Day of Darkness 2 Event

I think that's a bit too cynical. While most of the summoning events have been pretty lame, the last one was actually really good:

And you can see there, they announced where they would be summoning, and they actually went to every town and summoned. Orbis, ludi, NLC, all the major towns in victoria, Leafre, etc. They really did hit everywhere. Not only was this summoning event actually challenging but it was referenced to in game as a one-time event by quests and such well beforehand, they built up to it and it went off well. If they had executed this one in the same way, but with the CKPQ bosses and other stepped-up monsters then it could have been really good. Given that this was apparently to celebrate a GM's birthday, you would think at least that particular GM would have taken to making sure it was a success. After all why would they just randomly do it for a GM's birthday? Said GM would probably have had to make some effort to encourage the leadership at Nexon to let it happen, as it's not exactly the kind of thing executives would do on their own.