Emotes in the cash shop..

[Belhi]

I don't think there is going to be an easy way for SE to win with this. People will complain regardless what they do. Either that its too easy to get, or that they need to pay for it or that its not available at all. Its not like the dance emote was bought in the event. You had to do a quest chain to earn it.

The thing a lot of people ignore with Cash Shops in subscription games is that things sold on them are usually allocated resources to be developed based on the projected earnings from the Cash Shop. If they weren't in the Cash Shop there is a very real chance they wouldn't have been developed in the first place. The Cash Shop adds an additional revenue stream that offers them not just extra profits but funds to pay for things that the fan base keep asking for like European Data Centres. Now people can say 'well they should be doing that anyway' but the response to that is, what amount of content are you willing to give up for it? The funds to pay for other features would need to come from somewhere.

[sirDarts]

I don't think there is going to be an easy way for SE to win with this. People will complain regardless what they do.

Yeah, this.
SE pretty much has 3 possibilities how to handle old event/vanity stuff:
1) Add it to the new event = old players will complain that new players can easily get it despite not being there for the original, and that SE could have added more new stuff instead.
2) Add it to the cash shop = some old players will complain that new players can get it despite not being there for the original. Some new players will complain that they have to pay if they want it. And some players will complain that SE is using a cash shop in a p2p game.
3) Don't add the old items at all = new players will complain that they have no way to get it.

[Jynx]

Yeah, this.
SE pretty much has 3 possibilities how to handle old event/vanity stuff:
1) Add it to the new event = old players will complain that new players can easily get it despite not being there for the original, and that SE could have added more new stuff instead.

Yeah...how many people complained that the old summer swimsuits were on a vendor this year?

A grand total of not a soul, your argument has fallen appart for the "No win for SE I must defend them!" camp.

[Naunet]

I don't think there is going to be an easy way for SE to win with this. People will complain regardless what they do.

This is really a terrible argument that presents a false equivalency. For an entire year hardly anyone actually cared that old holiday items were still on the vendor. NOT putting them on the cash shop is clearly the better option. It's financially a better deal for players.