Guild Wars 2

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gift
noun

1.
something given voluntarily without payment in return, as to show favor toward someone, honor an occasion, or make a gesture of assistance; present.
2.
the act of giving.
3.
something bestowed or acquired without any particular effort by the recipient or without its being earned: Those extra points he got in the game were a total gift.
4.
a special ability or capacity; natural endowment; talent: the gift of saying the right thing at the right time.
verb (used with object)
5.
to present with as a gift; bestow gifts upon; endow with.
6.
to present (someone) with a gift: just the thing to gift the newlyweds.

Hence, putting items in Black Lion chests and calling them “gifts” is really not a very nice things to do.

you get them as a gift when you open a blc. i don’t see a problem here

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You don’t always need to buy Black Lion Chest Keys to get them. You’re also not paying for the extras in the BLC, you’re getting what you paid for, plus a gift for nothing extra out of your end. So from the definition you posted — it is a gift.

…Seriously? Black Lion Chests usually contain X. For the promotion, they’re containing X+(3gifts) while the prices stays the same. That seems an awful lot like a gift to me. Yeah, you have to buy something first, but plenty of stores do “free gift with purchase!” promotion, and I’d say that’s pretty plainly within the definition you posted.

Spockime.1364:

1. something given voluntarily without payment in return, as to show favor toward someone, honor an occasion, or make a gesture of assistance; present.

And if you’re talking about the fact that the items themselves are called “Wintersday Gifts,” that’s just ridiculous. They’re tradeable; give them to your friends if you have to be that pedantic about it.

I don’t see any valid complaint here.