Quote Originally Posted by Dotsusama View Post
Half of the announced items were in the game already, as rewards or purchases for old events. They could keep selling them for cheap on vendors as they have in the past, or make some extra cash on the side selling them in the item shop.

The other half? Items that were probably already designed but they didn't have a good way to implement them without making up an excuse to have them appear. Other Scion minions were available as Anniversary items, but it wouldn't make much sense to include them elsewhere. What else should we do; wait for the 2nd year anniversary? No thanks. I'd rather buy them now.
I should have used different wording I guess. What I meant was that it could never add to the game unless they used it to get more people to develop things for the game.

In a highly theoretical sense, as you pointed out, it could have a zero-effect.