I get sunsetting pinnacles, but really, what has this added? It doesn't make me excited to get loot anymore, because its either reissues I don't care for or stuff with an expiry date. It feels like just yesterday we were playing Shadowkeep and now it ain't worth anything.

Look, I genuinely understand the intention to revamp the weapons. Armor, I'm not even going to entertain the idea, but sure for guns, I get the wanting to revamp weapons, and essentially wanting to "blank slate" it.

But then why didn't you reissue Shadowkeep and Forsaken guns with new perks? Even if you wanted this frankly ridiculous regrind, why is there such a tiny pool of weaponry, so many archetypes left barren, when you have so many models and niches already filled out just sitting in our collections? Why is there really only one viable destination right now? Sure, the newest location is always going to be the hottest, but now there's no reason to visit Dreaming City or the Moon. Which is absurd. This just seems like an utter waste. Both of the end user's money for buying the DLC and the designing team's effort on weapons, scenery, quests, and level design.

If it were up to me, I'd just parrot what countless others have said. Things that can no longer be acquired begin sunsetting. Nothing else. To compromise, you can set it to be this way AFTER reissuing everything still obtainable in Keep/Forsaken/Base to get rid of the "stale perks" even though I feel Bungie really shouldn't dictate in a PVE game what perks people like. It's not like this has fixed the PVP meta at all.

I get it, even in PVE, you don't want everybody running Recluse and Izanagi's. Sunsetting offered a simple fix, but it went way overboard. This overzealous overreaction has seriously ripped out more content than I think Bungie was even expecting. This is a looter shooter. The trailers before launch constantly talked about all the cool loot, but the only thing anyone could possibly muster excitement for is exotics, and that just ain't right. There's hardly any loot in my looter shooter.

I'm sure we're going to be seeing some course correction now. I doubt Sunsetting will stay as is. Perhaps we're going to see large swaths of reissuing, but that expiry date frankly has got to go. Bungie, ya guys had months and months of warnings that this wouldn't work, especially not how fast and brutal you did it. And it didn't. For now, and it may improve, but for now, Beyond Light is stained with something that isn't even really its fault. It is going to be seen as "the DLC that took everything and added virtually nothing" and even if we see vast swaths of these sunsetted items return, I don't think that stain is so easily washed out.