I maybe shouldn't admit it but in just the last year before the closure I spent over $1K on CoX. Not only was I maintaining multiple accounts and a sucker for anything costume-related, I was often buying items off the market with a mind to future prospects. Picking up enhancement boosters and AE slots in bulk when they went on sale. I justified that splurging in my mind as showing support for the flood of development the game was getting, as well as getting goodies for myself in the bargain.
So, yeah, I'm pretty bitter that NCSoft ultimately showed no appreciation for that kind of devotion (surely I was just one of many throwing significant money at CoX, even if the subscriber population was only a couple few thousand strong), and that most of that stuff wound up unused. When was that last sale on AE slots? Like a week before the announcement...?