How about not releasing conflicting information like "you're guns will be useless" and "Hey don't dismantle yet you'll be able to sacrifice gear". To me that says they're undecided on exactly what their plan is for old gear, although I think it would be incredibly asinine to make year one gear irrelevant as that makes all year one game play irrelevant which in turn significantly cuts the experience of any year 2 adopters. I'd be more pissed to pay the money and pick it up in year 2 to essentially only play an expansion.