These events are basically a 'sale'. What happens is, they make items more desirable by making them 'exclusive' and only available for a limited time.
Similar to other retail events and sales.
@warslagIndeed. It is with reason that the event skins cost more materials and although the legendary items are at the same coin price of 1800, they could have been more, given that you can purchase exactly what you want and normal legendary items are already 1800. I was trying to point out that double the crafting materials seems like a whole new tier of rarity and since they mentioned that there will be a few events per season it is highly unlikely the average player will have materials for one skin per event, leave alone more than 1 skin or to gather enough for 1 skin for the following events.
The main point was that, although it is to be appreciated they allowed for a semi-free option, the current amount of materials needed reverts the free option back to a paid option when calculations are made.
P.S. : From another perspective, this could very well be another way to pay for the items, so it never was meant to be a free-ish alternative, however they could have been more transparent about it. I believe it is fair to say a good amount of players, dare I say the majority, expected this to be the later, hence the confusion and belief of the first event information post to have a typo when addressing the material cost.
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