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Sure they do... we're just not their customers. The buff to directly buying gold for gems (as opposed to converting to energy and grinding it out) and the general deflation of gold means they trying to make it more worthwhile/necessary to spend.

Most games like this, the free players are either content or potential customers. Since we don't really have a meaningful PVP system or a particularly robust community, we don't really do much to be content (i.e., provide interesting interactions that make the game better for paying players.) So other than basic advertising or borrowing our computing power, the only way they can monetize the free players is to convince us to spend.

These changes might actually do that, if they make the early game easier and get more people invested in the game before introducing a hard wall.