Blog Post
Losing the playerbase is extremely unprofitable, and at some point another negative change - and perhaps an innocuous one - will be the change that causes the dam to burst. I'm not saying it's this one, but combined with fleet meta awfulness, cointoss impacts to GAC/TW, a couple awful DC sets etc. etc., which of the negative changes will cause an exodus of players?
I think we are on the downward path of this game and CG/EA know that. I mean they have all the data. New players, leaving players, spending statistics, ... we don't. So my guess is: they are milking the whales as much as possible and trying to force more players to become mini whales.
Remember: EA and (to some degree) CG lead don't care about this game at all. It made them absurd amounts of money. If it's going down - so be it. Let's add some more money on the way out.