Originally Posted by
Day1
I don't know of anyone who quits the game and comes back anytime there is a store release. Using your logic, you'd want to sell items when there is still a population on the server. And your assumption that the playerbase population is going to drastically fall the way you say it will is also false. If they didn't have a merge, perhaps. Vut with the possibility of being able to continue your character on icecrown, people will play to.the very end of the cycle. As many as started out? Absolutely not. But you cqn bet there will be a healthy amount of raiding going on until the end.
The only thing that is preventing them from dropping store items at the moment is A: only moderators read the forum and no one on the actual staff, and B: forgetfulness. They are very inconsistent, and have been slower on store releases since the end of Ulduar.