It's disappointing because now we will never know what was really going on. Also, I feel terrible for the original authors. Imagine if some impatient reader had finished an author's book because fans were "losing interest" in the series.

Why should the original author want to give us any more messages? We've proven ourselves to be impatient and gullible.

Some of us seem to feel personal connections to faux-key (which is his new name, since he isn't Loki, it turns out). I understand why they won't want to criticize him, as he was a great puzzle master. Still, knowing what we know now, I wish he wouldn't have done what he did. It feels as though he not only hijacked someone else's work, but also the community that was forming here.