Quote Originally Posted by Orophin View Post
I don't know what kind of database transfer they'll do with the new server, but I feel all the Dated recipes shouldn't be carried over. The easiest way would be to handle dated items like the Guild Marks; they disappear in ARR. That gives people time to try to sell them on the MW or vendor them before the servers go down. Keeping the Dated items in ARR will just serve to confuse new players.
Why does everyone thing new players will be so confused? One, people aren't THAT stupid... Its something they can learn in like 2 seconds. Besides that, they could just as easily add an annotation to the description of all dated gear, with a brief explanation of what 'dated' means. And the dated gear will slowly phase out by people's natural tendency to convert and NPC them.

That way they don't need to piss any of the current players off.

If you DO get rid of dated gear, I think anyone still in possession of anything 'dated' during the transfer should have their dated stuff converted into current stuff. I don't want to have to go rebuy my coatees (THE BLACK ONE, OF WHICH IS NOW UNAVAILABLE NON-DATED, AARGH!!) and my best gathering gear, etc. I should either get to keep them or have them automatically replaced with current stuff.