Originally Posted by
Illmaeran
That's 9,000+ people the login system has to process, 9000+ people waiting on a game server full of people for people to log out. When servers are full, it's first-come-first-served in the queue. I'm honestly surprised 3.4K people logged out over the course of 2 hours.
Close to 10K people hitting a login server is insane load so there are going to be issues. The real test is how stable the game servers are, and so far they're holding up beautifully. This is what's called a successful launch.