Waist items gone, where's the gil I spent on them?

[PastelPirate]

awww 'cmon, why not? A neon banner def woulda grabbed my attention (i'm being humorous here, not snarky).

[Nafreyu]

Depreciating asset anyway

[Seraphor]

never saw it in the launcher, and I don't do that other stuff you mentioned. I don't watch fanfest, or go to fanfests, I don't do producer live letters, I didn't have a forum account till today, and haven't even read the forums or anything on them until today. So no, I was NOT aware of it. I've never seen it in loadstone (prolly missed it as I was likely looking for other things and not looking for 'news'). And frankly, I launch the launcher, and start the game, because that's all I AM interested in doing. Not spending time reading blah bl;ah banned x rmt blah blah etc. Because that is literally the ONLY garbage I see in that section. So, sorry I wasn't up to date because I play a game instead of read about it.

So you're wilfully ignorant and complaining that you don't know stuff.

Who plays this game and doesn't follow fanfest?

Even if you were justified in being this ignorant, this is a non issue. All of your "expendive belts" would have becone redundant with the release of Endwalker anyway, just like all other gear.

[Hasrat]

Who plays this game and doesn't follow fanfest?

I don't.

But I still check the important news postings and lodestone articles, actually read patch notes, etc.

OP just wants to whine. If they can't be bothered to read notices as posted, then there's literally no way devs could've appeased. They'd be dismissing in-game notices all the same because "blah blah spam let me play."

It's an actively running MMO. Things change. Either keep yourself informed or be ready for surprises.

[PastelPirate]

I don't follow fanfest because I don't have the bandwidth to stream things like that. My ping to the game servers is usually in excess of 300 m/s, I can barely play the game, and in dungeons, I die frequently because aoe's etc hit me, before I even see them. As I said before, my internet is so bad I can't even stream a video off YouTube at it's lowest settings. Don't say "get better internet"", there is none available where I live that is affordable on a small fixed income. Sure I could spend $200 a month for satellite, and possibly get better speeds, but that is literally 1/4 of my monthly income, and is not affordable. I will also mention, that my address, isn't an address. It's a po box, and I live in the mountains on undeveloped property of a family member in an rv that is 30+ years old. Wanna know how long it took to load this page? More than 8 seconds. I.E. Slow, so I generally don't spend time reading things. Admittedly, my lack of knowledge is my fault, but there are extenuating circumstances, and reasons why I rarely stay up-0 to date on the latest breaking news. Wanna know how long it took me to download Endwalker? 11 days. Think that through. Have a nice day.

yes, I just finished downloading endwalker.

[Myrany]

I don't.

But I still check the important news postings and lodestone articles, actually read patch notes, etc.

OP just wants to whine. If they can't be bothered to read notices as posted, then there's literally no way devs could've appeased. They'd be dismissing in-game notices all the same because "blah blah spam let me play."

It's an actively running MMO. Things change. Either keep yourself informed or be ready for surprises.

I knew about the change months before it happened. I have a friend who's main gig in the game is crafting and honest right up until a week before patch he was insisting on making new belts for me because I had out leveled the old ones. Didn't matter how much I argued I wouldn't be on much or level much before they became useless. LOL

Even so I did remove materia and desynth the one I was not wearing before the patch. Otherwise they would have sat on the calamity salvager until the next umbral era before I remembered to go get them and desynth.

[Seraphor]

I don't follow fanfest because I don't have the bandwidth to stream things like that. My ping to the game servers is usually in excess of 300 m/s, I can barely play the game, and in dungeons, I die frequently because aoe's etc hit me, before I even see them. As I said before, my internet is so bad I can't even stream a video off YouTube at it's lowest settings. Don't say "get better internet"", there is none available where I live that is affordable on a small fixed income. Sure I could spend $200 a month for satellite, and possibly get better speeds, but that is literally 1/4 of my monthly income, and is not affordable. I will also mention, that my address, isn't an address. It's a po box, and I live in the mountains on undeveloped property of a family member in an rv that is 30+ years old. Wanna know how long it took to load this page? More than 8 seconds. I.E. Slow, so I generally don't spend time reading things. Admittedly, my lack of knowledge is my fault, but there are extenuating circumstances, and reasons why I rarely stay up-0 to date on the latest breaking news. Wanna know how long it took me to download Endwalker? 11 days. Think that through. Have a nice day.

yes, I just finished downloading endwalker.

So why would you spend 100k gil on paper equipment you're just going to outlevel and then complain about it?
Youre not playing in a way that necessitates BiS gear, and even if you were, you'd know it's always completely redundant by the next patch anyway.
Buying gear is always a waste of gil, unless it's for glam, which belts weren't.

[Shironeko_Narunyan]

never saw it in the launcher, and I don't do that other stuff you mentioned. I don't watch fanfest, or go to fanfests, I don't do producer live letters, I didn't have a forum account till today, and haven't even read the forums or anything on them until today. So no, I was NOT aware of it. I've never seen it in loadstone (prolly missed it as I was likely looking for other things and not looking for 'news'). And frankly, I launch the launcher, and start the game, because that's all I AM interested in doing. Not spending time reading blah bl;ah banned x rmt blah blah etc. Because that is literally the ONLY garbage I see in that section. So, sorry I wasn't up to date because I play a game instead of read about it.

So with the info right on the launcher and Lodestone, how would you have liked it presented to you?
Short of slapping you in the face in game with a window you cannot click away for 2 minutes, stating it in oversized, red, bold letters, any form of spelling it out could be dismissed as "i didn't see it".
So, how?

[PastelPirate]

Primarily, because I wanted all my gear to match. It's kinda a spectrum thing. It bugged me to have gear that wasn't the same type, ie Exarch etc. Probably not understandable to anyone that doesn't deal with autism, but little things like a belt being neo-ishgardian when everything else is Exarch, is like a festering wound. Now that I have been caught flat footed by this game change, and being told it was mentioned repeatedly, I have a new festering wound. Now I have to read everything, every update, every patch note, etc that I can get my hands on from this point forwards. If you understand what that entails, then you'll understand that now, I have no choice. I have to do it. And I don't find that type of forced need (by me, not SE) thing enjoyable, I find it as a punishment.

[PastelPirate]

Read a little further up. I've explained it already.