The've already lost everything since the website's transfer of control. Even if they restart Bikinidice now they'll struggle to recover former players because of new gambling heavyweights that popped up in the last months.
Probably, they've changed their minds; however, we can only doubt about their trustability & capability to do business with BTC gambling following this news.
It's interesting that they've wasted money on buying the site despite the fact that they do not want to keep it online. But yeah I guess you're right, they've probably just changed their minds.