Not sure why everyone's hating this.
I don't think it's a matter of hating it....I am sure most would agree that this is a good thing to do....The problem is in the previous season news announcement it was said "To help with the development, we’ve hired a couple of new programmers and once they get settled in, we’ll introduce them to the public. For now, we’re only introducing a development calendar, something to better keep track of the upcoming features. Most of them are still going to be kept as a surprise, but we’ll disclose their size (major or minor) and release date.?"
Changing your pricing structure is neither a feature or a developmental accomplishment. New BB's were not required to change the pricing structure. When you say a Major Development is happening on such and such date, we (most of us) expected something that would change the game in some compacity.
The BB's have stated for many years that being a supporter has ZERO impact on your gameplay and ability to be competitive...So making a change to the supporter pricing has ZERO impact on gameplay or being competitive. This could have and should have been something they just simply announced whenever...it didn't need any sort of buildup or calendar reference to draw attention to a coming change.