For once in history, if NCSoft would bring back the cake and said, "Let them eat cake" instead of loosing your heads, you would have the opposite affect and the community would rejoice! Come on, use this opportunity to change history!
On the flip side, 50% xp will ensure a NCSoft legacy of the same as the ill spoken person who was attributed of saying let them eat cake.
Our NCStaff and Marie Antoinette will have the same thing in common. She didn't say it and NCStaff didn't make the mess, but both are taking the hit for it.