My guess is they made this a week ago . My friend who is platinum 1 but got it before me and he has a host actually got a new host for no reason.
If they had announced it lets say a month or at least 1-2 week ahead that would have given players the chance to still level up in time. I know I would have.
Oh and by the way, the mempool is now empty for the past 10 days and they still charge 0.0002 btc for withdrawals without even considering to change it. My last 2 withdrawals in the past days have been sent with 0.0001 or less sat/b fees but still I paid 0.0002.
That makes my last 10 withdrawals having paid more than they actually sent it with. Congratulations stake.
Even when I win something I still lose a bit back by overpaying.
Stake is by far the best gambling website when it comes to fairness, and they are one of the best about not putting the trouble to customers, if there is anything wrong they will use all of their power to make you happy again, and they have a great design and they have selection of games so you can gamble in any of them, basically they are by far the best casino out there.
But, when it comes to giving everything to wealthy gamblers and nothing to smaller gamblers you can be certain that they will take away few bucks that the poor gambler has and give it to a whale who doesn't need it. They are like the banks that charge overdraft and so forth to poor people who do not have money and give it to people who have a lot of money. It is just the way they do business, they prefer the whales to play here and fish to go play somewhere else.