Honestly, I don't believe CG would even care if every one of us stopped spending. They would just mothball the game and continue doing this same thing to another community. Business practices are something that will go across the entirety of what they do. If they can screw one community, they can screw them all....
CG has proven themselves to be tone deaf to all reactions from the community. They are not going to fix any of this and in a week or two they will put out a change that is even worse than this one.
So many people here have already pointed out the numerous issues we face on a daily basis.
I just want to point out one more
Remember Kodak? They once developed film and they were the top of the industry. Then SD cards were created......... Kodak.........
CG is following that same road with this community.... Removing the established income from the established events the base has relied upon and making everything which is new unattainable for new FTP players will in the end lose more revenue for them. This and all decisions which have been made recently starting with the new Raid System is creating more FTP players.
As others probably have felt in their posting, I can go on and on about this for hours, but CG just created another FTP here in me. I will spend my money on other things now.