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This statement is too ambiguous to convey any meaningful information; the amount of in-game hours each player plays per day varies greatly from absolutely zero to literally 24 hours if they're doing a marathon of some kind. Unless, of course, you meant that you completed the event in 48 hours, which obviously is significantly longer than the holiday events that aren't designed to be boring grinds, the likes of which take more or less one hour to complete in full.

And to top it off, the method isn't fully clear as well, because given how ambiguous the amount of time you spent was, "by training slayer" could also refer to using gp from the slayer training to buy bonds, consuming said bonds for runecoins, and then using those to buy the materials needed.

Jagex is fully intentionally adding time pressure to people who don't have the time or interest to play the game non-stop, via the threat of potentially missing out on the temporarily available reward(s) forever. Were it not their intention, they would not require so many hours of gameplay during a limited amount of time to avoid having to pay the MTX fee to get the rewards. And if no MTX was involved, the grind would be designed to be more enjoyable.

It's basic MTX game design: if you don't make it lucrative to buy, it won't sell, which isn't what a company wants, because companies want as many people as possible buying as much as possible. If you do, people are psychologically forced into buying it.

There doesn't need to be a continuous pop-up telling you to buy the MTX (but there is the timer for the event's duration anyway, which reminds you that you gotta "chop-chop" to not miss out), because people know even without it that they only have a limited time, which respectively puts pressure on them to either force themselves to play more than they normally would, or pay more money.

I'll say it again: the only way for MTX to be truly optional and a "choice" is for you to be able to opt-out from the completely (it should be opt-in in the first place), meaning that you could get the rewards . But, again, that'd turn the MTX into donations, and companies don't want to be charities, so MTX will never be truly optional if they exist in a game.

None should've been rereleased, and no other should be either, because if they were meant to be discontinued, that is how they should remain. Lying once doesn't give you the right to lie again, it only makes you a worse liar if you do.