[Inkster]

ok let me deal with my reply to this in a certain order.

There has been if i remember correctly 3 events.

1. Aniversarry: This event not only gave the hat but a certain amount of Ximerin (something every player can use)
2. Halloween: This gave us 3 helmets and 1 warbanner if you did all 3
3. Xmas event yes another hat but also random premium items (which i had more than my fair share of)


Now, if you care to look at the changelog list you will find these events came at the same time as bugfixes, the events were put there as something different to do.

Now, the aniversarry is the equivelent to a birthday, Halloween is in no way a Judeo-Christian and xmas was origionally the winter solstice (around dec 21 is usually the shortest day of the year in the west).

Also regards to xmas trees, i had this argument with a door to door religious salesman. He stumped me with this quote:

Jeremiah 10:2-4: "Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen,
and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed
at them. For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree
out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and
with hammers, that it move not." (KJV).

so again not totally a Judeo-Christian event.

IF the next event is at easter for example

Modern-day Easter is derived from two ancient traditions: one Judeo-Christian and the other Pagan. Both Christians and Pagans have celebrated death and resurrection themes following the Spring Equinox for millennia. Most religious historians believe that many elements of the Christian observance of Easter were derived from earlier Pagan celebrations.

The equinox occurs each year on March 20, 21 or 22. Both Neopagans and Christians continue to celebrate religious rituals linked to the equinox in the present day. Wiccans and other Neopagans usually hold their celebrations on the day or eve of the equinox. Western Christians wait until the Sunday on or after the next full moon. The Eastern Orthodox churches follow a different calculation; their celebration is often many weeks after the date selected by the Western churches.

Making this event varied in the terms of belief also.

So to sum it up only halloween had items that were not of real use (apart for 1 warbanner)
All the events were quite fun to do (which was what they were designed to be)
none of the events were totally Judeo-Christian
bugfixes were put in place the same time as each event.

Yes people will complain about a free game with free content as complaining is also free. Thats human nature