Guild Wars 2

Instead of making the events at a specific time and date make them one time instanced event chains that you can only do once and last for X amount of time.

For example with this weekends event. You could allow people to que up starting Friday for the first event and when X amount of players join the que they will be taken to their instance of Lions Arch and play through the event. Completing that event will allow those people to then que up for the second event and so on. You can limit times players can do each event so if you wanted to make players wait till Saturday to do part two and Sunday to do part three than that would be fine.

Now this is going to allow you to make these events run much smoother. It will also allow you to let everyone in the community play through each of these events and limiting them to a weekend will still give you the same drive for players to be on during the event.

The only reason you wouldn’t want to do this is that I can think of would be the fact that you want these to be one time world changing events. Let’s face it having one time epic world changing events is awesome in theory but it just doesn’t make sense to have it so limiting and forcing players to adjust their schedules just so they can try to play them.