Let's not forget about the transmog we may be getting. If it actually happens then my trials gear will become an Ornament then at that point I no longer care about armor retiring. Personally I'm all for it. It was good for d1 when armor and guns were retired and we got awesome new powerful feeling guns.

Nobody has "perfect" armor. This change just has me saving tokens and materials. I'm done farming armor until I have to

The way I see it, what’s the incentive for players to keep grinding for new gear once they get their perfectly rolled armor and weapons? Some people like myself care more about the looks than the stats, so we will constantly chase new gear that looks good, but what about everyone else? They’ll just keep their perfect sets and stick with those; any further armor drops will just feel useless, or simply infusion material. Sunsetting urges players to (eventually) grind out the new gear instead of sticking with the same gear for years and years (important to note that you can keep your hard-earned gear and use it for non-pinnacle activities, which is the majority of the game). And if you’re complaining because you don’t want to constantly grind for new gear, then you need to delete the game. Bungie has made it VERY clear that grinding is the name of the game, so if you don’t like grinding, then this isn’t the game for you. Move on.

Im fine with the armor sunsetting because they are adding transmog. As long as they reduce the masterworking cost I'm fine with it. However i find it hard to get behind weapon sunsetting because i have weapons i have grown quite attached to.

The fact of the matter is, after separating from Activision and going out on their own, I can only safely guess that Bungie is going to step away from big story-telling DLC releases and move more toward a PVP-centric game, where they attempt to build and balance the game mostly around the PVP aspects of it, very likely to the detriment of the PVE experience. They're going with the PVP model because it's easier to develop for. They don't have to write stories, build worlds, raids, dungeons and strikes. All they have to do is balance what they have and improve it. Possibly build some bigger, better maps for PVP, and be comfortable with their average of 10,000 players in the game on any given day. What they seem to fail to realize, or are unable to prepare for, is that this will mean the end of this game, and likely this franchise. THIS is why Bungie is taking on the sunsetting model. Now, I've argued against this sunsetting shit, mainly because I think there are other ways it could be addressed that don't include gimping our weapons and gear, but those ways only work if Bungie is more invested in PVE and less so in PVP. The only thing that I do understand in terms of them sunsetting our armor is, they'll have to balance the PVP and PVE experience years down the road around EXTREMELY powerful seasonal mods, like Tyrant's Surge, Heavy-Handed and Powerful Friends, while also trying to balance new mods and gear. Imagine how badly this could stack up and how confusing it could get for the dev team to think about all of these possibilities. But this leads me back to the issue of developing a game that has to balance against both PVP and PVE, and I believe Bungie's insistence on balancing for PVP over PVE will most definitely ruin the PVE experience, push casuals away, which has already been happening for over a year now, what with the playerbase being at maybe 1/4 of what it was this time last year, and the game will be in its death throws by this time next year. Casuals are the lifeblood of any game, the deciding factor, the main component, the vast majority. It's been proven time and time again that once they leave due to a lack of worthwhile content, the game in question implodes. Destiny 2 is on its way toward that eventuality in a very steady downward trend: https://steamcharts.com/app/1085660 I have alternative solutions to sunsetting our armor: https://www.bungie.net/en/Forums/Post/256058446

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Bruh... It's gonna happen. It's either pack up and play a different game or deal with the changes.

If your worried about looks then wouldn’t transmog fix’s that? Not exactly caught up with how it works and all that but is would also make min-max easier.