Dear SOE and John SmedleyThank you for a great game. I started playing Everquest 2 at launch, and I still think it is the best MMORPG currently available (i.e., best at matching my taste). There are so many different things to do: Adventuring (for XP or AA), crafting, harvesting, playing the broker, socializing, decorating your house, etc. Other games fall short when compared to the features and finish of EQ2 (e.g., try finding a broker that works as well as the EQ2 one in any other game!)So, it's with a sad heart that I have cancelled my subscription without intend of ever comming back, to EQ2 or any other SOE game. It's not the game. It's the company.The Station Cash introduction was the last straw. I picked, and kept, EQ2 because it did not have 1) PvP and 2) RMT.And to make it clear: To me, RMT means any way to spend more real money to gain in-game advantages over and above the base subscription and official expansions.I know that the Legends of Norrath game/loot card lottery was really the introduction of RMT, but I bit my lip and lived with it. I chose to believe Mr. Smedley when he said that RMT would never come to EQ2, and that LON was not a slippery slope to a cash shop.Now we have RMT and a cash shop. So, yes, I feel betrayed. Betrayed and lied to.Like when they moved people off the test server, something they had said would not happen. And SOE's response was, essentially, "We're so sorry ... that we got caught".No, I'm not even surprised to be lied to any more. No other company has official "We hate SOE" threads for their games on mmorpg.com. (Impressive for a company that relies on word-of-mouth for marketing!)Had it only been the cash shop, I would probably just have left silently. I have no illusions that players can get SOE to change a business decission like this. I actually did expect RMT to be introduced eventually, but not in such an underhanded way.The real kicker was the timing: Right after the release of a new expansion. Had I known before the release that EQ2 would get an item shop, I would not have bought the expansion. I know a lot of other people have said the same. I am sure that SOE knew that there were peoplewho would react like that, and that the timing was no coincidence.So we have a situation where: SOE/Smedley says that there will not be a cash shop, which turns out to be a false statement. They knows that it is no longer true, but does not retract the previousstatement. This is deliberatly done with the intent to keep us misinformed until after the release of the expansion.The players are, ofcourse, relying on this statement in their evaluation of their future interest in EQ2. Believeing that the game will stay RMT-free, they decide to invest in another year's worth of expansion. These people are now in a situation where the money spent on the expansion is wasted.I'm not a lawyer, but that sounds remarkably like the definition of fraud.And it also sounds remarkably like the trick they pulled with the SWG NGE, which was also dumped on an unsuspecting public right after an expansion release. This might not be as grievous a change, but forthe behavior, it's a difference in scale only, not in kind.The best indication of future behavior is past behavior. Or, as the saying goes: Fool me once, shame on you - fool me twice, shame on me.I won't be your fool any more, and if I stayed, I know I would be, probably sooner rather than later./RS