Thursday, 5 March 2015

Christmas content removal announced

It's taken a while to come through, but following on from removals of content from the other holiday themes, a Christmas shedding was announced late yesterday.

Notification for Christmas content removal

Usually these removals are announced alongside the weekly update, but yesterday it came a number of hours later for some reason. Perhaps this was related to the lateness of the update itself going up?

Whatever the case, the notification indicates that the pulling of festive stuff will be a three week job. This is understandable since there is more Christmas themed content than for most special events, and it follows on from the Autumn removal which was done in two parts. Presumably only those items listed as limited time at present will be dropped in this particular wave which is due this coming Tuesday.

Without any further ado, here is a neat table showing all 27 of the decorations which are set to be removed in this first wave:

Item Cost Category
Snowman Table 4 gems Tables
Snowman 3,200 coins Chairs
Star Sconce 4 gems Wall decorations
Red Mounted Skis 16,000 coins Wall decorations
Green Mounted Skis 16,000 coins Wall decorations
Holiday Bells 8 gems Wall decorations
Candles 10,000 coins Floor decorations
Baby Reindeer 12 gems Floor decorations
Santa's Little Helpers 21 gems Floor decorations
Tangled Kitten 21 gems Floor decorations
Holiday Jukebox 40,000 coins Floor decorations
Holiday Lantern 5 gems Floor decorations
Elf Greeter 12 gems Floor decorations
Teddy Bear 7 gems Floor decorations
Swedish Knit 1 gem Wallpapers
Christmas Swans 800 coins Wallpapers
Gingerbread 1 gem Wallpapers
Candy Cane 600 coins Floor tiles
Holiday Tree (red) 600 coins Floor tiles
Holiday Tree (green) 600 coins Floor tiles
Gingerbread 1,200 coins Floor tiles
Moose Tile 2,900 coins Floor tiles
Ribbon 2,000 coins Floor tiles
Santa Hat Tile 2,800 coins Floor tiles
Chestnut Roaster 8,000 coins Appliances
Holiday Drink Machine 8,000 coins Appliances
Candy Cane 32,000 coins Counters

As is customary with a modern day removal, Storm8 are making the erasing of stuff easier to bear with a 20% sale. The discounts have already been applied to all the prices shown above.

What is interesting with this removal is that the gamemakers have opted to actually throw some old content back in with the stuff that was already in the market. The likes of the Mounted Skis and Holiday Tree floor tiles have not seen the light of day for some time, so it's weird to have them brought out for a limited time to sweeten a removal occurring in March!

Also brought back are the Chestnut Roaster and Holiday Drink Machine. These two appliances never did get a re-release at Christmas, so it's nice to get them now even if it is more than two months late. They only hold three recipes between them, but that's still six mastery gems up for grabs - I suggest that if you haven't already got these cookers then it's probably best to focus on putting them together right now rather than dealing with the mystery crime party goals which have got much longer to run.

So there you have it. Merry Christmas!

1 comment:

  1. I'm worried I won't have enough gems in the upcoming weeks!! It's so nice of TL to offer 20% off though... And some old items. I was eyeing those skis at other restaurants this past winter. Yay!

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