'Suspiciously' crappy Fear of the Dark rewards???

[FlyingV]

I was quite ecstatic with the new life breathed into the game with the FotD seasonal add-on along with challenges, and have played faithfully using ironite for hourglasses for the first time since the butcher update earlier in October. The only fault I was Devs' oversight in not allowing us to expand our character banks, which forced me to dispose of some VERY valuable dup characters I was hoping to exchange in sacrifice in order to accommodate other characters. Nevertheless, it was extremely well-received by me.

On the subject of reception, I was very pleased to have received a near-immediate grim reaper Eddie and some handsome rewards as advertised on the menu banners... On day one, that is. Sometime late that first evening, I was redirected to a second brief update/download, and sometime thereafter, the fun was over...

Rare souls... An appearing award on madness had completely vanished... Hell, souls of ANY kind were no longer dispensed or were awarded so few and far between that it was a non issue (The possible significance lf this in a moment). Moreover, the wild awards like a rare skill shard or a 3* evo have disappeared completely. The best I can hope for is about identical with the best I can hope for in any Ailing Kingdom mission: a 3* Fierce Strength talisman (which does appear with the typical regularity). Often it's a 1* evo rune or similar.

Here's the thing though. I have playing a LOT these past few days... Like 200+ hourglasses/day and it's been a complete desert of a misrepresentation of rewards there since day 1. My day 1 haul consisted of a magus haunted pumpkin (Believed to have hatched from a [rare] soul purchased with ironite) and chattering skull(s) gunner and assassin, which I purchased from the store with trooper badges. Other than the occasional chattering dupe from more purchased gunner/assassin souls, I have NEVER seen another promotional halloween character of any kind.

What raises the eyebrow is the prominence of the chattering skull dupes with purchased gunner/assassin souls (I'd say 'uncommon' in rarity) but after earning an easy 60-100 normal souls from LOL warrior today, with many payouts including 5 regular souls per win not a single damned promotional character to be found, just a recurring pattern lf 8-12 dominant repeating usual suspect toons.

Between the consistent meager payouts with HUNDREDS of hourglasses expended, the complete absence of ANY promotional characters, and the fact it has been going on in FotD for a good 2.5-3 days (After that subsequent download/update) and I am thinking the devs monkeyed with the drop frequency in a patch and this is the screwed up over-corrected result.

has anybody seen rewards consistent with the promised drops over the past 2 days- rare gunner/assassin souls, promotional toons/eddies etc., or am I the only one grinding for days to get the doo-doo end of the stick over and over?