Having fun with friends is obvious...it's one of the reasons....I never said anything about it being the only reason. There's no denying the biggest, if not the biggest reason doing countless hours doing raids or countless hours doing Strikes to get the Hopscotch Pilgrim is to get the gear and those rare drops. And to say in a couple months all those hours you put grinding for that gear would be useless. This isn't like a normal MMO...not really an MMO. It's strives to be many things, but doesn't fully master and fully adhere to the norm. There is no MMO style story where you're continuously doing various different story lines and continuously progressing through the story like ESO. As Bungie has said, one of the biggest aspects about this game like no other is that it's built around collecting the guns and armor. Doing raids and things like IB, people grind over and over to get that special exclusive weapon or armor. We're not playing an extensively long time to continue on the story. No. One of the biggest things, if not the biggest things unlike any other game, is that the game is centered around collecting these rare weapons and armor. Yeah we have fun trying to collect the gear and upgrade it, but the games biggest draw is getting these gears. And to just say it will now be useless and the hours spent getting them is taking away one of the biggest reasons we put in the countless hours in the first place. Besides. HoW dropped only a short time ago and Bungie offered a way to ascend our old and current gear to the new HoW because they know the game is centered around the gear we collect. And etheric light is hard to get for some. To just say a couple months later that the new etheric light to ascend the gear would be useless anyways because your old gear would be worthless now would raise eyebrows to why they just allowed us to update our older weapons we grinded to get.