I've been wondering for sometime now,whatever happened to the "store" on Pogo,that you could buy merchandise from?
Was it still around after EA bought Pogo?
It's probably more efficient for them to have people just buying Gems and get rid of the processing of orders for merchandise like shirts and mugs. They still give out the shirts and mugs on jackpot spins though, so not sure what their overall goal is. Over the years I've come to expect that anything run or owned by EA is not going to make much sense, and is going to scrape every possible dollar out of the customer.