Now that I've finally read most of this I'm going to draw out how I feel about SoE and how they treat their MMO.
Everything said up to date is completely valid and completely true BUT...
Have you ever seen office space? Peter Gibbons says he only does as much as he needs to to avoid getting in shit from his bosses basically. Let's put that into our situation...SoE does the bare minimum that it takes to keep its hardcore player base around.
Quite frankly they're doing a good job on you guys. They give you empty promises and high hopes concepts for each Expansion. They announce they plan certain aspects of the game to be worked on but never get around to it (IE: Guild Halls took nearly a year, skeletal models never happend). You guys need to wake up a bit, you are their cash cows...their little pig farm. You get fed whatever slop neccesary so they can cash in.
SoE only understands one thing and thats money and if theres anything you guys the hardcore player base have taught them its that despite how unsatisfied you are, despite how shitty of a job they're doing, you're still going to be their bread and butter.
I can sympathize this though, I had a hard time giving up my account because of the amount of time and work I put into it. It's a hard pill to swallow, being told your cake was a lie. But you guys gotta cut the chord on it, speak their language for once and lay your foot down. This bitching and complaining doesn't do anything. SoE doesn't pay people to lurk these forums and their Official forums for ideas...if anything bored devs on their off hours just browse around.
If you REALLY do want EQ2 to get fixed and you're tired of the bullshit, get through to SOE.
Save yourself 15 bucks next month.