Just a quick point, SOE have already announced that to start with the Exchange will only be active on NEW servers, and that they will offer transfers to these servers. They will also poll the residents of existing servers to see if they would like to be changed over. It will need a significant majority to get a server changed, and they will give transfers OFF that server if requested.
I play EQ2, I won't spend my (real) money on items in the game. I will stay off servers where this happens. A few people on my friends list may leave, or I may swap to another server in the unlikely event that my server becomes "enabled". I fail to see how other "worlds" buying and selling items effects my game experience. From a quick scan of the posts here I would be surprised if all the normal servers vanished due to popular demand. (Of course that's taking Slashdot as a representative cross-section of people, risky in the extreme)
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Just a quick point, SOE have already announced that to start with the Exchange will only be active on NEW servers, and that they will offer transfers to these servers. They will also poll the residents of existing servers to see if they would like to be changed over. It will need a significant majority to get a server changed, and they will give transfers OFF that server if requested.
I play EQ2, I won't spend my (real) money on items in the game. I will stay off servers where this happens. A few people on my friends list may leave, or I may swap to another server in the unlikely event that my server becomes "enabled". I fail to see how other "worlds" buying and selling items effects my game experience. From a quick scan of the posts here I would be surprised if all the normal servers vanished due to popular demand. (Of course that's taking Slashdot as a representative cross-section of people, risky in the extreme)