Spectral Pirates spawning from Treasure Chests do not count for Pirate badge

[Hedgefund]

Subject heading really sums it up.  I have a character who doesn't have the Pirate badge.  The enemies that spawn from Treasure Chests in the current special event are in the faction "Spectral Pirates".  However whenever I defeat any of these, no progress is made on the Pirate badge for defeating Spectral Pirates.  

 

To pre-emptively head off this question - no, I'm not talking about the Spectral badge, for trapping, but Pirate, for simply defeating.

[srmalloy]

I think this was deliberate due to the surprise nature of the event, so that people who couldn't log in to the game during the event wouldn't get shut out of badges without knowing that it would occur — with there being no badge for defeating Bladehook as another example. Next year, when people know about it in advance, we'll likely see a badge for Bladehook as well as the chest spawns counting for the Pirate badge.