We saw this coming a mile away though. They have been focused on making money.
Also, post-release (lol!!), they have no way of making enough revenue to sustain all the instances (Google Compute is not cheap), patching and the cost of running four studios etc.
This is why the 2.0 kernel is going to remain a broken mess (like AC) right through to the eventual collapse because the only revenue stream they have atm is selling ships, SQ42 (which is a non-starter since over 700K people are already entitled to it) – and nothing else since there is no “game”, hence no in-game “economy”.
2016 is going to be very interesting and I expect some major events in Q1/16.