A couple of small patches have recently hit the game to keep that hope alive. The January 17th update patched in functionality that will allow Funcom to run more “systems events.” The studio pointed to the upcoming double anima shard weekend as an example of such an event.
And for those that ended up with a load of unused malevolent snowflakes in their inventory after the winter event, the patch on January 9th allowed them to turn those in for currency.
Source: Patch notes