentially in the 1000s of individuals balance and mechanics, all that need testing. And yet people have the audacity to say "oh theyre lazy, bungie hates it player base". All so what? Just so can use Spare Rations in 30% of the content for another 2-3 years? Is it THAT important? Are you that simple? Its a videogame gun. All you did was run into Reckoning, hit that Super, and the spam your gun for 10mins. Oh man, so much effort. You are aware...most games dont last beyond 20 hours right? Yet you have an issue with not being able to use a 4-5 guns in your inventory, after using them for NEARLY 2 YEARS. And STILL being able to use them anyway, in like 70% of the games content. The "forum solution" and the current way the game is built, is just UNSUSTAINABLE. Its too much. Theres a lot of debate about entire planets being removed, to be replaced with new ones. Even from a hardware perspective, do you not realise theres LITERALLY hardware limitations?How much data is 800 -blam!-ing guns, all with mostly unique audio? Audio only, is such a huge taxing issue. They need to cut things out, before adding new things. Im shocked that weapons will even be usable still, meaning theyre still in the code. But they dont have to worry about balancing or testing them either, they can be forgotten. Not to mention, the overall game design shifts that come from this.The games going from a long term investment, to a shorter term investment. Long term investment means long term grind. Wanna take a guess what short term investment is? "NO THEYLL STILL MAKE US GRIND" What do you think Sundial is? That was short term grind. It had problems with FOMO, granted, but that FOMO is extending from 3 months time to get, to 12 months time to get an use. It wont be hard getting these new weapons, and itll be a more consistent loot game as a result. Same with materials. You dont need a constant source of Ascendant Shards when you armour lasts forever. ???? What do you think happens instead? This is the reason people LOVED Destiny 1. Constant, persistent rewards. Value in the time you commit, each day, rather than how many hours you spend shooting the same gun for a year.