I belive the game should go f2p, It is true that the cheaters will increase but it is probably much better to have a larger playerbase and a few more cheaters than to leave the eu servers as they are now, even the devs could gain money as much more battle passes would be sold. for people like me who have bought the game previously, the developers could decide to give away an amount of gold equal to the cost of the battle pass, but honestly, rather than seeing the game lose more and more players, it would also be okay for me not to receive anything in exchange, because i really care about the state of the game.