100% with you there Mimizu. We (my wife and myself) were ready to go from 8pm GMT but all we got for next 2+ hours was ‘unable to connect to login server’, mUst have tried 100 times to log in between us but nope never got on. I finally got on about 00:30 GMT when i casually tried but of course event all over by then. Annoying after doing parts 1 & 2 but not the end of the world.
I have to admit though I prefer the old GW1 style events that happened at planned times (every 2 hours) over midwinters day or what ever. Less traffic at any 1 time and there is always a suitable time for each Timezone. I can see what GW2 were trying to do with a One time event but it just failed due to servers and timezone issues and 1 time onlys will alwyas fail for those reasons