Its completely unnecessary Lukes post can be broken down into 2 issues, one of which is factually incorrect the other is an issue that the design team needs to work on and hilariously these issues contradict each other. Issue #1: Power creep. The system where gear becomes better and better as time goes on. This is totally and completely false. Let's look at a Y2 pulse rifle compared to a Y3. Blast furnace vs sacred providence. Both are great pulses, both see use, neither are stronger then the other, if power creep existed sacred p would be miles better then blast furnace. Can anyone look at the recent weapons we've got and say they're vastly better then Y2 or sometimes even Y1 options? No. Power creep does not exist in destiny. Issue #2 new weapons aren't being used because people prefer the old. Aside from being a complete contradiction from issue #1 power creep where the latest gear is the best so why would it not be used the ones at fault for new gear sucking is purely on the devs. The fact is when new weapons are part of a good archtype and have the desirable perk pools they get used. Let's look at this season - astral horizon, seraph shotty, summoner, dire promise and eye of sol are the highlights this season, all are good archtypes with the right perk pools. Let's look at last season - line in the sand, perfect paradox, travelers judgement, last hope, breachlight and steelfeather repeater - all good perk pools with good archtypes and all saw use last season and continue to do so. The destiny community like grinding for new stuff when it's worthwhile. However when everyone loves 150 rpm cannons and bungie decide not only to not bring back jewel of osiris, messenger or infinite therom (probably time gating for next season) despite bringing back all the other Y1D1 trials stuff or when they make a seraph hand cannon but for who knows what reason decide to make it a 180 what exactly do they expect? When new gear is part of weak archtypes or have bad perk pools including times where perks that would work well together both get placed under the same node you can hardly expect players to use it. Literally if anyone in the community would be designing these weapons they'd know the desirable perk combos and ensure they're possible, when that happens new stuff absolutely gets used, this is a dev ignorance or incompetence issue, not a player one. The fact is there are only 2 real reasons this is being done - and neither are to help players. Reason 1: Bungie devs want the latest gear to be used but not have to put effort into making them - simply put they want to kill all the old stuff to force players to use new garbage (at least until people find the latest good stuff and ONLY use that taking away practically all choice) Reason 2: Bungie want to "retire" all the guns just to bring them back later as content - similar to how they brought back Y1 guns like last hope, dire promise and old fashioned they want to remove all the guns so they can resell them behind later dlcs and force players to regrind for it - a pure scumbag move through and through. No one should be for the change because the change is not for the player - weapon retirement is an awful decision that should be totally and completely repelled by the community. [spoiler]Side note to those that feel pinnacle/ritual weapons specifically are too strong: even if I agreed (and I'm not saying I do) why on earth would a bare handful of weapons mean we retire everything? You feel the pinnacle/rituals should be retired? I can hear the argument, the 99% of other stuff? Absolutely not[/spoiler]