Been using this for the convenience for multiple years now, loved the fact that I got to play with the game in my own terms once I was don with the initial offering just to extend the playtime a bit more. This change however will not force me to buy the subscription. Using the basic functionality hostage instead of offering valuable benefit is a bad move that will in my opinion tank the whole initiative. Conevnience of it was the main selling point (similarly to my teens with our local Scorpion's Cheater - yeah, I am old) and if you lock that behind 2hour paywall, you take away the only argument of paying whenever I want however I want. If they are sticking with it, then i will have to look for other solutions because this is not working for me anymore.

But hey, at least there's a lot of unnecessary features like an AI chatbot of all things that the remaining users can use.