You want to argue that these updates don't hinder progress in other areas, prove it. Because it looks like they're failing to produce to everyone else. Do you have any idea how lolzy this announcement is to the gaming community at large? To hint that companies are coming next only to produce another stupid holiday event? This game is the laughing stock of the MMO world, and this is exactly why. Rift came out with a better launch product than this game has in 6 months of retail patching, and THIS is the content we get. It's bad publicity. No holiday event, at this point, is better than another stupid, pointless one because releasing a celebration when this game is a DISASTER makes it look like the developers are sitting around on their decadent asses making petty crap while they should be doing more important things to stop a blight.

Nero fiddles around while Rome burns. That's the image the devs are giving people by releasing petty quest and trifling holiday events right now.

In every department this game needs fixed, even in the same areas that they spend time on in the holiday events. They make new animations for holiday events, the old animations are pathetic. They make new gear for holiday events, we need more real gear. They balance the synthesis of pointless things, we need balance of significant synths. Everything they spend time on making holiday events...we need improvements on in the *actual* game world.