[Admins]

We cannot change the email of classic accounts for free because it's often requested by people who never owned the account and just want to avoid paying (there are people requesting the email change of accounts that were not used for 3 years...). It's a lot of work to check if someone is really the owner of the account and is not sharing the account etc. that's why we said it's not possible anymore. The current system is still quite "open", e.g. you could upgrade your account with one or two SMS messages and then let the email change. That way you will keep the lifetime classic.