*Please note that I have not bought either packages. Many of my friends have and this is a combined opinion.

The Christmas package was designed to gift 'milk and cookies' to all friends who are associated with a player who bought the Christmas Package. In my opinion, this was hardly a benefit. Christmas is about giving and letting those know you care about them. I mean the 'milk and cookies' was creative but it was hardly worth a 30 USD package.

In order to open the Christmas chest you needed a special key. The Christmas Chests are obtained through buying the package as well as gifted by friends who purchase the same package. The Package also grants you with a key to open the Chest.

I think Evony should have granted all of its players with some coins. I understand how this could be risky to do but if you only granted say 20, it wouldn't make the game unfair.

I will edit this post when the New Years package comes out and/or when I receive more information about this topic.

*Please note: I will not and am not trying to influence players to not buy this package. I am simply sharing my opinion of these two items.