The Visitors

Who cares? Adding something timeless to a game may be dry eventually, but something that expires in almost every way isn't better at all. Expiring things have been scorned by players for years and yet you want to create an event where everything expires yet introduces new concepts? Use these concepts to make a new masteria expansion, and then maybe people will actually care about it after it's released.

This is what i consider a "Trial by fire" test. There are a LOT of new techniques being used in this update - the kinds of things we've never seen before. NPC allies fighting with you, quest progression via real time, map backgrounds changing over time, moving platforms in JQs, etc. These are things that, if it goes well, will undoubtedly be used in future permanent expansions. However, right now, it's important to see if these things actually work in the real game - and what better way than via event? KMS does this literally all the time. Springs, for example, were first used in the moon event. Now they're a permanent fixture of Orbis. Low gravity maps were used in that moon event as well, now the dragon rider PQ. This is promising if only because there's a lot of innovation in this event, and if it succeeds, it means there's a potential for big things in the future and that's something maple desperately needs.