I don't have to check the thread. I'm in the Staff, I actually have certain information that, surprisingly, exists even before it's posted.
But you might want to read the thread again. The only thing said about gold in the first day was in reply to someone asking about it (
http://forum.warmane.com/showthread....=1#post2759834). There's
no word about it or any changes in the original post. By the same token, the information about the change in the emblems was also just answering a player yet again, who asked if that had been nerfed as well (
http://forum.warmane.com/showthread....=1#post2760161). Things were meant to be reduced in comparison to last year from the start. To make it even more stupidly blatant, the post right after that one
is asking why the event was postponed, which means that post was made
before the event even started.