You don’t know about marketing strategy.
This price change heralds a bold, and vast in scope alteration by CCP. They just skewed their income towards a price increase and the honouring of that value. This is pushing the needle away from the discount spam.
It is the first phase of a winning strategy. Price point the product right. And if your product is a best in category game that has legions of fans that love it, a faulty price obviously will be correct upwards.
If you think about it calmly and correctly you’ll see what I mean. If you cant, just wait for 5 or 6 months and you’ll just realise naturally the game is still worth it, just like everyone else will.