Armor Update Issue

I know this has already been done to death but I'm sill waiting for the armor updates for the 15k armors that people have already bought. I noticed that if you rebuy the 15k armors they have the updated stats but the ones the people already have (at least on my characters) have not been updated. Anet said that they would do an automatic update but that has yet to come. Personally I believe that the main problem lies in the fact that from a programing point of view this would mean way to many searching and editing through everyone who has bought the 15k armor and dealing with it. Judging by previous activities (preservation of items that are already dropped like the mesmer green cane) anet probalby just doesn't want to deal with the process of searching through the entire system. The green item are just lucky drops but these 15K armor are hard earned (minus those who ebay) and well deserved. I don't have that kind of money where I can just craft another set on a whim and honestly I like the way my plate mail looks. Anyway as a fix im propsing that instead of trying to update the armor that Anet just make another NPC (maybe a armor collector or sumthing). Anyway this npc would only take 15K armor and would give you the 15K back. Now to just prevent people from changing skins like crazy you would only get the 15K but not the materials so people can't just switch around at a whim. Also incase Anet is worried about the fact that for the future people will not need to work as hard for future 15k Armor maybe just make this NPC avialable for a month or something and make it a point to announce it ingame and on the forums.

Anyways tell me what you guys think about this idea. Thanks

I coulda sworn I read somwhere ALL armors would be updated. Ones that you have to craft and ones you are wearing currentingly. I think A-Net said they were gonna do a mass global armor update basicly.

I dont want this update on arrival of chapter 3, it shouldn't be taking this long, it dosnt make sense it should have ben high up on the list after all its one of 2 things all guild wars players have in common..weapons and ARMOR..its not as if its a lone greenie that needs nerfing so "they'll get to it when they can" its a big issue, i dont understand the powers that be.

I invested in them, Time AND money, can they please invest some of that into this?

Old topic i know, But its bloody relevent until they UPDATE THE ARMORS!!

If the game is about balance why wasnt this among the first things they did? Is it balanced to make everyone re-buy their 15k armor because they cant wait any longer for an update that should have happened on release of factions?