Well, I am not surprised by this scandal if it is true that there is a shortlist of ships. on the one hand, it feels scummy in way of advertising that you have a chance to get a good ship while in reality, you get some crapy low-tier ships that almost nobody has. on the other hand, WG is a for-profit company and thus do anything to earn a profit.
at first, I was planning of buying some containers, but after this, I am not planning to spend any money on the Christmas gift containers (the last thing I bought were the containers for the Pommeren, the reason being that I already owned the other ships). To me, it feels as if WG has a Christmas tradition of finding ways to get the community angry. because last year we had the Puerto Rico disaster. or the prinz friedrich eitel debacle.