....for everyone who worked hard to get into the top brackets of Gold Fever. The amount of time and effort and gems I have put in over 3 years to get into the top 500 has now been turned into dust overnight. It's a kick in the guts for every F2P or casual spender who invested into this event. AND I am sure that there will be many top players, too, that will be furious....
....Top 500 used to be around 440 M and Top 50 around 650 M gold. Now a player who previously didn't even make it into the top 500 can easily outdo a top 50 player just by buying the pass. So essentially all your very best top players will feel the squeeze @Fox and ripped off and extorted by SP as the huge amount of gems and money they have invested will be for nothing unless the buy the premium pass ALL THE TIME, MONTH to MONTH....
....I am seriously thinking of following Ekto's footsteps. You work hard on this game and despite spending and investing way too much time of your life, you end up moving backwards!
If this Premium Pass stays, I suggest you make the extra gold not count for Gold Fever! I can't see a way of mitigating the effect on Growth Spurt but saving Gold Fever would be at least a small compromise and probably VERY welcome by all top players!!!