Here's my take on the Jest of it my fellow community..Anything posted here is likely to generate nothing more than pages of ranting, myself included, that accomplish and solve nothing. You see as mentioned the powers at WGT did accomplished what their goal was, to rid themselves of what capital outlay there was for the prizes they were offering and turn them into in house potential cash cows for virtual items.
They did this knowing full well there would be rage within the community and that would last awhile then everything would settle down as before with just the same nominal complaints about VEM, Fixing bugs etc. and members would still go on all the while spending the time amassing credits doing surveys, signing up for and buying things from advertisers for credits or their money for credits to to buy things as they rake in the cash for those items.
They also knew there would be fallout and a few members would leave or cut back their spending but the numbers of those wouldn't out weigh the ones that would stay or the cash cow of new members arriving and new generation of funds as they try to move up the ranks and spend their cash on the same things we have/are doing to tier up. That is what the are really counting on as has been mentioned.
Now the question for the membership to decide is how much they care to continue to devote monthly on this game and where else there is to devote those $$$$ if not. Is there something or somewhere else that could give us the same pleasure that could use a few Dollars to get itself off the ground. As mentioned in these forum, yes there is. I for one will continue to play but will be spending less here and more somewhere else in hopes the near future could bring something better. There is an opportunity for those that want to take the chance in hopes they can and will be treated better elsewhere and still devote whatever time and $$$ they chose to devote here. This is a business and as such they will rightfully protect their profit no matter what we think. At this juncture, we as consumers on the other hand need to decide where and how much we want to devote to this business for our pleasure.
WGT will continue to do whatever the hell they want, create rage against their machine, take the hit and move on. They will continue to screw with the game and or peoples games with their tweaking, shrug off any grumblings within the membership, welcome new members and continue to rake in the cash without blinking an eye.
In the meantime their Mods will take the heat, try to calm and pacify the masses until like always this too dies down and all goes back to the normal grumblings.
I have said my peace in this thread, slept on it and now know my plan to continue play here and help develop elsewhere.