Is the Halloween update destined to be a huge disappointment?

JoshSherer wrote:
Now, if someone wants to present a GOOD reason why they should stay gone . Good reasons for bringing them are extra money for EA (which in turn leads to a longer game for us), it's not fair to screw over new people, there is almost no additional work or coding to make items accessible that have already been designed and implemented, etc.

I presented a reason. The limited items vary between 3 levels. Free (no currency), in-game cash, and donuts. The first 2 would require code changes to make them purchasable with donuts. There is code work since items are likely assigned to a "type" meaning free, purchasable, or premium purchasable (donuts). So it would be re-working the code on some/many of the items as they would need to be changed. When code changes, things break. When things break, they get more in flux of tickets with issues. So in turn by updating the code, they are liable for new issues, and creating additional problems for their support. You see many with how EA doesn't respond for weeks, especially on critical issues like the harps of death, lockouts, etc. This could blow up even more. More people that may drop the game entirely. This would be likely affect those of us that have the items, more than the ones purchasing the items.

They do have the option of just re-enabling them, and it would just be dumped into the inventory, or able for in-game cash - but then this doesn't make them money. This would only please players that missed it, and there's those that would be upset/mad that they are available again.

(I don't personally care if everyone has them or not, I'm just providing a reason as a counter-argument)