Last time I checked this wasnt a car industry, dis-abling this option directly effects the consumer outright does it not? this is not just some part thats being outsourced to someone else, this is an entire pay system that customers have used for years. Your comment is like saying 'we've outsourced skinning AIM-9's to a different guy' makes about as much sense. Now they are essentially forcing the consumer into doing something that they are not comfortable with that has worked for years? There is no point in argueing with you Sobek as you have no more information then the other mods here, As you can see by the amount of people just in this thread that have commented this is a concern for the community as a whole, something that most companys tend to touch base on considering that it could become a problem that looses the company money in the long run, at the end of the day this as everything else is a buisness, with a buisness, customer service is (or should be) at a premium, which it doesnt seem to be, or their would be an ED representative commenting in here and not just a moderator, even if its just to say 'hey sorry guys we cant support paypal anymore due to some in house issues, we wont be using it again/we will be using it again, you need to change the way you pay' anything like that to quell the community and give them some kind of heads up moving into the future.
This 'turn the lights off and no-one will notice' isnt the way to do things.