The Festival was a fantastic, fun surprise. The decorations and the soundtrack straight from the "spooky graveyard" record from the halloweens of my childhood made me laugh. The masks are ridiculous, superfluous fun. If this was the kind of thing that the Eververse is funding, I thought, I'm willing to support that. I'm an adult professional with a career that affords me the disposable income to Throw Money At The Screen if the whim takes me, and not think twice. But I'm not giving you a damn cent if it gives me a leg up on a player without the funds. And what is in those treat bags? Grind-skipping candy. It is such a tiny leg up, but it is one. They do the same things as telemetries, or wax idols, or ether seeds, and those drop for everybody so easily.They're not the value of buying those packages. I can't imagine anybody buying silver to get those. But they're a tiny step down that slippery slope you REPEATEDLY PROMISED you weren't headed down. So soon? So gosh darned soon you're sliding toward pay-to-win? Pay-to-skip-the-grind? Nope. Not buying a single sliver of silver. And if you offer another advancement tool for silver, I'm done on principle.