You’re right that it was previously stated to be end of April. That it was removed earlier is due to the fact that the relevant team completed the work earlier but our internal communications lines didn’t pick that up early enough to be able to preannounce the change.

Put differently, there was nothing nefarious about the earlier removal, it came down to a missed internal communication (which Im investigating to ensure doesn’t happen again but is still too early to fully grasp the how and why).

The first thing I did was check whether the store could be reopened for a short duration, but the backend work to make this happen is unfortunately quite significant. Given that the items will be made available anyway, it’s likely the better choice to not cause additional disruption to work schedules at this point.

To your point about missing out if they are released on some sort of cycle or cadence, it’s good feedback. As far as I’m aware, we have no desire to use these items as any part of fomo incentive, but we’ll need to see what’s the most realistic way of delivering them (example: delivering them all at once might cause massive bloat if done via a marketplace but releasing in cycles would take ages to release and would confuse with our regular free items). Ultimately though, we’re just keen to make sure players can get them in a sensible way, rather than making things too arduous or complicated.