This haha. I have friends who don't understand that concept. "Wait so all the gear I spent time grinding for is gone???" Yeah its an mmo, new expansion = new gear.

Expansion does not mean replacement... Expansion would imply that something is being ADDED to the game, or another direction (hence the term expansion). If something is deemed obsolete with a viable substitution, it would be a replacement (upgrade would imply there is an improvement of sorts, but this is subjective). So I think to avoid a lot of the confusion that we've seen over the last couple DLC expansion packs, Bungie could have just renamed them replacement packs.

I'm just going off mmos I have played and in general when an expansion comes out you get new content, new level cap, and that means new gear. I personally wouldn't want to keep the gear I got previously. Half the fun for me at least is the hunt for new gear. That thrill at the end of the nightfall or raid of seeing an exotic pop up. But that's just me, everyone is different.

Yes, when we get expansions, we should get NEW stuff, not be forced to delete old stuff (due to irrelevance). Before someone chimes in and says it will still be useful in crucible, we've already been warned that vault space is limited (because thumbnails take up 96GB of memory each), but yet we should hold on to our treasured legendary weapons (when combined with the previous they are COMPLETELY conflicting messages). Fix the crucible first with dedicated servers, and then we can BEGIN to entertain that discussion. I enjoy chasing stuff as much as the next person. Which is why I want to get MORE, and not completely undo what I just did. If we had more vault space, or a different way of leveling guns (removing light was a good start), or a way to ascend from one year to the next, I'd be okay with that. So I need Year 2 weapons to complete Year 2 tasks, okay. Then at the second half of year 2, I can ascend my Year 1 weapons to see if they are still up to the task (now - I've chased new stuff, brought in old stuff), and now I can decide which was better overall - Year 1 or 2. But now I get to keep the best of everything I've earned - VoG becomes useful from now until Year 10, and so does everything in this game. BUT - we have no idea, yet, because Bungie changes what they change every download (and in between downloads). AND - this method would almost REQUIRE the increase of vault space, especially as we move through Year 3 and then 4. Why paging isn't implemented or thumbnails is utterly confusing to me. Why can my 4 year old phone just flip through my account, see postmaster items, every vendor item, simultaneously 5 accounts' vault space (of 3 characters each), but an XBOX 360 can't store more than 60-80 thumbnail pictures. This makes absolutely no sense. If this were addressed, and the ascension issue, a lot of these recent topics would be laid to rest. Of course, there will always be others - but these are the big ones.