Talk:Treehouse of Horror XXVI Event/@comment-60.242.172.162-20151025230613/@comment-26561761-20151026014414

It's not lame, it's profitable. Past events were only one big phase with all the prizes.

In the last THOH this 3 phases system was introduced, if you missed a prize, you could craft it in the later phases (not for prizes of the last one though), this is what was used for the Treehouse of Horror XXV Event and the Terwilligers 2015 Event.

A variant of this was during the Superheroes 2015 Event were you needed to finish a phase before moving to the next one, until you finished one, you didn't had access to the next one, but you could be behind schedule. Apparently this system was not profitable enough since EA returned to the earlier one for the Terwilligers.

After that we got both Tap Ball 2015 Event and Monorail 2015 Event were just like this one the only way to get a prize from and earlier phase was with donuts. Considering this is the system we had for the last 3 events in a roll I think there's no doubt that it's the most profitable one for EA, thus I hardly think they'll switch back to something more beneficial for players.