I actually don't think the lower prices of things now are due to not being retired. I think it's just that a) currency is easier to get these days which allows someone to get a lot of duplicates pretty easily, and b) we have a lot more users. It just ends up with a ton of items in circulation before the festivals/events even end. Even if they did permanently retire after that, they'd still be much cheaper than the items from the first few festival seasons (see things like the Loga or the Celebration Sage apparel - technically retired other than Roundsey, but all very affordable). Maybe super popular items like the halos would be much higher, but if they actually retired I think people would have hoarded even more of them during the fests.

That said, I like how they have it now, with most fest items available from Joxar, and would prefer they add all fest items to it. I personally think if they do add the early items to it, while the prices would drop, they'd still be pretty valuable. I just don't think the number in circulation would ever match the 'unretired' items people were able to hoard so easily.

I also think they should release recolors of the KS items/fams since they can't be unretired, and I think making imp scrolls KS-exclusive was a terrible move (and as skeezy as it would be, I would support some sort of 'not really a scroll so not technically going against the KS' breed change item even though g1 imp people would be so mad), but that's a different topic lol.