Quote Originally Posted by Deceptus View Post
Because they didn't warn players for weeks/a month. Oh wait, they did.
You still should not remove the ability to equip already existing gear. This sort of thing renders some very hard-earned gear useless and ruins glamours. Doing this would have resulted in a tremendous amount of backlash. The best thing to do is change the requirements for new gear, which is what SE did.

Furthermore there is no point in wasting resources to rebalance accessories for old content when it has near zero impact on the new content. That would have been a lot of time and money wasted.

Of all the things to criticise SE about, choosing to not remove the ability to equip already existing gear is definitely not one of them. This is hardly a "problem" worth even thinking about. There are far bigger and deeper things wrong with the game.