I’m sure they have no intention of pushing out high producing affiliates. This seems more like a change to cut out the smaller affiliates who might only send a few players a year. Honestly it sounds like they just don’t want to do whatever extra work is required to track dormant players, or maybe they want to clear out their database, whatever it is, it still isn’t fair to the affiliate that originally sent them.
If you promise lifetime revenue from a player, then it should over the entire life of that player account, not we will continue to pay as long as this or that condition is met.