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@ people saying its pointless to give candy: Is it pointless to focus on giving more than collecting? Yes. Is it pointless to spend gralats to keep a stocked bowl (if you can afford it)? No. If everyone decided not to pay at all and only use the free bowl, then on average everyone would have 100 candy. Most basic principle of an economy. There's nothing to take if no one is willing to give.
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Agreed. The absolute worst are the people who put "PM ME IF YOU HAVE CANDY" in their names and/or statuses, and have their houses closed. Selfish jerks. If you have the word "candy" in your name, you damn well better be putting it out. Because, like a lot of people, when I'm quickly going through names to find houses, that's a word I'm always on the lookout for.
I enjoy giving out candy, just because it's in the spirit of the event, and I wouldn't feel right about taking without giving (especially since it's such an easy thing to do and candy bowls are only 500 gralats for 100 people). Also, I enjoyed setting up my house for it. I blocked off most of the house (because it's still a work in progress), but it was fun setting up a little area near the entrance, using some old Halloween furniture to decorate it a bit. I've seen some houses with clever decoration work as well.
In regards to the people putting candy on bushes, or behind a set of bushes, so what? Like someone already said, they aren't profiting anything (they're not going to make anywhere near the amount they spend on the candy bowls), and anyone who has the nerve to put their candy behind a very long gralat maze, I don't bother wasting my time, I just move on to the next house (unless there's a spot I can exploit and bomb glitch through, which I have done many times, even just to get by a single set of bushes. God it feels good not giving them any gralats). Then there's some people who purposely put candy in an unreachable spot. Ok, maybe it's fair to have some "trickery" given that this is technically trick or treating, but again, I've managed to get to many of these bowls using bomb glitching and the like. I don't even mind spending the time to do it, I just like the challenge. I even managed to do this in the house of a well-known Graalians members (heh heh).
All in all, this is fun. I didn't play during the Graaloweens with the candy ghosts, but I hear trying to collect candy was a chore, given the amount of people fighting over it. This, however, I'm enjoying. As are many people. It was a well-executed idea. We have yet to see how the gift bags are dispensed, but I'm sure it'll be a fair system that rewards what the average Graal player is able to collect (and not just the hardcore players on the top 25 list).