That's not what I or anyone in the Staff said. Feedback will be listened to, it always is. But, yet again, it's feedback, not decision-making. After feedback is listened to, it can be accepted in full, accepted partially or dismissed - be it for being something that has been accounted for during planning or other reasons.
For the reasons you sum up against the change, even I, despite whatever my personal opinion might be, can provide counters:
"- Reputation is already hard due to some content not working": Proterean already stated that focus will be given so reputation content should be working before any changes or not long after;
"- Gold squish will keep the same buy power, nothing changed, just less numbers": if that's indeed a fact, there's little reason to have a negative reaction to it - if nothing will change, for good or for ill, it's a neutral result that shouldn't matter for anyone besides people with a thing for big numbers;
"- Prices MIGHT change in AH, sure you wont see 50K item due to gold squish, but you will see 25K item that will be on the same level of OPness as before": that depends more on the maturity of the market and how much people want to actually sell or simply keep something outside the market; if point #2 is a fact, this is again a neutral point that should only be seen as an issue if a huge amount of development resources were sidetracked to deal with it - that's not the case as far as I'm aware and more than likely it will be Edifice who will handle the cut;
"- Due to this knowledge of gold squish people will buy now, sell later in order to loose as less gold as possible": we gave forewarning of months ahead of time; was it because the Administration didn't see that happening or exactly to give people a chance for that?;
"- Gold squish accomplishes very little when there is gold outside the game in circulation": point #2 again, with different words; the gold sold outside the game still comes from players inside the game selling it; no gold is generated from nowhere, it just exchanges owner by the use of coins.
So, from your list of points against, none holds its ground, since they are all things that were accounted for before the plan was made public or not much of a point against, at most pointing out the effect will be a zero-sum game ("this will change nothing"). The only valid point here would be a variation of the first one - people being skeptical about the reputation-related content being fixed by the end of this month - but that isn't in your list or even a common complain in all the threads on the subject.
Banned
