Large USA broker drops mt4

 
Received via Mt4 Mailbox tab

Dear Demo Account Holder,

XXXX has made the business decision to discontinue support of MT4. Therefore, effective at market close today, Friday, September 19, 2014 all XXXX demo accounts will be disabled and you will no longer be able to login.

Two hours notice. I've used this broker for four years.
 
WHRoeder:
Received via Mt4 Mailbox tabTwo hours notice. I've used this broker for four years.
It's pretty well known that XXXX has agreed to sell its retail client base to YYYY. In addition, XXXX's [former] parent company ZZZZ is dropping its own use of MT4 and switching platforms to QQQQ.
 
is this the start of chain reaction? brokers dropping support for mt4 worldwide.not good news
 
Two hours notice. Nefarious criminals, nothing more, nothing less.
 
properkhunt:
Two hours notice. Nefarious criminals, nothing more, nothing less.
If you have a real account, not a demo account, with XXXX, then they should have contacted you as soon as the deal was announced. Turning off demo accounts at two hours' notice isn't great, but that's because their priority - bearing in mind that most of these people are going to be unemployed very shortly - is sorting out their actual clients.