..we have events at times to simply celebrate the fact that we're all playing a pretty cool game together than transcends the moment of RP.

As an example, CF Trivia. Twist, Daevryn, and Ishuli have all hosted CF Trivia at one point or another.

This is an event of global echoes with player engagement with completely OOC connotations. Example ' What is the most popular class currently?' 'What was the name of the skill X used during Y event 16 years ago?

No current character should know these things or even understand the questions, yet it is understood that we're all playing a game and sometimes its fun to recognize that.

In my opinion the Christmas event was just that. It wasn't an IC totally RP immersed time to go interact with the God of Sin and tell him IC how great he is. It was simply a 'Hey it's Christmas! Lets have fun and toss a coin for some edges/flaws.'

Pretty sure if people can't see that they're just bitter about unrelated things.