@pandareno1999 wrote:@Final_Zidane in response to your post higher up, when you have all the items he gives you a consumables pack.
I want to add that if I'm not mistaken, "special" items do not enter your sticker book until you've gotten them. When you get one, your total number of stickers goes up by one in the sticker book. So these events do not add items that we must have to fill the sticker book. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
Consumables makes sense, that is what the bat did (at least 3 times anyway).
Being "special" makes it seem even more like a carrot actually. Here's these things you can have, they are called gifts, but you will need to work extra hard for them. (That is, collect a lot of coins.) Halloween seemed like a bonus, play each day and get nice things. (No cost unless you are making up for last year, even then it was 5 consumables and 2 customizations for 40k and only 7 packs total.) Festivus has too much to possibly get without spending some amount of coins. The only reason it has that extra bite is the cost of each pack. It is 8k per sticker, 3 of which are guaranteed to be reskinned consumables. (And not very large quantities at that.) Were it like GW1 and just special packs with normal consumable/item ratios, with 7ish stickers and priced around 30k it wouldn't sting so much. After all, depending on how many packs are needed it could be over 1 million coins. (That isn't exactly an overnight task.)
Now personally, I have plenty of coins so I'm sure I will cough up the coins to get everything. I just can't help but get a slightly bad taste like something is off. Like adding a pinch of cayenne pepper to eggnog instead of cinnamon. (Its still eggnog, it just doesn't taste quite right.)
