I am so excited for this update! So much new content all at once, and so many new objectives to work toward!

I'm also super into the soft-retiring. I love the idea of a challenge to be able to collect them all, which is obviously easiest by grinding in the moment, but allowing us to get more in the future if we miss something or just want more later. It feels like a good balance between "You had to be there" rewards and commonplace rewards that lose (personal) value (to me) because it's so easy to grab 300 of them just in case (as I do with all the MM apparel).

I'm halfway through the battlepass, and managed to get the four new Icerun companions! Woo! (I'm not sure how much time I'll have to grind after this week, so I'm having to no-life it as hard as I can, in hopes of not missing anything and avoiding building up a backlog of items to get.)

With the voucher prices the way they are, I really don't like the idea of the lootbox being sold for vouchers. No one's gonna want to waste gambling those away. And since we're in need of more pebble sinks, I'd much rather see them sold for a high pebble cost.

@Vissyn Yes, general Consumed companions will return in other Seasonal events.

@Shadowbanish Thank you for your feedback. May I kindly request that you create a Suggestion Thread for this in the forums? We'd like to gather more player discussion on all feedback from our community.

Getting rid of the Discord is a huge mistake. All this does is alienate active players by taking away their community. Two days isn't even an adequate warning; some players are probably going to think the whole site shut down.

I'm not going to start using the forums; I hate forums. I'm just going to stop playing if I can't interact with other people.

My thoughts on the prices-

The companion prices are fine. I understand the companion prices. Companions affect gameplay with their synergy, and can give items (and sometimes money) when you play with them. Companions are also considerably more expensive than apparel in the weekly shops. Companions being more expensive make sense.

One thing that could really help is reducing the prices of the apparel. Apparel is multi-use and apparel does not affect gameplay. It doesn't need to be similar prices to the companions for those reasons.

And yeah, I agree the lootboxes should be for pebbles. It makes sense.