Heernis
Collecting eggs for Christmas is nice, but would never bind me to Ryzom.
No collecting eggs for Christmas is NOT nice at all. It's just opening the door for abuse nothing else (and if you don't know what I mean ... just wait a bit for the next time they will be available and you will see professional eggs spammer again).
You should not try to compare real life and the in-game life they are 2 differents things (don't forget one is a game).
Heernis
If the die-hard role-players continue to blindly follow old traditions, they might miss the train for the new traditions that are developing in parallel.
There is NO new traditions developed in parralel.