Check out the website. I always laugh how outdated it looks, take a look at that pay to play button. Theres apparently a new spinoff called gravity well 6. I'm still trying to wrap my mind around the whole thing.
Even that pay to play button looks like complete shit. No one is going to stumble upon that site and want to spend a single penny.
But a lot of people have paid already lol, around the same number of people are playing that were playing before. Its more a service to fans who still want to play the game.
This shit is even worse news-wise than Empires, and that is one hell of a feat I can't find a good place to look at news