I don't remember when this change was made, maybe around 2 months already
however seeing only poor players that lost most of their banks ( which is around 20m each ) because of a sudden death / lag or whatever happened, I believe it was a big fail.
I've said it before, if we are looking to sink some items from the game, then stop fucking focusing on poor players only, a rich dude who is risking something worth the sink will always have a spare 10m ( or even up to 20m after the last update to EC price of GA ) however the dude who has around 25m worth of items, can't afford a ga for 10 or 15m so we are simply pushing them back to duel arena
Removing GA won't fix the second problem of poor players losing their cash, however rich people will think twice now before they start pvming and then we can actually start sinking some good items that are so damn hard to get rid of ( even selling cheap won't help )
Remove GA and let both get fucked instead of that silly timer change to 1 min that only ruined pvm to poor players