I'm still relatively new to the game series, started playing consistently since the game came onto Steam. The recent addition of sunsetting is brining a lot of negative aspects to the game and I honestly feel like you could have done a lot better.
Firstly; I understand the need to shake up the meta and put the brakes on some builds and pinnacle weapons.
The sunsetting of Dreaming City and Moon gear is outright bad, especially when people still need to pay for that content. In the recent TWAB, you mention bringing back a handpicked selection of 4 guns from both locations, and some going to the dungeons. This is not good. Especially for moon gear that only had ONE YEAR of life before getting sunsetted. Instead of just brining back four (4) guns and the armor, just raise the light level of the gear. Or exclude them from sunsetting like you did with Drang and the MIDA Mini-Tool . If a player has to pay for Forsaken and Shadowkeep, only to realize that they're at a disadvantage because the gear is only maxed out to 1060, then that's going to be a massive negative for that player.
I understand putting gear down to shake the meta up. Please consider
-Sunsetting pinnacle weapons temporarily (either a year or two year sunset)
-Leaving Destination gear (Armor, guns) excluded from sunsetting, especially for paid DLC
-Consider not sunsetting gear that is no longer obtained (E.g: Black Armory guns, Leviathan gear, etc)
Sunsetting can be done well, it can be really beneficial for some people. But currently sunsetting is not bringing anything good to the table, especially when most of guns are not even pinnacles. Please please take the time to listen to the community. Email everyone a survey, talk to streamers. This is not a good execution and right now it's doing and bringing more negativity than anything positive. At first it wasn't that bad to me, but when it hits on how much gear can't really be used, it's not fun.
Please consider the time and investment players have made into their guardians, the gear, etc. And please listen to the community. We are willing to ride out whatever you toss at us, but this is not going to be good for the longevity of Destiny 2.
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Sunsetting is the best thing they have ever done. Cut bungie some slack, they're underpaid and overworked.