Please reread my post, because now you make assumptions.
What I said is that:
- you openly admitted in your thread that you had profit on TT alone;
- Messi openly admitted that gaming (in particular EU gaming at this time) is what he does for a living and what I did was to use the singular form *IS*, not plural form *ARE* known to play EU for a living (so only referring to him, not also to you; I never said that's what you did for a living, I know that's not true);
- as long as you are profiting (and I don't talk here about profiting from investments, but about profiting from the gaming part of the EU alone) the fact that you withdraw already or not is relatively irrelevant for me because you could withdraw said money at any time, so they represent a liability for MindArk.
Now I don't say I'm necessarily right, but in my vision, it shouldn't be possible to profit from the gaming part of EU alone... sure, efficient players should be able to make their money last longer and get more entertainment value for their bucks, but that should be it. If you would want to profit it should be by interacting with other players (MU, trading, services, investments, etc), not just by playing the game.
And, again, I may be wrong, but I think that's what MA tried to achieve with this update too... lower the cost of play for the vast majority of players while at the same time stopping the bleeding from the people that were running on a net profit. That's why I also call this update the "Robin Hood" update. And if indeed, that's what they aimed to do, then they sure have all my praises.
And just to make myself clear again... I'm actually grateful for what you did for the game, for your investments, for your dedication, for the way you manage your LAs (although I never hunted there)... and I definitely have no problem with the investor 5$ making profit out of his investments and using them to finance his in-game entertainment or eventually even cash them out if that's what he wants. My only problem is with the gamer 5$ that is getting both entertainment and profit from his hunting, at the expense of the other people that have to indirectly pay for his profits. And even so, my problem is not really with you (you did nothing wrong, you just played smart, kudos for that), but I think that (people net profiting on TT alone) was one thing that MA needed to address (and I think they just did that and in this case kudos to them for that).