You seem confused. Most of us find our primary enjoyment in the fun times we have with our friends online. Our guns might have stayed the same, but the challenges we were facing with them did not. Finding a new gun isn't the pint bro. Let's fix that timeline of yours. Yay, I'm having a blast on here, and I got these nice new guns (since as you generously pointed out, we mostly had a collection of awesome year one guns) 1 year later, this new boss is tough, but my friends and i with my old faithfuls managed to beat him! 3 months later, made some new friends and old faithfuls and I (along with maybe a couple of newbie guns, if they made the cut) just beat ORYX in the raid!