We're going to be working on some sort of "reputation" system to replace the current Armor Points system, and the new Armor Points system will be based on playing the games.
As such, "merits" may not have a place in AG3, and the current points you have may get shifted around as we "translate" them into both reputation and new Armor Points when we launch AG3.
I think he didn't get what you were asking Reton8... if I'm correct, you were asking if they are cutting back on giving out merits right now on AG2?
My opinion (for what it's worth) is that they haven't given out any for game reviews for over half a year now... only for contests. But that's probably because of all the work piling up since late... a lot of new users have discovered a thing called 'hi' in their vocabulary and want to share that with the community every which way they can! LOL XP