Don't think you played any MMO's at all. Glad my childhood I balanced it between my PC MMO's and my console straight story telling games. In many MMO's lots of things become obsolete, thats just what happens many events and gears come out and replace the old content. If you are not there then you are going to miss it, thats just what happens. Like I said its not just a straight telling story game, where you beat it and then your're done. You beat it and can replay it for different gear, you wait for new updates to come out for even newer gear. Many MMO's I played in my past always do this, Tales Runner, Ragnarok, FLYFF, the list goes on. All of those were free to play games but they did have a lot of stuff you can buy that made you better or just cosmetic stuff. Never put money into those games but a lot of others did and they even gave me stuff with their real money. Destiny is a little different at least and they don't make there game pay to win, they just stick with the cosmetic stuff. Its been like this for almost 2 years so I still don't know why you continue to play it. If it's been working for them why change it? Many people do enjoy it.