We all know who to thank when they disappear sooner rather than later.

Did I miss something?

Players go into forums and complain about an item that should have dropped, or anything else they feel
should have been 'granted' to them, and expect it to be taken care of.

Players go into forums to let them know about an error or a glitch in the system that may effect the game play at hand, and get
blasted in the forums as well as PMs.

there is a HUGE difference between criticizing others for getting multiple darmos allies which the dev has indicated repeatedly was not intentional vs continuing to enjoy Dan's largesse on seasonal NPCs which Dan has done REPEATEDLY at the end of previous seasonals going back years. the only difference with this occurrence was that Dan graciously allowed EVERY PLAYER a chance to continue to hunt QPedd NPCs for a week longer than previously seen and work on those medals.

Dan can remove access to seasonal NPCs with the change of one line of code. obviously the ally issue requires a much more intensive re.work. gaining an advantage via exploiting that difficulty WHICH WAS NOT WIDELY KNOWN (why would i have had to update the wiki if it were ??) compared to EVERY PLAYER continuing to benefit from the seasonal NPCs is not an equivalent situation by any stretch.