What bothers me more is it is:
1 Not Transmogable on other swords (which for now is my assumption, as I have not required this reward yet);
2 Therefore a wasted rewardspot that could’ve been used for something more noteworthy;
The fact that it’s something anyone who can “buy” by spending some bucks on the HP, is not the problem, actually. The pay off for those who already have the Hunger and payed the HP has no additional reward to it, which is therefore wasted.
Then again, I only see this as the only bad thing about 1.3.3, so as far as that goes, this update and HP is actually very well done. Oh well, maybe just a complaint about the Hunger is neglectible then...