I'll give my two cents (pennies? uk doesnt have cents...) on the "backstage pass getting skipped" thing.

Well... to me it just seems like it's because they want to make it actually coincide with the 4th anniversary of ENdori. Which makes sense to me and personally I'd like that more than what happened last year with the event being run outside of anniversary and then the dreamfest being done later.

also at least it isnt the chinese server where every event has been 5 days long and they had a backstage pass 3 event in july when they have their actual anniversary in march/april... /nm