Bloody hell, they actually did it. The vendor is gone! For absolutely no good reason. But surely a bad one. Once more erasing people’s time effort and reminding what an energy-vampiric scheme the game is.
Vendors like this in the past remained for much longer, and at least one expac would have been no problem at all, and the vendor isn’t exactly using up space or anything. And the currency cannot be obtained anymore, so it would just be a legacy nod or for people who want a somewhat easier start.
Did they even mention it anywhere I missed? Like ‘get your gear if you still want, the vendor is leaving soon’? Surely not. That would be respectful. (But in some cases they do, so they build an expectation and then if defied it constitutes deception again.)
I have enough currency for three full sets and even held back deliberately because I wasn’t sure which char to use it for. Now I have even less motivation to max another char.
But this surely makes it easy to not even consider spending one penny on the game, the totality of the many, many upsetting issues with this ‘game’. (More like disappointment simulator.)