they did that because they added some black market items as rewards (instant recall and weor protection)
so they had to decrease the rewarded spphs because those items are only purchased by sapphs which only shows that plarium does NOT understand what rewards mean
rewards are things you win for your contribution in the event that should
1) cover your contribution losses by rewarding things that are either equal (thus you dont end up worse than you were before the event) or something better (which makes you HAPPY and pushes you to play the next event because it is WORTH IT)
2) rewards are extra and should be earned by hard work/ smart play which simply means (good player = good reward / great player = great reward ) however for stormfall it is all about how stupid you are
medium stupid = 20 dollars / big stupid= 100 dollars / mega utterly ugly stupid = 100+ dollars and such
in stormfall rewards are not rewards you are
1) losing for your contribution much more than winning at the end
2) no matter how good you are the sole balance is money how rich/stupid you are
the only way to play events (pvp even my strategy)
is to just kill few hundreds of pals and few thousands of archers in organized attacks with your friends to earn maximum 3000 points
with zero chance in competing nahhh like this you are simply fooling yourself
edit: the spending of 20 dollars makes you medium stupid if you do it for the event exclusively however im not against paying lol 30 dollars a month is good HOWEVER still you dont have a chance