Unpopular opinion Weirdly... I agree with the director on this one. Aspiration is the right word. Its what we are lacking. Theres never been guns in d2 ive wanted to chase like fatebringer, vision, fang of ir yut, chaos dogma etc. If retiring weapons is the way to get improved weaponry in the future, im all in.

Your vision of your product is to remove hard earned gear annually to incentivize players to play more. Brilliant, absolutely brilliant. But, I’m sure when you proffered this idea to your developers, one said “they will simply leave”! Well, “they will simply leave” for better gaming experiences. You know Hot Dogs are not exactly healthy foods, we all know it, but you will find them at every Stadium being sold by the millions. It is because that is what we want. Remove them for Healthy snacks and watch your patrons get pissed and go to another Stadium. Your content is weak at best. What keeps most playing is the grind for that item we obsess over in a specific roll. It is why I will do a thousand runs of a certain lost sector for that one roll that is a match for my play style. Invalidate that effort and I simply put my time and money into another game, perhaps of lesser quality, that does not disrespect my time investment. TLDR: shooting yourself in the foot is never a good business practice, yet has never stopped anyone from pulling the trigger...Make a better choice...

This is personally i think a very bad change, it upset the D1 community when TTK released. its not the answear to solving the balancing issues and will only draw more attention to guns that are the most powerful once again in the new loot pool which will lead back to the same problem. Instead of shelving old weapons give underperforming weapons new possible perk rolls or even add new weapon types, just like when submachine guns (which werent in D1), where added to the D2 launch which was a refreshing new way to play. Even new archetypes of weapons would be fine or even weapons like a submachine gun for example that fires a 3 round burst like a pulse which gives people incentives to find new weapons that may be more suited to there play style. Or hell even ornaments that AREN'T attached to eververse not even for bright dust and are earnable through triumphs or quests if you cant design new weapons or archetypes (which certainley looks like the case considering we got revamped weapons from curse of osiris this season, some new legendary's and 1 exotic) I hope you reconsider the changes as unfortunately being able to use old weapons in lower level activities gives me no incentive of using them at all because these activities won't give me the gear im looking for, hense being lower level non pinacle activities and not everybody has the time to grind for weapons every season whilst also wanting to play other games. My other argument is that unlike D1 the amount of weapons that will be shelved is drastically more, as taken king was the 3rd expansion for D1. D2 however is a different story with 4 current expansions and within these expansions multiple seasons worth of content like season of opulence or season of the forge. This means that there is hundreds upon hundreds of weapons that are being capped which in comparison to D1 is alot. this means that years worth of chassing is not taken away from you because you arent forced to dismantle your weapons but leaves a bitter taste in your mouth knowing that your starting back at square 1, which of course nobody wants to have to do because if you've played with a certain load out for along time and have became good with it why should you need to change if you dont want to, afterall you've spent the hours playing the game to get the specific roll you want on a gun, with the masterwork you want which has a stupidly low chance of dropping on something like spare rations even after they buffed the drop rate of weapons in gambit. i dont see how you think this will change the game as its gonna lead to the same point that we are currently at

Outriders of the storm

These DCs are always a great insight into past experiences and future plans. Keep them coming. The weapon changes seem interesting. And honestly, for the guys reading this, how long will u use a certain weapon? Remember the OG better devils from vanilla D2? It was a beast in pve. How many of u still use that? Curated nation of beasts from forsaken? Just a couple of examples of many others. My point is u will eventually move on from weapons in a matter of a few months. By 9 to 15 months u will probably have changed ur weapon several times. It honestly does not make a difference. Just think about this from a rational and calm point of view.

Already dropped this shit show for anthem. Even in its current state it’s hands down better than any link the Luke Smitht-ard in chief Luke himself can squeeze out into a streamers eager and waiting mouth.

So not only are you people tripling down on washing away our effort and hard earned gear... but we are trolls for voicing our discontent of you taking our toys away... this afternoon I'll be spending time researching your competition.

Total S H I T!! I'm going back to the division 2. Its the only game I get to kill a woman wheedling a glow stick!!!

It's a Trap !!!