The GM Buff SCANDAL of January 6, 2023

My friends today on January 6, 2023, there is a controversy about GM buffs not being delivered. Instead of GM buffs and subsequent (strongly implied) re-buffs, players were instead deceived by being told to move to a specific FM map (for said strongly implied rebuffs) & instead effectively kidnapped & moved to El Nath for ~10 minutes of "sliding".

This "sliding" involves permanently stunning players and "bombing" them with an explosion, sending them left and right all across the El Nath map.

For someone who expected to get GM buffs on my 6 characters so I could level them, being teleported across the world & not even returned to my original map is quite disappointing. Not to mention there were NO gm buffs after the fact, completely disregarding the many players who were clearly expecting GM buffs.

You can imagine how moving 6 separate characters to a specific GM buff map is quite a bit more difficult and time consuming than simply pressing the FM button. The missed opportunity in levelling my characters from the time wasted for this custom event & not getting GM buffs on top of that is annoying.

This post is purely for educational and informational purposes, and no one featured in this post should be targeted in any way by users reading this thread.

Screenshots here:

Spoiler: GM buffs originally announced

Spoiler: Re-buffs strongly implied shortly after

Spoiler: Several confused users asking about GM buffs (I was moving multiple characters here)

Spoiler: At this point, still no rebuffs and sledding starts

Spoiler: el nath "event"

Spoiler: Many minutes later the "end of sledding" is announced

Spoiler: One user is confused and was also presumably looking for GM buff

Spoiler: At this point we are told to move to another map to get teleported out of el nath

Spoiler: At this point we are teleported back from El Nath to Henesys (not original maps, which would have been easily done had gm buffs occured in a normal FM map and not a specific individual FM map)

After all the above, still no GM buffs

EDIT: I missed the original buffs which is why I went to 7-12 for the strongly implied rebuffs (which did not happen)