"If a game dies, it dies" is a terrible attitude to have. If a game dies because of bad decisions that could easily have been avoided, then you have every right to blame its publishers, and some degree of concern is warranted here because many Nutaku games already died because of bad decisions.

FKG players are fully justified in throwing a fit about the game potentially taking a P2W direction, because by doing so they may prevent that outcome. If Nutaku gets the idea that implementing substantial rewards for high global ranks will make the game less profitable overall, they will be pressured to abandon their current plans and return to a more user-friendly approach.

Rather than leaving Discord, the best thing Nameless could have done is to reassure the channel that all players will be entitled to whatever reward they will come up with for this ranking business, and follow through on that promise.