wouldn't this be better released on xmas eve or the 26th? o.o

The events will last at least a week so everyone should have time to participate. Similar to last Easter.

I was under the impression the Halloween updates were already completed. Or was the hyped based off ideas and not actual products?

Fortunately, they still care.
Unfortunately, it's only for subscribing players.

fml.

are they gonna be like easter in that the person who plays the longest wins?

Chris, will you post what kind of Event it will be? With a description and so on? So we know what to do ^^
Would be great

I'll post some information when it's released but some of it will need to be discovered. It's not too taxing, though. The concept is fairly simple.

There will be a competition similar to the one last time, but even if you only play a bit you should come out quite happy (hopefully).

There will be some ways in which trials can participate, but we've got to leave parts of it reserved for gold members unless we want observer mode back. You might take a look at the new method of "paying" (SuperRewards)—it makes it a lot easier to upgrade and doesn't require you to pay anything.

The revenge of the blue clay men.

Awesome :D

Merry Christmas everyone!

I heard that those rarely actually pay out

Well I am able to get 400 Gelats each month with doing them. But maybe because I am in Germany and the adds are different. But it worths a try !!

No; I meant all these things are generally themed to a holiday (Easter, Christmas, whatever) and then go away after a week or month of being around and the server returns to normal.

That's true, but I've found they're still pretty fast (<15 minutes got me 300 gelats by installing their adware offers in a virtual machine).

Yeah, even though I have the money I don't feel like wasting it for a temporary update. Just like I don't feel like wasting time doing the super rewards. Start putting out updates that won't go away like the crypt or the monsters in the dungeons and I'll start throwing my money at Graal again. A seasonal update is pointless if the player count is just going to drop in a week or so. Kingdoms isn't like WoW or many other mmos; the playerbase isn't good enough to put out events/updates for a week or so and then take them away.