Also sometimes things happen in real life, and you are not allowed to check in, if i paid for vip then when i come back say a month or so down the road, if all my fighters and my company are gone, i am going to be mightily upset. However if my vip runs out, and then my company is free or gone, and my fighters released, then so be it....i would see not problems with that.
The fighters in said gym, can leave at any point once the gym gets run down or equipment gets run down, so really does not affect the fighters as much.