Reduced VIP turn-in experience?

On Ymir, it used to be the case that you got a turn-in reward twice, effectively making it double rate. It was still the case on Chaos after merger, but it's no longer the case after Thursday's maintenance. Instead, I'm getting one dose at 1.5x the experience (1.75x the experience with the polar bear costume).

Does anyone know if this was an intended change or if they're likely to restore the old rates? There are definitely people (myself being one of them) who save up TIs to make an X3 as productive as possible, and these people would definitely have done mass turn-ins before maintenance had this change been announced.

I just returned two days ago and I saw it announced

Are you sure it was still the same after the merge? It might be because they reverted the VIP bonus to 50% - it was at 100% for something like the past 5 months.

Edit: Nevermind, I think I misunderstood the question.

Edited by Alaska, 30 December 2012 - 02:04 PM.

They already said something on maintenance/pinned thread about VIP rates, yes it's reduced...'

But honestly I won't complain TI because of reduced exp. It's rather how bad TI system nowadays, because my Genetic doesn't get fast level with TI compared to my AB does despite my AB only on 1.5x bonus...

I just returned two days ago and I saw it announced

Where at?

Was that merger update thread, discussing all the issues that would be addressed after the merger