This stuff was NEVER advertised to carry over. Neither was everything else you put so much "work" in.
If you want your old gear to remain useful way later in the game, then go play World Of Warcraft where Transmogrification is a thing.
Destiny Is a videogame. It is a luxury. You will survive without your silly emotes, fancy sparrows and the other crap you bought.
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So let me get this straight: You post that it was never said things would carry over, but when provided with proof, your response is something to the effect "it was 3 years ago, things change"? So, is your argument that Bungie never said it? Never meant it? Or is it that we should expect and accept the fluctuations of truth that Bungie shares because too much time went by?