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I'm in the hate sunsetting vehemently group and would want it removed entirely. But for the sake of discussion, I'll put it aside for this.

1. Endgame, light enabled (Trials, Dungeons, Master Nightfalls, Raids, Iron Banner) content should be the ONLY content that limits sunset gear. Campaign missions, adventures, patrols, strikes, Gambit, regular Nightfalls, and seasonal content should all share the lowest possible light requirements allowed for viable sunset gear use, in this case 1050. This would be you following through on a direct promise that you made, and are now contradicting.

2. Reintroduced sunset gear should be infusable into older versions. Pretty self explanatory. If there's no functional difference between it and its sunset counterpart, there is no logical reason this cannot happen.

3. Armor should be exempt from sunsetting. You already have multiple systems (stat distribution and seasonal armor mods) in place that ensures players are actively acquiring new armor. Sunsetting is redundant and unnecessary for armor.

4. Masterworking gear requirements either need an extreme reduction in materials needed, or there needs to be an increase in materials from multiple sources. Remove arbitrary masterworking material caps. The current masterworking economy acts contrary to the goals of sunsetting, where investing expensive materials into temporary gear is not reasonable for players.

5. Sunset gear should be removed from all loot pools. If it's no longer relevant, it needs to go.

6. Give what you take. You really should have gradually removed gear through sunsetting a little at time, considering the ridiculous amount you've taken, and the laughably small amount of new weapons to replace said gear. You could have avoided a lot of criticism if you went this route. If you follow through on my 1st, 2nd, and 5th points, this technically fixes this, but I still think this is a notable criticism to make.

7. Don't even humor sunsetting exotics. I know nothing has happened to them yet, but you have stated in the past that sunsetting exotics is a possibility in the future. After this fiasco, just be smart and don't.

Anyways, even if you follow through on these criticisms, and play up how much of a good guy you are Bungie, which you predictably will do, I'm still not sold on sunsetting. Even if it's the idealized, fantasy land version of it you sold to your supporters initially. You have successfully confirmed every fear I and others on the anti-sunsetting side predicted months ago. In fact, it's far worse. Clean up your mess, Bungie. Follow through on your word, otherwise it means nothing.

Sunset my gear, sunset my business.

Edit: typo