I have played PC and Video games for about 45 years now. I played World of Warcraft for over 9 years.
I played Star Wars TOR for about 5, along with War Thunder, World of Warships, and a few other where you subscribe.
Now I am learning Character Creator, and Unreal Engine as a hobby to maybe be able to make my own game, or games.
I started playing Raid to look at the characters/designs ane allI can say is this game is just one big Circus/Carnival/Casino type BS that is designed to prey basically on the Gambling Addiction nerve of people.
I actually play a game called Disciples 2, and Total War Napoleon, and as old as those games are, I only payed the money to buy them, and or expansion packs, and there are things about them that I wish could be upgraded, but they don't cost me a dollar to hundreds of dollars to play a month.
Yea I know that technically you can play this game for free, and other than throwing about 100 to you in a 2 month period (that I chose to do) I basically play it for free.
Now the choice to do that means I can play it for about 1 to 2 hours and accomplish a little.
Thats fine, but when you hype my ass up about getting a cool champion and then I figure out that I am going to get 45% of her unless I want to throw down 1 to 3 hundred dollars to get her, than I believe I have gleaned all I need to know about this game.
Its a total rip off, unless you just don't have anything else to do for an hour or two, LOL.
The problem with that in my case is that I do.
So at this point, I just use it as a screen saver, and I play the daily/get my cookie treats each day, and I learn programing, or 3D design Star Trek 3D print models while this plays in the background.
As far as all your Casino events and Tournaments, If I accidently get things from them for being in 14th place then TY. Other than that I hope you can continue to feed your families with the money that you rob from the weak minded.
If you do get sued over your silver stealing practices and cease to exist, then I guess its been nice knowing you, because it seems to me that it doesn't take to long to figure out how greedy you are, and its going to hit critical mass where you are going to have a mass exodus of players leave.
So last word of advise. Invest the money you are conning out of the sea life wisely.