Maybe depends on the server? But I know bartering was still strong up until pop. Thing was, it still did take effort to get to the bazaar, and so people stuck around. The nexus was always packed with people selling stuff. But when the pok books appeared, that was the end of that since most people stuck around 10 minutes if that.
I liked the new character graphics. Liked the old, too. But maybe less the new "character" graphics, but the armor being good. Animations seemed smoother too.
AA's were good, just poorly implemented. Too many AA points and being just another thing to grind.
The rest pretty much sucked, apart from maybe shadowhaven and a couple connecting zones.
While SoL was bad, it could have gotten better, but didn't
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