I don't post this suggestion lightly because I do like the game the way it was before this week's updates, and this could shut it down if you guys go through with it, but only if the developers keep ignoring the problems they have created.
Pay to win players should stop paying. The new updates make it so you guys have to play dozens of times to win, when in the past you would have completed the event in that time. These updates make this game as bad for you as it is for the free to play people. The only way the developers will listen is if the money grab fails and backfires.
I am not suggesting this because I am a FTP player and want easy victories for nothing. I am suggesting this because the time it takes for any result in the battles is too long for everyone, including PTP players.