Simply a standard PR response to the outcry on the forums. I'm sure this was pre-planned, even if every single subscriber had cancelled we would still be hearing what a great success smedbucks are. The decision has been made, there is no going back, SOE will claim this is a success no matter what happens. How they can judge the impact in less than a week I'll never know. It's almost like SWG all over again, SOE will just stick their heads in the sand as the game burns around them.

And the floodgates are now well and truely open to all sorts of crazy items to purchase thanks to the thread on what people would like to see for sale in the future. Some of the early suggestions are just mind boggling.

The game is dead for those against RMT, it will become a haven for those willing to spend stupid amounts of money, will force out a lot of the original players and more and more overpowered items will become available as SOE caters to the people willing to spend smedbucks.

I've already cancelled my sub and used the money to fund a second WAR account on the US servers until such time as a real replacement for EQ2 fits the bill. Very sad though to see EQ2 go this way after I've been with it since Beta :(