Repeating Weekly Events

This is probably the wrong time to bring this up, considering that our weekly event isn't even announced yet and may end up throwing all of this off, but....

What do you think about the Weekend Events repeating last year's schedule?

Do you like it or not? Is it GW:Autopilot or is it nice to know exactly what events will be coming up?


Personally, I'm on the fence. I like knowing what event is upcoming to pre-plan title grinding stuff, but I get pretty worried when the auto-pilot switch is flipped....especially since we haven't seen an update in a while. It makes me wonder what Anet's staff does all day.

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Weekend_events

some events are nice to have set dates (halloween, wintersday etc)...others, hm....outside of the trade off with one week being pvp and the next pve--I do wish they would add a few new ones (thread in sanitarium)......but since (yes the mantra) they are working hard on getting gw2 out, they dont have the manpower to put into it so I understand they probably wont be updating this.

Wait...the Live Team is working on GW2 now? I thought they were still exclusive to GW1.

I was thinking about this the other day and seeing when the Double SS/LB points weekend occurred.
It's nice to plan ahead plus it's pretty low maintenance for the live team just to repeat the system, however they could use the weekends to promote play in certain areas of the game that are dying.

Hmmm i really would want them weekends to be a bit more random, and bring back events that dont come along anymore, like free fow/uw access, triple dye weekend, festive item drops, gamer weekend.

I'm all for automation of weekend events so the limited resources of the Live Team may be spent on new content, skill balances, or anything more interesting than hand cranking the events. That was actually one of their goals if you recall: to automate as much as possible of weekend events and festivals in order to allow time for other things.

Oh, I definitely remember, but I'm having a hard time finding the "other things".

I dont mind, cus well, i dont even care about the weekly events

I don't see why they can't have a pvp and a pve event running concurrently the same weekend. For those that mostly just stick to one or the other, they only get an event every second weekend. Now, events like double luxon/kurzick might count as both pvp and pve, but why can't I, say, get double EotN rep points the same weekend that GvG gets double Balth faction or whatever?

there's something to be said for this. If someone really needs a specific event, they can plan for it beforehand.

Is there a simple source to see what each weekend for this year is anticipated to be?

That would be pretty awesome, actually. It would give everyone a little something every weekend.

Not really. There's last year's schedule, but that's really all the wiki has been using to make their predictions.

If it's the same again (and it has been since April), then it should be Triple key/lockpick drops AND double your luck points weekend.

I don't do the weekend events, so it doesn't much matter to me.

Here come the "BAWWWWWWWW, I'M A PVX PLAYER AND I CAN'T DO BOTH" comments.

Sounds Ok, but if ANET schedules Cathan New Year on the same day as the Super Bowl again, I am going to fly out to CA and beat someone about the face and head!

I think it is fine but wish they would basically confirm last years schedule so guilds can plan events in advance. So have a full 2010 schedule.

I wouuld love it if they would make costume brawl twice a year however!!!

Silver

Canthan new year is dicatated by when the chinese new year is on, its really rather irrelevant when Superbowl is on. In addition I think most people outside the US dont give two hoots about it

Pol

No I am just saying that is the excuse we seem to get for just about anything and everything from them these days---so why not??? (and who knows they just might be?)

Darn those pesky Chinese and their culture, don't they realise that the whole world revolves around America?

/sarcasm off

On topic: I think its great to be able to plan ahead for whats going to be coming at the weekend, like stocking up on lockpicks before this weekend. It would be nice if they gave us some new ones and for the love of god give us another event with the party time buff!! need my title for half price

PS. rofl at spell check trying to get me to spell realise with a Z, theres irony for you.

ANET can make it whenever they want, it does not have to be "dictated". Pick any Celestial Alignment for all I care, as long as it is not during the SuperBowl ( for the third time ).

It does not matter if the rest of the world cares about the superbowl, we dont give two hoots about the world cup so we are even.

“Realize” is the dominant spelling in the US, and “realise” in the UK. Spelling checkers often try to enforce these patterns by labeling the other spelling as an error; but it is good to know that most dictionaries list these as acceptable spelling variants.

From the media frenzy I saw in the US when they reached the last 16 during the World Cup you could have fooled me

Pol