In fact there are. In my extremely intermittent checking of my vigil toon on Pinnacle tonight I ran into 2, one who had just downloaded the game the Thursday before Black Friday and was a brand new player, and one an old and very active player who just hadn't been on in two week due to RL. There are probably a lot more out there.
I personally didn't know as while I was sort of idly VIP, I was on a temp break due to real life drama. Had a friend of mine not asked me if it "the rumor" was true or not and had I not checked it out myself (I about dismissed it offhand!) I probably wouldn't had known till things calmed down in real life or until I went to try to buy the Fire/Ice reward weapons and found out I couldn't reapply for VIP.
Heck, as it was sort of released like a fart in an elevator I thought some /b/tard had broken in and posted it. I was like "Nah, this is too clownish, a professional would had taken down the ads from the launcher or sent a press release... nobody's so amateurish to do it like this". Heck I didn't even believe the first news outlet that covered it. I thought they'd jumped on a hoax to be the "First!" poster, as being first or loudest is way more important than accuracy anymore.
I had to log in the game to hear people talking about Zwill confirming it on the forums (then reading that post) to even believe it.
I can totally see a 5 year on-off Premium vet who doesn't VIP anymore but has dumped thousands into the game in Premium content not hearing about it till November 30th.