There has been an extremely noticable reduction in free-player friendly events such as Infernal Damage Warlord and a massive increase in events that specifically require you to spend literally £200 worth of in-game currency such as the Warpstone Devour. Today's update has made the game even more hostile towards free players due to them removing Alliance Spoils for killing foes. Literally only playing due to addiction, habbit and alliance friends at this point