Reposting my opinions from the other thread:

I would be fine if they had decided to cut the amount of days for the last two outfits in half but to cut them down that much was a bit shocking. Also it seems that the veteran players truly dont have any kind of thank you anymore in the game and even though they dont need to do this, it was still a nice gesture for those that constantly subbed. The new reward structure seems to be that you need to sub a certain amount of days in a certain span of time thus it has nothing to do with veteran players or not. It is nice for the new players that want the costume and the last rewards were are bit much but its also not that great for newer players that dont focus much on achievement points..no matter how often you played the game and how many things you did you would always get all the items after a certain amount of time.

Now (if I understand it right) you will only get the costumes as reward and all the other items need achievement points to get them..seeing how a lot of points are behind boring grindy things I am not really sure if that is so great for newer players. (Only if they set the bar really low for the amount of points needed) They could have simply made a cut to the last two or three rewards and let the rest stay as it was..and do completely new things with the achievement points. Now some newer players might be in a worse situation since they might not play that much different content right now thus dont have much points and thus cant get the items (depending on how much they cost), and us long time players have no real incentive to sub constantly and we also dont get a fantasia or anything like that as a small "sorry for the chance but thanks for subbing".

I mean it does probably save some money for those that sometimes only subbed to get their rewards but isnt that kinda bad for SE? Now with the new model of certain time spans for rewards people might even sub less constantly than before because they simply have no carrot there. (I am not saying that the majority only subbed for them but I am quite sure that some might have decided to not let their sub drop if they did a bit of a break to not lose time for the rewards)