I know it's bad form to pimp sites and all that, but everyone who's upset by this and looking for a decent EQ2 site should check out www.eq2daily.com.
They do a semi-weekly podcast about EQ2, have active forums, are putting together a pretty good EQ2 Wiki (which everyone is welcome to contribute to), and have expressed that they will NOT support plat sellers, banning them from their site. Plus, they're pretty funny, and do a good podcast.In addition to all that, they have a news aggregator that collects EQ2 news from all over the place and puts it all on one page.
I have a place in my heart for allakhazam that will never go away. Back when I played EQ1, this was the site to go to, and I really appreciated all the work they put into it. But it's obvious that they really don't care much about EQ2, and focus their energies on WoW. I barely visit this site anyomre, since there's nothing for me here. Now, with them joining with the plat sellers that help ruin the game, I don't see any point in coming back. I encourage anyone that's really outraged by this to check out EQ2 sites like Eq2Daily and Aggrome.com, 2 great eq2 sites with fun, active communities that are dedicated to EQ2, and opposed to people using real life $$$ to make their in game characters better, and their egos larger.
There are some great people on these forums.Though I don't post much, I definitely read many of the posts. If Allakhazam does crumble, I hope you can all find a communtity at one of these alternate sites.