[quote]...when are we actually getting any of it back? [/quote] Never. [quote]why bother with any activities if the rewards might be swept away later?[/quote] The fun of using them while they are relevant. [quote]just curious if maybe they actually have addressed this, and i just didn't find it anywhere[/quote] Actually the game director back in the summer said they they are were looking into a lasting way to deal with the sandbox wtihout having to sunset...and didn't offer any specifics. Because this is basically a snipe hunt where Bungie is looking for a magic solution that has evaded the rest of the industry for a generation. They aren't going to find it. Bottomline, What you are pointing out as problems are just how loot games work. Which is why one of the biggest rules of loot gaming is "Never fall in love with the gear". Because, for the games to work over the long term, the developers have to take gear away from us, and power away from us....so we always have something new to chase, without breaking the game (power creep). The problem is that Bungie in many ways still doesn't know what they're doing where loot games are concerned. So they think they can just re-write the rules to suit their needs....and they can't. The rule that you can't keep givng players power forever, and let them hold onto to loot and keep it all relevant forever....isn't negotiable. If you mess with it you either destroy the game from power creep....or you destroy the game from boredom (no power to chase). So Bungie has resorted to having to essential sunset gear through nerfs. They let you keep the gun. But they take its power....break it over knee...then hand you back the pieces. So they can give that power to something else. Then at some point....they give the power back through buffs. So they basically wind up doing---in a clumsy and obvious way---what sunsetting (in well designed games) do smoothly and invisibly. And you aren't worrying about what you're losing, because the devs are adding so much new stuff that you're too busy chasing that to worry about what you're losing. Destiny players always focus on whats being taken away because the game never has enough loot, and Bungie has foolishly feed the notion that you can keep everything and keep it all relevant. You can't. Filesize? That's mainly about vaulting old content that isn't relevant. That's being done so that the game can continue to run on last gen hardware, which is still the bulk of the console market. Though the issue is mainly one of memory. Destiny is designed in a way that the game has to load all in-game object you might encounter into memory. So by the end of Shadowkeep, loading times were getting brutally long and the game performed poorly. Not just on base consoles, but even on PS4 Pro. I lost my -blam!- one evening and went and bought an outboard SSD after it took me SEVEN MINUTES one night just to load into the Tower.

Weapons and armor were sunset. Destinations and activities are vaulted. https://www.bungie.net/en/News/Article/50124 https://help.bungie.net/hc/en-us/articles/360049202971-Destiny-Content-Vault

If you have the weapons they aren’t getting sunset