The weird thing is this update isn't going to attract new players, it's only going to drive away the people who were happy to pay every now and then. CG keep acting like this game has massive overheads but their servers literally just store data - they don't have to have lobbies with physics etc so the server processing overhead is minimal. All they're doing is trying to keep investors happy, not the players, but without players they wont have investors either.
Very, very weird update. Greed has destroyed this game and there's no way in hell I'm spending another dime on it. I'm about 2k down since the game released but that's all the money CG are ever getting from me.