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You've been a good correspondant. Thanks for answering merchant questions and making the forum a pretty fun place to troll. Honestly, I think that's really the only reason SOE created correspondants in the first place. They never intended for you to be able to facilitate change. You've done a great job with what you were given, and you managed to keep the shreds of sanity you started with. Nice job. /applaud

And don't feel bad that you didn't have any warning about them removing the merchant profession. I get the impression that most of SOE didn't even know this was coming. Why revamp professions like Creature Handler if you're going to remove them entirely in a month anyway? My guess is that Lucas Arts had a non-SOE team working on the development of the new game, and was just waiting to see what SOE would do with the CU before implementing it. SOE failed, so Lucas Arts stepped in and told them to put the new game to live. I doubt much of SOE knew about it. This would explain the short timing, the complete lack of communication, bug testing, customer feedback, or integration into the existing game.

Personally, I think the new game might be fun, but I won't be around to see it. I kept playing for the past year because I enjoyed being a merchant. I liked running a unique shop. Now that merchant is being removed, I think this is the time for me to step out. I was looking for a good excuse to transition out, and this provided it. But the new game may actually be more fun than the old, so don't take this as an encouragement from me for anyone to leave.

But for Elyssa, now that the merchant profession is no more, I think it's the time to collect your delicates from Doc's yacht, and join the others on blue-glowie isle. And it's time for the rest of us to thank you for being here for us. So thanks. You've been great...

**edit** you Dimear for making me get a lump in my throat. I had promised myself that wasn't going to happen.

It's okay, Doc. You're not the only one a bit misty at the death of the player-driven economy. It's what kept me in this game as long as I played it (up until last May, that is) and it's a shame to see them make such a concerted effort to kill it off.

Elyssa has been an excellent correspondant. I will miss reading the fun and facts in this forum.

I've enjoyed being a merchant more than any other of my professions. It's the only profession I've never dropped while dabbling around at others. Now I don't know what I will do.

Is Elyssa already gone? It's awfully quiet in Merchant land today.