The fact that the CLD revenue is zero last year is because they need pay for FFA2015, and they also need to pay peds for the winner (the first price is .1M peds). FFA 2016 is total different, FFA2016 worthy 0 peds and they also do not need to pay any peds to the winner. Given so much points as listed, they shall got a lot more revenue, and look at the CLD revenue to check whether there is a lot participaters..... give me a break.
I am one of the main bidders in the auction, and therefore have a very clear view of the auction status of the FFA2016. The number of competing bidders is only about 6, and definitely less than 10 (none of them are top winners). The price for each FFA2016 point worthy about .5-.65 peds (I do pay two glorious for about 1 ped each point) and there is much less FFA2016 listed in auction in comparison to FFA2015.
I also noticed that the number of FFA2016 Glorious is less than number of FFA2015. Take a look at the globals during the event, it is much less than year 2016. I do participate both 2015 and 2016 events. In the first 3 weeks of the event, I hunted (mainly FFA 1, drop rate is definitely same in 2015 and 2016) at least 15 hours per day, only got about 55k points, I then realized that it is much cheaper to just buy the points, so I start buy points while still do some hunting. I yelled at all three major sites, and only noticed one competitor one day. In most time, there is no other buyers in all three sites. I also go to the twin peak, no buyers there too. In anyway, I collected about 50k points by trading, about 19K from private traders. After all, my total points is about 109K.
And now, look at the unbelievable points of winners, what I can say about that? It must be magic!