Overall, I do not see year 4 going well for Destiny 2 and Bungie at all. They are getting MAJOR backlash about this. Currently, instead of gear retiring, it still remains useful for everything. Bungie just gives players incentive to acquire new gear because they introduce new/better gear with new perks and/or new combinations of perks. This system works just fine. With sunsetting, the retired gear will only be useful in non-endgame activities (low-level strikes, basic destination activities like patrols, some Crucible playlists, etc.). I love this game and I have been here since year 1 of Destiny 1, but this might just kill it for me. To describe where the game is going currently, let me paint a picture: Destiny is Cayde-6, on the ground, and Bungie is Uldren about to pull the trigger. By introducing sunsetting, Bungie has basically said to players, “the last 3 years of your time, dedication, hard work, and patience means nothing to us, so it must mean nothing to you as well”. Bungie only has a few months to decide how much money they are going to have in their pockets.

You forgot AoT for d1.

"Uuuhh....uuuh...making a game is hard! You don't understand. Our super, high-tech engine cannot even handle the amount of awesome we wish we could put in the game."

Look at it this way, they will almost certainly be forced to lower the cost of masterworking items if they sunset gear. There will be no reason to masterwork things if they will be retired in a year, so nobody will do it. The materials you have to grind to masterwork things, will no longer be used and will no longer have a place in the game.

This has been an issue for a long time friend. Why would bungie make a ton of new guns that do the same thing when people already have their god rolls and aren’t going to use anything else anyways. It’s a damned if they do damned if they don’t situation and has been for some time. Pinnacles basically replaced people’s legendaries and between those and rituals you never need to even bother with weapon drops period. But people all have their favourite god rolls. Mine was a perfectly rolled go figure I got back in forsaken and I can still remember how excited I was. I haven’t had that feeling since because nothing has been interesting enough to give me that rush. I can still use that gun and it’ll do the same job the rest of my pulse rifles do so I had no reason to get excited over a perfect blast furnace, a perfect outlast, last perdition, even an absolute beauty rolled sacred providence that was exactly what I wanted wasn’t exciting. I genuinely miss getting excited over god rolls but we’ve become so showered in them and none of them ever go away so they’ve become irrelevant to the gameplay loop. Then you get people claiming oh well make cool new perks or powerful new gear to peck our interests.... well we got exactly that in season of dawn, we got some of the most powerful legendary weapons we’ve ever gotten and they had some really unique perks plus they’re insanely easy to farm yet no one really noticed.... what about this season? Once again we got some insanely powerful gear in the form of mod compatibility that easily dwarfs everything we’ve had up to this point and still no one even raised an eyebrow. Bungies made genuine efforts to take a different road with the loot and people still wouldn’t put down the handful of guns they’d been using for the past year but hey that didn’t stop people’s -blam!- that new loot sucks and isn’t interesting oh and no new vendor refresh... not like anyone would even use it or the new/old world drops we got.

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Weapon retirement in y1 d1 is so different than having a weapon retirement for D2 in year4. You are saying goodbye to so much stuff when you pull off this in year4 it’s just bad. This is 3 years of grinding going to trash because you cannot use them in future content now. Horrible decision making. This is not something you should do at year4.

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I play a lot. I have many hours sunk into this franchise, and part of the fun (for me) was collecting and chasing loot. If this change goes through, and I keep playing, I'm probably not going to care about collecting much of anything. The desire to chase that perfect roll is out the window. I'll probably have a weapon or 2 for each slot, a set of armor, and I'll be sharding everything else. Goodbye to most masterworking. I may change my mind, if/when I see their implementation, but regrinding more reissued gear just doesn't seem enjoyable to me. 😔

Yup, good take on it. It doesn't help that with the current loot pool and no solid knowledge if there's even equivalents to everything makes this a horrible idea. At the same time are these new weapons going to be re-skins, even ones as far back as D1 vanilla( honestly wouldn't mind, as long as it's with the next )? Maybe new unique weapons and perks, but I doubt any of the above considering they update Eververse way more than the rest of the game.

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