The whole christmas event sucked. Loot boxes were the only event for players to participate in and to get those, you were required to be on at very specific times on Christmas Day. Actually, Christmas Night. Or 3 AM for much of the playerbase. There was no diversity with the event times and they were average staff-hosted events. The shop was actually nice. Some hats sucked, but they always do. Some hats were pretty nice. I liked the weapons this time and I agree with shmegg that the jolly flail is my favorite but I think the animation sucks without having a bend view. Otherwise it looks like it goes from bent to straight and doesn't look like you're flinging a ball on a chain. The furniture was dissappointing as 80% of the items in the furniture shop were just re-used from past years and not purchasable. There were very few furniture items you could actually buy that were made this year. Granted, Zone's furniture decoration system sucks ass, so I'm not surprised that furniture didn't have that much priority. Honestly I would have much rather had a tiny shop with 1-2 weapons and 4-5 excellent-looking hats, and have had all the other items go into presents that people can buy prior to Christmas day and open up on Christmas. They obviously had the items to do that so I'm not sure why they strayed away from that Christmas event considering its been going on for years and on multiple servers and it works out great. When players have expectations of activities like they do for Christmas, a shop won't cushion that undelivered expectation. I was also disappointed that we literally had to wait until noon on Christmas day before ANYTHING happened - that is the shop, events, lootboxes, ice rink, etc.