[imported_Sindern]

Once you establish a system, it's very hard to get rid of it. Everyone who owns a vendor would have to empty it out, store the goods somewhere, set up a shop, restock the vendors, etc. Ideally, everyone would read the forums, log on, and start to work on the clusterf>_< of moving all their stuff, but some people might take a week to even know that the mall is going down. If it were taken down, lots of people would lose their vendor and their items and there would be mass amounts of QQ and work for staff.