I WILL NOT accept this answer, it's a cheap and easy cop-out to put people at ease. Granted, it's a tough comment to combat. Let me start by saying that WoW bit the dust hard because they stopped listening to their fan base. Destiny has MMO-like features, but remains mostly a FPS at heart. There are two things I just listed: a lot of fans are VERY angry about the year 1 legendaries being cut off, so if Bungie won't listen to their fans then Destiny will struggle like WoW is now. Now, remember that Destiny is a shooter, I don't remember picking up my copy of Halo 4, and having my Sniper Rifle not perform a 1 shot headshot kill just because 343 decided that Sniper Rifles are so year 1, and that Brute Shots should 1 shot headshot instead. Lastly, saying that this is how MMO's work is just wrong! Bungie needs to show their innovation by breaking this so called 'norm' by saying "hey this is MMO-esk, but instead of outdating gear we'll embrace it, and bring it along." Where in the MMO handbook does it say that year 1 gear HAS to become obsolete? WHERE?!