I think a more appropriate gift/bribe/ peace maker, given the unannounced mid-event change, would have been a super rainbow pot - 10k in coins and/or a guaranteed gold item drop, and to make it S8 reasonable, a 22 hr timer. It was a serious misstep of S8, tne worst in my years of play.
Maybe they will/could tweak the next event to be PHENOMENALLY awesome to conpensate???
that would have been a good gift.
-shortdanzr aka wicked red
[Though she be but little, she is fierce]
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