Personally, I don't mind the idea of paying a small fee of 150 Gralats to join a event. If anything I'm actually liking the idea,not of paying but the idea you do get a discount for being VIP, (Personally I think the VIP ticket should be reduced do 75, not 135 so it allows VIP players to join events twice as more as regular players )which really that brings in bigger game opportunities to benefit VIP people. And hopefully they benefit VIP players more in a way, Before it was like " Oh wow you're VIP , you can now go to this VIP island where there is basically nothing interesting but a different version of the month VIP item and some crappy furniture." Like oh wow. Who cares.
But I also agree with Ethacon. It helps it where players can't just spam join all events and get tickets just for joining.