It breaks your heart? Really? lol Melodrama aside (JFC), some of the stuff you said is just wrong, and it's because you're overly emotional. 1. Nothing about new gear bonus is anti-collector. It as nothing to do with the acqusition of gear aside from encouraging you to get the new stuff, which a collector is going to do anyways. 2. They said in plain language that sunsetting was gone because it is, and this isn't sunsetting. A temporary buff to new gear is not sunsetting. A yellow school bus is not a green piece of paper. I don't really know how else to give this information to you. They aren't remotely the same thing. Sunsetting, actual sunsetting as it happened in the past anyways, actively devalued your gear, making it less effective (seemingly forever) than the the rest of gear. The bonus temporarily buffs your new gear. Apples and orangutans. To be clear, [b]*I don't like the new gear bonus either*[/b], but we don't need to make a mountain out of a molehill, and most of the people that play this game aren't doing content hard enough for an extra 15% to make or break their experience. And it sure as sht isn't sunsetting.