Yes, Inno has done
the RIGHT thing by rebalancing the 2016 Summer + Winter event buildings along with a couple of the early 2017 event buildings (iirc, only the Valentine's buildings?
The
last thing Elvenar needs is to go down the "Forge of Broken" path, whereby the more veteran players who scored fields of OP event buildings make it impossible for newer players to even have a chance.
Does it hurt in the short term? Absolutely it does. But c'mon, you have to admit that these buildings were disgustingly OP when you would
routinely see cities with fields of Winter Stars, Candy-cane Trees & Glossy Gardens, supporting over a dozen factories... especially when those culprit buildings were even 3+ chapters
behind a city's current chapter?!
Where's the challenge or the balance there?
And no, it was never the "diamond players" who wanted this change, but rather the vast majority of non-paying players who either;
a) have/will never have any Magic buildings & thus were collecting stacks of useless bp's.
b) the many, many players who hated always being forced to delete their lovely & hard won event buildings within maybe 3-4 weeks of planting them in their cities.
So now, we have the upgrade option so that we can grow our very rare & typically event exclusive buildings as we continue on through the game.
Hell, with this new ability who knows,
maybe it will actually encourage more people to participate in the tournaments?!