There’s a reason why these events will never be as memorable as say the sleeper event in Everquest, they are planned… Everyone knows that its coming, that’s the main thing that takes me out of it, most of the good events in other mmos happen either by triggering something and all of the sudden something goes lose in the world with no one expecting, you can not make an exiting "Ermergard an unexpected “expected” attack from crab things in Lion’s Arch" when everyone knows that it will happen… Frankly I think the lag would have been a whole lot better in LA during the first event if it wasn’t told that it will happen. Yeah I’m sure there would have been people flaming Anet for not telling that there’s going to be an event and that they missed it but… It’s an attack on the city that no one expected…