I really hope that people won't actually be surprised why people who stole their mom's credit card got so many ec items after xmas is over. Imagine making an ingame currency that isn't pay2win and can only be earned by grinding just to remove that whole grinding factor and make it pay2win again. There was a reason for limiting the number of gifts a person could obtain. But I guess if the game is dying anyways you might aswell milk out as much money as you can before completely killing it.
I wouldn't be surprised if in a few months you could buy like a 20x Plasma coins boost for 10k gralats that lasts an hour + releasing op auction items to itune for.