I think the party items should be labeled anniversary 1 and an anniversary 2. Before during the first anniversary you had to buy energy to get these amazing items... but now? you see everyone running around the game with these rare items just because they are now free and you can get them from boxes which take just minutes to get... If they were labeled this way a lot of the players will be happy to still show off their first anniversary items. Also some of the rare party hats went for so much ce/cr. People wasted millions of crowns or thousands of ce just to get these party hats before this new release.. now they are going for 10k-300k crowns which is ridiculous. If this change was made at least players can still feel good about their (first) anniversary items, which they either worked hard for or wasted so much money on. I'm not sure if its possible for OOO to change this or if they now which items are from which anniversary but its worth a shot.
The items never really sold that well the first time they came around, I doubt OOO would have made much money by releasing them as CE packs again.
What I'm frustrated about is that they made no attempt to differentiate between the 2012 Prismatic Frosted Helm and the 2013 Prismatic Frosted Helm.
They could have put 2 candles on the latter, but instead I am now left with no way to show that I'm a long time player.