Not to sound paranoid.
Do you have any idea how annoying 3rd party spammers would be to sell their gear they’ve accumulated over 20 years to players returning to D2R if it carried over?
What a horrible idea to be allowed to keep your old gear. Game will be flooded with people attempting to bot to sell gear regardless but 20 years of back stocked crap to push? I’d wear out my mouse muting people.