Totally bizarre "new" rooms! Golden Cauldron and Golden Goose now pay less!

I really hadn't thought that EA could sink much lower in their manipulation of the Monopoly Hotels game.

But, once again, I'm proven wrong.

Here we have another update. A Friday update instead of a Thursday update.

And the first two rooms I see in the Guest Rooms list?

Our old friends, the Golden Goose and the Golden Cauldron.

But what's this? 

Are these really the same rooms?

They both say "New Item". (HAH!)

And BOTH pay out less than half of what they used to.

Here's what the Golden Goose looked like when it originally debuted:

And here's what the Golden Cauldron originally looked like:

Here, just for comparison, are today's "NEW ITEM" gold-producing rooms:

Yes, we've had these rooms change their price before.

But for EA to "introduce" the exact same rooms with new, MUCH lower payouts? That's a really low blow.

I already had 7 of the Golden Cauldron, as you can see below.

5 Golden Cauldrons in Pennsylvania: 

   

And two more in Mediterranean:

All seven have been paying out 10 gold each at 7-hour intervals, making me relatively pleased.

So I was silly and jumped the gun, buying an eighth Golden Cauldron at the new price just now:

     

I don't have a good feeling about this, I can tell you.

Right now, as you can see, my existing Golden Cauldron is still on the old schedule.

I want to see what happens when the new one starts producing. 

I've got my fingers crossed. The time-to-build is now MUCH longer than it used to be, as well, so I suspect it will be *next* weekend before I get my first payout on the new room. 

At that point, it's anyone's guess as to whether my old Golden Cauldrons will pay the old amount at the old frequency or will all magically update to the new ...

Of course, my gut instinct says to just swallow the loss of 1,500 gold and delete the new room before it can have an impact ...

I'm going to wait. 

Will YOU wait? Will you buy these "new" gold producing rooms if you already have them in their old incarnations?

Update (an hour later ...)

Okay, I wimped out.

Knowing how ruthless EA has been recently, I decided to cut my losses and discard that brand new Golden Cauldron. In its place, I now have a Piano and another Chef's Hat being built in Pennsylvania ... at least I will have some good XP being collected even if I just wasted my gold.

Let's hope I continue to collect the old payouts from my existing Golden Cauldrons. I'd rather wait and see whether someone else is able to make the two types of Golden Cauldrons co-exist peacefully side by side!