Like someone else said before, it's not the event themselves, but the locations. Nintendo should realise not everyone has the time to travel all over the world just to get one freaking Pokemon. If they're to dis-encourage glitching, importing (since some versions of the Japanese Diamond and Pearl are glitched), and cheating, they should at least put more in other major cities and countries (Such as the UK). Having the first few in Manhattan didn't help either. It's only an one hour drive from where I live, however for other people, they'd have to spend hours, even days, in order to get to events in locations like that.