The items that are marked as 300k are items that were ridiculous prices in user shops in previous years. We didn't want to make people spent millions for a velvet beer. These prices are stable, so you aren't spending millions for one item. Yeah, to get everything you want you might have to spend a few million, but you get more than one item.

We have a few items for other shops (token shop, genetech, etc) that are alegarten themed, so there will be things like stickers. We are trying to get better about getting different types of items out for everyone at holidays, Alegarten is just hard because lol so many beer/sausage items.

Also, I got a programmer to order the shop by time/ID rather than alphabetical order. So hopefully that'll help you guys out for new vs old items. :)

I've already said it somewhere, but the sets of items that have different prices between them are items that once were in the Holiday Shop. We didn't want to put an item that was work maybe 10k in shops as 50k+, just like at the time we didn't want to put items that were worth millions as just like 75k.

These items will eventually be phased out (after a few years we retire older years out of shops; look at masq shop or vesnali), so the prices will be completely unified in the future (new items from this year and last are unified, it's just those old old items).

Something like that would be announced at the start of the holiday so you had that year to get all the old stuff. :) So no, they aren't retiring this year, but we might do it at the start of next year.

Have you ever tried running three business vhile drunk?

We still put significantly more sP into the system daily than we take out, even during Alegarten which is one of the only holidays where you have to pay a ton of sP for the items.

When someone spends their entire account worth on the alegarten items, they get their sP back pretty fast typically. The average user has 11 million sP, that number doesn't really change much after alegarten. It just means that people who didn't care about earning sP for most of the year end up doing all of their quests / playing games / etc for those days instead of whatever else they do. :)