Quote Originally Posted by Reinheart View Post
Can't say anything about the payment part but for the gear I personally don't mind them removing it, but there are still some gear that can be good at lower levels and devs haven't put in anything to really cover for that gear. Makes it where you have to use the lower level gear longer till you can use the next one that's not dated.
Reinheart makes a good point.

For low level crafting dated is almost the only choice...

Also bear in mind they are (supposedly) keeping tabs on what gear people are mostly making and what gear people are mostly using... if they discover that alot of people are using dated to grind they might rethink some of the changes to recipes... or hopefully they notice the complete lack of non-dated crafting gear for 1-16 and convert some of those dated recipes...