Well it was hard picking the thread for this post... and likely who cares, right? :p
But yeah I've packed it in for now. I'll keep an eye on the game and may pick it up again later, but for now the best parts don't seem to be there anymore. Certain equipment pieces others have aren't in the shop, which I assume was stuff they bought at higher levels or whatever. Even the equipment boxes, if I thought it was worth it to buy them, wouldn't have anything but level 26-30 stuff and I'm playing a 22 mech. The fights now are pretty one-sides no matter what anyone does - either I win handily or lose horribly. The strategy was removed.
I know free games aren't free to build or maintain. I'm not sure what other options there are to push more monetary support, but I don't know that what's been done now is beneficial.
In any event it's been a blast guys and I look forward to further updates which might return the old magic.

-Styg