why take the cc shard trader out right away?

Usually a trader like that stays after the event a little bit as a grace period. It was ripped out of the game in the middle of the day today (yet they left the decorations, lol) leaving a lot of people with either inventory wasted for a year or just having to throw them out.

Can we have it back for a day or two please?

I believe it was a mistake, a waiting update which rolled out with the hats one. I expect that they will all be back in a bit, for a few more days, and for the collectors to stay a bit after the main activities will end.

yeah i mean alot of people were spending time tryign to grind a polar bear that it existance was only confirmed AFTER the finale on the last day. dont' understand the harm of leaving the gift collector in for one or week, liek with the victory token npc for cantha new years.

They should be bringing him back, though why was the winter dwarf not removed.........not kidding go look in kamadan

lmao.

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Don't forget that you can salvage the cc shards - they generally turn into piles of glittering dust...

and those piles of so called "glittering dust" you can sniff and really feel the spirit of Wintersday...who knows you may even have a vision of having a Mini Polar Bear

I do hope they bring the NPCs back. I got stuck with a leftover stack of victory tokens because I thought I'd have more time to sell them after the Dragon Festival Redux and didn't realize they weren't keeping the guy around until it was too late. This time I don't have as many Candy Cane Shards, but it's getting kind of bothersome when they kill the expectations we had from the previous versions of the event.

Damn, i could hallucinate a few hundreds bears with all those shards if i salvaged them, here i go!

This also brings me to the question: why are CC shards still dropping?

Haha, yeah thing's just aren't right.

I was wondering the same when my friend kept giving me their shards and i asked them about it, then was told they are still dropping o.O

the candy canes are still droping because its a way of Anet saying:
"We are sorry...here - have a lolly, are we cool now ? ''

shove it up your A...Net XD

Hahaha! Nice one.
My guess is, Anet tried to react swiftly to the Polar Bear farm drama and removed all NPCs... but Gift Collector should be brought back as I'm sure many people occupied themselves with other things than the shards, I myself have many forgoten ones I just collected from all my secondary chars and I'm not fond of the idea to keep them stored for one year 'till next event...

This is why i gathered all my stuff and got it turned in as soon as i got the second hat on the last day.

I sure hope you are right. I logged in after work the other day but the gift giver was gone. I thought that he would stick around for a while for those of us who had intended on handing them in but hadn't had the chance yet.

I wasn't out farming polar bear mini-pets. I was trying to do each of the quests at least once and all of the Kamadon specific quests with all of my characters. From the quests, I received plenty of shards and I was looking forward to trading them in.

It kind of bugs me that there was no warning as to when the gift giver would disappear. I agree with the OP that usually with these types of events it has been common for there to be a guy sticking around for an opportunity to trade in the festival specific tokens. It is very strange that after such an extra long event that the gift giver disappeared so early, especially when we need some of those gifts, such as eggnog and fruitcake to put towards our titles.

Well head on down to the online store and buy 3 more mule characters so you can store all that stuff untill next year.

Wintersday Dwarf has no cage. Why doesn't he just run away? :>

Al the Wintersday NPC's where taken out course Anet needs to suppress the drop of the new mini. I agree they just ripped out all wintersday NPC's.
Bad move IMO.

I wish they wouldn't. I hate merching them, but I just don't have the storage space.