like i said before, we deserve our weapons, weve been here to get them, they shouldnt be nurfed just because bungie wants to give us new weapons. ill collect the new weapons, but i want to keep my old weapons as well. i want them to be strong as year 2 and i want them to continue to get stronger the longer we have them. that way when year 10 hits, any noob that joins in on the completed game cant be as powerful as someone whos been with the game for 10 years since the beginning. we need a system in place that strengthens us the longer we play. a time based system so that if you play for 10 years youre a lot more powerful than someone who dropps in on the last year.

I fully agree with this and it needs attention. Another unintended consequence is that all of the PvE end game content will be dropping obsolete gear. Imagine being a new TTK player and clearing VOG hard for the first time and Atheon drops a Vex. You try it out and it absolutely sucks. Making the rewards obsolete makes the content obsolete. It may be a great expansion, but it actually shrinks the game. Also, trials came out a few short months ago. I have collected several adept weapons from it. Now, they will already be obsolete? Fail.

What deej really means by boring is unprofitable for bungie. If we have nothing to chase we have no reason to buy the next dlc in their view and they are not being creative enough (or too stingy) to give us other reasons to play (ie enough content). If there was enough other content other than chasing new weapons that would be whats used to sell dlc but they are onto a cheaper way to drive dlc sales. Making real content I gather is more expensive than just adding more weapons as content. For one they would have to hire a decent story teller given their good one walked out on them. I also think the speculation that the game was chopped up to sell as dlc is making more and more sense as we see what is happening with the game. I dont even think they have had to create this content from scratch. It was already done. All they have had to do is figure out how to package it and sell it to us. This for me is where their problems of weapons being too powerful comes in. Imagine if everything had been released at the beginning there would not have been this problem but then the game would not have been as profitable either. The result is we get a mess of balancing patches and new ingame economies to try and make this business model work. Its proving it works well too and is highly profitable for them but its not good for the player as the quality of the game we are getting is sacrificed for maximised profits. I have no doubt if destiny was released as intended pre activision with original story tellers story and vision we would have had a 10 out of 10 master piece. What we got was a 6/10 shell of that with the remaining 4 out of 10 sold to us as dlc. This isnt even really a conspiracy but known business practice taught in any university round the world. This is just the first time we have seen something of this kind in the gaming industry of this magnitude. The lengths they are going to to maximise profits and minimise costs is something I have never seen in gaming but given its success unfortunately this may become more common. My hope is that there will be enough of a backlash to this game and to their business practices that no other gaming company would even dare to try impliment anything like this again. Their should always be a balance of quality and profitability. Destiny is in my view far to weighted on the profitability ledger of this scale. We need to exert our weight and influence on this scale in demanding quality over profitability by not supporting it.

I'm purposefully not disassembling my fatebringer, some vanilla lmgs, my efrideets spears, or vision because at some point they might allow total ascension.

No. Gear is not required to be carried forward. As long as the grind is not real this time.