[Lagaidh]

I know it's mentioned, but the Bazaar ruined the original feel for me. I looked forward to weekends in EC hawking the items I'd collected during the week.

Having to interact to make trades forced a certain level of social interaction and some cooperation, even upon soloers.

While this may seem like a slice of the overall game, to many, it's an important slice. Once you could enlist the code to buy and sell on your behalf there was a segment of interaction gone. Then, in the sake of convenience, more and more of the same type of thing occurred.

I am reminded of the interface for finding instance groups in World of Warcraft: you don't even have to form a group. The code does it for you from all LFG folks. To me it's the same thing: letting the code perform a social interaction for you in the name of convenience.

If this keeps escalating, you're no longer playing an MMO in spirit at some point.