What say you? On "Time for Change"

Yeah, OK.  And if this were City of Heroes we were talking about, you'd want all of their "Thanks for keeping an open account" rewards too.

I beta-tested this game.  I just came back after a one-year hiatus.  If SOE were to take away the special items I received over the time I had an open account between 2005 and 2007 because "it would be fair to the newbies," I would cancel my account in protest and not come back.  A lot of people would.

I would rather have those items given to all players through some sort of in-game method.  Maybe the archive missions would serve a method to do that.

In other words... what the OP is suggesting probably won't happen.  Taking stuff away = lost customers.  SOE is in the business of making money... just like every other developer out there.

Deal with it or play whichever other game makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside.  /shrug