Golden Girl

I want to see heroes with reflective shades and trenchcoats ninja flip from rooftops into the middle of Praetorian Clockwork mobs and open up with the DP AoE

But don't you still have so sign off their work as you're the lead animator? So that still means that their work matched your standards, so you could claim a little of the glory

And some more non-city zones - I liked the look of the desert and Canadian zones in CO.

I'm not sure they'd do that - unless it was tied to owning the booster pack.

He seems to have a very big connection with Lord Winter - for the first few years, his presents would summon snowmen to our dimenson - and now, he seems to have created presents that will take us to the dimension the snowmen came from - so he's obviously very in tune with the Winter Realm - it's either his place of origin, or he found some item or spell that gave him a lot of control there.

He could be working for Lord Winter, although the amount of snowmen transported to our dimension via the portal presents doesn't seem to be enough for a proper invasion, so it's hard to see what Lord Winter would get out doing it.
On the other hand, the Gamester could be an enemy of Lord Winter, and be using some power to send the snowmen to our dimension against their will, knowing they'll be defeated by us - and he's now found a way to allow us to attack Lord Winter himself in his own dimension.

The gifts in the non-portal presents are just a way of luring heores and villains into interacting with the portal presents - so he doesn't seem to mind rewarding good and evil ogether, or bringing them to the Winter Real, or endangering civilians with the placement of the portal presents.

Also, the amount of presents, and the wide area they're scattered over, seems to show he has incredible teleportation powers, or a large number of so far unseen followers.

If I had to guess between him being a friend or enemy of Lord Winter, I'd have to say he's an enemy - I think he might be a superpowered person from our world who ended up trapped in the Winter Realm for some reason, where he was driven insane there, but eventually managed to escape.
He's now using whatever link he built up with the Winter Realm to drag Lord Winter's minions through to our dimension to cause havoc and to be destroyed - destroyed in revenge for his time imprisoned in the Winter Realm, and to cause havoc to our deimension because he feels that he was betrayed in some way by not being rescued when he was trapped in the Winter Realm.

So, in short, I think the Gamester is a very powerful super being, who's insane, highly elusive, and psycotically bent on revenge against both our world and the Winter Realm where he was once a prisoner.

Or he might just be a name and nothing else, used to give some background to our winter event

Snaptooth and Lord Winter are just Automatons anyway

I wasn't aware of any other MMO that lets you be a superhero

If it looks so awesome, couldn't you have called it WTFuxia?

I think the devs are working on that right now too

You only get out of breath if you jog too much

I think it was possibly the servers not being able to handle that new level of awesome on player avatars - it's the reason why I think animated hair hasn't been added to the game yet

6 months? I think it'll only take until the next mapserver problems show up - when some people try and work out what's causing them, they'll think back to the last time it happened

People can get that without having to be a dictator

And by "Shakespearean" you mean "Praetorian propaganda", right?

For this game, that's easily the funniest exception

The devs hate everyone

But more seriously, I hope this fixes the mapserver problems of the previous Walk patch.

There was a stability problem with the patch that added Walk, so they removed the patch again to fix it - so we'll have to wait just a little longer to move slowly