You’re right, now that I go and look at the original post (my badI thought it was an apology for the server and gameplay issuesI mentioned this elsewhere, but it was a Christmas event. An event for Christmas. It makes sense to do it during Christmas. Yeah, it would have been better if it were a week earlier, but not everyone celebrates Christmas the same way. While some people may be busy for several days before Christmas, others may only have a small celebration on the day itself, with not much going on beforehand.

My guess is that VR wanted to kill 2 birds with one stone...doing a second event as an apology, and also as a Christmas Event (since players don’t seem terribly thrilled with the Yule event).