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Batform
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Holiday NPCs are released in an attempt to encourage players to log on during them. The NPCs are then unavailable after the event in an attempt to promote a sense of rarity to the NPCs, and gratitude for logging on. When you promote that feeling of rewarding for logging on during events, it encourages players to log on with some regularity, if the holiday events are consistent. Why would you release holiday NPCs outside of the specific holiday, moreover why would anyone care? You're essentially removing their purpose and degrading them into random "fun" NPC that you can get from various methods.
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Life Time Bowling VIP Card
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Why offer a lifetime bowling card if the player doesn't actually deserve it? Again, the lifetime bowling card was an attempt to reward players for actually participating in bowling and building up their skill. If all it takes to gain lifetime access is to have won a few events then you're degrading the purpose yet again.
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*Conch Shell
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Is the Conch Shell going to unlock a couple of quests for the person who wins it or what? That's all it used to do, well, and make a horn noise. How wonderful.
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*Fireball
*SuperBomb
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These are both rewards for quests. The Fireball quest is currently being worked on, why would you offer it as a prize in the lottery? It's undermining the development team, because it's all for naught if you can get the prize willy nilly from a lottery. In addition to this, will these prizes be disabled in events? One person having that kind of advantage doesn't really go well against the promotion of "fairness" that has gone on for years.
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*Shovel
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I don't understand why you would release a Shovel before it had a few actual purposes. To then go on and release a few purposes for the Shovel at a later date will have the same effect as the Rat Form rat holes.
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*Torch
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What is the point in having a Lantern and the Torch on the server?
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Morpher
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So instead of readding the Morpher to the server because of a quest that you added, you're releasing it as a Lottery Prize? Lol.
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Most of them are planned to be released in the not incredibly distant future anyway
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So what is the point in players buying tickets for the lottery? Be the first person to get the NPC? What happens when they're released via their appropriate distribution channels such as quests? Does the player get nothing for doing them, or is the quest just unavailable for them? It doesn't exactly make for interesting quests with basic adventure features such as backtracking if you've already got the NPC. This is so contrived and a pretty embarrassing cop-out to be honest.